Good Morning Australia!! - Macron lists his greivances with Trump - Is there an Australian connection to California's arrest of an alleged serial killer? - Ortega begins to bend to public pressure - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the US Congress, aiming sharp criticism directly at the orange clown Donald Trump's policies and at nationalism in general.  Macron: said America's traditional  involvement in the global community was vital; defended the the international deal that keeps nuclear weapons out of Iran's hands; and said that Trump's opposition to the Paris climate accord was short-sighted, challenging the US to help "make our planet great again".  He defended international trade agreements and blasted nationalism: "If you ask me, I do not share the fascination for new strong powers, the abandonment of freedom and the illusion of nationalism."  Macron's US visit has been a love-fest with Trump, but these remarks will encourage those in Europe and beyond where the orange clown remains deeply unpopular.

A Danish inventor has been found guilty of murdering a female journalist aboard his homemade submarine in August 2017, in a case that has gotten quite a bit of international attention.  The court in Copenhagen sentenced Peter Madsen to life in prison without parole.  He denied sexually assaulting or killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, but admitted to chopping up her body an disposing of the parts at sea in weighed-down plastic bags, which were discovered by divers.  Ms. Wall was an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, and other print and on-line publications.

California police have arrested a suspect in the "Golden State Killer" series of twelve murders and 45 rapes around Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles in the 1970s and early 1980s.  Authorities credited DNA evidence after picking up 72-year-old former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo at his home near the California capital.  Over the years, some reports have attempted to link California killings to the "Mr. Cruel" murders in Victoria in the late 1980s, assuming that the perpetrator moved to Oz as soon as the California crimes stopped in 1986.  But although there were some similarities, Victoria police this week told The Australian that "any connection has been ruled out". 

The conservative president of Spain's Madrid region was forced to step down after a video emerged of Cristina Cifuentes shoplifting a couple of pots of anti-aging cream from a pharmacy.  She called the 2011 store security footage a "personal attack", but it came on the heels of a scandal over her faked credentials.  Cifuentes, of the right-wing and royalist Partido Popular (PP), gave up her phony-baloney master's degree because two signatures were forged.  It's a major blow to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose party has faced a succession of corruption scandals.

The death toll in Nicaragua's civil unrest has jumped to 34 after a rights group said it had found more bodies in Managua's state morgue.  Nicaragua's Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) said the bodies were of people who had been reported missing in the protests.  The group also included people who had died of wounds sustained in the protests against the government of Daniel Ortega, who has begun to calm things by making a series of concessions, including: freeing arrested protesters; lifting curbs on independent media; and dropping planned social security cuts.

It's rare for Israeli security forces to be jailed for killing a Palestinian, but a court sentenced former border policeman Ben Deri to nine-months in prison in the killing of 17-year old Nadim Nuwara at a protest in 2014.  Prosecutors dropped a more serious manslaughter charge to get Deri's guilty plea to causing death by negligence.  Authorities initially accused Deri of deliberately switching his rubber bullets to live rounds, but later said it was accidental.