Hello, Australia! – Does video of the Germanwings crash exist? – Premature celebration in Iraq – A bloody end to the hostage standoff in Turkey – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

An Indonesian court will announce a verdict on the appeals of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan on Monday, 6 April.  The two Australians face execution for their role in a drug smuggling ring.  The Abbott government has tried all sorts of ways to pressure Jakarta to grant the men clemency, but has been rebuffed.  In fact at one point, President Joko Widodo stopped answering the calls of Prime Minister Tony Abbott. 

Two European publications, Bild and Paris Match, claim to have obtained video of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 from INSIDE the plane, moments before impact.  Keep in mind, this claim is unverified by German and French authorities.  The video purportedly comes from a sim card found in the wreckage on the side of Tete de l’Estrop in the French Alps.  Screams of “Oh my God” in several different languages can reportedly be heard on the video, as well as a heavy banging – which is presumed to be pilot Patrick Sondheimer banging on the cockpit door, trying in vain to get back in and regain control from allegedly suicidal co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.

Iraqi officials announced government troops and Shiite militias recaptured Tikrit, although they seem to have jumped the gun with that announcement.  Islamic State militants are still dug in around the city that was the birthplace of dead dictator Saddam Hussein, and fighting continues.  Meanwhile, Islamic State attacked across the border in a Syrian village near the city of Hama, killing at least 37 people.

The CEO of the world’s largest private sector employer has called the governor of the jerkwater American state of Arkansas, and told him to veto a religious freedom law that critics say legalizes homophobia.   Walmart is headquartered in Arkansas, and says diversity is good for its employees and shoppers.  The Arkansas law is the same as the one that Indiana recently enacted, bringing a corporate and social backlash of its own.  In fact the reaction was so bad, Indiana’s Governor caved and says it will rewrite the law to protect LGBT rights.  Is this good?  No.  The worst part of this is that if it were merely activists complaining, the laws would remain on the books.  But in America in 2015, only billionaires and corporations are allowed to tackle flagrant injustice.  SMDH.

It turns out that Muhammadu Buhari didn’t just win the Nigerian Presidential Election – he won it be a landslide of some two million votes.  In a short concession speech, outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan wished Buhari well and told his supporters to keep their cool, saying nobody’s political ambition was “worth the blood of any Nigerian”.  It’s the first time any Nigerian ousted a president through the ballot box.

The Turkish prosecutor taken hostage by Leftist guerillas in an Istanbul courthouse is dead.  Security forces stormed the office, killing the two hostage takers allegedly from the far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), but Mehmet Selim Kiraz was shot several times in the head and body.  Police claim they acted after shots were heard from inside the office – which, if you think about it, would have meant that the militants for some strange reason decided to give up their only advantage in the stand off.  Kiraz was investigating the death of the youngest victim of police violence during the Turkish government’s crackdown on the Gezi Park protests of 2013.  The DHKP-C wanted the cops to confess and be tried by a “people’s court”.