Hello Australia! - Bali cops are accused of shaking down Aussies - Thousands of refugees arrive in Europe in just a few hours - A chief executive will no longer get to hide behind Presidential Privilege - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:
Seven Bali police will face trial for trying to extorting a bribe out of a group of Aussies celebrating a friend's engagement in June. The Melbournites apparently hired a stripper for a Buck's Night party, but were detained by private security guards who called police. "I knew we were in trouble, when the police arrived and greeted the guards with a hug," one of the party goers told Fairfax Media. The cops hit up the Aussies for $25,000. Bali's deputy police chief Nyoman Suryasta says the dirty cops will face punishments from being forced to apologize to outright dismissal.
Ships carrying more than 4,000 more refugees arrived in Athens, as European governments squabble over how best to handle the crisis. The European border agency Frontex says says 23,000 migrants arrived in Greece last week alone, which is 50 percent more than the previous week. But the migrants face a logjam in Budapest, where hundreds slept rough outside the main railway station because Hungarian officials would not allow them to board trains to their destinations in northern Europe. Further along, trains in the Channel Tunnel from France to England were brought to a halt when people got into the tunnel to attempt a 50 kilometer trek to the UK.
Guatemala's congress voted to strip the president of his immunity, and a court ordered him not to leave the country. President Otto Perez Molina denies being the ringleader of a customs fraud scheme in which he allegedly took bribes in exchange for slashing certain tariffs. He's already barred from running in the next presidential elections and his own term ends in January.
Former child soldiers will give testimony at the trial of Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, which commences on Wednesday. Ntaganda denies accusations of killing at least 800 civilians during separate attacks on a number of villages between 2002 and 2003, as well as multiple counts of murder, rape, and recruiting children to be soldiers. He handed himself in to authorities in 2013 after 20 years of war and fighting.
Japanese police are really taking seriously the break-up of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the country's largest Yakuza organized crime group. The National Police Agency brought in local police officials from across the country for a meeting on how to deal with the possibility of inter-gang violence, now that former allies are now rivals. This comes after Tuesday's meeting of Yamaguchi-gumi chiefs in Kobe, during which 13 groups were booted out of the family - five of them fully excommunicated.