Good Morning Australia!! - Are bushfires raging in Israel actually a weapon of terror? - The Green Party is poised to throw a spanner in America's election - Myanmar is accused of Ethnic Cleansing - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Israeli officials say "politically-motivated" arson could be the cause of a massive bushfire that burned into its third-largest city of Haifa, forcing the panicked evacuation of at least 50,000 - 75,000 citizens.  University of Haifa Professor Michal Schanin said a knock came at her door just as she was delivering a lecture to 70 students, ordering them to join the people fleeing the neighborhood and causing a traffic jam:  "We couldn't move. If, God forbid, there would have been fire there it would have been one huge trap," she said.  Dry, windy weather helped the flames race through several of Haifa's northern neighborhoods.

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said authorities arrested eight people in connection with the fires, and that investigators found "flammable materials and liquids poured in certain areas," and, "it's safe to assume that if it is arson, it is politically motivated."  The head of the Arab Bloc in the Israeli Knesset Ayman Odeh is urging officials not to politicize "something that harms all of us", and that the perpetrator "is an enemy of all of us".  The Palestinian Authority is offering to send firefighters to help Israel, just like in 2010 when Palestinians helped extinguish Israel's deadliest wildfire to date.

The so-called Islamic state is claiming responsibility for bombing that targetted Shiite pilgrims south of the capital Baghdad.  Reports say 50 to 100 people - many from neighboring Iran - were killed by the suicide bomber, who detonated a truck filled with explosives at a roadside service station in the town of Hilla.  The attack comes just two days after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi applauded the security forces for protecting the millions of Shiites who have flowed through southern Iraq in recent days for the Arbaeen Pilgrimage, which rivals the Hajj in size and importance to Shiites.

The head of the UN refugee Agency is accusing Myanmar of seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory.  John McKissickof the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says troops have been "killing men, shooting them, slaughtering children, raping women, burning and looting houses, forcing these people to cross the river" - in retaliation for the deaths of nine border guards a month ago.  Myanmar forbids journalists from entering the northwestern area where the minority lives.  Although they've been their for several generations, many in Myanmar consider the Rohingya to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh - where many have fled to escape the pogroms. 

UN aid convoys are waiting for a green light from Syria or Russia to commence deliveries into eastern Aleppo.  Rebel forces already agreed to a four-point plan involves the supply of medical and food aid, the evacuation of 200 wounded or disabled civilians and medical staff to rotate in and out of besieged areas.

Bulgarian cops fired tear gas and water cannon at 1,500 refugees demanding freedom of movement at the Harmanli reception centre near the Turkish border.  Authorities had told the people who fled the Middle East wars that they were barred from leaving the area where they stay pending medical checks.  A few officers were injured.

Nearly a third of the children from "The Jungle" refugee camp in northern France have gone missing since authorities dismantled the shantytown last month.  "These are some of the most vulnerable children in the world, they have been let down time and time again," said Ben Teuten of the Refugee Youth Service charity, which had been tracking the children.  "When they disappear we are extremely concerned that they will be preyed upon by traffickers and are unlikely to seek state support due to their treatment to date," he added.

This guy.

US Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein has raised more than US$3 Million in a matter of hours for election recounts in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania - all "rust belt" states that wer predicted to tip to Hillary Clinton but instead were won by president-elect Donald Trump.  That's almost as much money as she raised during the entire 2016 election cycle.  A group of computer scientists earlier this week said the results suggested election tampering, although neither the scientist nor the Green Party claim to have any, nor do they need to in order to commence a recount.  Despite the normalization in the US corporate media, many in the US have been left with a sour taste over the election results - in which Hillary Clinton won a clear and commanding majority of the popular vote, but is handing the White House to a racist, sexist, corrupt, compromised, failed businessman.

Scaffolding holding up a construction platform collapsed at a power station project in Jiangxi province, China, killing 67 workers. 

The first November snow in Toyko in around 50 years is pretty much almost all melted today.

Nicaragua declared a state of emergency after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on its Pacific Coast, telling people to clear out at least one kilometer from the shore in case of tsunami (that luckily never came).  But at the same time, Hurricane Otto made landfall in Nicaragua and Costa Rica from the Caribbean side, so lots of cleaning-up to carry out in Central America this weekend.