Good Morning Australia!! - An Australian woman is kidnapped in Afghanistan - Dozens are killed in an attack on an MSF hospital in Syria - "No Means No" could become the law of the land in one European country - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is trying to confirm Afghanistan media reports saying armed men abducted an Australian woman, believed to be an employee of a non-profit organization.  This reportedly happened in Jalalabad, capital of the Nangarhar province.  The woman reportedly worked for the "Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees" (DACAAR), which has been active in the country since 1984.  Police have already made several arrests, and it is believed the kidnappers are members of a criminal gang and not a jihadist group.

What appears to be a Syrian government attack killed at least 27 people in a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Aleppo.  The International Committee of the Red Cross and other NGOs are tweeting their support of MSF, making clear that hospitals are "#NotATarget".  Another 30 people are dead in nearby attacks as fighting between the proxies heats up around Aleppo, threatening to end what's left of the partial truce between the government and rebel groups.

The Pentagon is disciplining 16 members of the military for the mistakes that led up to the US bombing of a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in northern Afghanistan last year.  These include a two-star general, a bomber crew, and all sorts of other staff - and yet none will face criminal charges.  The bombing of the MSF hospital in Kunduz last October killed 42 doctors, patients, and support staff. 

The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting after North Korea mucked up two more missile launch attempts.  South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says Pyongyang launched one Musudan missile off its east coast early Thursday, but it crashed within seconds.  The second Musudan later in the afternoon was only slightly less incompetent, flying for a few kilometers before exploding.  Despite being failures, these missile launch attempts are in violation of international sanctions on the North.

Germany's parliament is debating tough new laws against sex assault that would legally enshrine the concept of "No Means No".  This comes after dozens of women complained of sexual assaults in Cologne's New Year's Eve festivities.  Many were blamed on newly arrived immigrants, but plenty were committed by local men as well.  The justice ministers of Saxony and Bavaria say groping ought to be punished by up to two years in jail or a fine.

Two dozen French cops were hurt in the latest protests against proposed changed to the country's labor laws.  Demonstrations took place in Paris, Rennes, Marseilles, and other cities.  Supporters claim the changes are needed to combat unemployment, and the people are pretty sure that hacking away at their rights on pay, break time, and overtime rates has nothing to do with increasing employment.  More protests are called for on 1 May, International Labor Day.

Many are still missing after the collapse of a garbage dump in Guatemala caused by heavy rain.  As many as a thousand Guajeros, the local word for impoverished garbage pickers, were working the site and ignored an evacuation alarm prior to the disaster.  Rescuers pulled out dozens of people and four bodies, but several are still missing.  Aid workers say more than half of the guajeros living on what they pick out of the trash are children.

Japanese space officials held one of those deep-bow apology news conferences, and admitted that human error was the cause of a rather expensive satellite mishap.  The Astro-H "Hitomi" space telescope satellite was supposed to gather information about the origins of the universe and black holes, but broke up in orbit last month.  This is a crippling blow for the Japanese space agency JAXA, which will not have a replacement for at least twelve years.

Police in San Bernardino, California arrested the brother of mass murdering terrorist Syed Farook and two others on charges of conspiracy, marriage fraud, and making false statements to authorities.  Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people at a holiday party in the city late last year before being shot dead by police.

Former US House Speaker John Boehner (the drunk one, not the serial child molester) says his fellow Republican and presidential candidate Ted Cruz is "Lucifer in the flesh".  The animosity stems back to 2013 when Cruz led a small group of hardcore conservatives to refuse all legislation, effectively shutting down the government for a time.  "I have Democrat friends and Republican friends," Boehner told the Stanford Daily.  "I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life," he said.