Good Morning Australia!! - The US hints at military action against North Korea, while Kim cusses - France will give its ultimate honor to a Women's Rights Champion - Two actors give up a lot to stake a position in Hollywood's diversity battle - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The US says North Korea's successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is "a clear and sharp military escalation", and the US is prepared to use military force to against the rogue state.  Speaking at the United Nations Security Council, Ambassador Nikki Haley said that economic sanctions aren't working, and the US was working on a draft resolution calling for a strong response against North Korea.  Hours earlier, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was quoted by state-run news as saying the missile was "a gift for the American bastards".  The nuclear-capable Hwasong-14 missile is believed to have a range of 6,700 to 8,800 kilometers, putting northern Australia well within its reach.

The latest deadline in the Gulf States crisis has passed, and the bloc led by Saudi Arabia says it will continue diplomatic and trade restrictions on Qatar, which refuses to shut down the Al Jazeera news network and scale back ties to Iran.  Because Qatar is a peninsula off Saudi Arabia, its only land border is shut off, and therefore all food and other imports have to come in by air - a situation gas-rich Qatar says it can continue indefinitely.

France will inter the remains of women's reproductive rights champion and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil in the Paris Pantheon, a space reserved for national heroes.  Veil, who died last at age 89, will rest near such French notables as Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and scientist Marie Curie in the grand neoclassical building.  French President Emmanuel Macron said Ms. Veil had "given our lives the light you had in you and which nothing or nobody was able to extinguish", praising her for making France "better and more beautiful".

Volvo is phasing out the gas combustion engine in favor of hybrids and electric cars.  That would make it the first traditional carmaker to produce no vehicles based solely on internal combustion engines. 
Volvo And Kangaroo
The Chinese-owned, Swedish based automaker plans to sell 1 million electrified vehicles by 2025, "And this is how we are going to do it," said CEO Hakan Samuelsson.  Now, if they could just fix that large animal detection system so that it can spot Kangaroos...

Pope Francis is said to be furious after Vatican police interrupted a drug-fueled gay orgy at the apartment of a high-ranking priest.  The Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano says the priest is a secretary to the Pope's personal advisor Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio.  Police were called to the scene because of complaints of noise; when they got there they found illegal drugs, as well as men engaging in sexual activity.
Pope Francis probably isn't doing this today
It couldn't come at a worse time for the Vatican, which is dealing with sex abuse charges filed in Melbourne against Australia's top-ranking Roman catholic official Cardinal George Pell, who is also the Vatican's top finance person.

Venezuelan government supporters stormed the conservative-controlled legislature and brawled with opposition lawmakers.  Five people were hurt.

Hawaii Five-O actor Daniel Dae Kim has finally broken his silence about his departure along with co-star Grace Park from the show.  The two Asian-American leads were being paid 15 percent less than white cast mates Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan, despite being with the show from the beginning of its seven-year run - and producers weren't about remedy the situation.  "The path to equality is rarely easy," Kim wrote on his Facebook page.  He moves on to a medical drama on the American ABC network, and Ms. Park might reveal her plans when she reunites with her former Battlestar Galactica co-stars at Comic-Com International later this month.