Good Morning Australia!! - It's the big day for the Citizenship Seven - Dozens are killed in a massive blast outside Jakarta - US lawmakers want to stop Trump before he starts a war - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The coalition is bracing for the High Court's ruling on seven current and past lawmakers who found out they accidentally had dual citizenship.  The ruling could end the terms of three senior members of the Turnbull government, or lift doubt on their status and give the government a boost.  The seven are: Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, deputy Nationals leader Fiona Nash, former resources and Northern Australia minister Matt Canavan, One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts, and Senator Nick Xenophon, and former Greens senators Larissa Waters and Scott Ludlam.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are investigating the leaking of information about raids on two union offices in Melbourne and Sydney.  The opposition is demanding employment minister Michaelia Cash stand down over her role in tipping off the media before controversial raids on Australian Workers Union (AWU) offices on Tuesday.  Labor and the Nick Xenophon Team also flagged an inquiry which could be launched when the Senate returns on 13 November.

Two explosions in a fireworks factory outside Jakarta killed at least 47 people and injured dozens more.  At least ten people are unaccounted for, and police believe there were a total of 103 people in the factory when it went up.  The building is a wreck and still unsafe for forensic recovery work.  "My friends and I and some police officers knocked down a wall so people could escape, then the workers came out," said local resident Beni Benteng, "I saw people including women were jumping from above."

In Washington, Democrats are pushing a bill to prevent Donald Trump from a first strike against North Korea.  The "No Unconstitutional Strike against North Korea" prohibits an attack on North Korea without congressional authority was launched by Democrats John Conyers in the House and Ed Markey in the Senate.  It has two Republicans among the 61 backers in the House, but at present no formal Republican backing in the Senate - not even from those two Senate Republicans who blasted Donald Trump as a dangerous, loose cannon.

Donald Trump stopped short of declaring a national emergency over opioid abuse in the USA, and instead called it a "national health emergency".  The difference is the complete lack of dedicated funds to actually do something about opioid abuse.  "As Americans we cannot allow this to continue," Trump said.