Good Morning Australia!! - A new bid to keep S Kidman's cattle all-Aussie - Polish women have to go back to the front lines to protect their human rights - Alliances change by the minute and by the kilometer in the Iraq and Syrian wars - The Chicago Cubs did WHAT?!?! - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

An all-Australian syndicate is making a AU$386 Million big for the S Kidman and Company cattle empire, which is bigger than the $365 million offer advanced by Australia's wealthiest woman Gina Rinehart and her Chinese business partners.  The BBHO syndicate includes South Australian Tom Brinkworth, Malcolm Harris from New South Wales, Viv Oldfield from Alice Springs, and West Australian and Northern Territory pastoralist Sterling Buntine, who said:  "The four families comprising the consortium are deeply committed to honouring and preserving the Kidman heritage and brand, which will continue under the stewardship of highly regarded and successful Australian graziers."  The Aussie bid requires no Australian foreign investment approval or regulatory clearance by Chinese authorities - unlike Gina's offer.

More demonstrations are expected in Warsaw on Monday, after Womens Rights activists ringed parliament on Sunday to protest the plan to ban all abortions in the country.  Carrying signs in Polish and English - reading "Girls Just want To Have Fundamental Human Rights" - they're promising to repeat the intense pressure displayed earlier this month when the "Black Monday" general strike and protest forced the RWNJ government to drop the matter.  But a couple of days later, ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he's working on a new version of the bill to eliminate abortions even when the lives of the fetus and mother are threatened so that the "child can be baptized" - revealing the Roman Catholic Church's role in this debacle.

With the centrist takeover complete, Spain's "Socialist" Party agreed to allow loathed Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to continue governing the country with a minority government.  Around two-thirds of Spanish voters have election fatigue after two contests in a year, neither of which gave any party more than 33 percent of the vote.  The moribund Socialists have had their support withered by the new Podemos party, and Rajoy's ironically-named Popular Party has had its right flank cleaved off by the Ciudadanos. 

The chief whip of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party is calling for the entire leadership to step down - even President Jacob Zuma.  Jackson Mthembu accuses Zuma's allies of scapegoating finance minister Pravin Gordhan with politically-motivated fraud charges - something he says that not even the former apartheid government did to its own ministers.  Two months ago, the ANC suffered its worst electoral performance in the two decades since apartheid, fueled mostly on public disgust over the corruption swirling around Zuma.  Mr. Mthembu says if there is to be a mass resignation for the good of the country, he'll gladly go as well:  "Perhaps we are not the leadership that can take the ANC forward under these conditions."  And yes, he's getting pushback from ANC loyalists.

It's getting pretty impossible to tell just WTF is going on in Iraq and Syria these days.  Kurdish forces retook the northern town of Bashiqa, near Mosul where Iraqi forces are approaching from the south to dislodge the scumbag terrorists of the so-called Islamic State.  But Turkish forces defied the wishes of Iraq's Prime Minister and went ahead with launching artillery fire at IS in Bashiqa, claiming it was in response to a request from the Kurds.  Mind you, Turkish tanks right now are fighting Kurds in northern Syria, instead of focusing on IS.  Whatever the hell is happening, the US has confirmed that the Kurds have succeeded in cutting off IS's mobility and supply lines.

And if these damned wars ever end, it's not like anyone's going to be able to knock back a drink.  Iraq's parliament is moving to ban the sale, import, and manufacture of wonderful alcoholic beverages - a sudden move by Islamic hardliners who say alcohol is banned in the Koran.  Opponents of this idiotic plan note that it infringes the constitutional freedoms of minority groups such as Christians.  They're hoping the courts overturn it.

Post-war Afghanistan is doing so well that Opium Poppy production is up 43 percent!  Wait, that's not a good thing.  The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Yury Fedotov said the figures were "a worrying reversal in efforts".  

A 72-year-old retired Japanese Self Defense Force member may have decided to go out with a bang, setting off two bombs after burning his home, injuring three people in the process.  This happened in Utsunomiya, an idyllic suburb north of Tokyo.  After the fire in the house, explosions rocked a car park - where national broadcast NHK says a suicide note was found - and in a park hosting an arts festival, where the elderly former soldier died and three people were seriously injured. 

At least eleven people were killed when a tour bus crashed into the back of a big-rig truck early in the morning in the desert east of Los Angeles, California.  The bus was returning to the city after taking a group to gamble at a desert casino.  This crash closed I-10, the main interstate connecting LA to the rest of the southern United States, for most of Sunday.

And in Chicago, celebrations in Wrigleyville lasted long into the night after the Cubs ended baseball's longest 71-year drought.  Chicago's favorite baseball team beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 and won the National League Pennant, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1945.  Cubs pitcher Kyle Hendricks gave up only two hits, and LA's defense had no answer to the Cubs' bats.  Sports!  If the Cubbies win the best-of-seven World Series against the Cleveland Indians, the northsiders will have won their first World Series in 110 years.  But they must win four more games.