Good Morning Australia!! - The world mourns the passing of two comedy legends - Trump might be planning to drag the Afghanistan war out for a few more years - Nauru refugees are being denied crucial medical treatment - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Almost 50 refugees at the Nauru detention camp are being prevented from going overseas to seek medical treatment, despite the sometimes urgent recommendations of their doctors.  And critics say it's because Australia sloughed off it decision-making responsibilities for the care of these people onto the Nauru hospital "Overseas Medical Referral" (OMR) committee.  Three of the refugees are women seeking abortions which are illegal in Nauru, and the OMR committee is accused of delaying decisions or even blowing off public meetings, and failing to keep paperwork on the cases.  Others are seeking medical transfers for injuries and diseases that the island's meager health care system simply isn't prepared to handle. 

Officials confirm that seven-year old Sydney boy Julian Cadman was one of the 13 people killed in the Barcelona terrorist attack last week.  His mother Jumarie "Jom" Cadman was seriously hurt when terrorists in a van plowed into a crowded pedestrian mall in the Spanish city, and for a while it was reported that the boy got separated from his mother during the commotion.  Of the four Australians injured in the attack, Ms. Cadman is improving in hospital; Another Australian woman, Suria Intan, is being treated for serious injuries; two men from Victoria were treated and released from hospital.

Meanwhile, police are still hunting the driver of the van who is the suspected ringleader of the terrorist plot.  It's feared that 22-year old Younes Abouyaaqoub might have slipped over the border into France and is on the run in Europe.  Four other suspects have been arrested, and police gunned down five men suspected of belonging to the terrorist cell when they rammed into a crowd in another town outside Barcelona, killing the group's 14th victim.

Donald Trump plans to go on live TV on Monday night in the US to announce a new policy on Afghanistan, where US troops have been fighting a war for the last 16 years.  All efforts to create a credible local security force have failed and the US-backed government can barely be counted on to hold the capital city Kabul.  The White House referred to the plans as a "path forward", indicating that the US military hasn't freaking learned its lesson yet and will continue to pour troops and money into the south Asian country that has never in history shown any interest in doing what outside forces want.  But, Trump needs to distract from his imploding presidency, the investigation into Russian influence over his campaign and business interests, and his flagrant racism.

Meanwhile, a bombshell story on the website Axios says many White House staffers won't quit - but not because of loyalty to Trump.  They're staying on to prevent the orange clown from being even worse.  "You have no idea how much crazy stuff we kill," several staffers told reported Mike Allen who adds that "if they weren't there, they say, we would have a trade war with China, massive deportations, and a government shutdown to force construction of a Southern wall".  

South Africa granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe first lady Grace Mugabe, who had been wanted for questioning in the beating of a young woman in Johannesburg.  The 52-year old Mrs. Mugabe was allowed to cross the border and return home.  A 20-year old model accuses Mugabe of beating her with an electric cord in a dispute over alleged partying with Mugabe's adult sons who live in J-burg.  SA's opposition Democratic Alliance party is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into why the government allowed Mugabe to get away.

Legendary progressive activist and comedian Dick Gregory is dead at age 84.  He took the wind out of the sails of racists and racism with direct and uncompromising sarcasm towards the powers-that-be with jokes such as declaring a Southern Liberal was "a guy that'll lynch you from a low tree", or praising the US Post Office for issuing a stamp with Martin Luther King's likeness because racists would have to "lick its backside" to stick it to an envelope.  During the 1960s, Dick Gregory was one of the few black comedians who could regularly perform before all-white audiences, and he used that gift to change quite a few minds in a pivotal time in history.

And Jerry Lewis is dead at age 91.  Throughout a lengthy career he was known for incredible silliness and furious mugging for the cameras, and yet in between dribbling and gooning he could deliver touching and serious performances -  proving he could hang with Martin Scorcese and Robert DeNiro ("The King of Comedy").  Yes, there was schmaltz and hamminess, and he got into some trouble a decade ago because some sexist comments.  BUT.. His 1960 film "The Bellboy" - in which he plays the hapless, witless, and silent title character - is the source of his "genius" status among French audiences.  And am here to I guarantee you that his 1984 French Legion of Honour award was earned, because that 72-minute movie, filmed on a fly at Miami's old Fountainbleu Hotel, is on par with the silent greats like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.  "I look at the world through a child's eyes because I'm nine," he told Reuters in 2002, "I stayed that way.  I made a career out of it.  It's a wonderful place to be."