Hello, Australia! – When green eyes are seeing red – A high ranking Catholic official is charged with allegedly covering up sex abuse – Vanuatu needs food – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

On this Saint Patrick’s Day, Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenney is criticizing PM Tony Abbott for a video that some would say advances a stereotypical view of the Irish.  In it, Abbott wears a green tie on what he calls “the one day a year when it’s good to be green”, and suggests that the Irish enjoy drinking a “Guinness or two or maybe three”.  Irish leader Kenney says, “There has been a long-term view of a stage Irish perception. I reject that. I think it's really important that we understand that we have a national day that can be celebrated worldwide, St Patrick's Day.”  The video was apparently recorded for Irish ex-pats and business people in Australia.

NSW Police are charging Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson with allegedly covering-up child sex abuse by pedophile priest Jim Fletcher in the Maitland-Newcastle region during the 1970s.  Wilson immediately took indefinite leave to fight the charges.  The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry found that Fletcher had an “extensive history of sexually” altar boys, and in its findings said that an unnamed church official should be charged.

Food is the biggest concern in Vanuatu after the killer tropical cyclone.  The storm’s 320-kilometer per hour winds didn’t just destroy 70 percent of all homes, Cyclone Pam destroyed crops – leading to fears of food shortages and possible starvation.  “We have discovered that 100 percent of crops in Tanna have been destroyed – this means that this is an island with no food,” said UNICEF’s Alice Clements in Port Vila.  Islanders reportedly have only a few days of fruits and root vegetables left.

Prosecutors in Brazil formally charged the treasurer of the ruling Workers’ Party Joao Vaccari with corruption.  It comes a day after thousands of Brazilians protested corruption and called for President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment.  Rousseff rose above it saying, “Many people from my generation gave their lives so that people could express themselves on the streets.”  Rousseff announced she would send anti-corruption measures to congress this week.

Israeli voters are casting ballots in an election that could drastically reshape the country’s relations with the rest of the world.  Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is running a few points behind Center-Left leader Yitzhak Herzog, whose alliance promises to repair ties with the Palestinians and the international community.  Polls suggest years of Netanyahu’s hawkish politics have worn down even some of his own conservative base, many of whom are weary of constant conflict.

Egypt handed down death sentences to the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie and 13 others for planning attacks against the state.  The courts have passed death sentences to hundreds of Brotherhood members following the removal of Mohammed Morsi from the presidency in 2013. 

Nigeria’s military says it has ousted Boko Haram militants from two more towns in the northeast, including Bama town near the border with Cameroon.  The terrorists captured Bama six months ago after a series of attacks, and they left it a complete wreck – markets and homes are largely destroyed.