Good Morning, Australia! – An unbelievable number of immigrants needed to be rescued from the Mediterranean Sea – The Red Cross will get access to deliver aid to a war zone – Kenyans criticize the lame response to a terrorist bloodbath – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Italy’s Coast Guard rescued some 1,500 migrants from boats trying to cross from Africa to Europe over the Easter Weekend.  Rome scrambled five ships to the Mediterranean Sea after receiving satellite telephone distress calls from three migrant boats.  All those rescued were transferred to ports on Lampedusa Island and Sicily.  Last year, Italy dealt with 170,000 migrants who attempted to escape the chaos of the Arab world and sub-Saharan Africa via the sea to Europe.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did the round robin on the Sunday morning news shows in the US, saying he is “trying to kill a bad Iran deal”.  The US and five other world powers reached a preliminary deal with Iran last week.  It curbs Iran’s ability to enrich uranium and give international inspectors unprecedented access to nuclear sites.  In exchange, the west will gradually ease economic sanctions as Tehran meets benchmarks.  Netanyahu – who has been warning that Iran is this close to getting a nuclear weapon for a couple of decades now – argues that getting Iran to cut down on the Uranium will bring.. a.. new.. mideast.. arms race.. alrighty then.

The Red Cross hopes it can start as early as today to bring much-needed medical aid into Yemen, which is being torn apart by a growing civil war.  Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition of Sunni Muslim nations in bombing raids against Shiite Houthi rebels, who’ve ousted the government.  But the Saudis will let up and allow two Red Cross planes to land at Sana’a – one with supplies, one with medical personnel.

A Kenyan official whose son went missing last year finally learned the young man’s fate – he had joined up with the Islamic extremist terrorists of al Shabaab and taken part in the attack on Garissa University last week.  The terrorists singled out Christian students and killed 148 of them, before security forces killed the four gunmen. 

But survivors of the Kenya university attack are beyond furious.  They say government troops took their time – almost 12 hours - to respond to the crisis and end it.  “I was just praying to God that the Kenya Defense Forces would come,” said a bitter 22-year old Stanley Musi, “I was just thinking how come they have taken so long, because the barracks are near.”  Musi and others know full well how quickly the troops respond, because the army had arrived swiftly and had beaten many students when they protested for better security in November.

In his Easter Address, Pope Francis prayed for the students massacred by Islamist militants at Garissa University in Kenya.  The Pontiff also prayed for peace in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nigeria, where Boko Haram Islamist militants have also targeted Christian churches.  And he expressed hope for the nuclear deal with Iran.

Czech President Milos Zeman says the US ambassador is not welcome at his official residence in Prague Castle.  This comes after Ambassador Andrew Schapiro criticized Zeman for planning to go to Moscow to attend an upcoming World War II commemoration.  “I cannot image a Czech ambassador in Washington giving advice to the US president on where he should travel,” Zeman said.  The trip has come under criticism from Czech rightwingers, and several Western politicians have decided to boycott the Moscow celebrations due to Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.