Good Morning Australia!! - The Saudis seem to admit that they killed a dissident journalist - Doctors crank up pressure on Morrison - Why Trump might owe a Senator a million dollars - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Breaking News this morning, CNN is reporting that the Saudis are changing their story on the apparent killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and will frame his death as the result of an "interrogation gone wrong".  Crucially, the Saudis will absolve Crown Prince Muhammad and his father King Salman, and claim this was a decision made by lower-level officials who will be held accountable (ahem cough cough skapegoat cough cough fallguy ahem).  This is a complete turnaround from Saudi Arabia's previous vehement denials of killing Mr. Khashoggi, and claims that he left the consulate in Istanbul alive and on his own power.

Just hours earlier, Donald Trump had a phone conversation with Saudi King Salman and then suggested that "rogue killers" murdered Khashoggi, who is/was a legal US resident and columnist on international affairs for the Washington Post.  "The king firmly denied any knowledge of it," Trump said to reporters, "He didn't really know, maybe, I don't want to get into his mind but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers, who knows?"  The Saudis undercut their ally Trump by changing their story within hours.

What could have changed the Saudis' tune?  Overnight, a Turkish crime scene investigation unit searched the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul to investigate the disappearance of Khashoggi, who was seen entering the building on 2 October but not leaving.  A cleaning crew was observed entering the consulate hours before the Turks arrived.  The Turkish investigators were accompanied by Saudi chaperones.  But it is not known what the Turkish crime scene investigators found; earlier, Turkey said it has audio and video evidence showing that a Saudi hit team tortured, killed, and dismembered the prominent critic of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad.

Economic pressure is pretty important, too.  Major global financial bosses announced they were pulling out of a big Saudi economic conference over the Khashoggi affair:  J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Ford Motor Chairman Bill Ford, and Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga all pulled out of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), also known as "Davos in the Desert," which is scheduled for 23-25 October.  Most major media outlets pulled out last week. 

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Nearly 6,000 paediatricians have signed a letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison to demand that children in detention immediately removed from Nauru.  "This is the only situation I've come across where it is deliberate government policy which is causing the pain and suffering of these children," said Australian Medical Association paediatric representative Dr Paul Bauert, who has treated patients on Nauru.  "The situation for children on Nauru is a humanitarian emergency requiring urgent intervention and removal of all these children and their families to medical treatment in Australia," he continued.  Mr. Morrison last month rebuffed the AMA, saying he would "not put at risk any element of Australia's border protection policy".

PM Morrison said he'd consider moving Australia's Embassy to Israel to the disputed city of Jerusalem, following the US.  This announcement happened after Morrison held a meeting with Dave Sharma, the former Australian Ambassador to Israel who is the Liberal Party's candidate in the all-important Wentworth by-election this weekend.  The ABC reports that nearly 13 percent of voters in Wentworth are Jewish, and the Government needs to every vote it can to win that seat and maintain its one-seat majority in the Lower House.

The Israeli military opened fire on protesters on the beach on northern Gaza near the border, injuring at least 32 people.  Hamas, which runs Gaza, has been staging a six month campaign of border protests to pressure Israel and Egypt to ease a crippling economic blockade. So far, it's not working.

The Russian Orthodox Church is severing ties with the leader of the worldwide Orthodox community Patriarch Bartholomew I, after his decision to grant Ukrainian clerics independence from Moscow.  The Ukrainian Orthodox have called for independence from the Russian Orthodox Church since the Russian invasion in 2014.  The Istanbul-based global Orthodox churches collectively represent 300 million people, but around half of them are members of the Russian church, making this one of the biggest schisms in Christian history.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren has released results of a DNA test that proves that she does indeed have some Native American ancestry.  Under no circumstances would this be interesting, if it weren't for Donald Trump - who for years had claimed Warren was lying (she wasn't) and mocked her with the racist use of the name "Pocahontas".  During a rally in July, Trump also said he'd pay her US$1 Million if she could prove she was an "Indian", again, not exactly the most enlightened term.  Trump today denied making the offer.  Elizabeth Warren is star on the Left of the US Democratic Party and is widely seen as a possible presidential contender in 2020.

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