Good Morning Australia!! - Momentum seems to desert the Catalan separatists - Puerto Rico's governor wants to dump that fishy power contract - The orange clown sweats as the first indictments loom - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Police say at least 300,000 people rallied in Barcelona to keep the Catalonia region's union with Spain, while Madrid put the crowd size at about a million.  Waving Spanish flags and chanting "Viva Espana" and "The streets are for everyone", the marchers call themselves a "silenced majority" whose rights are being trampled by the secession drive of Carles Puigdemont - he still calls himself Catalonia's leader despite being sacked by Spain's central government which also took direct control of the regions institutions.  The courts have ruled the independence referendum illegal and moot, and no European country is recognizing the independence declaration. 

The president of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region Massoud Barzani is stepping down when his term ends this week.  He is the architect of the Kurdish independence referendum which went as well for the Kurds in Iraq as the Catalan version did in Spain.  The Baghdad government deemed the vote unconstitutional, and its forces have since seized a swath of disputed territory from Kurdish fighters, including oilfields that would have provided an important source of income for a nascent Kurdish state.

The governor of Puerto Rico is calling to end the controversial contract with a little-known power company to restore the US island's devastated power grid.  Whitefish Energy of Montana - from the hometown of US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke - had two employees and no experience in building power grids nor working in tropical regions when it got the US$300 Million sweetheart deal.  Gov. Ricardo Rossello, a Trump ally who at first tried to downplay the shady deal, now claims it is a "distraction" from the important work of restoring the island's power.  It's now more than a month since Hurricane Maria caused death and destruction across the entire island, and more than 75 percent of residents still don't have their power back.

The orange clown had a Twitter breakdown on Sunday, after word came out that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller obtained the first indictments in the investigation into Russian influence over Donald Trump's presidential campaign, which could be announced on Monday.  Trump went on a twitter rage on Sunday, declaring the investigation to be "fake" and claiming that the focus ought to be on Russia and Hillary Clinton - the latter idiocy based on a debunked conspiracy theory.  The storm ended with the cryptic and desperate plea for someone to "do something!" - in all caps, which I won't repeat.  Trump's lawyers claim it wasn't a reaction to the impending indictments.  Meanwhile, Trump's close ally political consultant Roger Stone had his Twitter account suspended after he raged against CNN for breaking the indictment story, using homophobic language and calling for acts of violence against CNN personalities.

Cuba is now flat-out saying that there was no secret audio death ray attack on the US Embassy in Havana.  The US had claimed that someone had used a "sonic weapon" on Americans in Cuba, resulting in hearing damage, loss of equilibrium, and even brain damage at least least a dozen people.  But the Trump administration never provided any proof nor even the names of those allegedly impacted.  Cuba repeatedly sought more information from the US and offered several times to assist the investigation - if there ever really was one.  Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has now concluded that the allegations were "totally false" and that the claims are a "political manipulation" aimed at damaging bilateral relations - which the Trump administration had opposed when then-President Barack Obama reopened them in the twilight of his term.

Somalia sacked two top security officials after a series of deadly bombings by the terrorist group al Shabaab.  The latest bombing in Mogadishu took place over the weekend killed at least 29 people.  The terrorists then conducted a 12-hour siege inside a wrecked hotel.  Two weeks ago, the terrorist group killed 358 with twin truck bombings, also in the capital city.