Good Morning Australia!! - The man who threw the US election confronts Congress - North Korea is preparing another nuke, or just playing volleyball - Playboy model plus sacred place equals someone's getting mad - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

FBI director James Comey testified before the United States Senate about last year's abortion of a US election, telling lawmakers he is "mildly nauseous" over the prospect that his words helped throw the contest to syphilitic sponge brain Donald Trump.  But the head of America's top domestic law enforcement insisted he had no choice in announcing that the agency had reopened a probe into Hillary Clinton's emails just days before the vote - despite the fact that absolutely nothing came out of it.  "To not speak about it would require an act of concealment in my view," he said.  Hillary Clinton says Comey's blunder was the primary reason she lost the election, and polling bears that out. 

And because Hillary didn't get to move into the White House, it has come to this:  China is telling the US and North Korea to "stop irritating" each other.  "The urgent task is to lower temperatures and resume talks," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, urging the leaders of both countries to "remain calm and exercise restraint, stop irritating each other, work hard to create an atmosphere for contact and dialogue between all sides, and seek a return to the correct path of dialogue and negotiation as soon as possible". 

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38 North

The blog 38 North says there is increased activity at North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Facility indicating a possible weapon test could happen soon - although the commercial satellite images still show troops are playing volleyball at blast site.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is in New York City for 48 hours, the high point being his scheduled meeting with Donald Trump.  Malcolm says he has had several telephone conversations with Trump and expects to get on well - although their first contact was that infamous call in which the orange clown berated our PM for a refugee swap deal before hanging up.  We'll see if Trump can hold it together long enough for a black tie dinner on the decommissioned USS Intrepid aircraft carrier on the Hudson River to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the US-Australian Battle of the Coral Sea victory over Japan in World War II.

Facebook is hiring three thousand people to monitor video feeds for violent content.  This comes after cases of murder and suicide being broadcast live on the social network:  Last month, an Ohio man murdered an elderly pedestrian on Facebook Live, and a Thai man hung his daughter before killing himself.  Critics say Facebook was lax in taking down the gruesome content.  Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said new tools would be rolled out to assist the process: "We're going to make it simpler to report problems to us, faster for our reviewers to determine which posts violate our standards and easier for them to contact law enforcement if someone needs help."

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari missed his third cabinet meeting since returning from a 7-week sick leave that saw him seeking treatment in London for an unspecified ailment.  It comes a day after a group of prominent Nigerians released an open letter urging Buhari to turn the keys over to his vice president and go on sick leave again.  Buhari has missed several public and and administrative events since returning from London in January.

Dozens of coal miners are trapped 1,800 meters underground after an explosion in northern Iran.  It's believed that up to 40 men are in a small chamber at the Zemestan-Yurt mine in Golestan province, are further threatened by a build up of volatile gasses.

And over in New Zealand, Maori are upset over Playboy model Jaylene Cook, climbed Mount Taranaki to take an almost nude photo.  She did have gloves and shoes on in the photo on her Instagram account (warning, butt cheeks and side boob alert, view this naughty link at your own discretion).  "It's like someone went into St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and took a nude photo," said local Maori spokesman Dennis Ngawhare, "It's a sacred place and something like this is just very inappropriate."

Don Henley is a big pill.  The Eagles are suing a Mexican Hotel calling itself "Hotel California"; the 1970s country rock group believes the hotel is trying to trick people into believing it is associated with the band when it is not.  The tiny hotel in southern Baja actually was once named Hotel California in the 1950s, but had gone through several name changes and owners over the years.  It reclaimed the title during this century, 30 years after the Eagles' hit song.