Good Morning, Australia! – Did Russia beat the confession out of a political murder suspect? – A defector explains why hostages appeared to be calm before Islamic State murdered them – Brazen thieves hake off with millions in jewels – A TV news crew is mugged on camera! – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Rights activists say a suspect in the murder of Russian opposition news Boris Nemtsov was probably tortured into confessing.  Two of the man’s cousins are also detained at Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison, and likewise have suffered multiple injuries after their arrest.  Another man arrested at the same has disappeared in custody.  Nemtsov was assassinated on a bridge overlooking the Kremlin shortly after he stated he was afraid he’d be killed on the orders of President Vladimir Putin.  The Kremlin is now threatening to arrest the rights activists for “interfering” in the investigation.

Poland’s President says his country will hold exercises later this year to test Poland’s resistance to a “crisis” similar to that embroiling Ukraine.  Bronislaw Komorowski didn’t detail what the exercise will entail.

Bodies have been recovered from the waters off Florida where a US Army helicopter crashed.  Four Soldiers and seven Marines from nearby Eglin Air Force Base were on board the Blackhawk chopper.

Iraqi forces and Shiite militias pushed further into Tikrit, leaving Islamic State (IS) to strike back as a terrorist group would:  With a series of 21 car bombs in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province.  An official there said the growing battlefield experience of government troops was able to keep casualties to a minimum – Iraqis recognize the car bombs as they approached and blew up most of them before they could reach their targets.

An Islamic State defector says Mohammed “Jihadi John” Emwazi did indeed behead the hostages in those infamous IS propaganda videos.  And the reason the prisoners seemed so calm before their execution was that they didn’t realize they were about to be killed.  IS put the hostages through several mock executions to desensitize them, apparently because a struggling prisoner makes the propaganda unseemly.  SMDH.

Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador to Sweden because of “blatant interference it its internal affairs”.  Sweden says it’s because of its “criticism regarding human rights and democracy” in the ultra-conservative petro-kingdom.  Sweden is one of the world’s most egalitarian and progressive countries, and Saudi Arabia chops people’s heads off on street corners, flogs dissidents, and unofficially bans female drivers.

Armed robbers stole about A$12.5 Million worth of jewels from two armored cars in France.  The gang waited for the trucks at a tollbooth south of Paris; sprayed the trucks with some sort of gas to make the drivers stand down; and whisked off in the vans en route to Paris.  Cops found the burnt out trucks abandoned in a vineyard.  No one was injured.

A South African TV News crew was mugged seconds before going live for an unrelated report – and video was already being recorded back in the control room.  SABC correspondent Vuyo Mvoko was just about to begin when two men – whose faces were clearly visible on camera – pulled guns and demanded the newsies’ mobile phones and cash. 

At least three people were killed in a shopping center fire in Kazan, Russia, 720 kilometers east of Moscow.  Several people were already reportedly trapped inside when the roof collapsed.

Adorable Tiger Cubs play fight at Eberswalde Zoo near Berlin.