Good Morning Australia!! - A complication in the fight against Ebola - Accusations of more flagrant pay-to-play in the White House - China threatens Australia right in its pocketbook - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Three patients left an Ebola treatment center in a crowded city in the Democratic Republic of Congo after their families demanded to take them to church - two of them died, and the third returned to quarantine.  This is a potentially major problem for the UN World Health Organization and local efforts to contain and stop this latest Ebola outbreak.  The city of Mbandaka has 1.2 million residents and has several surface and water connections to other major cities in the region.  Ebola is highly contagious and the hemorrhagic fever it causes is fatal to as many as 90 percent of patients.  Officially there's no cure, but WHO is putting a lot of hope into a new, experimental vaccine from Merck.

The orange clown Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen took at US$400,000 payment to arrange talks between the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Trump.  A source in Ukraine told the BBC that the meeting took place last June, and shortly after Ukraine dropped its investigation of into Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.  Cohen was not registered as an agent of the Ukraine government at the time.  The story was supposed by a second source in Kiev who said the total paid to Cohen was $600,000.  But Cohen denies it, as does two Ukrainians allegedly involved in the secret back-channel.

For some reason, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull insists Australia has a "good, frank" relationship with China - after a Chinese Communist Party newspaper blasted Australia as "arrogant" and called for slashing Aussie imports by as much as $10 Billion to teach Canberra a lesson.  Holy crap.  China is Australia's most important trading partner.  In recent weeks, China responded to US threats of a trade war by slashing imports of US soybeans, while loaning a half-Billion Dollars to an Indonesian real estate development in which Trump has an interest.  Trump crumbled within days.

Cuban exile and terrorist Luis Posada Carriles has died at age 90 in Florida, where the US was harboring him.  Posada Carriles took part in the failed US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961; he was also accused in the terrorist bombing of a Cuban passenger plane in 1973, killing 73 people including the entire Cuban youth fencing team, which was returning home from a regional competition.

Saudi Arabia's crackdown on women's rights activists has netted three more arrests, branding the detainees as "traitors" suspected of "suspicious contact with foreign parties" and undermining "stability".  At least eleven activists are being held, most of them women.  Critics accuse Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of making himself the sole hero of the regime's recent decision to eventually allow women to drive.

French rail workers have overwhelmingly rejected President Emmanuel Macron's scheme to reform the country's state-owned rail company.  They've been conducting rolling strikes that have thrown France's transport into a tizzy, striking for two days off, every five days.  That means seven more job actions (and a lot of befuddled tourists) before the end of June.  Macron's heinous plan to cut the rail company's debts means taking it all from the workers:  Slashing salaries, vacations, retirement, even tickets for workers' families.

Italy's president has accepted law professor and novice politician Giuseppe Conte - the guy who embellished his CV in yesterday's news - to be the Prime Minister of a government led by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and racist far right-wingers The League.  Good luck with that.

The left and right are gloating in the US:  A federal judge in Manhattan ruled that Trump cannot block Twitter users for the political views they have expressed, because his social media accounts are now public forums which makes criticism free speech protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.  That's a blow to Trump, but why are right-winger's overjoyed? 

Because the National Football League (NFL) introduced a policy forbidding players from "taking a knee" or engaging in any kind of protest during the pre-game playing of the national anthem.  Because forced patriotism is the best kind, ammirite?  Over the past couple of seasons, several black NFL players and their allies genuflected in reflection during the song to protest police mistreatment of black people in the US.  The players' union is angry because it was not consulted; New York Jets co-owner Christopher Johnson thinks it's shyte and will pay any fines his players might be subjected to if they "take a knee".

btw, NFL is not as interesting nor exciting as AFL.