Good Morning, Australia! – The Boston Marathon Bomber gets his verdict – America’s CIA director dismisses critics of the Iran nuclear deal – Emboldened by Tikrit, Iraq looks to wrest more territory from Islamic State – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A Jury in Boston has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on multiple charges relating to the Boston Marathon Bombing of 15 April 2013.  That makes the 21-year old eligible for the death penalty.  Three people were killed and more than 260 were wounded – including many lost limbs – by the two pressure cooker bombs left in the throngs of onlookers by Dzhokhar and his brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout with police.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did not ask for money on his visit to Moscow, answering speculation that Athens was looking to Moscow for help in its debt crisis.  Putin says Moscow will consider loans to Athens for future energy projects.  Russia was one of Greece’s largest trading partners until the EU leveled sanctions on Moscow over Russia’s involvement in Ukraine.

“Greed and corruption” sank that Russian fishing trawler in the icy Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's far eastern coast one week ago.  Investigators blame the owners and officials who looked the other way, noting the decrepit vessel had way too many illegal workers on board and few lifeboats.  Out of a crew of 132, 56 are confirmed dead and 13 are missing and presumed dead.

Islamic State (IS) militants released 216 members of the Yazidi religious minority captured last year.  The Yazidi were in poor health and bore signs of physical abuse.  Viewed as ‘devil worshippers’ by Islamic fundamentalists, IS drove the Yazidi from their homes in Iraq by the thousands last year, killing men and boys and selling the women off as slaves.

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says “completely” liberating western Anbar province from Islamic State is next on the agenda.  Iraqi troops with Shiite militias drove IS out of Tikrit after weeks of fighting.  IS has reported blockades Fallujah on three sides and is ready for an assault. 

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is for the first time opening a window on American intelligence assessments of Iran’s new cooperation with the six major world powers over its nuclear program.  CIA Director John Brennan says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani convinced Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that their economy was “destined to go down” unless it reached a new understanding with the West.  The fact is, years of economic sanctions worked, and he said US conservatives’ attacks on the framework agreement were “wholly disingenuous”. 

North Korea has “1,000 ballistic missiles” that can reach South Korea and Japan, warns the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.  The technology is largely retro-eighties leftovers from the Soviet era and renders it a regional threat on Northeast Asia.  But, Pyongyang is aggressively pursuing technological advancement, and there are no active international negotiations to scale back its nuclear program – unlike situation with Iran and the six major world powers.

The family rift in France’s far right Front National Party (FN) has deepened, with leader Marine Le Pen condemning her father – the party’s founder – for belittling the holocaust and defending the leader of Vichy France of World War II.  Calling his comments a “vulgar provocation”, Marine said, “Jean-Marie Le Pen seems to be in a total spiral of strategy somewhere between scorched earth and political suicide.”  Although most would agree the FN is a cesspool of xenophobes and bigots, Marine Le Pen has cut out the flagrant anti-Semitism and racism of the previous generation, making it more palatable to voters and France’s third largest political party.

Hidden camera captures an endangered Snow Leopard in a national park in Siberia.