Hello, Australia! – A mysterious package causes a ruckus at the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra – Shots ring out at a contest to draw cartoons of the Islamic prophet – A Central American nation fears an ecological disaster after a shipwreck – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A Hazmat team was called to the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra after the discovery of a suspicious package containing white powder.  Police released as statement reading, “The suspicious package has been contained and will now be taken to ACT Pathology at Canberra Hospital for analysis.  Roads are now open.”  This comes a week after Indonesia executed Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran for drug smuggling.

In a suburb outside Dallas, Texas, two suspected gunmen and a security guard were shot outside a contest to draw the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.  The gunmen were killed, the security guard is wounded.  Notorious Dutch anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders was there, and tweeted that he got out of the convention center in the town of Garland.  The offensive contest was sponsored by a known hate group alternately called the “American Freedom Defense Initiative” and “Stop Islamization of America”.  The leaders are Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, two bloggers quoted by Norwegian mass murderer of children Anders Breivik in his racist manifesto.

Rights advocates accuse the Saudi-led coalition of using US-supplied cluster bombs against villages in northern Yemen.  Human Rights Watch says these were dropped on villages held by the Houthi rebels.  Cluster munitions are banned in a treaty signed by 167 countries – the US didn’t sign, but supposedly forbids exporting such weapons to countries that use them in civilian areas.  They’re indiscriminate weapons, and often don’t detonate upon impact – leaving behind live explosives that might as well be land mines, threatening anyone who comes across them.

Meanwhile, at least 20 Saudi-led coalition troops landed in Aden for what’s being described as a “reconnaissance” mission.  It’s the first ground mission against the rebels and their allies, which are seen by the Saudis as proxies for its regional rival Iran.

There’s a new hitch in efforts to get much-needed aid to Nepal:  Authorities had to close the main airport to large plane because of earthquake damage to the runway.  It was built to accommodate medium-sized planed, not the enormous military and cargo planes that have been flying in aid supplies, food, medicines, and rescue and humanitarian workers.  Despite that, bottlenecks in aid delivery are slowly clearing up, and the government eased customs and bureaucratic checks on incoming supplies.  The death toll from the 25 April quake is 7,276, including six foreigners and 45 Nepalese found over the weekend on a popular trekking route.  You can donate to help Nepal through these links:  UNICEF – The World Food Program – The Australian Red Cross – OXFAM Australia – Medicins Sans Frontieres Australia (Doctors Without Borders). 

Costa Rica is warning people against swimming or fishing near the port of Puntarenas, where a cargo ship containing 180 tons of ammonium nitrate capsized and sank in the Pacific Ocean.  The chemical is often used in the manufacture of fertilizers and explosives, and can be dangerous to health in cases of direct contact with the chemical.