Good Morning Australia!! - Two countries seem to be willingly heading towards picking very questionable leaders - Greece's PM was elected to stand up to Europe but is giving away the last crumbs from his people's pockets - Officials fear the Canadian Wildfire could burn for HOW long? - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Philippines presidential election takes place today, and the last round of polls puts former Davao City mayor far ahead of the competition.  Rodrigo Duterte boasted of running death squads and joked that he wished he had been first in line to rape an Australian missionary who was killed in a prison riot in his city.  If elected, he promises to ride a jet ski out into the South China Sea and plant a Philippine flag on one of the disputed islands that China is building on.

The daughter of former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori holds a slight lead in the polls before the Presidential runof election on 5 June.  The El Comercio newspaper/Ipsos poll shows Keiko Fujimori with 42 percent support.  Former IMF banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski follows with 39 percent.  Another 14 percent is either undecided or too disgusted to go to the polls next month.

Rioters tossed rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, and cops responded with tear gas on the outskirts of big protests against Greek parliamentary vote on further austerity measures - which passed, btw.  PM Alexis Tsipras (who promised to stand up to Europe, ha ha ha ha) hopes the latest package of cruel cuts to the pension system and tax reforms will impress Eurozone finance ministers, who are holding an emergency meeting on more bailout money for Greece later on Monday.  Greece's largest labor union GSEE maintains the changes are the "last nail in the coffin" for workers and pensioners. 

A searchable database of information from the Panama Papers is reportedly going online at 2:00 PM US Eastern Time, 4:00 AM Tuesday in Canberra, 2:00 AM in Perth.  This will include information on some 200,000 offshore corporations set up by the law firm Mossack Fonseca as tax shelters by the world's wealthiest basta-- people.  It's likely that the complex web of corporate fronts will obscure the real owners of some of these entities.  The initial Panama Papers leak made waves, and got a lot of attention - but resulted in only one resignation of a world leader, Icelandic PM that of Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.

The massive wildfire in Alberta, Canada grew, but at a slower pace than expected.  That gave rescuers a chance to evacuate thousands of people who had sought shelter in northern shale oil camps and take them south to Calgary and Edmonton.  The fire covers more than 2,000 square kilometers and officials said only significant rainfall would allow it to be brought under control - they're concerned that the battle to contain it will last for months instead of days or weeks.

More than 70 people were killed when a gasoline tanker truck crashed into two buses on a highway in Afghanistan that links the capital Kabul with the southern city of Kandahar. 

Islamic State claimed responsibility for an ambush on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt that killed at least eight police officers.  Four gunmen used automatic weapons to spray the white van in which the cops were riding.

Some guy who isn't Brian Johnson took the stage at Axl/DC's gig in Spain.  Meh.