Good Morning Australia!! - Crews race to restore power in South Australia before more lousy weather blasts through - World leaders join Israel in lauding the late Shimon Peres - It was a Russia missile that killed hundreds in the downing of MH17 - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The lights are (mostly) back on in Adelaide, the morning after terrible storms tore through South Australia.  Powerful wind knocked down several transmission towers in the north of the state, tripping the interconnector with Victoria and triggering a state-wide blackout.  Mention that to your Tory friends at work today, because some are going to question of SA's renewable energy program was responsible for the instability.  No, it was WIND - a once-in-50-years event that tore roofs off buildings and brought down trees.  And Monster Hail.  But the Bureau of Meteorology is also predicting more wild weather, and a severe weather warning is in place for most areas in SA today.  SO:  Take care and batten down the hatches.

South Australia's Supreme Court has ruled that the son of Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh was not guilty by reason of mental incompetence for the stabbing murder of his father.  27-year old Cy Walsh suffered from undiagnosed and untreated schizophrenia; he is detained in a high security facility and will likely spend the rest of his life in such places as part of a lifetime psychiatric supervision order.  "Our son Cy is also shattered by what has happened, and has to live with the consequences of his illness, an illness that has destroyed our loving family," wrote Phil Walsh's widow Meredith Walsh in a victim's impact statement.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will join other world leaders at the funeral for Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who died in hospital at age 93 after suffering a stroke two weeks ago.  A Polish immigrant to Israel, the last of Israel's founding fathers was quite hawkish for much of his adult life.  He joined government in 1959 and pushed to build Israel's military, nuclear weapons program, and Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories.  By the 1990s, Mr. Peres had come to realize this was the wrong path, pursuing peace and territorial compromise with the Palestinian Authority and becoming a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1994 for his work on the Oslo Peace Accords which subsequent governments have failed to embrace.  The peacemaker is the man that leaders will honor at the service in Jerusalem on Friday.

Investigators say they now have solid evidence that a Russian-made missile shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.  All 298 passengers and crew were killed, including 27 Australians.  Intercepted communications show that pro-Moscow rebels called for a Buk missile launcher to be brought over from Russia on the day of the crime, and the missile was shot from rebel territory.  Dutch police investigator Wert Paulissen told reporters, "It may be concluded MH17 was shot down by a 9M38 missile launched by a Buk, brought in from the territory of the Russian Federation, and that after launch was subsequently returned to the Russian Federation."  The Associated Press had previously reported that witnesses saw the launcher being taken to attack site.  Russia still denies it.

The US extradited a Rwandan academic who is accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide of some 800,000 Tutsis by Hutu extremists.  American agents finally turned 65-year old Leopold Munyakazi over to local authorities at Kigali Airport.  Rwanda had twice before asked for Munyakazi in 2006 and 2008 (gee, who was president then?).  He was a college professor at the time of the killings, allegedly murdering one man himself and taking part in identifying Tutsis for elimination at roadblocks.  Afterwards, Munyakazi fled to America where he briefly taught French at a university near Baltimore.

A court in Peru convicted the ex-spy chief of disappearing and murdering opposition students and their teacher in 1993, during the fascist dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori.  The judge sentenced 71-year old Vladimiro Montesinos to 22 years in prison, the same penalty going to Fujimori's former army chief 81-year old Nicolas Hermoza.  Montesinos was "the man behind the curtain" during the despicable Fujimori's murderous reign; Fujimori is already doing 25 years for (some of) his crimes.  The students were accused of being part of the "Shining Path" Communist guerilla group, murdered, and their bodies were burned in the basement of the country's spy agency headquarters in Lima.

Nigeria is arresting and harassing dissenters and journalists to attempt to muzzle the opposition, according to Amnesty International.  The rights group says the intimidation campaign waged by President Muhammadu Buhari's goverment is targeting people demanding the return of the more than 200 Chibok School Girls abducted by Boko Haram; Shiite muslims demanding the release of their leaders from detention; and Biafran separatists.

Meanwhile, the Thailand military junta shut down an Amnesty International presentation in Bangkok detailing allegations of widespread torture used by Thai security forces against its own citizens and undocumented workers.  Bangkok plainclothes cops claimed the presentation in a hotel conference room would have violated labor law:  "I think it's a facade for trying to shut us up," said Amnesty's Yuval Ginbar.  The report documents 74 accusations of torture including beating, burning, strangling, suffocation, waterboarding, and electric shock; these took place in police stations, military bases, and undocumented black sites.  Thailand's junta seized power from the democratically-elected government in 2014 while the West twiddled its thumbs.