Good Morning Australia!! - You won't believe who the new UK PM appointed as Foreign Minister - Amnesty Int'l decries Egypt's torture state - Beijing's next move will apparently involved guns over the South China Sea - And more in your CareerSpot International News Briefs:

The UK's new Prime Minister Theresa May has begun her government with a whopper:  She appointed former London mayor and Brexit blowhard Boris Johnson as foreign minister.  That's the same Boris Johnson who referred to black people as "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles"; the same Boris who claimed that blacks have lower IQs; the same Boris Johnson who suggested US President Barack Obama's "part-Kenyan" heritage gave him an "ancestral dislike of the British empire"; the same Boris that whipped up his country's hooligans to vote to leave the European Union because of a completely fictitious threat from immigrants, but chickened out when it came time to actually come up with a plan to make it happen.  Well, you know what sewer workers say:  Shyte floats.  'Same goes for politics in the UK, apparently.  How this can be interpreted as anything less than a spit in the face of the US is beyond me.

China now says it has a "right" to set up an air defense zone over the reefs and islands it is occupying in the South China Sea - the very ones that an international tribunal has ruled it has no legal claim.  Beijing already said it would ignore Tuesday's ruling from The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, in the case brought by the Philippines.  Vice-Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin now says China would establish an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the South China Sea "if our security is being threatened".

Police in Germany carried out raids across the country against some 60 racists and neo-nazis suspected of inciting hatred on the internet.  "Violent language is unacceptable and lays the groundwork for real violence," said Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.  Hate crimes have increased in Germany, coinciding with the crisis of more than a million Middle Eastern and African refugees more activity from nazi scum on the Internet:  "That's why we have to curb this increase in hate speech and make sure that criminal content is prosecuted without compromise," said Federal Police leader Holger Munch.

Spain is more than likely heading for a third national election in less than two years, after the Socialist Party refused to enter into a coalition with acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative and ironically-nammed Popular Party.  "Right now, his Popular Party has no support.  Right now, the Socialist party reaffirms its vote against Rajoy," said Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez.  No party came out with a majority, and none of the big four get along well enough to form a coalition. 

Hundreds of people have been disappeared and tortured by authorities in Egypt under the autocratic rule of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, alleges Amnesty International.  Cops have abducted activists, politicians, and students as young as 14 years old as an "key instrument of state policy" in an effort to stomp out all dissent.  Al-Sisi's government denies the report.  But Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa director Philip Luther says the security services and judicial authorities simply "lie to cover their tracks or failed to investigate torture allegations, making them complicit in serious human rights violations".

Japan's Imperial Household is finally confirming rulors that Emperor Akihito is planning to abdicate, and pass the Chrysanthemum Throne to his 56-year old son Crown Prince Naruhito.  It would be the first time in 200 years that a Japanese Emperor abdicated, although back then it had a lot more to due with swords, poison, and court intrigue.  This time around, the 82-year old simply wants to ease off his official duties.  Although there's not a lot of heavy lifting involved in being Emperor, Akihito's 27 years in the largely ceremonial role have successfully distanced the imperial household from the horrors of World War II, and brought the royal family closer to the people in times of strife and natural disasters.

Rome's zoo passed out the ice to the animals during a nasty Italian heat wave.