Hello, Australia! – Another black church burns in America – The death toll rises in Indonesia’s military plane crash – Russia suggests it was wrong to release vassal states from the old Soviet Union – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Australian and Asian markets seemed to shake off their panic over Greece earlier in the weekend, and are doing okay after Athens failed to make its 1.6 Billion-Euro debt payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the deadline on Tuesday.  Banks will open in Greece for a short time on Wednesday, but only for pensioners who don’t have cash cards – and they can only withdraw 120 Euros to tide them over for a few days.

Yet another historically African-American church in the southern United States went up in flames on Tuesday night.  The Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Williamsburg, South Carolina had actually been rebuilt once, having been burned to the ground by the racist terrorist group Ku Klux Klan 20 years ago.  It’s the same state where a scrawny, sawed-off runt white supremacist with a handgun went into the Emanuel AME Church earlier this month and murdered nine black people in a bible study group.  This is at least the eighth black church to burn in the past nine days.

Police in Indonesia say 141 bodies have been recovered from the scene of a plane crash in Sumatra.  The aging C-130P Hercules transport plane crashed into a bustling neighborhood in Medan on Tuesday, destroying several houses and a hotel, and plunging the area into chaos.  The military upped the number of people believed to have been on board to 122; none survived.  At least 19 are believed dead on the ground, and that could get worse.

A woman who wrote on social media that she was going to Japan’s most important national shrine to give thanks for her life of “peace and quiet” was killed when a fellow train passenger committed suicide by setting himself on fire.  When Japanese TV showed the breaking news of the fire on the bullet train, 52-year old Yoshiko Kuwahara’s friends commented on her Facebook page their hopes that she was safe.  Kuwahara was a married mother of one son and a chiropractor in Yokohama.  She was seated near 71-year old Haruo Hayashizaki, who self-immolated.  Neighbors say he was a loner who stayed in his small apartment most days and rarely, if ever, interacted with them.  The horrifying episode stopped Japan’s most-traveled bullet train line for more than two hours at midday Tuesday.

The US and Cuba on Wednesday will announced they’ve reached an agreement on reopening embassies in each others’ capitals.  This comes more than half century after the Cuban Revolution disrupted mutual relations.  There are still hard feelings on the part of Washington DC’s conservative republicans, some of whom are hinting they won’t release the US$6.6 Million that the State Department says is needed to upgrade the US interests office in Havana into a full-fledged modern embassy.

Russia decided to make its neighbors nervous by reviewing the “legality” of the former Soviet Union granting independence to the Baltic States in 1991.  That angered Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, who said, “No one has the right to threaten” her nation’s independence.  The Soviets occupied Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 1940.  But when the USSR broke up in 1991, its last leader Mikhail Gorbachev chaired the commission that released the Baltic States from the Union.  Now, nationalist Russians in Vladimir Putin’s government are investigating if that amounted to “treason”.

Liberia has quarantined the village where a 17-year old boy died of Ebola, weeks after the country was declared free of the killer disease seven weeks ago.  The boy is still Liberia’s only known post-epidemic infection, but health officials are concerned because they don’t know how he caught Ebola.  Infections have started to rise in Guinea and Sierra Leone at the start of the rainy season.  At least 11,233 people have died in the West African Ebola Epidemic since December 2013.

Everyone LOVES Wolf Puppies!  Because the grown-ups would just as soon kill you as look at you.  The endangered Mexican Gray Wolf Pups debuted at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo.