Hello Australia!! - Life-saving aid sits on a dock in Puerto Rico, fenced off from the people who need it - Trump defends his post-hurricane recovery effort - Thailand reveals the verdict against the last democratically-elected prime minister - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

There are 3,000 shipping containers filled with food, medicine, and other supplies sitting in the port at Puerto Rico's capital, but there is little being done to distribute it around the hurricane-ravaged US territory - such is the chaos of the Trump administration recovery effort.  Governor Ricardo Rossello said they don't have enough drivers to bring supplies to groceries and distribution centers, so they're trying to recruit bus drivers and others with commercial licenses to go to the port in San Juan to help get the materials out.  "I have seen a lot of helicopters go by.  I assume those are people from FEMA," said grocer Jesus Argilagos, "People get pissed off because they see them going back and forth and not doing anything."  San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz is as frustrated as the citizenry: "It's life or death, every moment we spend planning in a meeting or every moment we spend just not getting the help we're supposed to get, people are starting to die."  People have resorted to collecting water from wells and streams, because 44 percent of the island's 3.5 million residents are without potable water.

Donald Trump again on Wednesday claimed he was doing all he could for the Puerto Rico.  "That island was hit as hard as you can hit," Trump told reporters, adding the US was sending food, water and supplies on "an hourly basis".  But critics want Trump to do the obvious, which is to waive the Jones Act - an archaic shipping law that requires goods shipped between American ports to be carried out exclusively by ships built primarily in the United States, and to have U.S. citizens as its owners and crews.  The restriction is causing price gouging:  "It is unacceptable to force the people of Puerto Rico to pay at least twice as much for food, clean drinking water, supplies and infrastructure due to Jones Act requirements as they work to recover from this disaster," said Arizona Republican Senator John McCain.  Interestingly, Trump waived the Jones Act for the recovery efforts in Texas and Florida after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, respectively.

Ukraine ammo dump blows up; Kiev blames sabotage.

Thailand's post-coup Supreme Court found the last democratically-elected Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of mishandling a rice subsidy scheme which allegedly cost Thailand at least US$8 Billion.  Despite the fact that there was no suggestion or insinuation that she herself was involved in any corruption, the court sentenced her to five years in prison.  But it is unlikely she'll serve it because she fled the country before sentencing.

The US granted asylum to 18-year old Amos Lee, the Singapore teenager twice tossed in jail for blog posts critical of the religion, government, and founder Lee Kuan Yew.  The immigration court found Lee does have a reason to be worried about being forced to return to Singapore, especially since he was jailed alongside adult criminals for what amounts to thought crimes.  In America, he's considered an adult and will be eligible for a green card in a year.

Interpol approved the "State of Palestine" for membership, which Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki declared as a "victory" made possible by the "principled position" of Interpol members.  This was despite the objections of Israel, which claimed the Palestinians are not a country and could only gain its independence through peaceful negotiations.

The Kurdish government says 93 percent of those voting in the non-binding independence referendum said "yes" to forming their own country.  Iraq's government is giving the Kurds until Friday to invalidate the vote, or risk travel bans and flight restrictions.

Drug gang members in military camos and armed with assault rifles burst into a rehab clinic in Chihuahua, Mexico and murdered 14 people.  The motive is unclear, but gangs have targeted clinics in the past when they suspect that soldiers from an enemy cartel are hiding inside.  Killings are way up in Chihuahua, just south of the US border, as the Juarez and the Sinaloa cartels battle it out for control of lucrative smuggling routes.