Good Morning Australia!! - The UK identifies that Parliament attacker - Another Putin critic meets as grisly, bloody end - The case of hundreds of threats made against Jewish Community Center just got weirder - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Authorities say the man who attacked the UK Parliament was 52-year old Khalid Masood, British-born and a resident of Birmingham with a lengthy criminal record from 1983 to 2003 - mostly for assault, weapons possession and violations of public order.  But even though he was known to MI5, he was not on the radar as being an active jihadist and the Met said, "There was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack."  Now, investigators believe he was influenced by some form of Islamist extremism.  To that end, the so-called Islamic State issued a statement claiming that Masood was a "soldier" who "carried out the operation in response to appeals" to fight Western powers.  British police raided several locations associated with Masood in London and Birmingham, arresting eight people. 

Masood drove a rented Hyundai SUV over pedestrians on Westminster Bridge outside Parliament; UK citizen Aisha Frade was killed, and US tourist Kurt Cochrain died from being flung from the bridge and landing on a concrete walkway several meters below.  Cochrain's wife was seriously injured.  Around 40 more people suffered various injuries, including Patricia Neis-Beer of South Australia who was hurt when the SUV rolled over her foot.  Masood crashed the vehicle near the entrance to Parliament where he stabbed to death unarmed Police Constable Keith Palmer.  Armed officers quickly shot and mortally wounded Masood.

Police say a Melbourne man murdered his wife because she objected to his plan to go to Syria and join IS, mutilating her corpse in front of their three young children.  Investigators aren't naming him to protect the identities of the abused kids.  They accuse the man of bashing two of the children, aged under six, around the head and burning his toddler daughter with hot water.  The youngsters are being cared for at Royal Children's Hospital.  Prosecutors allege the man kept the kids out of school and only wanted them to learn the Koran.

Israeli police arrested a 19-year old US-Israeli dual citizen for a series of threat against Jewish Community Centers (JCC) mostly in the US, but also in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.  The teen's father is also being detained.  Police believe this suspect is responsible for "most" of the telephoned and emailed threats.  The teen is also said to have serious health problems, was home schooled, and has few friends.  The head of the US JCC umbrella group is "relieved" over the arrest, but "troubled" about his Jewish background.  The threats against the JCCs raised concerns about a rising tide of anti-Semitism in the US that coincided with Donald Trump's presidential campaign (which to be fair was very popular with open anti-Semites).  Earlier this month, a disgraced former reporter in the US was charged with making a handful of the threats in a bizarre scheme to frame a former girlfriend.

A former Russian lawmaker who became a harsh critic of Vladimir Putin and fled to Ukraine has been shot dead in the streets of Kiev.  Ukraine promptly called the death of Denis Voronenkov to be an "act of state terrorism" and blamed Russia - noting it was "no coincidence" that the killing came on the same day that a Ukrainian military ammo dump blew up in the restive east.  Moscow denies the allegations.

Donald Trump claimed his amazing master negotiating skills won over enough Republican party votes to pass a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as "Obamacare", with a lesser GOP plan that would leave millions without healthcare coverage and have older working Americans paying more for it.  But the vote on the bill was postponed as it became clear that right-wing Republicans objected to the bill because it wasn't austere enough, and moderates were balking for fear of losing their jobs when people realize they're losing their health care coverage.  Rather than go down in flames, the vote is put off until Friday in hopes of salvaging some compromise (that will still screw Americans).

Refugee relief groups fear 240 would-be immigrants died in the Mediterranean Sea, after two boats capsized off the coast of Libya, where most smugglers try to over-pack boats before sending them north.  The Spanish group Proactiva Open Arms said the drowned bodies of only five young men have been pulled from the sea so far - no survivors.  The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says more than 20,000 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this year - and some 559 people are estimated to have died or gone missing en route.

A judge in Argentina has ordered former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) to go on trial on charges of financial mismanagement in her government's handling of the dollar futures market.  CFK, who was elected my landslides in her two terms, denies the charges and says the current conservative government of US puppet Mauricio Macri is guilty of political persecution.

Northern Ireland bid farewell to the late Martin McGuinness, the former Provisional IRA Commander who became a peacemaker who ended The Troubles and eventually Deputy First Minister of the six northern counties.  The funeral was NI's biggest since that of IRA hunger striker and martyr Bobby Sands in 1981, and differed in this important way:  The mourners were a mix of Catholic and Protestant, Republican and Loyalist, police and civilian, with British officials sharing a church with past and present Taoiseachs and Presidents of the Republican of Ireland.  There were no IRA banners as two Protestant church ministers and former US President Bill Clinton took turns eulogizing a man once labelled a terrorist but eventually praised as a great leader.  "After all the breath he expended cursing the British over the years, he worked with two (UK) prime ministers and shook hands with the queen," said Clinton as he stood next to Martin's coffin urging those in charge today to continue pushing towards reconciliation.