Good Morning Australia!! - Erdogan tightens his grip - The US cracks down on alleged financial wrongdoers in two high-profile cases - Trump names a scapegoat - And more in your Careerspot Global News Briefs:

Turkish President Racep Tayyip Erdogan has just declared a three month state of emergency in the wake of last week's attempted coup against his rule, and warned his critics to "stay out of our way" as he remolds Turkey in his image.  Earlier, he forbade all academics from leaving the country, a day after the education ministry fired tens of thousands of teachers and deans.  Almost a third of the military's top officers have been charged, and thousands have been arrested.  "We are witnessing a crackdown of exceptional proportions in Turkey at the moment," says Amnesty International, noting that any critics of President Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked by a horse) are in danger.

The US is moving to seize more than a billion dollars worth of assets from the Malaysian investment fund 1MDB.  The US Justice Department is not specifically naming Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in wrongdoing, but court papers say his account allegedly received direct "misappropriated" funds, that financed lavish lifestyles of "multiple individuals including public officials".  This allegedly included the purchases of luxury real estate and rare Monet paintings.  In the past, Mr. Najib has denied any wrongdoing in the disappearance of money from 1MDB.

US Federal Agents surprised an HSBC bank executive at New York’s Kennedy airport as he tried to leave the United States; Mark Johnson is accused of an alleged front-running scheme involving a $3.5 billion currency transaction in 2011.  Mr. Johnson is HSBC's global head of foreign exchange cash trading in London.  He's charged alongside Stuart Scott, the bank's former head of currency trading in Europe; they're the first to be charged in the long-running probe.

The Trump Organization threw out a name to the world media in the Melania Trump plagiarism scandal.  Meredith McIver, a copywriter for Trump's business headquarters in New York, wrote a memo taking responsibility for lifting passages from US First Lady Michelle Obama's keynote speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and putting them in Melania Trump's Republican convention speech on Monday night.  Trump claims that Ms. McIver will not be fired - but now there's an issue over why a staffer for Trump's business was participating in campaign work, which is still illegal even in the willy-nilly world of US campaign finance.

Fire crosses several storeys of a skyscraper in Dubai, supposedly no one was injured.

Big, giant sinkhole opens up after heavy rain in Russia's Altai region.

Israel's parliament passed a law that would allow it to impeach MPs who allegedly incite racism or support armed struggle against the state.  Critics say the heavy-handed law is flagrantly biased against Israeli Arabs and the Left.  Earlier this year, three Israeli Arab MPs were suspended for meeting with the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis.

Three French soldiers died when their chopper was shot down in Libya while carrying out "dangerous intelligence operations", according to President Francois Hollande. It marks the first time France acknowledged the presence of French Special Forces in Libya.

Ukraine is investigating the car bomb murder of a leading anti-Kremlin journalist.  44-year old Pavel Sheremet was a leading Russian TV news reader until 2014, when he resigned in protest of Russia's Ukraine policy and moved to Kiev.  The bomb went off as Mr. Sheremet drove the Subaru XV belonging to his wife Olena Prytula, owner of the Ukrayinska Pravda news website where he worked.  Officials called it a "brazen murder" and President Petro Poroschenko is asking for the US FBI's help with the investigation.

South Korea is on alert for possible North Korean "provocations" after some seriously retro Cold War stuff on Radio Pyongyang shortwave service.  Instead of contacting its agents on the Internet like everyone else does, Radio Pyongyang twice broadcast a person reading a mysterious series of number codes - something it hadn't done since before 2000.  Now, intelligence agents in Seoul are determining if the North is just faking, attempting to "wake up" long term sleeper agents, or trying to contact people who won't answer their emails.