Good Morning Australia!! - The plan to gut Workers' Rights meets heavy opposition in France - Obama (in so many words) says world leaders are concerned over Donald Trump's idiocy - China blames the victim of an egregious police assault - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Workers opposed to French President Francois Hollande's planned labor "reforms" staged widespread strikes throughout the country, blockading refineries and nuclear power plants.  Many petrol stations are running dry as a result, transportation hubs are gridlocked, and even many newspapers were not able to publish.  In Paris, riot cops fired teargas at a demonstration and some people started breaking windows and vandalizing parked cars. In the northern city of Caen, French riot police were caught on video kicking a man on the ground and beating him with batons.  Officials described the incident as legitimate defense, which it is clearly not.   The Workers are upset over Hollande's desire to make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, as well as the way the bill forced through parliament without a vote this month following more than ten weeks of protests.

Leaders of the G7 nations meeting in central Japan agreed that a strong message must be sent to China about its territorial grabs in the South and East China Seas.  China has been increasingly aggressive about claiming areas of these waters from Japan and several South East Asian nations.  China insists its actions have "nothing to do" with the G7 and "is resolutely opposed to individual countries hyping up the South China Sea for personal gain," whatever that's supposed to mean.

US President Barack Obama says G7 leaders - America's closest allies and trading partners - are "rattled" by the rise of fascist demagogue and Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump, "Because a lot of the proposals that he's made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what is required to keep America safe."  Mr. Obama on Friday will become the first sitting US president to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima, target of one of two US nuclear attacks that ended World War II.

Meanwhile, orange arse-clown Donald Trump has secured the number of delegates needed to officially get the party's nomination.  This became apparent a few weeks ago, so the news is basically a formality.  It's the third time in the century at GOP voters chose someone who was a millionaire at birth, actively dodged the Vietnam War draft while later professing support for the war, and professes to be an outsider despite years of deep involvement in the established order.

Around 30 people are feared to have drowned off of Libya's coast in the capsizing of a migrant boat.  This comes a day after cameras caught another migrant boat capsizing in the same waters, with scores of people spilling into the Mediterranean Sea.  Hundreds of people were rescued in this earlier episode, and those folks were brought ashore in Sicily.

Ken Tsang, a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist who was caught on video being beat-up by Chinese cops has been convicted of assault and resisting police officers.  This happened on the peripheries of the 2014 umbrella protests against Beijing's heavy-handed influence, which is now heavier.  Tsang will be sentenced next Monday and could face up to two years in jail.

Police in Bolivia used water cannon on a protest of disabled people in La Paz.  The demonstrators are asking for an increase in state benefits.  The action had been going on peacefully for five weeks, but police claim a group emerged from the protest camp and attack officers with noxious gas and crude weapons.

The reality TV show "I am Cait" about transgender former Olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner will longer be shown in sub-Saharan Africa, after numerous complaints from viewers and a formal request from the Nigerian government.  The region is notoriously adverse to LGBT rights, and it's the second time that pan-African service provider Multichoice DSTV has dropped a program concerning a transgender subject.

"I live my life a quarter mile at a time.  For that ten seconds or less, nothing else matters."  - Nelson Mandela

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