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Saudi Arabia for the first time is recognizing Domestic Abuse as a punishable crime.  Until now, Saudi laws considered violence against women and children to be a private, family matter.

New questions arose about Brazil’s readiness to host the World Cup and the Summer Olympics, after a widespread power outage hit at least eight states affecting tens of millions of people.

Life on Earth would not have been possible without a key ingredient, and that ingredient did not come from Earth:  New research indicates that it came from Mars.

Fidel Castro is slamming a Russian newspaper report claiming that Cuba refused to allow fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to use Cuba to connect flights from Moscow to South America.

As the US, UK, and allies prepare to conduct a widely expected air strike on Syria in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that UN weapons inspectors haven’t completely confirmed yet, they’re also struggling to come up with a rationale.  Yeah, it turns out western nations still want a clear reason before they go and bomb other peoples’ stuff.

The Attack on Syria had been expected as early as Thursday, but appears to be delayed now that signaled it would first await the findings of a United Nations inquiry into the suspected use of chemical weapons in a mass killing near Damascus.

Syria hacks, Putin gags, Buddha laughs.. and WHAT was Julian Assange doing in that video?  These are your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan are trying to calm fears of an epidemic after a 15-year old herder boy died of Bubonic Plague.

If the US and its allies does go ahead and attack Syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians, it won’t be a United Nations action.  Syria’s allies in Moscow will use its permanent position on the Security Council to block the UN’s imprimatur.  But one of those US allies is reportedly willing to use back channels to shake that Russian support.

The United States could attack targets in Syria as early as Thursday, this week.  Those attacks could involve cruise missiles or long-range bombers, and could last three days.

The brave Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban bullet in her head only to become an international champion of girls’ education will be honored with the International Children's Peace Prize next month in The Hague, Netherlands.

Brazil’s foreign minister was sacked for being asleep at the switch when one of his underlings went on a rogue diplomatic mission to sneak a fallen politician from Bolivia into Brazil.  It’s a diplomatic disaster between South America’s richest and poorest nations.

How about some stuff that isn’t about Syria?  Okay!
New revelations about Edward Snowden’s links to the Russians – Islamist groups try to dial back the strife in Egypt – An America city is so violent, cops are put on special duty just to get kids back to school safely.

United Nations weapons inspectors collected a good amount of evidence from a suspect chemical weapons attack near Damascus, despite being delayed by sniper fire.

The train is leaving the station and Barack Obama wants to know if Kevin Rudd is aboard.  The US President reached out to the Prime Minister in a phone call early Tuesday morning.

The Obama Administration moved closer to a military strike on Syria, sending Secretary of State John Kerry before the cameras to provide the justification of whatever form that assault will take.

In the Rocky Mountains of the United States, Colorado authorities took a threat from a white supremacist prison gang so seriously that a judge spent several weeks in hiding.

In the prosecution’s closing arguments in the trial of Bo Xilai, the state urged the court to punish the former Chinese Politburo member with a severe sentence because of his lack of remorse over alleged corruption and abuse of power.

Closing arguments are expected today in China’s biggest political trial in decades, the case of former politburo member Bo Xilai.  The former 64-year old Communist Party chief of Chongqing denies corruption, bribery, and abuse of power charges. 

Searchers found the body of a Darwin man who took an ill-advised swim in a billabong in NT’s Mary River Wilderness Retreat.  Authorities recovered 26-year old Sean Cody's body in the pre-dawn hours in the area where he was last seen.  Mr. Cody was one of two male partygoers celebrating a friend’s birthday with a swim across the muddy Mary River, when he was taken by a 5-meter long Saltwater Crocodile.