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Unrest is once again upsetting the streets of cities throughout Turkey, with a third night of disturbances following the death of an anti-government demonstrator earlier this week.

Deadly flooding strikes the Rocky Mountains of America – Japan is peeved over cartoons linking the Olympics and the Fukushima nuclear disaster – And you won’t believe how a social worker allegedly tried to smuggle cocaine through an airport.

Philippine troops battle Muslim insurgents laying siege to a city – A discovery in Kenya might lead to a rare period of prosperity in that part of Africa – And separatists in Spain demonstrate an amazing level of support for their cause.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized on behalf of the city after City Councilors approved a US$12.3 million settlement to be split by two men who were tortured by a former police commander into confessing to murders they did not commit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has written an editorial for the New York Times, America’s unofficial newspaper of record, chastising the Obama Administration’s handling of the chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria.

Summary executions, torture, hostage-taking and indiscriminate shelling of civilian homes:  All the work of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, right?  Well, yeah.  But the opposition forces trying to topple Assad are committing very similar war crimes on similar scales.

A satellite image showing suspicious steam may indicate that North Korea might have restarted a nuclear rector capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.

Israel says a A$1.2 Million payout to the family of Melbournian Ben Zygier, the alleged Mossad spy who killed himself in an Israeli prison in 2010, is “not an admission of wrongdoing”.

The children of South Korea’s former dictator will pay more than A$165 Million to settle Chun Doo-Hwan’s fines for the rampant corruption during his violent and repressive regime.

The Koreas reach a milestone in restoring the awkward balance on the troubled peninsula – A UK Parliamentarian is charged with raping a guy – And Russia doesn’t deal with sarcastic rock bands too well.

US President Barack Obama is vowing to maintain the American Military threat against the Syrian regime over the chemical weapons on civilians, but will pursue a diplomatic solution to avoid an escalation of force.

An Indian court convicted four men in the fatal gang rape of a medical student in the capital Dehli last December.  The brutality of the assault shocked India and the world, and opened a conversation about India’s attitude towards such crimes.

A gang armed with knives and machetes attacked a group of hikers from Australia out on a rugged trail in Papua New Guinea.  Two porters were killed and a number of Aussies and the Kiwi were injured, though none of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening.

Russian authorities say they have found a 20-year old man living alone in a Siberian forest after having apparently spent most of his life living there in a hut with his parents before they abandoned him in May.

An accidental route appears that might stop a war – Americans are not on board with plans to attack Syria – And there are new calls to resolve old crimes against humanity.  That and a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

While the White House pressed ahead making its case for a military strike against Syria, Bashar al-Assad denied that he was behind the chemical weapons attack on civilians in the eastern suburbs of Damascus.

Wrestling makes an Olympic comeback – Scientists may have learned something important in keeping a new disease from becoming an epidemic – And a community that eliminated police suspects officers of a heinous attack.

The Kremlin-backed candidate for Mayor of Moscow won the first round election on Sunday, but opposition leader and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny says the vote was suspect and he got enough to force a run-off.

An American police SWAT team shot tear gas and stun grenades at a 107-year old man armed with a handgun, before they finally shot him to death.

Queen Elizabeth's son Prince Andrew says he is “grateful” for an apology from the police on Sunday after armed officers stopped him in the gardens of Buckingham Palace demanding to know his identity.