Good Morning, Australia! – Another Super Storm sweeps the Pacific, causing devastation – Prosecutors deny claims of video from inside the Germanwings plane that crashed in the Alps – A 1960s music legend is in intensive care – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

At least five people are dead after Super Typhoon Maysak caused massive damage in Chuuk, one of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).  The governor declared an emergency because crops and fruit trees are destroyed and fresh water supplies contaminated.  This is going on as Vanuatu still isn’t anywhere near recovering from the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam.

Investigators are insisting that anyone with video footage of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in the French Alps must turn it in to authorities.  This, after the European publications Paris Match and Bild claim to possess cell phone video shot from within the ill-fated plane’s cabin in the moments before it plowed into the side of a mountain.  French prosecutors say no such video exists, and the magazines’ claims are wrong.  The heads of Lufthansa and its subsidiary Germanwings said they were very “sorry” for the crash, which was believed to have been caused by suicidal co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.

Turkey raided a university and rounded up 22 suspected members of a leftist group believed to be behind the courthouse siege that left a high-level prosecutor and two gunmen dead.  The students are accused of belonging to the Marxist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).  Gunmen sporting the group’s flags took prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage at his offices on Tuesday, demanding justice against the police officers who mortally wounded a teenage boy during the 2013 Gezi Park demonstrations.  Cops raided the office, leaving the three men dead.

Bolivian President Evo Morales sacked his defense minister for mixing a border dispute into a humanitarian mission.  Jorge Ledezma was along with Bolivia’s Air Force bringing fresh water to Copiapo in northern Chile, which has been hit hard by flooding in the Atacama Desert.  But he wore a vest with the motto “the sea belongs to Bolivia” – a reference to Bolivia’s long-standing claim to a stretch of coastline lost to a war with Chile in the 19th Century.  Evo apologized to Chile, but Bolivia is continuing its lawsuit in the World Court to try and reclaim the 400 kilometer coastline.

Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari is vowing, “Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will. We should spare no effort until we defeat terrorism.”  Nigeria’s fight against the six-year old radical Islamist insurgency under outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has been lackluster at best, until recent weeks when neighboring nations got into the fight.  Buhari is seen by his voters as incorruptible, and promises to tackle the widespread corruption he calls “an even greater evil” than Boko Haram.

Islamic State militants have seized control of large portions of the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria.  The UN says about 18,000 Palestinian refugees are inside the camp.  Some Free Syrian Army fighters and Palestinian militias are trying to fight back against the IS extremists.

Responding to the firestorm of criticism over so-called “religious freedom” laws that serve as cover for anti-LGBT discrimination, the Governor of Arkansas is refusing to sign a version just passed by his state legislature.  Wal-Mart and other corporations urged Gov. Asa Hutchinson to veto the legislation.  Hutchinson is sending it back for lawmakers to retool.  He was clearly watching the events two states over in Indiana, where the social and corporate backlash to the blatant attempts to institutionalize bigotry took conservatives by surprise, forcing them to work up a fix to protect LGBT rights as well.

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is in intensive care after being found unconscious in her Los Angeles home.  She woke up in the ambulance on the way to hospital, and reportedly in “good spirits” as tests are being conducted.  The 71-year old is one of the most prominent and influential musicians to come out of the 1960s Laurel Canyon scene which also included Neil Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Eagles, and others.