Good Morning Australia!! - Comey confirms some of the worst reports about Trump - IS attacks the Iranian capital for the first time - The conflict between Gulf state allies appears to be based on Russian lies - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Former US FBI director James Comey is giving a very detailed preview of what lawmakers will be hearing when he testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee when Thursday rolls around to Washington, DC.  In a seven-page preview, Comey is confirming reports that Trump asked him to stop the investigation into Russia's influence on the Trump campaign and fired National Security Adviser Mike Flynn's Russian connections.  Comey will also confirm reports that Trump demanded his personal loyalty, rather than loyalty to the US Constitution and adherence to rule of law.  Trump referred to the Russia investigation as a "cloud" over him.  Trump has denied these claims as they were anonymously leaked earlier, but Comey's case is supported by his copious note-taking and conversations with other FBI officials.

The so-called Islamic State staged its first attack in Tehran, Iran, killing at least twelve people at the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's mausoleum.  Gunmen attacked Parliament with Kalashnikov rifles as people, including children, fled;  the mausoleum attack began with a suicide bombing caught on video and attackers armed with rifles and grenades.  While the Sunni fundamentalist group IS warned of further attacks on the largest Shiite nation, Iran's Revolutionary guard blamed the US and Saudi Arabia, claiming that last week's meeting of Trump and Saudi King Salman "shows they are involved in this savage action". 

United Arab Emirates is showing its dedication to free speech and justice by threatening anyone who speaks in defense of Qatar with 15 years in jail, turning up the heat in the Gulf States crisis.  The US FBI believes that Russian hackers sent out fake messages attributed the Qatari government, fooling Saudi Arabia and other Arab states into cutting off diplomatic and trade relations; the Kremlin denies it.  Trump is now offering to help negotiate a solution to the crisis, even though he had earlier taken credit for the rift between his allies and put the US on the Saudi side of a fake conflict - apparently ignorant of the fact the US having more than 10,000 troops stations in Qatar.  Turkey is also offering to broker a truce, but taking advantage of the chaos by approving a bill to station more troops in Qatar, supporting its government. 

Iraqi Kurds have scheduled an independence referendum on 24 September.  Baghdad didn't immediately comment, but in the past have urged the Kurds - who are culturally and politically far more Leftist than the rest of the region - not to hold such a vote.  The Kurdish Peshmerga, with Western help, have proven to be the most effective fighting force against the terrorists of the so-called Islamic State.

The UK's election is today.  Voters will choose between Labour's Jeremy Corbyn and his plan for greater spending on health, education, and social commonwealth; and the Conservatives' Theresa May and her plan for more fox hunts, legalizing some ivory trading, and tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

Brazil's Superior Electoral Court is delaying a vote on invalidating the presidency of Michel Temer, giving the unelected leader a lifeline of at least a few more days.  Instead, the panel scheduled three more days of sessions to investigate claims that the 2014 presidential election was illegally finance.  Temer was the running mate in that contest, and the top of the ticket Dilma Rousseff was impeached last year (over accounting irregularities that aren't illegal), allowing him to usurp without the people's approval.  "If" the 2014 election is found to be the product of unlawful campaign financing, Temer could lose the presidency, too.

Eight people are dead in terrible storms in South Africa, including a family of four who died in a house fire caused by lightning. 
Rain in Cape Town, South Africa
Tree Down in Cape Town
Cape Town's worst winter storm in three decades also ended a drought that was declared two weeks ago.

A Myanmar military plane with 120 people is missing over the Andaman Strait.  The Chinese-made Y8 transporter was carrying 106 military personnel and family members, plus 14 crewmembers.  Debris has been spotted in the water.

Cops in Hiroshima caught Japan's longest-running fugitive.  Communist radical Masaaki Osaka has been on the run for 45 years, since he alleged murdered a Tokyo police officer during a protest by bludgeoning the cop with a pipe and setting him on fire.  Japan used to be a very, very different place than it is now.  No other fugitive has spent longer evading arrest in Japan, which has no statute of limitations on murder.

The worst cops in the world were caught on their own video recording devices viciously mocking a young woman with Down Syndrome.  Pamela Munoz of Toronto, Canada had requested their bodycam and squad car video to contest a traffic ticket for allegedly running a red light.  When she watched it, she saw the officers referring to her 29-year old daughter Francie as "half" a person and "disfigured".  "We can't have policemen acting in this way, they should be held to a higher standard of conduct and compassion," said Mrs. Munoz.  Instead of firing the two, the chief made them apologize to the Munoz family.