Good Afternoon, Australia! – Islamic State offers a terrorist trade for hostages – A New South Wales Hospital is tracking down former patients over bad vaccines – Germany warns Greece’s new Left-wing PM – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Japan is working with Jordan on getting Islamic State (IS) to release the remaining Japanese hostage, Kenji Goto.  Reports suggest the militants are demanding the release of two Iraqi terrorists in exchange for Goto and Jordanian fighter pilot Mu’ath al-Kaseabeh who was captured late last year when his plane crashed in Syria.  The US is reportedly not terribly keen on that idea.

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown, NSW is contacting hundreds of women and the parents of nine babies who were given vaccines that were ruined because a refrigerator failed.  These women and babies were patients at the hospitals “8 East postnatal ward” in August 2013.  The vaccines were supposed to protect the women against diseases including diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, measles, and mumps; and the babies from hepatitis B.  The vaccines themselves aren’t a problem, but the patients have been going around for a year and a half thinking they were protected.

German and European officials are warning Greece’s new government – stick with the terms of the deal.  The Leftist Syriza party won the weekend elections on a platform of renegotiating Greece’s repayment of billions of Euros from the IMF/EU bailout.  Part of the terms of qualifying for that bailout was massive slashing of social programs, health, and education funding.  Five years of economic torture later, Greeks had enough of that noise, kicked out the establishment, and voted in the Leftists.

Robot acts like a bug.

The US FBI says it busted up a Russian spying plot.  38-year-old Russian banker Evgeny Buryakov and two others are charged with secretly gathering information about the New York Stock Exchange, and funneling it to their two handlers in the Russian embassy and trade mission.  The latter two men are protected from prosecution by diplomatic immunity.

Tens of thousands of Mexicans marched through the capital city to demand an investigation into the apparent deaths of 43 students.  The trainee teachers disappeared in Iguala town in the south four months ago.  The town’s mayor is charged with ordering cops to hand them over to a drug gang, members of which confessed to killing the 43 and burning their bodies.  Only one of a set of remains found in a river has been matched to the DNA of one of the missing students.

Dominic Ongwen has made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.  The former commander in Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony’s “Lord’s Resistance Army” (LRA) is charged with his role in the LRA’s vast atrocities – killing more than 100,000 people and abducting more than 60,000 children and forcing them to be soldiers.  Ongwen says he was one of those abductees, kidnapped at age 14.  He next court date will be in August and he’ll remain in custody at least until then.  Kony is still at large.

The owner of the small drone helicopter that crashed into a tree at the White House has come forward and is reportedly cooperating with the investigation.  He is said to be a US federal government employee who was just playing with a new toy. 

Check this out – A small Cirrus SR-22 plane runs out of fuel near Hawaii over the weekend.  The pilot deployed the plane’s emergency parachute, giving him time to get his life jacket on.  The plane’s a loss, but he’s alive.

Hey, it’s one of those “hat clouds” over snowy Mount Fuji!