Good Morning Australia! - "Da Mooch" is already out of the White House - General Kelly is brought over to deal with general dysfunction and general disorder - Trump's other General spews threatening rhetoric against Venezuela - Sam Sherpard is dead - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Not only was the White House's new Communications Director sacked after only a few days on the job, but Anthony Scaramucci was escorted off the White House grounds.  Scaramucci was brought in above spokesman Sean Spicer, causing him to quit.  But in the scant few days of his tenure, Scaramucci went on a foul-mouthed tirade to a New Yorker Magazine reporter (in which he said the word "c*ck" three times.. who does that?) and threatened to fire practically everybody except Donald Trump.  His behavior led fellow Republicans to openly speculate if he was one drugs.  Scaramucci also faced serious questions about the sale of his investment firm Skybridge Capital to Chinese interests.  Oh, and then there was the specter of a messy, messy divorce and skipping the birth of his twin sons.

This came on the first day of new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former US Marine four-star general who was moved over from Homeland Security to replace Reince Priebus, who quit because he was being mauled by Scaramucci.  The White House says everyone else in the administration - including Trump's daughter Ivanka and her annoying preppy husband Jared Kushner - will report to Kelly, and Kelly will report to Trump.  We'll see how long that lasts.  Late in the day, CNN reported that Kelly was not a fan of the firing earlier this year of FBI Director James Comey for failing to halt the investigation into Russian influence over Trump's 2016 presidential campaign - so let's wait and see how Trump reacts to that.

While trying to avoid the subject of bloodletting and chaos in the West Wing, the Trump administration branded Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro "a dictator" and frozen any US assets.  This is after the weekend's controversial poll to elect a constituent assembly that will likely rewrite the constitution.  So, if you're keeping track:  Trump (who lost to Hillary Clinton by 2.9 million votes but still became president because of a US constitutional quirk that gives too much power to former slave states) says Maduro (who WON his elections) is anti-democratic.  Okay, then.  US National Security Adviser HR McMaster unfairly compared Maduro to Syria's Bashar al-Assad, North Korea's Kim Jong-un, and Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.  Insanity, but the US wants that Venezuelan oil.

US Vice President Mike Pence is visiting the Baltic states and reassuring them that the US will honor its NATO commitments of mutual defense.  Speaking in Estonia, Pence said Russia is the region's biggest security threat and made clear:  "An attack on one of us is an attack on us all."  Trump has repeatedly hinted that he doesn't necessarily support NATO mutual defense agreement.

Trump's pals in the Kremlin are threatening Poland not to remove any World War II memorials that mark the Soviet contribution to defeating Hitler.  This, after Poland's right-wing government updated its "de-Communization" legislation, banning "totalitarian" symbols.  This would put the Soviet Hammer and Sickle in the same category as the nazi swastika.  Many Poles consider the Soviet liberation of Poland from the nazis to be replacing one occupying force with another.

China is rejecting Trump's criticism that it isn't doing enough to solve the North Korean nuclear stand-off.  "Beijing needs a more cooperative partner in the White House, not one who piles blame on China for the United States' failures," said the state-run Xinhua News Agency.  The US over the weekend flew B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force after North Korea's latest missile test. 

Qatar is protesting to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the economic and diplomatic boycott by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and a handful of other Arab states.  The move would force negotiations to end the blockade - if a resolution isn't found in 60 days, the dispute would go to a WTO-appointed panel.  The Gulf states cut off relations with their neighbor Qatar on 5 June over alleged sponsorship of terrorism (but really is about shutting down the Al Jazeera news network). 

A week before Kenya's national election, the country's head of electronic voting has been killed.  The bodies of a woman and electoral commission IT manager Chris Msando were found on the outskirts of Nairobi.  "There was no doubt he was tortured and murdered," said an election official.  Last week, a man with a machete stormed the home of the country's vice president and killed a police officer.

Nigerian police arrested around 40 men under the country's harsh anti-LGBT laws.  Most occurred in Lagos.  Homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria, as are gay marriages.

US playwright and Oscar-nominated actor Sam Shepard is dead at age 73 after a lengthy battle with MND, which is called ALS or "Lou Gehrig's Disease" in the US.  He wrote more than 40 plays and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for "Buried Child" in 1979.  Shepard portrayed legendary US test pilot Chuck Yaeger in 1983's "The Right Stuff" and starred in films like "Thunderheart" and "Black Hawk Down" as well as co-writing 1984's "Paris, Texas".  Most recently, he played the patriarch on the TV series "Bloodline".