Good Morning Australia!! - The US, Russia, and China are trying to intimidate each other - A network of Indonesian mosques are apparently spreading IS propaganda - Another French lawmaker is physically assaulted - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ordering 755 US diplomats to leave the country by 1 September, in retaliation for the US Congress passing new economic sanctions on Moscow.  It's the largest expulsion of diplomats in the post-Cold War.  Word of the move, which includes seizing holiday properties and a warehouse used by US diplomats, was rumored last week but confirmed by Putin late Sunday.  The US enacted the new sanctions because of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Russian interference in the US election, and the vote precludes a veto by Putin's pal in the White House Donald Trump.  

As this happened - and while Putin took part in a Naval display of force off Saint Petersburg - US and Georgian troops held military exercises just south of Putin's border, as the former Soviet Republic steps up its bid to join NATO.  Operation Noble Partner involve around 1,600 US and 800 Georgian troops, and will go on until 12 August.  One of Putin's beefs with the West has been NATO picking off its former Warsaw Pact allies.

The US military is sending messages to North Korea, flying two B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula and conducting a "successful" test of the THAAD anti-missile system designed to counter Pyongyang's nuclear threat.  Japanese and South Korean fighter jets accompanied the flight.  "If called upon, we are ready to respond with rapid, lethal, and overwhelming force at a time and place of our choosing," said Pacific Air Forces commander General Terrence O'Shaughnessy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the People's Liberation Army to transform itself into an elite fighting force.  This came at a massive military parade to mark the PLA's 90th anniversary.  The parade involved thousands of troops and big pieces of military hardware including bombers and nuclear missile launchers.  China has been spending huge sums to modernize its military over the past couple of decades.

Okay, that was "the superpowers waving their Johnsons at the world".  Moving along...

Police will for a third day continue to collect evidence from five Sydney-area homes raided in an urgent anti-terror operation.  Four men are still in custody in what Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described as a plot to smuggle a bomb onto a passenger plane and detonate it mid-flight.  Police aren't ruling out the possibility of more members of the suspects' group.

The Indonesian government suspects more than 40 mosques of spreading Islamic State propaganda and recruiting fighters for its part of the Syrian Civil War.  What's more, the ABC reports that the terrorists are recruiting more and more out of meetings in private homes disguised as Koran reading groups, making it more difficult for the authorities to observe. 

French police arrested a man for punching a female lawmaker upside the head as she handed out leaflets at a market in a southern suburb of Paris.  "This man was clearly hostile to government and majority policy," said 33-year old ruling party lawmaker Laurianne Rossi, "He was speaking vehemently but was not immediately aggressive."  Until he was.  Just a month ago, another female lawmaker in France was knocked unconscious as she was handing out leaflets before the election.

After an 18 hour siege, Kenyan police killed the intruder who stormed the home of Vice President William Ruto and injured a police officer.  Ruto was not home at the time of the attack.

South Korean officials blame high youth unemployment for the country's lowest-ever birth rate; fewer young people can afford to even think about starting families.  A lower birthrate means fewer workers in the future, and that will result in less money into welfare programs for elderly South Koreans.  Women have additional concerns over weak maternity-leave policies and a stubborn resistance by men to help with the housework,

Chile is legalizing more than 31,000 minors who immigrated into the country since 2010.  The new law ensures that "all girls and boys have the same rights" according to President Michelle Bachelet.  As many as 40 percent of underage migrants in Chile are undocumented.  "This is a huge injustice that we would like to start leaving behind," said Bachelet.  Because decency.

This is why airplanes were invented.