Hello, Australia! – One of the Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt is suing the network – Greece warns its cash is disappearing – A surprising social problem grows in South Korea – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

One of the Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt for more than a year alongside Aussie Peter Greste is now planning to sue his former employer.  Canadian Mohamed Fahmy wants A$104.5 Million from Al Jazeera in punitive and remedial damages for what he calls its negligence that led to Fahmy, Greste, and one other journo being convicted and jailed.  Fahmy seems to support Egyptian government claims that Al Jazeera’s coverage was slanted against the Egyptian military government that deposed the first democratically elected president Mohammad Morsi.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis says his country is about two weeks away from a cash crisis.  “Let’s not beat about the bush and pretend otherwise,” Yanis said of Greece’s ability to pay its bills, “It seems to me that from the perspective of the timeframe that we are facing, we’re talking about the next couple of weeks.”  Athens and the EU are now three months in to renegotiating Greece’s debt and a bailout loan worth more than A$10.1 Billion.

Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza is brushing aside the concerns of the EU and US and scheduled elections for June.  He’s running for a third term, which his opponents say violates the deal that ended the civil war in 2005.  Weeks of deadly street protests have only grown and observers fear it will be impossible to hold a free and fair election under such violent conditions.

Macedonia charged 30 people with terrorism after the running street battles between police and Kosovars in the northern town of Kumanovo.  Eight cops and at least 14 gunmen were killed over the weekend.  The militants demanded the creation of a Kosovar Albanian state within Macedonia.

Colombian forces shut down more than 60 illegal mines, which FARC rebels used as a source of income.  The sites near the border with Venezuela produced gold, tungsten, and cobalt, and could have earned millions of dollars for the rebels.  Authorities arrested 17 people.  Meanwhile, in the negotiations to end the FARC’s five-decade insurgency, the government now says there will likely be no blanket amnesty for former militants – and that is due to an increase in clashes between the rebels and military.

A suicide attack in Idlib, Syria caused a massive explosion and shockwave, caught on video.

The White House is denying that it is being snubbed by Saudi Arabian King Salman, who will not attend meetings with US President Barack Obama and Arab leaders from the Gulf Cooperation council.  The Saudi Crown Prince and Deputy Crown Prince will go to Washington.  The Saudis are nervous over the Obama Administration’s commitments to Guld security in light of its negotiations with Iran, the Saudi’s largest regional rival.

South Korea’s crime rate is level and actually dropping in some areas.  But there’s one group committing more crimes – the elderly, whose crime rate increased 40 percent in two years.  Almost half of elderly Koreans live in poverty, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).  “The biggest reason why elderly crimes are on the rise is because nobody cares for them,” says criminal psychology professor Lee Soo-jung.  “Expanding the welfare programs for the elderly and considering age foremost before picking the recipients of livelihood programs will help prevent crimes by the elderly.”