Hello, Australia! – Australia is recalling the ambassador to Indonesia over the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran – Nigeria purports to rescue hundreds of women from Boko Haram – Baltimore is holding on – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The bodies of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have been handed over to Australian officials, to be returned too their families after being executed overnight.  Once that task is completed, Australia’s ambassador to Indonesia Paul Grigson is being withdrawn.  PM Tony Abbott says that it can’t be “simply business as usual” with Indonesia after the “cruel and unnecessary” executions of the convicted drug smugglers.

Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop expressed frustration over Indonesia’s cold shoulder to Canberra’s attempts to secure clemency for the men.  When asked about the future of the $600 Million in foreign aid that Oz provides to Indonesia each year, Bishop said any decision on that would be announced next month at budget time.

The situation in Nepal actually got worse with a landslide north of Kathmandu.  Foreign tourists may be among the 250 missing in the slide at Ghodatabela in Langtang National Park, an area popular with hikers.  The Nepalese government says the death toll has passed 4,800 lives lost and could go as high as 10,000. 

Protesters and police clashed for a second night in Baltimore, Maryland on America’s east coast on Wednesday.  But it appears to be a much smaller disturbance compared to Monday night’s riots and arson.  Still, the thousands and thousands of peaceful protesters who demanded justice for Freddie Gray – the young African American man who died a week after suffering a severed spine in the custody of Baltimore Police – are upset with the corporate media for ignoring their demonstrations until the rioting started.

It could be that the mood was lightened by a Michael Jackson impersonator entertaining the crowds of peaceful protesters.

Nigeria says it has liberating nearly 300 girls and women from the terrorist group Boko Haram – but none of them are the female students kidnapped from the boarding school at Chibok town last year.  The plight of the Chibok girls caused international outrage and worldwide clicktavism under the hashtag “#bringbackourgirls.  It’s feared that at least some of the girls were forced into committing some of the suicide bombings Boko Haram carried out in market places around northeastern Nigeria.

The Vatican plans to push politicians around the world to do more to fight man-made climate change, calling it a “moral issue”.  Pope Francis hosted a one-day symposium at the Vatican featuring interfaith leaders, Nobel laureates, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.  “The wealthiest countries, the ones who have benefited most from fossil fuels, are morally obligated to push forward and find solutions to climate-related change and so protect the environment and human life,” said Cardinal Peter Turkson, who heads the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.   “They are obliged both to reduce their own carbon emissions and to help protect poorer countries from the disasters caused or exacerbated by the excesses of industrialization.”  Pope Francis is expected to issue an encyclical on Climate Change in June.

Shinzo Abe is expected to address a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday, the first Japanese Prime Minister to do so.  His speech will be closely watched and picked over to indications on how the nationalist politician will handle the issue of Japan’s World War II atrocities in a key statement he is due to give this summer to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific war.  Abe and his atrocity-denying friends have raised the ire of South Korea and China, which both suffered horribly under the Japanese occupation.

Later in the week, Abe will visit California.  Korean-Americans and Chinese-Americans already protested at the Japanese consulate in San Francisco, emphasizing Imperial Japan’s practice of forcing foreign women to work in military brothels.  “It’s never too late to apologize because the insult and the wound that had been inflicted by Japan will not be forgotten until there is an apology,” said Peter Li, retired professor of East Asian history at Rutgers University.