Good Morning, Australia! – A glimmer of hope for the immigrants trapped on boats off Southeast Asia – UK Police arrest suspects in a brazen jewel heist – A judge says a baker was wrong to refuse to bake a Gay Rights cake – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Philippines is signaling willingness to take in at least some of the Rohingya migrants who fled Myanmar and Bangladesh by boat, only to be stranded off the shores of Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia – all of which have rejected them.  Philippine Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Manila has an obligation to admit and protect asylum seekers, even when refugees do not have documents to prove their status.  At least 2,000 immigrants are trapped on boats off Southeast Asia.

British police arrested nine suspects in the Hatton Garden jewel heist over Easter Weekend, and cops claim to have recovered some items in the sweeps in London and Kent.  The thieves entered a building through the lift shaft on the roof, lowered themselves to the basement vault where several area jewelers kept their swag, and burrowed in.  Oh, and the gang were apparently all upper-middle aged and senior citizens, meaning a career change is possible for aging journalists.  It’s reported they got as much as A$400 Million worth of jewels.

Japan wants the US to explain what caused a MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft to crash in Hawaii over the weekend, killing a US Marine.  The urgency is because the US has several Ospreys at the Futenma Air Base in Okinawa and wants to deploy more of the crash-prone boondoggles at Yokota outside crowded Tokyo.  And Japan’s SDF has plans to purchase 17 Ospreys beginning in fiscal 2018.  At least 36 people have died in Osprey mishaps since the troubled program’s inception in the 1980s.

A 19-year old contestant on the Turkish version of those singing shows is in a critical condition after being shot in the head.  Mutlu Kaya comes from the southeast, where the Kurdish Women’s movement sometimes clashes with rural religious conservatives.  The stinking coward fired through a window into her home as she practiced for the show.

Rights groups accuse Egyptian security forces of using sexual violence against men, women, and children as a “cynical political strategy aimed at silencing all opposition”.  The International Federation of Human Rights says the despicable practice increased after the military coup in 2013.  The victims tend to be student demonstrators, human rights activists, LGBT people and children.

Prosecutors in Portugal are investigating a video showing cops abusing a football fan in front of his young child.  After officer Filipe Silva hits the man with his baton, he twice punches the man’s father – the children’s grandfather – in the face.  This particular cop apparently is the subject of three separate investigations.

A judge in Northern Ireland has ruled that a bakery committed illegal discrimination by refusing to bake a cake for a gay right group.  According to Belfast Judge Isobel Brownlie, Ashers Bakery could not hide behind religious objections because the operators are “conducting a business for profit” and therefore must serve the public as a whole. “They are in a business supplying services to all,” Brownlie said, “The law requires them to do just that.”  The gay rights group did end up getting its cake, decorated with the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie and the phrase “Support Gay Marriage”, from another bakery.  But the Ashers Bakery will have to pay damages and legal fees.

Prince Charles and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams met face-to-face and shook hands at a reception at National University of Ireland Galway.  “Both he and we expressed our regret for what happened from 1968 onwards,” Gerry said later, “We were of a common mind and the fact that the meeting took place, it obviously was a big thing for him to do and a big thing for us to do.”  It was the first meeting in the Republic of Ireland between Sinn Fein’s leadership and a Royal Family member.

A Mountain Lion popped up in San Mateo, surprising suburbanites between San Francisco and Silicon Valley.  Instead of blowing it to pieces with grenade launchers and Kalashnikovs, police tranquilized the big cat and took it back to the greenbelt on the other side of the Crystal Springs Reservoir.

Baby Capybaras scamper and frolic in their public debut at Ichihara Elephant Kingdom near Tokyo.  Capybaras are the world’s largest species of rodent.  So… they’re cute, but they’re really just big rats.