Good Morning Australia!! - A well-known former comic and sitting US senator is accused of sexual misconduct - Two reports detail allegations of Myanmar's atrocities against the Rohingya - Is the sun setting on the Mugabe years?  - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Update:

Zimbabwe's military is holding talks with President Robert Mugabe, who is confined to his home with the rest of his family.  The 93-year old has been in power since 1980 and is reportedly resisting the idea that he step down immediately.  The military moved in after he passed over the army chief Constantino Chiwenga and sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, placing his 50-year old wife Grace Mugabe next in the order of succession.  The military's apparent goal is to secure Mugabe's resignation; install Mnangagwa as interim leader; and get to work repairing a gutted economy.

Cambodia's supreme court dissolved the country's main opposition party, leaving no competitor in next year's elections to Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge commander who has been in power for 32 years.  The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) had made big gains in the 2013 elections, now stifled by what senior CNRP politician Mu Sochua calls "the end of true democracy in Cambodia".  She fled the country with other MPs and called for sanctions against Cambodia:  "The international community cannot let democracy die in Cambodia by refusing to see that its has been dealing with a dictator for the past three decades."

Two new reports are blasting Myanmar's military for atrocities against the Rohingya minority.  Human Rights Watch (HRW) details allegations (.pdf link) of "widespread rape" against Rohingya women and girls, and burning people alive in their homes as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the country's Rakhine State.  And a year-long investigation by the non-profit organization Fortify Rights and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (.pdf link) backs this up with first-hand accounts of mass executions of civilians and more atrocities. 

The UN is calling on Saudi Arabia to fully lift its blockade of Yemen, where it says "thousands will die" without food and aid supplies.  Airports and ports held by the government - supported by Saudi Arabia - will open this week.  But the closure of post held by the Houthi rebels - backed by Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran - was "making an already catastrophic situation far worse", said the World Health Program, World Food Program, and UNICEF.

US Senator Al Franken apologized and agreed to cooperate with a possible ethics investigation after a right-wing radio host and former lingerie model accused him of sexual misconduct.  Leeann Tweedon said Franken - then a comedian and before he was elected to the Senate - forcibly kissed her during the rehearsal for a USO show for US troops in Kuwait, and was photographed pretending to grope her breasts when she slept while wearing a bullet proof vest.  Franken admitted the joke wasn't funny, he shouldn't have done it:  "I respect women.  I don't respect men who don't," and, "I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself.  It isn't funny.  It's completely inappropriate." 

It comes as Republican US Senate candidate Roy Moore refused to step out of the race for the Alabama seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.  Two more women stepped forward to accuse Moore of sexually abusing them in the 1970s, when they were teenagers working at a mall and he was a 30-something county prosecutor.  One of the women confirmed an earlier rumor that Moore had been banned from the mall because he stalked teenage girls.  Roy Moore, now in his 70s and refusing to admit anything, was twice kicked off the Alabama state supreme court for violating the US Constitution.