Good Morning, Australia! – Indonesia ties the asylum seeker issue to the Abbot government’s efforts to help two Aussies on Death Row – Iran schools American conservatives on their own constitution – Myanmar cops crush a protest for education reform – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The government’s method of seeking some form of clemency for two Aussies sentenced to die for drug smuggling in Indonesia is chafing Jakarta.  Security minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno is threatening to release 10,000 asylum seekers and allowing them to go south.  He also slammed the Abbott government for bringing up the aid Australia sent to Indonesia after the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004.  Demonstrators outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta left bags of coins to “repay” that aid, and vowed to bring down the Indonesian government if it failed to carry out the executions of Bali nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

Chinese authorities have arrested members of Islamic State (IS) in the country’s restive Xiniang region, where ethnic Uighur separatists want to form a new country called “East Turkestan”.  Politburo member Zhang Chunxian did not reveal how many were arrested.  Zhang also said some Uighur extremists went to the Middle East to fight for IS and took those skills back home to Xinjiang.

Iran says the letter from 47 republican US Senators threatening to scuttle any nuclear deal suggests that the US is “not trustworthy”.  The 47, led by a freshman Senator from backwoods Arkansas, wrote that any deal reached by US President Barack Obama would face opposition in Congress, and could be reversed by the next president.  Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said, “This kind of communication is unprecedented and undiplomatic,” said that the Senators were ignorant of International Law, and pointed out that their own US Constitution reserves Foreign Policy as domain and responsibility of the Executive Branch of government led by President Obama.  Back in the USA, the New York Daily News’s front page declared the 47 Senators to be “Traitors”, and any nascent buds of cooperation between Democrats and republicans have been stamped out.

Hundreds of cops with clubs beat a group of students and Buddhist monks demonstrating for education reform in Myanmar.  Organizers believe 100 of their comrades are under arrest.  Human rights activists are concerned Myanmar is lurching backwards into its old authoritarian ways on the way to a general election later this year.

The Palestinian Authorities rounded up around 100 Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters in a series of pre-dawn raids in the West Bank.  It’s a low point in the supposed “unity government” of the Palestinian Authority, which is dominated by the Fatah faction.  Hamas has already called the raids “a knife in the back”.

A bomb blast killed at least six people at Maiduguri’s Monday Market, a frequent target of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram.  Witnesses believed a woman was carrying the explosives.  Boko Haram used to control a territory the size of Belgium, but has come under intense pressure from a 8,700 member multinational military offensive, especially because of battle-hardened troops from Chad.  Nigeria says it is recovering lost territory.