Good Morning Australia!! - A first for Israel and Islamic State - A spokesman details Trump's plans to throw out the good that Obama has done - Aussies across the political spectrum say "No More" to family violence - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Israel for the first time has killed militants from the so-called Islamic State - no IDF troops were hurt in the first direct clash between Israel and the terrorists.  Armed militants attacked soldiers of the Golani brigade in the Golan Heights along the border with Syria.  The IDF shot back and called in air support, killing at least four IS terrorists.  Analysts see the attack as an attempt to draw Israel directly into the Syrian Civil war, albeit a weak one and one that is not necessarily supported throughout the IS world.  Prior to this, the Syrian Civil War spilled over into Israel in the form of projectiles and shells.

Syrian forces have now taken two districts of Aleppo from rebel forces.  The army said it had "fully recaptured" Jabal Badro, a day after seizing Hanano district.  A monitoring group said the government took at third district.  Thousands of civilians fled the fighting "because of the bombardment from the Syrian army during the advance, and the chlorine gas", according to one witness.

Kurdish Peshmerga forces near Mosul in northern Iraq found two mass graves with the bodies of at least 18 Yazidi - the religious/ethnic minority singled out by Islamic State for particularly heinous atrocities such as genocide and sex slavery.  The graves contained bones and identity cards that appeared to have been covered with sandy earth by a bulldozer.  This brings the number of Yazidi mass graves found so far to 29, and more are expected as Islamic State forces are driven further back.

Cuba will farewell its late leader Fidel Castro in a series of memorials throughout the Caribbean Island this week.  Castro died Friday night at age 90, outlasting ten US presidents and hundreds of US assassination attempts.  He passed power off to his brother Raul in 2008, so there's continuity in the Havana government.

US president-elect Donald Trump plans throw away the progress that President Barack Obama has made with US Cuban relations.  Republican party officials Reince Priebus, who will be Trump's Chief of Staff, told the Sunday morning news shows that the incoming administration will demand more concessions out of the Cuban government in the areas of "repression, open markets, freedom of religion, political prisoners". 

The scandal swirling around South Korean President Park Geun-hye has bagged the country's biggest director of K-Pop music videos.  Cha Eun-taek has worked with Psy of Gangnam Style fame, but now he will stand trial for allegedly using his ties to presidential confidante Choi Soon-sil to win lucrative projects to finance that Gangnam lifestyle.  I know!  I get to use the link to Gangnam Style four and a half years later!

Tiger and Ferret are buddies, until you know, one day when dinner is late.

Voters in Switzerland rejected a referendum to set out a strict timetable for getting rid of nuclear power.  The final vote was roughly 55 percent to 45 percent across all Cantons.  Switzerland has five nuclear power plants that generate 40 percent of the country's electricity, and they were already slated for obsolescence by 2050 because of the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster.  The Green Party's initiative would have closed three of them next year, with the last of them closing way off in 2029.  Business leaders and the government said closing the reactors too quickly could have led to energy shortages and even blackouts.

Francois Fillon on Sunday won the runnoff election to represent France's conservative Republican Party in next year's Presidential Election.  He more than likely will face an as-yet-to-be-determined Socialist party candidate and far right-wing loony Marine Le Pen.

Uganda arrested the King of the southwestern Rwenzururu region over clashes between police officers and separatist militia members.  At least 55 cops and fighters have been killed in the clashes.  Rwenzururu has long had movements seeking autonomy or independence from its rulers, be they colonialists or local.  Prior to this, the most recent clashes were supposed to have been settled in 2009 when the Ugandan government struck a deal allowing greater autonomy.

Aussie political leaders including Labor's Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday will link arms on the forecourt of Parliament House in Canberra, to unite against staggering rates of domestic violence inflicted on Indigenous Australians.  It's part of the Australian end of the international anti-domestic violence campaign called "No More".  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 34 times more likely to be hospitalized because of domestic violence than non-Indigenous women.