Good Morning Australia!! - The Manus Island detention center could be closed very, very soon - America's highest-ranking child molester is sentenced - The nightmare brewing in the Philippines - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Australia does not seem sure of its next move now that Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has decided to shut the Manus Island detention center for refugees who tried to seek a better life in Oz.  This comes after the PNG Supreme Court ruled the processing center to be unconstitutional.  Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Treasurer Scott Morrison insist that not one Manus detainee would be allowed in Australia, but Defense Minister Marise Payne indicated people would be considered on a "case-by-case basis".  The governor of Manus Island is indicated the processing center would be closing in a matter of hours and not days, so those 850 men are going to have to go somewhere.

The Manus Island detainees won't be going to Austria - The alpine nation passed a new law restricting the right of asylum and allows most claimants to be rejected directly at the border.  "These amendments are a glaring attempt to keep people out of Austria and its asylum system," said Amnesty Europe director Gauri van Gulik.  They may also violate international and European law.  Meanwhile, a police chief in the southwestern Tyrol region is proposing building a 400 meter fence at the Brenner pass to prevent migrants from passing over from Italy, whose Prime Minister rejects the plan outright as an affront to European values. 

Once one of the three most powerful people in the United States, former US House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison in a child sex scandal (that isn't getting anywhere near as much airplay in the US media as the orange clown).  Hastert violated banking laws by handling huge amounts of cash meant as hush money to the little boys he molested while working as a High School wrestling coach in the 1970s.  Hastert was the longest serving Republican House Speaker in US history, and presided over the failed impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton who lied about having sexual relations with a consenting adult.

US Presidential Candidate and fascist demagogue Donald Trump gave a childish and rambling foreign policy speech that the US corporate media just had to pay attention to, since it appears he will wind up with the most delegates at the upcoming Republican National Convention which will nominate the party's presidential pick.  Trump basically is pushing (with his extremely short fingers) an "America first" agenda that would make aggressive new demands of virtually every country in the world - allies, competitors, and rivals alike - based on the premise that they are cheating and humiliating the US.  In other words, the same old-same old fascist demagogue nationalism peddled by strongman-style governments around the world.

The Philippine's version of Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, has a new campaign promise - if elected president, he'll pardon himself for mass murder.  Duterte has alternately claimed and denied responsibility for death squads that killed hundreds of people while he was mayor of Davao City.  He also joked about his reputed womanizing; and he threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with the Philippines' strongest allies, the US and Australia, for the criticism about his joking about the rape and murder of an Australian missionary. 

Terrorism suspect Salah Abdeslam has been extradited from Belgium to Paris to face charges in last November's terror attacks.