Good Morning Australia!! - Robert Mugabe proves to be really, really stubborn - North Korea is looking at new ways to launch missiles - A major snag in the search for a missing submarine - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A frail and often-pausing Robert Mugabe read a lengthy and rambling speech filled with generalities - but the 93-year old failed (or refused) to actually resign as President, as had been expected.  Earlier, the ruling Zanu-PF party sacked Mugabe as its leader, kicked out his wife Grace, and gave him 24 hours to stand down at which time impeachment proceedings will commence.  Mugabe has/had ruled the country since independence in 1980 - nearly four decades which began with defiance and revolution against colonial rule but which degenerated into official corruption and repression of the opposition.  Although thousands of people rallied in the capital calling for a more inclusive post-Mugabe era, it's unlikely that anything will actually be done about these cancers on Zimbabwean society if power is merely passed on to the military and the same Zanu-PF party elders who've been enabling Mugabe all of this time.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin is refusing to pardon and IDF soldier killing a wounded Palestinian attacker.  Right-wingers and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed for the pardon for Elor Azaria, who was sentenced to just 18 months in prison for shooting 21-year old Fatah al-Sharif as he lay on the ground in Hebron, already in the custody of Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  Sharif and an accomplice had earlier stabbed and wounded an IDF soldier, and was wounded while being apprehended.

Satellite imagery suggest that North Korea is on "an aggressive schedule to build and deploy its first operational ballistic missile submarine".  The North Korea watchdog blog 38 North says the images from above a North Korean shipyard show a submersible launcher being built into a prototype Sinpo-class sub. 

Stormy weather in the southern Atlantic Ocean is complicating the search for a missing Argentine Navy submarine.  US airplanes carrying subsurface search specialists arrived in Argentina to help hunt for the ARA San Juan.  They'll join more than a dozen Argentine vessels already searching the area where it was last detected, some 432 kilometers off Argentina's coast last Wednesday.  The Argentine military is working with the US satellite phone company Iridium to determine if a series of phone calls were indeed attempted from sailors on the San Juan as had been reported late last week.  The vessel is now overdue in its expected return to port.

Chileans are casting ballots in the Presidential Election.  Conservative former president Sebastian Pinera is seen as the front-runner among eight candidates, although he is unlikely to get more than 50 percent of the votes required to avoid a run-off in December.  His top challenger is Solcialist former TV news anchor Alejandro Guillier who promises to continue the successful reforms of President Michelle Bachelet, who can't run for re-election as the Chilean Constitution forbids consecutive terms to prevent politicians from amassing too much power.

Turkey's capital Ankara has banned LGBT pride parades, film festivals, and other events supposedly to protect public order.  Homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey, but homophobia is on the rise under the conservative and autocratic rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked in by a horse).