Good Morning Australia!! - Trump admits he was full of it - The RAAF gets involved in the fight against Islamists in the Philippines - Where Kenya outperforms Australia - The transportation revolution that didn't happen - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Donald Trump ended a crisis of his own making by admitting that he has no "tapes" of private conversations with former FBI director James Comey.  Three days after the orange clown fired Comey for not ending the investigation into Russian influence on his presidential campaign, he tweeted Comey "better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"  Sounds like a threat to me, and Comey welcomed the possibility that recordings existed to back up his assertion of Trump's shiftiness.
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But after six weeks of questioning whether the White House is improperly recording conversations, it turned out that the tweet was just the empty words of a dimwitted blowhard.  "With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are 'tapes' or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings," Trump tweeted on Thursday in the US.  The implicit threat in the earlier tweet pretty much solidified the need for an independent prosecutor to investigate the Russian connection.

Moving along..

Aussie RAAF spy planes will assist the Philippines in its battles against terrorists from the so-called Islamic State, according to a report in Fairfax Media. 
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Defense Minister Marise Payne says the RAAF will operate two US-made P3 Orion planes over Mindanao, where the Philippines is locked in intense battles with foreign fighters who have infiltrated the local jihadist cells.  Officials are concerned that IS fighters will disperse to cause trouble around the world as the group loses the last shreds of territory it once controlled across Iraq and Syria.

A Canadian Sniper in Iraq has logged the longest confirmed killshot - 2.1 miles or 3,540 meters.  At that distance, it took the bullet more than ten seconds to hit its target, a terrorist with the so-called Islamic state.  "Instead of dropping a bomb that could potentially kill civilians in the area, it is a very precise application of force and because it was so far away, the bad guys didn't have a clue what was happening," a Canadian military source said.  The sniper for now is anonymous.  Last year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau halted his country's air strikes in Iraq because of the high rate of collateral damage.

Iraq's military released a video purporting to show IS's destruction of its birthplace, the al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq.

Footage of British Prime Minister Theresa May being booed and told to stand down while trying to visit Grenfell Tower survivors has emerged, just after the Tory government confirmed that eleven Tower blocks have the same illegal, flammable cladding blamed for the fire disaster that killed at least 78 people.  Many more towers remain to be inspected for the cladding.  Meanwhile, Kensington Chelsea chief executive Nicholas Holgate has stepped down over the botched handling of the Grenfell Tower fire aftermath.

Two escapees who tunneled out of an Indonesian prison have been recaptured in a luxury hotel some 1,700 kilometers away in East Timor.  The Bulgarian and Indian fugitives were arrested for entering East Timor illegally and will likely be sent back to Kerobokan prison on Bali, and probably into isolation.  But there's still no sign of their two fellow escapees, including Australian Shaun Edward Davidson.  He had only ten weeks to go on his sentence for using another man's passport, but reportedly wasn't looking forward to being extradited back to Perth to face drug possession charges.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed some pretty awesomely progressive legislation:  To provide "free, sufficient and quality sanitary towels" to girls during their periods.  The UN says that ten percent of girls in sub-Saharan Africa miss school during that time of the month; and some Kenyan girls lose up to 20 percent of the education because of it.  Kenya scrapped taxes on sanitary products more than a decade ago (Australia hasn't).

An Israeli court says the airline El Al must cease the "discriminatory" practice of asking women to give up their seats if an ultra-orthodox man doesn't want to sit next to them.  It came in the case of 80-something holocaust survivor Renee Rabinowitz who was forced to move because of an ultra-orthodox man didn't want to catch girl cooties.  Bubbe will get more than AU$2,000 in compensation from the airline:  "I'm thrilled because the judge understood the issue," Ms. Rabinowitz told The New York Times.  Such requests have caused numerous flight delays in Israel in recent years "due to the refusal of such men to take their seats before take off".

China's "straddling bus" is no more. 
Not. Going. To. Happen.
Designed to "glide" over big city traffic on tall legs that ride along tram-like rails, the project Transit Elevated Bus was ballyhooed as a revolution in public transportation.  But the actual tests didn't go so well - especially around curves - and the project failed to attract a lot of investment.  The test site in Qinhuangdao city, Hebei province has been dismantled.