Good Morning Australia!! - Venezuela's election is blasted by the guy who ran the voting machines - Trump bends over backwards to Russia while signing off on sanctions - Kiwi journos caught asking the wrong questions of lady leading the opposition - And more in your Career Spot Global News Briefs:

Venezuela is rejecting claims that last weekend's voting in a referendum to create a constiuent assembly was tampered with - that accusation coming from the head of the company that provided the voting machines.  Speaking at a news conference in London, Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica did not bring his concerns to Caracas first, nor did he even bother to reveal them in Venezuela.  He said that the government's count of more than eight million people - 41.5 percent of the electorate - voting for the assembly is inflated by one million. 

Kenyan police say the head of the country's computerized voting system was tortured and strangled to death.  The bodies of Chris Msando and a female were discovered in a forest outside Nairobi over the weekend, after he'd been missing for a day.  Kenya's presidential elections are next Tuesday.

The US Air Force conducted a successful test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ISBM) early Wednesday from Vandenberg AFB, north of Los Angeles.  "While not a response to recent North Korean actions, the test demonstrates that the United States' nuclear enterprise is safe, secure, effective and ready to be able to deter, detect and defend against attacks on the United States and its allies," read the statement from the Air Force.  The US has already flown B-1 bombers over the Korean peninsula in reaction to North Korea's missile and atomic bomb tests.

Donald Trump signed into law a package of economic sanctions against Russia for its interference in the 2016 presidential election and in Ukraine.  Congress passed the sanctions with a pretty big veto-proof majority, so it was highly unlikely that he would have vetoed the bill.  But alongside, the orange clown issued a "signing statement" to let his feelings on the law be know, calling the bill unconstitutional and urging it not to be enforced to solve the Ukrainian situation - which is 50 percent of why it was passed.  In a separate statement issued later, the moron claimed he could have negotiated a better deal with Moscow.  Again, this wasn't a "deal", it was punishment for the Kremlin's bad behavior.  I guess what Trump was really trying to say was, "Dear Vlad:  I tried, please don't release the Pee tape."

Oops.  Fired FBI Director James Comey just got a book deal.  Flatiron Books says Comey's book will include "previously unheard of anecdotes" and is due out in spring 2018.  Donald Trump sacked Comey for failing to stop the probe into Russian influence into the 2016 presidential election.

New Zealand's new opposition leader fired back at reporters who seemed less interest in her plans for Labour and more concerned with her uterus and how she plans to use it.  Jacinda Ardern said, "It is totally unacceptable in 2017 to say that women should have to answer that question in the workplace.  It is unacceptable, it is unacceptable," and, "It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities."  It has been pointed out that these questions are almost never asked of male politicians.  Even NZ Prime Minister Bill English noted that Ms. Ardern's parenthood plans are "her private business".  At least they didn't ask her for recipes.

A small Cessna aircraft made an emergency landing on a packed beach near Lisbon, Portugal, killing a 56-year-old man and an 8-year-old girl.  As bad as that is, it could have been even worse as hundreds of people were there at Caparica beach.  Police questioned the two occupants of the plane, who were unhurt.

European officials are warning people to take care as a heat wave settles in.  Hotter than usual temperatures are blamed for last month's fires in France, Spain, and Portugal, and those countries are dealing with a drought that is threatening olive and grape harvests.  Italy is in a drought, and cities have started to ration water as well as shut off public fountains.  Temperatures 10 C degrees than average are baking cities to the north and east, such Munich, Prague, and Warsaw - and Vienna, where Zookeepers have turned on hoses to kept the elephants cool. 

The baby panda at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo is now 50 days old and doing well.  While zookeepers have a contest to name it, the little fellow is learning to crawl and mama Shin Shin learns to groom it and teach it how to go to the bathroom.  Seriously, that's what they said.  The baby's new name will be announced when it's 100 days old in late September.