Hello, Australia! – EU ministers will discuss the deadly immigration crisis on its southern doorstep – Did Oz violate international law with some Vietnamese asylum seekers? – Dozens of gunmen from a drug gang try to stop the arrest of their boss – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The deaths of hundreds immigrants in the second deadly capsize of a boat in the Mediterranean in a week is putting pressure on European leaders to get off the sidelines and help Italy and Malta with the crisis off the continent’s south.  “If Europe, if the global community continues to turn a blind eye,” said Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, “We will all be judged in the same way that history has judged Europe when it turned a blind eye to the genocide of this century and last century.”  EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg later on Monday. 

Only 28 survivors were rescued from the disaster, and they told authorities that 700 to 950 people were packed onto the derelict ship by human traffickers in Libya.  Last week, another immigrant ship capsized, killing 450 people.  That pushes the year’s death toll of immigrants trying to cross from Africa to Europe to 1,600 lives lost.  The Italian coast guard has rescued another 11,000 people just since last week.

The Opposition says the reported forced return of a group of Vietnamese asylum seekers could be a violation of international law.  Immigration Minister Peter Dutton refuses to comment on the incident, in which an Australian Navy Supply Ship reportedly intercepted the 50 Vietnamese earlier this month and returned them to Vietnam.  “We need to have a guarantee from our Government today that every one of those people was individually assessed and that none of them require further investigation as to whether or not they are a genuine refugee,” said Opposition Immigration spokesman Richard Marles, “And we need to know and have confidence that this Government has not refouled people against the obligations of the UN convention.”  Marles referred to the government’s secrecy around it as a “new low”.

South African police have arrested more than 300 people amid a wave of attacks against foreigners.  Two more people were killed over the weekend, bringing the death toll to eight – but police seem to have enforced calm over Durban and Johannesburg. 

Mexican police report the arrests of two major drug bosses, one of which came at the expense of a giant gun battle.  Jesus “El Chuyin” Aguayo is the leader of Juarez Cartel; he was picked up on Friday in the northern border state of Chihuahua.  On the same day, 60 gunmen from the Gulf Cartel tried to stop police from arresting their leader Jose Tiburcio Hernandez Fuentes.  This went down in the city of Reynosa, one of Mexico’s most violent cities because of turf battles between the Gulf Cartel and the rival Zetas.  At least three people died in the Reynosa battle.

Japan has called off a tsunami warning after a strong earthquake off Okinawa.  The magnitude 6.8 temblor struck in between Miyakojima and Taiwan, but no major damage is reported.

Okay, these are some awesome kites on display at Calais, France over the weekend.

Usain Bolt:  100 meters in 10.12 seconds in Rio.

The Shroud of Turin has been put on public display until 24 June in the Italian city’s Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist.  Viewings are free, but must be booked in advance and more than a million people have already signed up.  Some devotees believe the image on the 4.4-meter cloth proves it is the burial shroud of Jesus; skeptics point out that carbon tests date it to around the year 1300.