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Japan wants to challenge China – Thailand bans all anti-coup protests – Kids find a 7,000 mummy – Cane Toads are about to mess up another island paradise – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says “a full-scale operation to put an end to the impunity of terrorists on our soil” is underway against the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.  The goal is to free the 219 girls kidnapped from their boarding school more than a month ago.

Ukraine's President-elect is vowing to crush Pro-Moscow separatists after they used a Russian-made anti-aircraft system to target and shoot down a military helicopter near Sloviansk.  The attack killed twelve people including an army general who was in charge of combat training for Ukraine’s army.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister is condemning the “honor killing” of a pregnant woman, and ordering local authorities to take immediate action.  Farzana Parveen was stoned to death outside the high court in Lahore by members of her own family, because they objected to her marriage.  But there are startling revelations about the man she married for love over her family’s protests.

Three men including a police officer have been arrested in the latest atrocity in India.  Two teenage girls were gang raped and found hanging from a mango tree in Uttar Pradesh.  The case threatens wider upheaval because the girls are from a lower caste and the cops and the culprits are from the region’s dominant caste.

Thousands of students in France held an anti-fascism march through Paris – to “save democracy” from the far-right, to protest the National Front (FN) party’s success in the European Parliament elections , and to apologize to Europe for the vote.  Gotta love the snark.

An oil tanker exploded and burned off the coast of Himeji, Japan, in the Seto Inland Sea that separates the four main islands.  Seven out of the eight crewmembers are accounted for, but the captain was missing.

A court in Paris ruled in favor of extraditing a former Argentine federal police officer wanted for alleged crimes against humanity during the South American country’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.  He still has five days to lodge an appeal to a higher court.

Searching for phantom pings – Japan and Australia want to make a submarine deal – Pakistan police are accused ot standing by as a pregnant woman was stoned to death – Apple is now representing for them gangstas all across the world (but Dre is Still D-R-E) – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Venezuela is implicating the US Ambassador to neighboring Colombia in a plot to topple the democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro.  The government produced emails that seem to bolster its assertions that three months of anti-government protests were the vanguard of US meddling in the South American country.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his political enemies are planning to leak a video about him and his family to smear him before an August presidential election.  He’s blaming an Islamic cleric who he used to count among his allies.

At the request of the military, Thailand’s Information and Communications Technology Ministry (ICT) blocked Facebook for about an hour on Wednesday.  And more social media black outs are planned, as the coup leaders try to stifle calls to gather people for protests.

American poet and author Maya Angelou died in her home in North Carolina on Wednesday morning.  She was 86-years old.  Her works chronicled overcoming the racism and indignities of America’s Jim Crow South.

Leaders from countries where the right-wing Euroskeptics made gains in the European Parliament elections are calling on the bloc to pay attention to the drubbing that traditional parties took over the weekend. 

A woman has turned herself in to police in Shanghai, China.  She’s wanted for questioning in Japan for the murder of a nurse from Osaka, whose body was then mailed 370 kilometers to Tokyo where it was found stashed in a storage unit.

A woman is stoned to death outside a courthouse – China is scrapping millions of cars to clean the air – Not a lot of voters are bothering with Egypt’s presidential election – Maybe – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Police in Brazil’s capital fired tear gas to try to contain more than a thousand anti-World Cup protesters who tried to march on Mane Garrincha National Stadium, snarling traffic where soccer fans had been gathering to try and see the tournament’s trophy.  Officials had to close that display because of the protest.

Fire in a rural area of South Korea swept a hospital for chronically ill elderly people, killing 20 patients and injuring eight more people. It’s the second major fire of the week and it comes as South Koreans still mourn the hundred killed in the Sewol Ferry Disaster.

China says police broke up a “terrorist gang” and confiscated a large cache of explosives in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang, where Uighur separatists have launched a campaign to split off from China. It’s the latest in the government’s widespread anti-terrorism crackdown that saw more than 200 arrests this month.

Brazil’s national football squad reported to World Cup training surrounded not by adoring fans, but by protesters echoing the concerns millions of Brazilians are expressing – that the cost of the games is taking much needed money away from health, education, and infrastructure.