Hello Australia! - The shocking death of a Brisbane Psychologist - Peru prepares to release several aging revolutionaries from prison - Britain's "Ginger Extremist" is found guilty of a royal assassination plot - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
A Brisbane resident is dead after a terrible fall in Istanbul, Turkey. 31-year-old Keshia Handa was originally from Auckland, New Zealand, and recently worked as a psychologist at Queensland Health. She was at a dance party at her hotel and apparently tried to walk across an improvised bridge between buildings - it collapsed and she fell ten meters. Handa was an ethnic dance enthusiast and traveled the world to attend dance parties and events.
Aussie sports journalist and broadcaster Mike Gibson is dead at age 75. He was one of the original Wide World of Sports presenters on Channel Nine in the 1980s, and moved on to cover the Seoul Olympic for Channel Ten, and later hosted the Back Page show for Fox Sports for 16 years.
The Pentagon is confirming that a Chinese fighter jet came very close to a US RC-135 surveillance aircraft last week over the Yellow Sea off the coast of China, flying 500 feet off the nose of the American craft. "One of the maneuvers conducted by the Chinese aircraft during this intercept was perceived as unsafe by the RC-135 air crew," said Pentagon press Secretary Peter Cook who added "there's no indication this was a near collision." The US filed a diplomatic protest.
Burkina Faso will know later today if coup leader General Gilbert Diendere will hand over power to the provisional government he overthrew last week. There was a tense stand off with the military in the capital Ouagadougou as Diendere insisted he wouldn't cease and desist until he was requested to by the West African economic and diplomatic bloc ECOWAS. That request came, and the region will now see if Diendere was serious or if it was just a delaying tactic. The transitional government was planning long-sought democratic elections when Diendere's coup struck last week.
Peru released a militant leader after more than two decades in prison. Peter Cardenas Schulte was the second in command of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a Leftist group responsible for several kidnappings through the 1980s and '90s. Its most notorious act was the four month siege and hostage drama at the Japanese Ambassador's residence in the 1990s. Cardenas was sentenced to 25 years in 1992, had the last couple of years of the term shaved off. The 65-year old is the first of what is expected to be many militants to be released after completing sentences passed down in the '90s.
A far right Brit was found guilty of plotting to kill Prince Charles and his son William to clear the way for red haired Harry to become king. The London press dubbed 37-year old Mark Colbourne the "Ginger Extremist". He ranted and raved online about all the usual white supremacist stuff, with the added hilarity of wanting to attack dark haired people like Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson for making fun of gingers. Not so hilarious was the cache of cyanide he gathered, with the intention of spraying it on his dark-haired victims with a perfume bottle he bought on Amazon. Sentencing is scheduled for November.