Good Morning, Australia! – Police arrest the racist who murdered nine people at a black church – President Obama says he’s had to give this post-massacre talk too many times – The last defendant in the killing of an Australian in America is sentenced – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Police in the US arrested a 21-year old white man for murdering nine people and wounding three more at one of the south’s oldest predominantly-black churches, Emmanuel AME of Charleston, South Carolina.  Dylann Roof’s social media pages show him wearing a jacket with the anachronistic flags of apartheid South Africa and white-ruled Rhodesia.  A survivor says Roof told his victims, “You rape our women and you’re taking over our country.  And you have to go.” 

A former high school classmate said that Dylann Roof was a habitual drug user with racist views.  John Mullins said Roof “had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say – strong conservative beliefs,” adding, “He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that.  You don’t really think of it like that.”  The FBI has joined the investigation to determine if Roof is part of any organized hate groups.

“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times,” President Obama said of the Charleston Church Massacre.  In fact, it’s the 16th time that Mr. Obama has had to address the name after a mass murder.  “Now is the time for mourning and healing, but let's be clear: At some point, we as a country, will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.  It doesn't happen in other places with this kind of frequency,” the President said as he stood next to Vice President Joe Biden.  Both men were friends with Clementa Pinckney, the Pastor of Emmanuel AME and a state senator in South Carolina, who was one of the nine people murdered.

SO yes, gun control talk has resurfaced in Washington, DC, but let’s be realistic here:  Conservative republicans in the US Congress refused to cooperate after one of their Democratic colleagues was shot in the head in a failed assassination attempt in 2011.  Conservative republicans refused to cooperate after a moron pretending to be The Joker murdered twelve people in a Colorado theater in 2012.  Conservative republicans refused to cooperate after a gunman killed 20 second-graders and six teachers at an elementary school in Connecticut later that year.  The National Rifle Association is a powerful lobbying group that owns conservative republican politicians, and that hasn’t changed.

An Oklahoma teen was sentenced to life in prison for the drive-by shooting death of Australian baseball hopeful Christopher Lane.  Chancey Luna was 16-years old in 2013 when he and two other teens shot at Chris as he was jogging through Duncan, OK.  Apparently, the little punks were bored and wanted to play ‘gangsta’.  One of the two other teens was already sentenced to life earlier this year, and the third copped a plea to testify against them.

Boko Haram has launched another cross-border attack, this time in Niger.  Militants killed at least 38 people including women and children in the southern Niger towns of Lamina and Ungumawo in the Diffa region.  The Islamist group has stepped up attacks outside of its stronghold in northeastern Nigeria against Chad and Niger, two key nations in the multinational coalition formed to destroy the insurgency.

Thailand has confirmed its first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).  A 75-year old man from Oman brought the virus with him when he came to Thailand for treatment of a heart condition – not uncommon, as many medical tourists from the Middle East choose Thailand for health care.  MERS has killed 23 people and sickened more than 160 in the past month in South Korea.

Cuba is expanding Internet access for citizens.  Juvantud Rebelde reports that Cuba is adding Wi-Fi capacity to dozens of state-run Internet centers and reducing the cost that users pay for an hour online by 50 percent.