Hello, Australia! – Jokowi breaks his silence on China’s territorial ambitions – Greece and Germany duke it out today – Idiots are caught on video being idiots – A Chilean girl who requested assisted suicide no longer wants to die – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Indonesian President Joko Widodo says China has no legitimate claim on the South China Sea.  It’s Jokowi’s first position statement on China’s territorial claims, which he told Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper have “no legal foundation in international law”.  President Widodo will meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo to sign a defense cooperation agreement that would cover “how to work with” Japan’s military, and “search and rescue operations, humanitarian assistance, and cyber defense”.

Jokowi picked a good day for it, as the Cherry Blossoms have just today started to open.  Hanami season starts in a day or so.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras goes to Berlin later on Monday for critical and potentially contentious talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel.  Although Tsipras and Merkel insist the talks will not be under pressure, members of Merkel own ruling coalition is demanding Tsipras spell out how it will achieve pro-market reforms as part of the bail out from Europe.  But back along the Adriatic, Greeks are wondering who truly owes whom?  Many are suggesting that Germany ought to pay its World War II debts to Greece because of 20th-century atrocities committed in Greece by the Nazis.  And estimates of those bills might range from US$75 Billion to $340 Billion.

France’s ruling Socialist Party got smacked down to third place by the conservative UMP Party of former President Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of local elections over the weekend.  But predictions of a groundswell of support for the ultra-right wing loonies of the Front National failed to come true.  The FN will advance to the second round at the end of the month with the vastly more popular UMP.  So, those local districts will likely swing to the right, but not too far to the right.

Police in North London arrested four men and two women in an attack on a synagogue.  The drunken dumbasses left a party early Sunday morning, got into an altercation with a man outside the Ahavas Torah synagogue in Stamford Hill, and chased him inside, brawling with worshippers who had mobile videos rolling.  The Rabbi said the attack seemed more anti-social than anti-Semitic, but some witnesses insist the attackers yelled, “Kill the Jews.”  Scotland Yard calls it an “unacceptable hate crime by a drunken mob”.  It comes amid increasing anti-Semitic incidents in Europe.

Houthi militias in Yemen have seized another city, adding to territory they already control – including the capital Sana’a. The Shiite tribe’s leader says his fighters will hunt down the Islamic State cell responsible for last Friday’s mosque bombings that killed around 140 people. 

A Chilean girl who pled with President Michelle Bachelet for permission to end her young life has had a change of heart.  14-year-old Valentina Maureira’s father says the girl changed her mind after meeting people who responded to her plea to be euthanized in order to end her suffering from cystic fibrosis.  One of those visitors was President Bachelet, herself a pediatrician, who explained that physician-assisted suicide is illegal under Chilean law.  But Valentina also received much encouragement from other families of cystic fibrosis patients, and from a fellow patient who survived past 20-years of age.