Good Morning Australia!! - Donald Trump completes his hostile takeover of the US Republican Party - Two wanted Australian terrorists meet the business end of US air strikes - A wildfire could burn an entire city to the ground - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Leaders of the US Republican party and their formerly supportive pundits are pointing fingers and assigning blame after it became clear that billionaire fascist demagogue Donald Trump would be their standard bearer in the Presidential Election in November.  Trump's last two rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped out last night and earlier today, respectively.  Cruz managed to elbow his wife in the face in the process.  GOP leader Reince Priebus (really, that's his name) tweeted that the party should coalesce around its Franken-candidate.  But the commentators and insiders are heading for the doors.  Strangely present to the beast in their midst (although in denial about how it was created by five decades of catering to racists, blowhards, and malcontents via the Southern Strategy), conservative pundits are urging Republican voters to ensure that Trump loses all 50 states this autumn.

The US has informed the government that air strikes killed two Australian members of the terrorist group Islamic State.  One was Neil Prakash, allegedly behind a string of failed terrorist plots meant to kill people in Australia - he was killed last week with about a dozen other fighters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.  The other was Shadi Jabar Khaled Mohammed, who was killed along with her husband in a US air strike in northern Syria.  Mohammed's 15-year old younger brother was Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, who shot and killed police accountant Curtis Cheng outside the Parramatta police station last year before being gunned down by constables. 

The US and Russia say the Syrian cease fire is being extended to Aleppo.

Brazil has filed a AU$58 Billion claim against mining giants BHP Billiton and Vale over the dam disaster at the co-owned Samarco mine.  Last year's collapse caused a huge mudslide, polluted a river, and killed 19 people.  Brazilian federal prosecutors in Minas Gerais state say the clean-up costs will rival those of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster off the southern US in the Gulf of Mexico.

The entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada is at risk of burning to the ground.  A massive, 10,000 hectare bushfire has consumed at least 1,600 homes and buildings, and firefighters are no where near getting a handle on it.  The city's population has been evacuated - that's 55,000 full time and another 30,000 part time residents; and because of the remote location, evacuation centers are spread out over hundreds of kilometers.  Some of the evacuees were taken from one hellscape to another: to the tar sands oil fields, which have had to reduce production while hosting evacuees.  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the country is united behind Fort McMurray. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is reportedly not long for his job.  The ruling AK party is convening an extraordinary congress within a few weeks, after Davutoglu was called in for a meeting with autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked by a horse).  The two have reportedly fallen out over Erdogan concentrated power in his presidency, shifting the balance of power away from the prime minister.

The European Central Bank is getting rid of the 500 Euro note.  Critics of high denomination bills say they're mostly used by criminals - terrorists, drug lords, and tax evaders - and that legitimate big business transactions are handled electronically while consumers use cheques or bank/credit cards.

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Fast and Furious 8 becomes the first big budget Hollywood movie to film in Havana, after the US and Cuba decided to end the friggin' Cold War.