Good Morning, Australia! – Russians rally for a slain opposition leader – Boko Haram’s attacks cause deadly paranoia – Bibi goes to Washington, where’s he’s only partially welcome – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Tens of thousands of Russians rallied through Moscow on Sunday to mourn opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, beginning their march at the bridge overlooking Saint Basil’s Cathedral where Nemtsov was killed by four bullets in the back last week.  They carried signs with such slogans as, “I am not afraid”, “Heroes Never Die”, and “The Bullets are in Each of Us”.  Shortly before he was killed, Nemtsov said he was afraid he would be killed on the orders of President Vladimir Putin because of his opposition to Russia’s involvement in Ukraine.

The governor of Jakarta – a close ally of Indonesian President Joko Widodo – has come out against the death penalty.  Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has asked his friend Widodo to reconsider the decision not to grant clemency to two Australian convicted drug smugglers on Indonesia’s death row, and has told reporters that a life sentence seems more appropriate.  Widodo has seemed adamant that Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will face execution.

A mob attacked and beat a woman to death in a market in northeastern Nigeria, believing her to be a Boko Haram suicide bomber.  No explosives were found on the teenager.  This is the definition of terrorized, as the crowd lashed out irrationally after a series of Boko Haram bombings carried out by female bombers – mostly women who were abducted by the terrorists and setting off the explosives remotely.  Still, police are attempting to rule out other possibilities, including determining if she was on a test run to see if a bomber could enter the bus station at Bauchi without being searched.

The Vice President of Sierra Leone has put himself in quarantine for 21 days after one of his bodyguards died of Ebola disease.  Samuel Sam-Sumana said he would stay out of contact with others for 21 days as a precaution.  President Ernest Bai Koroma ordered buses to reduce capacity by 25 percent, in order to prevent people from coming in contact with each other and hopefully prevented the spread of the virus.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the way to Washington, DC to give a controversial speech before the US Congress.  Republican leaders invited him, bypassing normal diplomatic protocols, which normally are supposed to go through the White House.  Several members of US President Barack Obama’s Democratic party will boycott and not attend, and Netanyahu’s move is straining relations with the US as never before.  No member of the Obama administration will receive him.  Netanyahu will hang out with conservative republicans and push for a more aggressive policy against Iran, the need for which is contradicted by his own Mossad external security service.

Venezuela is limiting the number of diplomatic passports it will give to the US.  President Nicolas Maduro ordered the reduction and review of the American diplomatic staff after we he says is years of meddling.  US citizens visiting Venezuela will now need visas and Caracas is assembling a list of American politicians banned from entry – including former president George W. Bush and former vice president Dick Cheney.  Maduro points out that the US government had 100 employees working in Venezuela, whereas Venezuela had 17 based in the US.  Earlier, Venezuela accused a US pilot of taking part in the recently exposed plot to overthrow the democratically-elected government.

Britain’s Prince William has arrived in Beijing, the first member of the British royal family to do so since 1865.  This comes after a four-day visit to Japan.  He met with Japanese officials, his Imperial counterparts, and with survivors of the 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster.  Oh, and with Domo, the brown, rectangular plushy mascot of the national broadcaster NHK.  No, I don’t get it either.