Good Morning Australia!! - Overwhelmingly negative reviews for Trump's fawning summit with Putin - A Thailand Cave hero might fight back after being smeared by a billionaire - France hails the conquering heroes - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

It's difficult to describe the incredibly shocked, disgusted, and appalled reactions in America and throughout the Western world to Donald Trump's performance after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.  Trump clearly and unequivocally stated he trusted the word of Vladimir Putin over US intelligence agencies, which just last week indicted twelve Russian spies for meddling with the 2016 presidential election.  "I don't see a reason why it would be" Russia that hacked rival Democratic Party computers, Trump said in the same news conference that Putin made it clear he was in favor of Trump winning that election.

Disappointment, for Australians hoping that Trump would "shirt front" Putin about the deaths of 38 Aussies in the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 by a Russian missile two years ago, an unprovoked attack that cost a total of 298 lives. 
Trump Didn't Talks About This
Trump apparently didn't bring it up.  Nor did he speak up for the UK, where a woman is dead from a nerve agent Novichok associated only with Russian intelligence; her partner sickened in the same incident, which followed the attempted assassination of a Russian spy and his daughter nearby. 

An Associated Press reporter asked Putin about the existence of incriminating or embarrassing information that Russian intelligence might have on Trump.  And yes, we're talking about "that" videotape about which many have speculated.  Putin didn't deny it.

There are whispers from US allies about the need for "a new world order", not the one of the conspiracy theories of the 1990s.  CNN's International Correspondent Will Ripley reported that "a Senior Western diplomat calls Trump's comments with Putin 'devastating' and 'pathetic'."  A German official preferring to remain anonymous told CNN the press conference was "frightening" and that for the first time since 1948 Germany would have to come up with a national strategy that views the US as an adversary instead of a partner.  That's a huge step further away from what German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said publicly just hours before the Trump-Putin Summit: "To maintain our partnership with the USA we must readjust it," Maas said, "The first clear consequence can only be that we need to align ourselves even more closely in Europe." 

Other than that, there was deafening silence from France, the UK, Japan, and Canada.  And members of Trump's own staff were silent - no one rushed out with tweets to massage the record or present an alternative view of what an astounded world witnessed with its own eyes.  One troubled White House official who had direct involvement with the Helsinki Summit spoke anonymously to CNN, saying: "This was not the plan."

In Washington, Republican leaders condemned Trump's comments in various degrees.  US Senator John McCain called Trump's summit in Helsinki a "tragic mistake", and that "no prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant".  House Speaker Paul Ryan said, "The United States must be focused on holding Russia accountable and putting an end to its vile attacks on democracy."  Senate Foreign relations chair Sen. Bob Corker said Vladimir Putin is celebrating and "having caviar" and that Trump's conduct "made us look as a nation more like a pushover".  One major problem:  The strongest Republican party voices against Trump are lame ducks who are not running for reelection this year.  They're getting out of Dodge.

Given the chance to confront Vladimir Putin over the downing of MH17, deadly spy games in the UK, and election meddling in the US, Trump chose to lie down before Putin and badmouth his own allies and intelligence agencies on foreign soil.  And that is not sitting well with former CIA Director John Brennan calling Trump's performance "nothing short of treasonous" that "rises to and exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes and misdemeanors'," imploring, "Republican Patriots: Where are you???"  Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Trump "failed America today" and that it was a "sad day for the world".  

Anyway...

Members of the punk-protest group Pussy Riot will spend 15 days in jail for interrupting the World Cup final game over the weekend by running on to the pitch while dressed as cops.
High Fives
The protesters said they were trying to remind the world that the host of the World Cup, Vladimir Putin, has a dismal human rights record which includes presiding over the silencing political opponents, the deaths of journalists, looting the national economy, and killing 298 people including 38 Australians in the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.

For a change it wasn't a rail strike bringing Paris to a standstill, but the World Cup 2018 champion Blues parading through the French capital before hundreds of thousands of fans. 
Paris
Military jets honored the players and the coach by trailing smoke in French red, white and blue, as they rode down the Champs Elysees in an open-top double-decker bus.

One of the heroes who helped rescue twelve Thai boys and their football coach from a flooded cave is considering suing billionaire Elon Musk after being labelled a "pedo guy".  Vern Unsworth helped bring in top international cave rescue experts for the mission, and used his knowledge of the cave to help guide the teams to the boys, who were brought out by divers.  Elon Musk showed up with a prototype submarine he hoped would help the effort, but the rescuers rejected this.  Unsworth said the mini-sub had "absolutely no chance of working" because of the small size of the cave's passages and suggested Musk was grandstanding for attention, which apparently offended Musk.  The Tesla chief later deleted the tweets - which were sent to his more than 22 million followers - and is yet to publicly respond to the outcry.