Good Morning, Australia! – A surprise statement from the Boston Bomber as he is sentenced to death – The IMF stonewalls Greece and demands that pensions be raided to pay Athens’ debt – Is Yemen on the brink of a Malthusian crisis? – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The convicted Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shocked the courtroom when he apologized for planting the explosives that killed three people and injured or maimed dozens.  “I am sorry for the lives I have taken, for the suffering that I have caused you, for the damage I have done, irreparable damage,” Tsarnaev told victims and survivors, after they read statement after statement describing their losses after the April 2013 attack.  The judge confirmed the earlier death sentence handed up by the jury earlier this year, and Tsarnaev now goes to death row where he will wait out the appeals process to his eventual execution.

A Women’s rights group will use an unmanned drone to deliver morning-after pills to Poland, where reproductive rights are severely limited.  The pills mifepristone (AKA RU-486) and misoprostol are approved by the UN World Health Organization to induce abortion up to nine weeks into pregnancy.  The group Women on Waves notes that well-off Polish women can just drive over to Germany or go to England for an abortion, and avoid Poland’s restrictions on reproductive rights that limit abortion to cases of rape or incest, danger to the mother’s life, or a severely malformed fetus.  But thousands of women without the financial resources cannot leave so easily – and Poland has an estimated 50,000 underground abortion procedures every year.

Pakistan’s heatwave death toll is past 800 lives lost, mostly in the city of Karachi.

Yemen is “one step” from famine.  The UN Special Envoy to Yemen told the Security Council that the war-torn country has 31 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, compared with seven million just two years ago.  The fighting between Houthi militias, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Saudis has left 20 Million Yemenis without access to potable drinking water.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is criticizing the IMF after it rejected Greece’s latest proposal to deal with its debt crisis.  After starting the week looking like they were headed for an agreement, the IMF reportedly decided it wants more cuts to Greek’s pensions, a higher retirement age, and no tax increases on corporations and the wealthy.  What I’d tell the IMF cannot be printed here, but it’s anatomically impossible. 

US President Barack Obama is attempting to reassure his French counterpart Francois Hollande, after Wikileaks revealed decades of eavesdropping on French Presidents by the US National Security Agency (NSA).  A White House statement said Mr. Obama phoned Hollande to say, “We have abided by the commitment we made to our French counterparts in late 2013 that we are not targeting and will not target the communications of the French President.”

And while France is angry over the US spying, officials aren’t necessarily against surveillance itself.  The French National Assembly approved a controversial surveillance law aimed at broadening eavesdropping of terrorism suspects.  Critics say the legislation goes too far – just like the US NSA that was just outed for peaking around France’s curtains.

Venezuela has freed two student activists accused in last year’s anti-government violence that killed more than 40 people last year.  It comes a day after opposition instigator Leopoldo Lopez ended his month-long hunger strike in jail.