Good Morning, Australia! – Peter Greste is home – Islamic State’s gruesome message gets through to coalition nations – Is Boko Haram finally on the back foot? – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Peter Greste is finally back in Australia.  “I can’t tell you how ecstatic I am to be here.  This is a moment that I’ve rehearsed in my mind at least 400 times over the past, well, 400 days,” Peter said at Brisbane airport.  He called for Egypt to release his Al Jazeera colleagues Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed, with whom he was convicted of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood by simply reporting the news.

The death toll from the Taiwan plane crash is now 26, and 18 people still missing in the Keelung River.  Dashboard video cameras caught the TransAsia ATR-72 plane rapidly losing altitude, clipping a taxi and the side of a highway bridge, careening into the river.  Crews lifted the main part of the fuselage out of the water, but there’s more debris down there before the plane broke up.  Local media broadcast recordings of the pilot’s last radio transmissions, calling out “Mayday!” at least three times.

If the gruesome burning death of a Jordanian pilot was meant to strike fear into coalition hearts, then consider the United Arab Emirates terrorized.  Washington confirms the UAE has suspended its participation in air attacks on Islamic State (IS) over the lack of contingency plans to rescue downed pilots and crewmembers.  The UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain are part of the coalition against IS – although the Pentagon hasn’t released any statistics on which nations ran how many bombing runs, leading to speculation their participation is largely symbolic.

Gunmen with suspected links to Islamic State stormed and seized control of an oil field in Libya, killing four workers and taking four more hostage.  Three of the hostages are from the Philippines, according to Manila.  Libya is chaotic, with rival factions forming government to control different areas with their own armies, and rogue gangs of terrorists running uncontrolled.

Three militaries launched assaults on Boko Haram militants on at least two fronts, killing more than 200 of the extremists.  The battlefields are scattered across northern Nigeria and Cameroon, with Chad’s military taking the lead and proving the most effective.  The Chadians pushed the militants out of Gamboru and Ngala in Nigeria.  Boko Haram responded by slipping across the border and going on a rampage against civilians in the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol – massacring civilians, slitting throats, and torching a mosque before one again being repelled by regional forces. 

The CEO of Brazil’s Petrobras oil company and five others have stepped down amid a long-running and massive kickback scandal at the firm.  Petrobras lost billions in market value as daily reports broke news about the extent of the alleged corruption scheme trickled through; bond rating firms Moody’s and Fitch downgraded the company’s debt this week, choking Petrobras’ ability to borrow on international markets.