Hello, Australia! – Loved ones remember MH17 – Germany’s Angela Merkel is blasted online for making a teenage refugee cry – Jamaica starts setting things right – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Friends and family of the 38 Australians killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine attended a ceremony in Canberra marking one year since the disaster.  Although the cause still hasn’t been firmly established, the Western powers believe that Kremlin-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine used a Russian missile to shoot down the plane, possibly in a case of mistaken identity.  “Now we owe it to the dead to bring the guilty to justice,” said Prime Minister Tony Abbott after he unveiled a plaque with the victims’ names outside Parliament.  “No inscription on a plaque can remotely capture the depth of loss or the sense of sadness that you feel,” said opposition leader Bill Shorten.

Typhoon Nangka, known as Typhoon #11 in the Japanese naming system, crossed Shikoku and western Honshu islands to Japan’s San’in coast.  It’s expected to turn northeast, go up the Sea of Japan, and possibly make landfall again somewhere in the north by Akita or Sapporo.  So far, at least two people are dead and one is missing because of problems caused by the storm.  There’s quite a bit of flooding all over western Japan, from Kyoto, Mie, and Wakayama Prefectures all the way out west to Kitakyushu.  Just another summer in Japan!

Germany’s Bundestag on Friday will vote on whether to continue negotiations on Greece’s awful, terrible, horrible 86 Billion Euro bailout deal.  It’s expected to be approved, even through crabby, grumpy, surly finance minister Wolfgang Schauble is still pushing to kick Greece out of the European Union.  Germany is one of several eurozone states that must give the green light before the rescue deal can go ahead.

The hashtag #merkelstreichelt (Merkel comforting) is trending on social media, after an appalling display on German television.  In a question and answer show with Chancellor Angela Merkel, a teenage Palestinian refugee girl speaks in fluent, perfectly acclimated German to say how she had been threatened with imminent deportation, and that she just wants to study in university.  Merkel tells her that “politics is hard” and some migrants “will have to go home”.  The girl bursts into tears, and Merkel goes to comfort that girl whom she just told would have to go back to the squalor of a refugee camp in Lebanon.  Quite a few fitting parodies on that hashtag.  ‘Guess we all better understand how Greece happened.

The International Criminal Court at The Hague told Israel to review its decision not to investigate the deadly commando raid on the Gaza-bound “Freedom Flotilla” five years ago.  Judges said Israeli prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had committed “material errors” in her assessment of whether a criminal inquiry was warranted into the raid on the flotilla.  Israel denounced the order.  The commandos intercepted the boats bringing aid and medical supplies to Palestinians in Gaza; they claimed they were met with knives and iron pipes, and killed nine activists, eight Turkish and an American.

Kids, don’t try this at home, or anywhere else for that matter.  A young Indian couple is said to be in a stable condition after slitting their own throats at the Taj Mahal.  The pair – a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl – had been forbidden to marry by their parents, and chose the world’s most famous memorial to lost love as the spot to try and die.  They were found in pools of blood and taken to hospital.  The Taj Mahal was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal in the 17th Century.

Mexico new has 10,000 cops looking for fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.  He sauntered out of the country’s most-secure prison almost a week ago via a 1.5 kilometer-long tunnel accessed through a secret door beneath his cell’s shower.

Now that the island has partially decriminalized possession of small amounts of pot, Jamaica has been expunging some criminal records of people with marijuana-related convictions.  Justice Minister Mark Golding signed the order this week.  Before April’s amendments to Jamaica’s drug laws, 300 young men each week got criminal records and sometimes a lifelong stigma for possessing small amounts of marijuana.