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An accused Nazi war criminal permanently avoids trial – South Africa gets real tough on a Rhino poacher – Your toothache is nothing compared to what this kid went through – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A condemned prison inmate in the southwestern American state of Arizona gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half during his execution.  This is the third American execution using a questionable cocktail of drugs that has gone awry.  And for the record, the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution specifically bans “cruel and unusual punishment”. 

The chief doctor in the fight against the Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself contracted the deadly virus and is being treat, according to the President’s office.  He’s one of the latest patients in the deadliest Ebola outbreak in recorded history.

A passenger plane crashed and burned while trying to land at an airport off of Taiwan during the tail end of a typhoon. TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 was carrying 58 passengers and crew when it crashed in the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and Mainland China, and believed no more than ten people survived.

Human Traffickers in Italy are charged with Mass Murder – Turkey arrests dozens of cops who were investigating government corruption – New York City has a white flag mystery – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The cockpit of downed Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 had been sawn in half while lying in a wheat field under the control of Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine, according to International monitors who were finally granted access to the full debris field.

Last year, British Home Secretary Theresa May ruled against a public inquiry into the 2006 radioactive poisoning death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko out of concern for “international relations” – with Russia.  This year, there is growing outrage over Russia’s suspected role in the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine – and the Litvinenko inquiry is back on.

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday will debate a Palestinian request to investigate into “all violations” of human rights and humanitarian law that they say have been committed by Israel during its military offensive in Gaza.

Israel continues to pound Gaza with airstrikes and ground assaults, and Hamas is still launching rockets into Israel.  More than 600 Palestinians and 30 Israelis have been killed in the past 14 days of fighting.  While more than a dozen women and children were among the new casualties on the Gaza side, Hamas rockets landed uncomfortably close to Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport.

Indonesia’s Elections Commission (KPU) declared Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo the winner of the nation’s presidential election.  The first president coming from outside the ranks of the wealthy and powerful is promising major reforms to help Indonesians and international investors.

Indonesian police have secured the General Elections Commission (KPU) and authorities are warning police supporters to stay at home when it declares the winner of the presidential election.  Jakarta governor Joko Widodo is expected to win with a comfortable margin of three to five percent.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry are in Cairo to for a diplomatic push towards a ceasefire in Gaza, where Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” has claimed almost 600, mostly civilians.  The death toll on the Israeli side is 27 soldiers and two civilians.

The billionaire businessman who owned the South Korean ferry Sewol went missing shortly after the overcrowded ship capsized and sank in April, killing more than 300 people.  Now, South Korean police say they know what happened to their most-wanted fugitive.

French leaders from across most of the political spectrum denounced the pro-Palestinian demonstration that quickly degenerated into an anti-Semitic riot, with youths attacking two Synagogues and several Jewish-owned stores in a Paris suburb known for its large Jewish population.

Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine gave the black box flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the downed Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 to Malaysian investigators, during a meeting in the city of Donetsk.

An 89-year old man accused of hiding his Nazi war criminal past for more than 60-years has been transferred from Federal custody to hospital.  It complicates plans to extradite Johann Breyer from the United States to Germany for a war crimes trial.

When Climate Change deniers repeat an oft-regurgitated statistic – that earth’s surface temperatures have not warmed over the past 17 years – they are wrong.  And now, they are demonstrably wrong, thanks to the new research led by James Risbey, a senior CSIRO researcher.

The former Indonesian general who is believed to have lost that country’s Presidential Election says he will refuse to accept the official result, until allegations of cheating are investigated.  Prabowo Subianto is reversing his previous commitment to abide by the election commission’s final count due on Tuesday.

Ban Ki-moon uses his strongest language on Gaza yet – Moron protesters in France completely miss the point, and engage in the sort of "collective punishment" they were supposedly protesting – It isn’t Ganja that’s causing cottonmouth in the Caribbean– And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The bodies of nearly 200 victims of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 have been loaded onto refrigerated rail cars, which are parked in a “fly infested railway station” in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez.  Their final destination is still unknown.  And Russian-backed rebels are still in control of the crash site.