Hello Australia! – Another disturbing incident involving a child in an immigrant detention center – Putin doesn’t exactly rule out war with Ukraine – Cops manhandle and drag a former president, you won't believe the video – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A 16-year old girl is in hospital in Darwin after throwing herself off of a balcony at an asylum seeker detention center last week.  The girl had earlier complained of sexual assault at the center, which was not identified by the Immigration Department, and those allegations are being investigated.  She is now reportedly in stable condition with her mother at her side.  The Immigration Department says it is looking into 44 reports of alleged sexual assaults against children in the immigrant detention archipelago.

In an interview with Russian television, President Vladimir Putin says war with Ukraine is “unlikely”.  And he denied that Russian troops are fighting alongside rebels in eastern Ukraine, as is alleged by Kiev and its friends in the West.  Putin also claims to back the most recent Minsk agreement, which he says would “gradually stabilize” Ukraine’s restive Donbass region.

At the United Nations Security Council, Russia and the US displayed the acrimony that’s been smoldering for months.  US Ambassador Samantha Power accused the Kremlin of training and arming Ukrainian separatists, and said Russian troops were indeed fighting alongside the rebels against Kiev.  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov countered by implicitly accusing the United States of violating UN principles by bombing Syria, occupying Iraq “under false pretenses”, and manipulating a Security Council mandate to destroy and create chaos in Libya.  China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, “Antiquated thinking, such as the Cold War mentality and zero-sum games, should have long been thrown into the trash bin of history.”

Whoa – that is a big sinkhole in Naples, Italy.

You know that expression “dragged kicking and screaming”?  Well, here it is.  Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was dragged kicking and screaming into court by cops who ignored his protests that he was perfectly capable of walking.  They appear to have injured his arm in the process.  Nasheed was denied bail and charged with a terrorism offense linked to his order to arrest a judge when he was still president.  The environmentalist Nasheed is still popular figure in the tiny Indian Ocean island nation, and some observers see his treatment in the context of the current unpopular government trying to eliminate a rival.

An orphanage in Sierra Leone is under quarantine after one of its staff members was diagnosed with Ebola.  Officials say 33 children and seven staffers are being monitored in isolation.  Augustine Baker is a local employee of the UK-based St. George Foundation, which runs the center, and he is said to be in stable condition at a local treatment center.  The West African Ebola Epidemic has slowed down considerably because of the mobilization of Western governments and hundreds of Cuban doctors to the worst hit area of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.  More than 9,500 people have died of Ebola since the beginning of last year.

Greece is confirming parts of its reform proposals to its Eurozone creditors as part of the effort to extend the bail out by four months.  The Left-wing Syriza government wants to: Create a more fair tax system; combat smugglers and tax evaders who are undermining the devastated economy; Tackle the “humanitarian crisis” caused by austerity, with housing guarantees and free medical care for the uninsured unemployed.  It’s not clear if the Eurozone will approve it, and if it doesn’t, it could pave the way for Greece to default and leave the Eurozone.

Kenya’s High Court threw out key portions to the strict anti-terror law passed by Uhuru Kenyatta’s government last year.  Justices agreed with critics, that curbing media freedom and limiting the number of refugees and asylum seekers were over the line.  The government passed the law after the attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi in September 2013 in which 67 people were killed.  The Somali terrorist group Al Shabaab claimed responsibility.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet says she learned about her son’s business deals in the media like everyone else.  Bachelet’s son Sebastian Davalos (hint for parents: don’t give your kid a name that sounds like a James Bond villain) is under investigation for influence peddling and using privileged information in a land deal that netted him millions.

A Thai court sentenced a young man and woman to two and a half years in prison each for performing a play deemed “damaging” to the king.  Thailand has strict lese majeste laws that protect the royals from any insults, real or perceived, and things just got worse under the junta that controls the country after ousting democratically elected President Yingluck Shinawatra.