Hello, Australia! – It could be down to hours for to Australians on Indonesia’s death row – Nepal grows increasingly desperate – Baltimore burns – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Condemned Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have been denied a visit with the pastor of their choice prior to their execution, which could happen any time after midnight.  Indonesian authorities allowed the men’s families to go to the execution island to say their final goodbyes before returning to the mainland.  Attorney-general George Brandis is calling on his counterpart in Jakarta to delay the executions until at least after the hearing before the constitutional court on 12 May.  But officials told Foreign Minister Julie Bishop there likely will be no delay.

Frustration is building in Nepal over what is perceived to be the slow pace of rescue operations after the devastating earthquake last Saturday.  The death toll has been updated to 4,400 lives lost, more than 8,000 injured, and the United Nations says 1.4 million people are in need of food assistance.  There’s still shortages of food, fuel, medical equipment, and body bags.  Nepal’s President is also a doctor – he says the country is facing an unprecedented medical crisis.

If you want to help Nepal, here are some links:  UNICEF – The World Food Program – The Australian Red Cross – OXFAM Australia – Medicins Sans Frontieres Australia (Doctors Without Borders) – also, Charity Navigator is a great online tool which evaluates charities' accountability and finances, can help you avoid scams that prey on people's generosity in the wake of major disasters.

Maryland’s governor declared a state of emergency after rioting in the eastern US city of Baltimore.  Some 10,000 people peacefully marched and observed the funeral for Freddie Gray, the young African American man who died of a mysterious spinal cord injury a week after being brutally arrested by police.  But after the high schools released students for the day, young people not associated with the march began attacking cops with bricks and stones, looting and burning stores, and burning police vehicles.  Several businesses were set ablaze, including a few nowhere near the riot zone (ahem insurance fire ahem ahem).  Freddie Gray’s family condemned the violence.  The city, about an hour’s drive from America’s capital, will be under curfew tomorrow and all public school classes are cancelled.

A South Korean appellate court added a homicide conviction against the captain of the capsized Sewol ferry, and increased his sentence to life in prison.  A lower court last year sentenced Lee Joon-seok to 36 years in prison for negligence and abandoning passengers in need.  But it acquitted him of homicide.  The new ruling adds the homicide conviction.  More than 300 people died in the Sewol ferry disaster last year, and most of them were school children.

They finally tallied the bodies from a Boko Haram atrocity in Damasak, a Nigerian town near the border with Niger.  When troops from Niger and Chad liberated Damasak last month, 400 people could not be accounted for.  Bodies were found in the local river after it went dry, and more were in ruined houses throughout the town.  The bodies found roughly match the number of missing.  President Muhammadu Buhari denounced Boko Haram as a false religious group and vowed a hard line against it:  “No religion allows for the killing of children in school dormitories, in markets and places of worship,” said Buhari.  “They have nothing to do with religion.  They are terrorists and we are going to deal with them as we deal with terrorists.”

Colombia’s health ministry is calling for the immediate halt in the use of glyphosate, originally known by its consumer name Roundup by Monsanto.  The herbicide is the cornerstone of US-led anti-drug efforts to kill coca crops.  But the ministry, and the UN World Health Organization last month, both say glyphosate is likely carcinogenic in humans.  US contractors have sprayed 1.6 million hectares of Colombia with the weed killer to kill coca plants, the leaves of which as used to make cocaine.