Hello, Australia! – Families take advantage of the delays before the expected execution of two Aussies – India’s attempt to silence a documentary about rape is greeted with a more powerful silent protest – Five people are stabbed to death in a rural town – The holiday paradise where cops kept a “death list” – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The families of condemned Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are visiting the two men on Indonesia’s “execution island” Nusa Kanbangan.  Officials will not set an execution date for the convicted drug smugglers until after all appeals have been exhausted, and attorneys for Chan and Sukumaran will plead for clemency at an administrative court in Jakarta on Thursday.  PM Tony Abbott says he’s still waiting to talk with President Joko Widodo, who has vowed not to grant mercy to drug offenders because Indonesia is dealing with a “drug emergency”.

Two Swiss men have begun their attempt to go around the world in a solar-powered airplane, the “Solar Impulse 2”.  Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard set off from Abu Dhabi and expect the journey to take about five months, and they’ll stop off at various points around the globe to spread the word about clean technologies.

Police are investigating the stabbing deaths of five people in western Japan.  Called to the crime scene in an agricultural area on Awaji Island near Osaka, cops found 40-year old Tatsuhiko Hirano in blood-soaked clothing.  Inside a big farmhouse, three victims in the 50s and 60s; a couple in the 80s were found dead in a house nearby.  Hirano didn’t immediately reveal his motive.  Your CareerSpot World News guy found the suspect’s social media accounts, and they’re filled with all sorts of anti-Semitic jibberish about government spying, electromagnetic waves, and conspiracies.  SMDH.

The Vatican says it has refused a ransom demand for a stolen letter by the artist Michelangelo.  Italy’s Il Messaggero newpaper says a former Vatican employee is demanding more than A$140,000 to return the paper in the handwriting of the Renaissance painter, sculptor, and visionary.  It’s not clear why the theft was not disclosed until now, and police are investigating.

Venezuela is installing fingerprint scanners at supermarkets across the country, a measure to prevent food hoarding and panic buying.  President Nicolas Maduro has long maintained that enemies of his government buy up and hoard food to cause shortages that lead to discontent.  Colombian food smugglers also are known to load up at Socialist Venezuela’s price-controlled markets, only to abscond back across the border to sell their booty at a profit.  Over the weekend, foreign ministers from the twelve-nation UNASUR bloc pledged to assist Venezuela overcome shortages of food, medicine, and other products.

India’s NDTV network protested the government’s suppression of its documentary on the country’s rape problem by airing the film’s title – “India’s Daughters” – and nothing else for the hour it was supposed to have been shown.  The film is a coproduction with the BBC, and features an interview with one of the men convicted of the infamous Delhi bus gang rape and murder that shook the nation out of its complacency regarding violence against women.  Indian authorities banned it on the grounds of “objectionable content”.

Islamist militants are suspected of a mortar attack on a United Nations base in Mali that killed three people including a UN peacekeeper.  Separately, an al-Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for the attack on restaurant in the Malian capital Bamako that killed a French national, a Belgian security official working for the EU, and three Malians.

The PM of a tiny Caribbean island known for bananas and tourism is admitting the police force kept a “death list” and planted guns at the scenes of a dozen police shootings.  Prime Minister Kenny Anthony of Saint Lucia read from what he called an “extremely damning” report from Jamaican investigators who were called in after the US got sick of the place and pulled all support for island’s police.  Anthony says the killings happened on 2010 and 2011 under the previous administration.