Good Morning Australia! - Mixed signals from Croatia make the journey north even more confused for thousands of refugees - Chile assesses tsunami damage - Poor people trying to gathering some free fuel pay with their lives - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

And then Croatia shut the door.  After initially allowing refugees from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia to traverse the country to their eventual destinations in Northern Europe, Croatia's interior minister declared it "absolutely full".  More than 9,200 refugees had entered Croatia ever since Hungary closed its border with Serbia, blocking the previous land route into the European Union.  Some refugees scuffled with police and busted through the border at two crossings.  Like Hungary, Croatia is an EU member state, where the rules require refugees to register in the first country the arrive in.  The refugees want to register in northern Europe, where countries have better records for granting asylum and more generous benefits.

Croatia is sending confusing messages - it first allowed the refugees to cross, then closed the door.  And then Croatia announced it would not allow refugees to exit the northern border into Slovenia, where officials announced that Slovenia would house 5,000 refugees - 2,000 in real buildings, 3,000 in tent cities.  Both countries are asking the rest of the EU for help in handling the crisis.

Back at the Hungarian border, Amnesty International reports that at least four children were separated from their families and apparently taken by police to a nearby border control building.  "The families are desperate to be reunited with their children," said Amnesty's Tirana Hassan.  "Not only have they experienced the traumatic journey to the border and the use of force by the police - they have now lost the security of being with their parents."

The US Federal reserve left key interest rates unchanged.  The nine members of the Fed's Open Market Committee voted to hold the key federal funds rate target at 0 to 0.25 percent. 

More than 170 people were killed were killed in a fuel truck explosion in South Sudan.  The tanker veered off the road near Maridi town, and people had gathered around it to collect leaking petrol - and then it exploded.  At least 50 people suffered terrible burns, but their prognosis is not good.  "We don't have medical equipment and these people may not survive because we do not have the facilities to treat the highly burnt people," said local government spokesman Charles Kisagna.

The fate of Burkina Faso's interim government is not clear, after military members took them prisoner in a cabinet meeting and announced a coup d'etat.  The coup leaders identified themselves as the "National Council for Democracy" and said they had taken control from a "deviant regime", but are believed to be loyal to the deposed dictator Blaise Compaore, driven from office by popular protest earlier this year.  Demonstrators returned to the streets to oppose the coup, and around ten people were killed in clashes.

The death toll from yesterday's magnitude 8.3 earthquake off Chile remains remarkably low, at least eleven lives lost.  Chalk that up to good planning, improved building standards, and quick evacuations from the coastal areas before tsunami waves of three, four, and five meters crashed ashore.  There is still a lot of damage closer to the epicenter, which was 250 kilometers northwest of the capital Santiago, and fishing communities are said to have suffered the worst.  Phone networks are still down, and the full extent of the damage is not known.  This weekend, many Chileans were planning to celebrate the country's independence day - President Michelle Bachelet says some of those events are now cancelled.