Good Morning Australia!! - Iran and North Korea issue warnings to the US - Trump's nominee to head the CIA faces a raucous confirmation process - Will France blow up its own national airline to win a war on workers? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

North Korea is warning the US to lay off "pressure and military threats" in the lead-up to possible historic talks between the leaders of the two countries.  A Foreign Ministry official in Pyongyang accused the US of deliberately provoking the North by suggesting sanctions will not be lifted until it gives up nuclear weapons, a clear signal that the North does not want to be seen as capitulating to sanctions.  Until this, North Korea has refrained from criticizing the US in recent weeks to keep the waters calm before the summit.  

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, "If America leaves the nuclear deal, this will entail historic regret for it."  The orange clown Donald Trump has until 12 May to decide if the US will remain in the multi-party deal that got Tehran to give up its nuclear program (which he doesn't understand), and is threatening to pull out unless Congress and European powers fixed its "disastrous flaws" - which he can't seem to identify.  The UK, France, Germany, and the UN have all piled on to implore Trump not to screw this up, and UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson went to Washington on Sunday to press the point.  Rouhani says Iran had "a plan to counter any decision Trump may take and we will confront it".

Trump's choice to run the CIA wanted to take her name out of consideration, because of renewed attention on the secret CIA torture site she ran in Southeast Asia.  Gina Haspell had crisis talks with White House officials over the weekend but appears to be staying in the game.  She faces brutal confirmation hearings in which US Senators will seek information about "Detention Site Green" in Thailand, where the CIA engaged in waterboarding and other illegal forms of torture, and after that was allegedly involved in the CIA's willful destruction evidence in the form of nearly 100 videotapes that recorded the men's interrogations. 

France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire is threatening to allow Air France-KLM to go under after workers rejected a bad pay hike offer and conducted another scheduled strike.  Le Maire said, I call on everyone to be responsible: crew, ground staff, and pilots who are asking for unjustified pay hikes."  He added, "The survival of Air France is in the balance," making clear the government will not bail out the airline, which employs more than 84,000 of his own people.  The struggle at Air France-KLM is seen as a test of President Emmanuel Macron's neo-liberal reforms, AKA 'austerity' or 'screw anyone who isn't a billionaire'.  So, how much is "unjustified"?  Workers are seeking a 5.1 percent pay hike.  Last week, CEO Jean-Marc Janaillac said he'd resign when workers rejected his offer of seven percent spread over four years.

A gunman shot and injured Pakistan Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal as he emerged from a meeting with a Christian group.  A 21-year old man was promptly arrested.  Mr. Iqbal is a member of the governing Pakistan Muslim League, and the area of the shooting had been the scene of protests by a hardline Islamist group.

Marchers in Brazil, Peru, and Argentina want marijuana to be legalized. 

The lava flowing from a volcano on the east side of Hawaii's Big Island isn't slowing down.  It's not speeding up, either.  So far, nine homes have been destroyed.