Good Morning Australia!! - Trump pulls the US out of the Paris Climate deal - A macabre discovery compounds a troubled nation's bitterness - Chaos and gunplay at the casino - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

First things first:  Baby Hippo Fiona at the Cincinnati Zoo is adorable and cute.

There are conflicting reports about what actually happened at a hotel and casino complex in the Philippines.  Police say they have taken control of the Resorts World Manila compound, located on the main road between the capital and its airport, after a masked gunman opened fire in the place - apparently part of a botched robbery.  But earlier, local media reported hearing guns and explosives as National Police combed through; and the terrorism monitoring group SITE said the so-called Islamic State had claimed responsibility.  At least 25 people have been injured and taken to hospital while National Police are trying to secure and protect the rest of the guests.  This is wrapping up even as Philippine troops continue to enforce martial law on the southern island Mindanao after foreign fighters arrived to back up local separatists.

In a White House Rose garden announcements, the orange clown said he is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate deal - making good on 2016 campaign promises and delighting the sorts of mega-zillion dollar corporations that flourish by trashing the environment.  Donald Trump claims the Obama administration shouldn't have signed on with practically every other country on earth and that the deal hurts US employment.  In reality, Trump has pushed the US to the back of the line as the rest of the world gets a leg up on developing clean energy technologies.  The clown still imagines he's some kind of great "negotiator", and says he'll seek a "better" deal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested "patriotic Russians" might have been involved with hacking the US presidential election.  In a series of comments, Putin described it as "the justified fight against those speaking ill of Russia", which presumably means Hillary Clinton.  But these hacks were never authorized by the Kremlin, now did they occur at the government level, or so Putin claims. 

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is reportedly a "person of interest" in the US counter-intelligence investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to the daily bombshell-about-Trump's-questionable-ties report.  "If you triangulate Russia, WikiLeaks, (Julian) Assange and Trump associates the person who comes up with the most hits is Nigel Farage," an anonymous source tells The Guardian.  "He's right in the middle of these relationships.  He turns up over and over again."  Farage denies the report.

Polish authorities say the coffin of late president Lech Kaczynski contains body parts of other victims of the plane crash in Russia that killed him and 95 others in 2010.  The crash has deeply divided Poland, with the ultra-conservative ruling party led by Kaczynski's extremely bitter twin brother claiming that an explosion downed the plane - although an investigation showed the crash was due to pilot error.  After opening several other caskets, authorities found many contained mixes of random body parts from different crash victims.  It still doesn't prove a bomb, but shows the Russian forensic examiners were incredibly callous and sloppy in their methods.

The subject of Australia's largest tax evasion investigation has been arrested on fraud and money laundering charges in Italy.  Philip Egglishaw allegedly masterminded the tax scam that got promoter Glenn Wheatley tossed in jail and made Paul Hogan the target of a probe.  Authorities picked up Mr. Egglishaw near the border on his way back to his home in Switzerland.  

The once-secretive Bilderberg Group of the world's economic and political elites is holding its annual meeting, this time in Chantilly, Virginia.  No Aussies on the official guest list.  Some members of the Trump administration will apparently go to deliver a report card, although most of the guest list seems to be made up of people who wouldn't fall for Trump's line of crap even if they were super-extra drunk and roofied.  And since the agenda apparently includes a discussion about rising "populism" (wrongly using the word to define right-wing rabble-rousing), the affair seems to weigh heavily in favor of Trump's critics.  Of course, we'll never know because like Fight Club, the first rule of Bilderberg is that you don't talk about Bilderberg.  No notes, no press releases, no stated goals.

Survivors say 44 people from west Africa including several children died of thirst in the Sahara when their truck broke down.  Six women managed to walk to Dirkou village in northern Niger to get help.  The group was apparently heading to Libya, which is one of the main places where refugees set off to cross the Mediterranean Sea to asylum in Europe.