Good Morning Australia!! - Deals to stop immigration are not stopping the dying on the Mediterranean - Indonesia will not seek prosecution for thousands of political murders - Japan stands by nuclear power despite last week's earthquakes - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Hundreds of migrants are believed to have drowned in the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea.  Officials cannot confirm the exact number, but it may be as many as 500 lives lost.  The migrants were mostly from the Horn of Africa; smugglers packed 240 of them onto a ship at the Libyan port city of Tobruk.  Once at sea, they were transferred to another ship that was already carrying 300 people - but the larger ship capsized and only 41 people survived.  In a separate incident, rescuers plucked 108 people from a rapidly deflating rubber dinghy just north of Libya, but at least six fellow passengers had already drowned.  All this comes just before the anniversary of 800 people drowning in a migrant ship sinking near the Italian Isle of Lampedusa.

Ecuador has raised the death toll from the weekend earthquake to 413 lives lost, and warn it could get worse.  The UN began loading its first relief plane out of its global logistics hub in Copenhagen with: 900 tents, 15,000 sleeping mats, kitchen sets, and 18,000 repellent-soaked mosquito nets.  "The aim is to rapidly provide essential shelter and other aid material over the next days for some 40,000 people - refugees, asylum seekers, and locals alike - in earthquake-affected communities," the UN said in a statement.  The quake hit the poor country's Pacific coast, ravaging towns like Muisne, Pedernales, and Portoviejo, as well as the smaller fishing villages in between.

Japan's nuclear power regulator insists there is no need to shut down the country's only operating nuclear station on Kyushu, where a series of quakes and aftershocks killed more than 40 people and damaged infrastructure.  The Nuclear Regulation Authority say it is closely monitoring the situation at the Sendai nuclear power plant and three others on Kyushu.  At least 42 people died in two quakes and numerous aftershocks centered around Kumamoto City last week.

China has used a plane on the airstrip it built on an artificial island on Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea, apparently to evacuate some injured workers.  This is believed to be the first time that China has carried out such a mission on the controversial reclamation project in waters that the international community does not recognize as Beijing's.  Vietnam already claimed the area.

Indonesia is ruling out a criminal investigation into the anti-Communist purges that killed 500,000 people during the 1960s.  Security minister Luhut B. Pandjaitan told a symposium in Jakarta that the government is considering an unprecedented "expression of regret" to victims and their families, not to mention those who were imprisoned for years without trial.  Luhat ruled out an actual apology, but claimed that "we're basically going to solve the whole thing."  Alrighty then, no trials and no apology, but you are totally going to solve it.  (>_<#)

Israeli police say it was "definitely a bomb" that went off in a bus in south Jerusalem, injuring 21 people.  The fire spread to another bus and both vehicles were consumed.  Hamas praised the attack, but fell short of claiming responsibility.

A few hours before that, Israeli military prosecutors formally charged an IDF soldier with manslaughter in the killing of a Palestinian stabbing suspect who was lying prone on the ground.  The killing was caught on video.  Abdel Fattah al-Sharif was already seriously wounded by six bullets, but 19-year old Sgt. Elor Azaria shot the man in the head long after he was subdued.  Prosecutors say Azaria acted in "violation of rules of engagement and without operational justification", while al-Sharif "did not pose immediate and clear threat to the defendant, civilians or soldiers in the area".  The last successful prosecution of an IDF soldier was in 2005.