Good Morning, Australia – 150 people are killed in a plane crash in the French Alps – Israel denies spying on the US – Indian cops can no longer arrest people for their social media comments – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Searchers are not expecting to find survivors among the 150 people on board Germanwings Flight 9525, a passenger jet that crashed high in the French Alps.  A local lawmaker said “everything is pulverized” at the crash site on the side of Tete de l’Estrop northeast of Marseilles.  It apparently disintegrated on contact, and officials say there is no piece of the Airbus A320-211 that is larger “than a car”. 

Le Figaro is reporting the one of the “black box” flight recorders has already been located.  It’s hoped that the Flight Data and Cockpit Voice recorders will reveal why the flight did not send out an emergency alert prior to crashing.  Air traffic controllers declared an emergency as they watched the plane going from 38,000 feet/11,580 meters to the side of a mountain in what’s being described as a rapid but orderly descent during the last few minutes of the flight.

Germanwings is a discount subsidiary of Lufthansa, and thus is popular with people taking short, quick trips around Europe.  Flight 9525 was heading from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, carrying at least one high school class returning home for spring break from an exchange program in Spain.  The passenger manifest includes German, Spanish, and Turkish travelers, and also shows that two babies were among the passengers.

French villagers saw Germanwings Flight 9525 skimming the mountaintops as it went down.  “It was very low, only 1,500 or 2,000 meters and it seemed to be falling,” said Sebastien Giroud, who owns a woodshop in Prads-Haute-Bleones, “I said to myself: ‘that’s not going to make it over the mountains.’  I never heard a thing.”  Local mountain guides say the crash site is inaccessible by vehicle, and any recovery effort is going to have to happen via helicopter. 

In other news, Israel denies spying on the international negotiations to get Iran to scale back its nuclear program.  The Wall Street Journal reports Israel then shared that sensitive information with US conservative lawmakers, to try and turn them against cutting a deal with Tehran.  Needless to say, senior US officials and the intelligence community are pretty pissed off.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims Iran is close to getting a nuclear weapon, but then he’s been issuing the same warning since the 1990s.

Uruguay’s new government says it will no longer accept former detainees of America’s Guantanamo Bay Prison, as well as refugees from the Syrian conflict.  Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa says the country has faced “cultural and infrastructure” problems to deal with the Syrian families, after local media reported several incidents of domestic violence.  As for the six Gitmo detainees welcomed by then-President Jose Mujica, they’re having problems learning the Spanish language.

Angola has put a journalist on trial for allegedly defaming the military in his articles about the blood diamond trade.  Rafael Marques de Morais accused seven generals of being linked to murder, torture and land grabs in Angola's lucrative diamond fields.  For this, he has already spent 43 days in prison, including 11 in solitary confinement.

India’s Supreme Court threw out a despised law that allowed authorities to arrest people for comments made on social media, or even liking certain comments.  Justices ruled Section 66A of the Information Technology Act was unconstitutional.  The law was challenged by two young women who were arrested for their social media activity; One, who posted criticism of a decision to shut down Mumbai for an official funeral, and the other who liked the comment.