Good Morning Australia!! - Sunday's Security Council meeting makes it clear that the Syrian Civil War is now a proxy conflict between larger powers - A christian is killed for a Facebook post - Swiss voters love them some Big Brother - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Strong words in the United Nations Security Council as the US its allies lambast Russia over its involvement in the Syrian Civil War.  Hundreds have been killed.  France's UN Ambassador said, "War crimes are being committed in Aleppo," and the US Ambassador Samantha Power accused Russia of "barbarism".  They want Russia to pressure its ally Syria to halt the destruction of Aleppo, where missile strikes, barrel bomb attacks, and artillery fire have killed hundreds, flattened buildings and left streets littered with chunks of concrete and other debris. 

Russian UN Ambassador Ambassador Vitaly Churkin replied bringing back the ceasefire is "almost an impossible task now" because of US and Western support of Syrian rebel groups.  Before the General Assembly, Syria's ambassador said his nation's army was "making great strides against terrorists" with the help of its "true friends" - Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah.  The latter comments are triggering worries that Syria - and by extension, Russia - are seeking a military resolution to the five and a half year old civil war-turned-proxy war that has killed as many as 470,000 people, and created 4.8 million external and more than 7 million internal refugees.

Jordan's King rejected the resignation of the Prime Minister, after a Christian writer was shot dead on the steps of the courthouse where he was to be tried for "contempt of religion".  Nahed Hattar had posted a cartoon to social media showing a dead jihadist in heaven, in bed with 72 virgins and asking god to bring him a drink.  The purpose, said Mr. Hattar before he was murdered, was to ridiculous the extremists' view of the afterlife, which is not accepted by the vast majority of Muslims.  Mr. Hattar's family and supporters said the government invited the assassination by putting him on trial for something so trivial.  The shooter was arrested at the scene - described by sources as a 39-year-old Muslim preacher from a mosque in the capital.

Abubakar Shekau isn't dead, as Nigeria's military has claimed, but his leadership of the terrorist group Boko Haram is in question.  Shekau appears in a new video, speaking Arabic and local indigenous Nigerian languages.  However, it's not clear when or where this video was recorded, not is it even certain that he's still in charge of Boko Haram.  The Nigerian government has recently asked for international help in determining who is actually in charge after repeated attempts to negotiate the release of the abducted Chibok school girls couldn't locate anyone who actually spoke for the terrorists.

So much for Libertarian Switzerland - More than 65 percent of Swiss voters authorized new powers to the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) to tap phones, snoop on email, and deploy hidden cameras and bugs.  Opponents said it could erode civil liberties and put Swiss neutrality at risk by requiring closer co-operation with foreign intelligence agencies.  But the attacks in neighboring France are fresher in Swiss minds than the 1980s domestic spying scandal, good old fear ruled the day.

The Trump circus act is already staining the first debate of the US presidential campaign, which doesn't actually take place until Monday night in New York state.  Scumbag Donald Trump is threatening to put Gennifer Flowers in the front row of the audience; she's the cabaret singer who had an affair with then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton years before he became president, but while he was married to Hillary.  His campaign staff scurried like rats around the Sunday morning political talk shows to deny what their candidate said he'd do.  As if it were the wife's fault that a husband steps out?  Hillary Clinton's campaign invited billionaire Mark Cuban to attend; Cuban is an outspoken critic who doubts Trump's claim of wealth, blasts his nefarious business practices, and questions his temperament.

Police outside Seattle apprehended a suspect in the shooting deaths of five people in a mall department store.  20-year old Arcan Ceti was reportedly walking like "a zombie" when cops picked him up while walking down a street.  "I don't know what his motivation was to do this," said police chief Chris Cammock, "But I certainly plan to find out through the investigation, to the best of our ability."

Charlotte, North Carolina cops released police dash and body cam footage of the killing of black motorist Keith Scott.  Rather than bolster the police account of the killing, the new videos posed more questions about police conduct - since it was apparent that Mr. Scott was not threatening anyone.  The killing set off days of protests in the city.

China switched on the world's largest radio telescope, and already began collecting data from a star hundreds of light years away.  But scientists will begin the three-year process of calibrating the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) properly, so the first observation doesn't actually count. 

Paris banned cars from large swaths of the French capital on Sunday as part of Mayor Anne Hidalgo's wider efforts to fight air pollution.  Around half of Paris was off limits to cars during a seven-hour period, covering 650 square kilometers of the city.