Good Morning, Australia! – Putin is selling missiles to Iran – Are the Chibok girls still alive? – The Mediterranean Sea is awash with refugee boats – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lifted a ban on supplying Iran with a sophisticated air defense missile system, the S-300.  The Kremlin actually had the sale locked down earlier, but cancelled delivery in 2010 after the UN imposed sanctions in Tehran because of its nuclear program.  Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the hold was “entirely voluntary” and no longer needed now that Iran has agreed to a preliminary framework to scale back its nuclear program.

Russian officials are blaming adults “playing with matches” for wildfires that killed at least 17 people and left 500 injured in southern Siberia.  More than 5,000 are battling to contain the grass fire, which are being spread by unseasonable warm, dry winds.  Thousands of head of livestock are also dead, threatening the remote region’s economy.

China has released three out of the five Feminist activists who were taken into custody before International Women’s Day last month, and held for several weeks.  Cops swept in on them as they prepared to hand out leaflets calling for greater Women’s’ rights in China.  They were detained on vague allegations of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, and will still face severe restrictions on their social activism even though they’re out of jail.

A Nigerian woman claims to have seen at least 50 of the missing Chibok Schoolgirls alive three weeks ago.  The terrorist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from the government boarding school in Chibok last year.  The US, China and other world powers have vowed to help find the girls, but nothing has happened so far. 

A Kenyan court has corrected the sentences given to three men in the gang rape of the teenage girl.  The girl suffered crippling injuries and was dumped in an open sewer, but survived.  But the world was outraged when in 2014 a judge sentenced them to cut grass as a punishment.  More than 1.7 Million people around the world signed petitions and Kenyans staged several protests to demand justice.  This time around, the men were each sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Italy’s coast guard rescued almost 6,000 immigrants from the Mediterranean Sea since Friday, and rescues are still ongoing.  At least nine people have drowned.  Smugglers operating on Libya’s lawless coast took advantage of calm seas and mild weather to send the multitudes across on rickety boats.

A month after Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu, thousands of people are still in trouble:  The World Food Program says some 60,000 people do not have enough food, and the UN says 100,000 don’t have access to safe drinking water.  With 90 percent of the crops wiped out, it could take up to a year for agriculture to return to normal.