Good Morning, Australia! – Japan’s Crown Prince sends one over the Prime Minister’s bow – Germany prosecutes a death camp medic – The PLO gets the bill for its actions against civilians – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Greek government missed the Monday deadline for sending its list of reforms to its Eurozone creditors, and will instead send it today.  The Europeans wanted to vote today on whether to approve the plan, which is necessary in order to secure the four-month loan extension to which Athens agreed.  The Greeks want to stop all further “austerity” cuts and concentrate on fighting tax evasion and trimming the civil service.

Germany charged a 94-year old former SS sergeant for acting as a medical officer at the nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1944.  If convicted, the unnamed man could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.  Earlier this month, another German court charged a 93-year-old man with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the death camp.  More than 1.1 Million people died at Auschwitz-Birkenau from 1940 to 1945.

Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito – who never says anything controversial – used his 55th birthday greeting to say that Japan must respect history and the nation’s wartime history must be taught “correctly”.  That was widely seen as a rebuke of nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is frequently accused of trying to whitewash the atrocities that occurred under Naruhito’s grandfather’s reign.  Naruhito said, “I think that it is important today, when memories of the war are fading, to look back humbly on the past and correctly pass on the tragic experiences and history Japan pursued from the generation which experienced the war to those without direct knowledge.” 

France yanked the passports and identity cards from six people believed to have been planning to travel to Syria to join terrorist groups.  The country has been on alert after 17 people were killed in attacks on the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in January.  Authorities say family members of the six turned them in using a new hotline for people to report on potential terrorism.

Pakistan arrested another suspect linked to December’s attack at the Army public School in Peshawar, in which 150 people were killed – mostly children.  A faction of the Pakistani Taliban took responsibility for the carnage.

A US jury found the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) liable for terrorist attacks in Israel during the second Intifada from 2002 – 2004, and ordered the PLO to pay more than US$218 Million in compensation to the victims and survivors.  Ten American families went through the courts to seek redress for the six attacks.

The US Department of Homeland Security is in danger of running out of money on Friday, as congressional conservatives heighten their dispute over the completely unrelated issue of President Barack Obama’s immigration policies.  It’s a change from the usual pro-security position of the Republican Party.  The Republicans will only pass funding if it comes with strings attached, Democrats say they will not support anything short of a “clean” spending bill that contains no immigration-related amendments.