Good Morning Australia!! - The image of a little boy forces the world to pay attention to Syria - Rio cops say US Swimmers lied about being robbed at gunpoint - One of the leaders in South Sudan's civil war has fled - The end of an Internet era - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

After the image of a bloody, dusty, and shell-shocked five year old boy from Aleppo sitting patiently in an ambulance after his home was bombed stunned the world and reminded it that there is a gruesome and ugly war going on in Syria, there is a slight glimmer of hope for the battered city:  Russia said it was ready to stop military operations in the city for a 48-hour period as early as next week to allow for humanitarian missions in the city.  This came after the video of little Omran Daqneesh lit up social and conventional media; and it followed UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura bitterly complaining that not one single convoy" of aid has been able to get through so far this month "because of one thing - fighting".

The video of Omran Daqneesh is jarring:  He is pulled from the rubble of his home and placed in the back of an ambulance, not screaming nor crying.  He wipes blood from his face.  But his doctor said he was lucky, because medics were able to treat his physical wound and discharge him, and his parents and three siblings appear to have survived the Russian bombing raid.  As if it matters who dropped the bombs:  US bombs, Russian bombs, Syrian bombs, rebel shells, terrorist bullets and car bombs, they're killing civilians.  Around a half million people have been killed - more than eleven percent of the population.  More than 7.5 million people are internally displaced with another four million external refugees.  Who thought this was a good idea?

The groundbreaking website Gawker will shot down next week.  The US Spanish-language TV network Univision won the auction for the site with a US$135 Million bid.  Gawker's other websites - Jezebel, Kotaku, Deadspin, Jalopnik, and others - will be folded into the Univision empire without the snarky, wry news and gossip site Gawker that was founded on the idea of sharing the more interesting stories that journalists tell among themselves after they leave the newsroom.  Unfortunately for Gawker, two of those stories would lead to its demise:  Gawker outed gay billionaire Peter Thiel (a Donald Trump backer) before he was ready.  He in turn funded has-been wrestler Hulk Hogan's invasion of privacy lawsuit over Gawker's uploading of one of his sex tapes.

Twitter says it has cancelled another 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism.  That brings the number to 360,000 Twitter accounts shut down since the social media site began its crackdown a year ago.

Four US Olympic swimmers were not robbed, says the head of Rio De Janeiro's police, but rather invented the story to cover petty vandalism of a door at a gas station.  Chief Fernando Veloso says the four already paid for the damage but added, "An apology would be welcomed."  The police only got involved because Ryan Lochte told to the media the tall-tale of being robbed at gunpoint by robbers in police uniforms.  Investigators found the swimmers' stories didn't add up; a judge ordered the four to remain in the country during the investigation (although Lochte had already returned to America).  At one point, two of the swimmers were plucked off of a plane back to America and questioned.

Europe's top Olympic official Pat Hickey has been released from hospital and was taken to a police station to be questioned over an alleged ticket scalping scheme.  Rio police arrested a buck-naked Mr. Hickey earlier this week, taking custody of him in a hotel room adjacent to the one he was actually booked, in which his wife tried to tell police that he had already departed for home in The Republic of Ireland - which suggested it will conduct its own investigation into the alleged plot.

Chicago's police superintendent is moving to sack seven cops who were involved in the fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014.  The video only came out this year; but it showed Officer Jason Van Dyke gunning down Laquan at point-blank range as the teen walked away from police, in complete contradiction to the cops' filed reports on the incident.  Van Dyke is charged with First-Degree Murder. 

Slovakia is drafting a law to forbid green-shirted vigilantes from "patrolling" commuter trains.  In yet another symptom of bubbling right-wing trouble in Eastern Europe, the People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) claims it "had" to act after a woman was allegedly assaulted by a member of the Roma minority, long the target of nazis and nationalists.  Earlier this year, the LSNS for the first time won enough votes to secure 14 seats in Parliament.

Kurdish PKK separatists are suspected of a bombing in eastern Turkey that killed twelve people.

The Vice President of South Sudan Riek Machar has fled the country, and the United Nations appears to be helping him.  Mr. Machar was in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, in need of medical attention, and was then taken to Ethiopia.  Fighting between Machar's group and forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have been unable to maintain a cease-fire for a year now.  The UN is investigating allegations that President Kiir's forces attacked a UN aid compound, killing a local journalist and raping foreign women.

Bolivia has opened a new military defense academy to counteract the influence of the United States in the developing world, which he says will offer courses to counter the influence of the United States in the developing world - especially the notorious US Army School of the Americas, which has been linked to atrocities carried out by US allied regimes.  "The School of Anti-Imperialism is a school that seeks to preserve life, unlike the School of the Americas, which brainwashed military officers into believing that the enemy was our people," said Defense Minister Reymi Ferreira.