Good Morning Australia!! - French cops get the Strasbourg gunman - Big progress in the Yemen War negotiations - China detains a second Canadian - Hey, hey, hey, the "Blurred Lines" lawsuit is over - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

French police say they have shot dead the gunman who killed three people and injured several more during a shooting at the Christmas Market in the eastern city of Strasbourg.  Locally-born Cheriff Chekatt was believed to have converted to radical Islam while in prison on a robbery conviction.  In the end, it turns out that Chekatt never got out of Strasbourg after the shooting on Tuesday, and cops tracked him to the La Meinau neighborhood just hours ago.  

The warring sides in the Yemen Civil War have agreed to a cease-fire in Hodeidah, a strategically significant port city held by the Houthi rebels.  The Saudi blockade of the port has been the main driver of misery among civilians, preventing emergency shipments of food and medicine, which led to widespread malnutrition, starvation and disease.  UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the agreement "an important step" and "real progress".

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China has detained a second Canadian, as a judge in Vancouver, Canada decides if Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou should be deported to the US to face charges of allegedly breaking economic sanctions on Iran.  Beijing confirms it is holding entrepreneur Michael Spavor and former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig on suspicion of "endangering national security".  Mr. Spavor is one of the only Westerners to have met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and played a role in eccentric basketball star Dennis Rodman's visits there.  Mr. Kovrig helped arrange Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeay's mission to China. 

Canada's position was made more difficult by Donald Trump's poor choice of words; Trump said he would get involved in Ms. Meng's case if it helped produce a US-China trade agreement, suggesting the US warrant is political in nature.  That forced Mr. Trudeau to push back, "Regardless of what goes on in other countries, Canada is, and will always remain, a country of the rule of law."  Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said foreign countries must ensure "the process is not politicized".  Ms. Meng is free on bail, but restricted to Vancouver and its suburbs while the case proceeds.

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Nine people have died in a huge train crash in Turkey's capital Ankara.  A high speed passenger train crashed into a track inspection unit at Marsandiz Station and then went airborne into a pedestrian overpass.  At last 47 people are injured.  Although the investigation has just begun, a railway union says the train was on the wrong tracks because of a signalling problem caused by human error, and terms the deaths as "murder".  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said three people were in custody.

Hungarian police used tear gas on thousands of protesters on parliament's front steps.  They opposed the so-called "slave labor" law being passed inside by the right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's overwhelming majority.  It allows employers to demand more overtime out of Workers - up to 400 hours per year, which comes out to an extra hour of work per day.  They were also angry about the passage of another bill that creates a new system of administrative courts directly controlled by the political leadership, something the European Union will vigorously oppose.

LGBT couples in Brazil are rushing to get married, fearing that incoming far-right wing president Jair Bolsonaro will challenge the nation's groundbreaking marriage equality laws which came into force in 2013.  Bolsonaro has a record of making heinous homophobic comments.  He has since claimed that LGBT people would be "happy with his government", but most aren't planning to trust a guy who said he'd "rather have a dead son than a gay son".

A Buddhist monk in eastern India is dead after being savaged by a Leopard in a forest.  Forest officials said they had warned the monks at a nearby temple about the dangers of the Tadoba forest, which is a protected tiger reserve.  Rahul Walke had been "meditating under a tree", but apparently picked one too far away from the temple.  Rangers will attempt to capture the Leopard.

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship successfully soared up to the edge of space and back, reached a height of 82.7 kilometers.  That's just under half the altitude of the Soviet Union's Vostok 1 mission in 1961, when Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circling the earth at 169 kilometers becoming the first man in space. 

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams will have to pay US$5 Million to the estate of the late, great Marvin Gaye for pilfering the 1977 hit song "Got to Give It Up" for their "Blurred Lines" in 2013.  A jury had already decided in favor of the Gaye family in 2015, but Pharrell and Thicke had been fighting the judgment since then.  The Gaye estate also gets one-half ownership of the 2013 song in the deal.