Good Morning Australia!! - A humiliating scandal slams the UK government, raising important questions about honesty and competence - Saudi Arabia's corruption crackdown impacts the Murdoch clan - Germany creates a third gender - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The UK's international development secretary Priti Patel quit under intense pressure after unauthorized meetings with Israeli government officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  After the meetings in August, Ms. Patel returned to the UK and sought financial aid for Israeli military operations in the Golan Heights, which Britain has officially viewed as an illegal occupation ever since the 1967 war.  Patel made the situation worse with conflicting statements about what Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson knew about her meetings and when they knew it - they both deny wrongdoing.  UK Labour said Ms. Patel is either "lying" or "incompetent", and is demanding to know more about Number 10's involvement, while pols and journos across the board are wondering why May waited for Patel to resign rather than sacking her.

Demoting the once rising star is the latest blow to the credibility of UK PM May's beleaguered government.  Already under fire for appearing to botch the Brexit negotiations, there's also a good old fashioned British sex scandal chewing through Whitehall.  Defense Secretary Michael Fallon resigned on 1 November after sexual harassment allegations against him emerged.  Deputy PM Damian Green is facing a civil service investigation after a young Tory activist accused him of unwanted gropings and text messages.

And then there's wild-haired buffoon Boris Johnson.  The UK Foreign Minister was forced to apologize for shooting off his mouth, and saying that a young British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Iran had been training journalists there.  The family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe insists she was on vacation - and they accuse Johnson of putting her at risk of a longer prison sentence with his misleading comments.  Johnson says he's willing to meet with them, and hopefully not to screw things up even further.

Hard to see how or why this trainwreck continues without demands for fresh elections.  ANYWAY..

Saudi Arabian authorities have made fresh arrests and frozen more bank accounts in a widening expanding anti-corruption crackdown on the oil kingdom's political and business elite.  Those on the receiving end of the purge claim it is nothing more than a power grab by the powerful heir to the throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  One of those arrested last week - Prince Alwaleed bin Talal - has quietly sold off his US$1.5 Billion stake in Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, depriving the Murdoch clan of a key ally in preserving its control over the media empire.

Thousands of pro-independence protesters blocked trains and roads in Catalonia, after the Spanish Constitutional Court ruled the Catalan Parliament's independence declaration was illegal.  This impacted more than 60 major highways and national high speed rail lines.  The protesters actually hijacked what was supposed to be a smaller strike of a group of pro-independence labor unions with various work issues.

Germany's Constitutional Court is ordering the government to create a legal framework for a "third gender" for intersex people who do not identify as either male or female or are born with an ambiguous sexual anatomy.  The case was brought by a registered female whose chromosome test confirmed they were neither one sex nor the other.

The orange clown administration is putting back stupid old Cold War restrictions on Americans' ability to interact with Cuba.  The measures include a ban on dealings with 180 state-run and military-owned companies, including 83 hotels and several businesses, and even bans staying with private families. 

Indian officials put out a health warning about the extra-thick and chunky air around New Delhi.  It's a combination of smoke and pollution from crop burning, factories, and automobiles that concentrates around this time each year from central Pakistan throughout northern India, stretching practically all the way to the Bay of Bengal to the east.  A high pressure zone over the area means no wind or rain, and no relief.

Six primary school children in Tanzania were killed playing with a grenade they had found.  It's believe the grenade might have been abandoned by any of a number of soldiers from the conflict in neighboring Burundi who came across to escape the fighting.  Tanzania's kagera district is often a transit point in the illicit trade in weapons.