Good Morning Australia!! - Is it worthwhile to trust Trump on gun-control legislation? - The Oxfam sex scandal now involves witness intimidation - A thumb could put an American in jail for a long time - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The White House says Donald Trump is "supportive" of a bipartisan bill proposal to increase background checks for people who want to purchase guns in America.  The statement didn't come from Trump's mouth, nor was it an explicit endorsement of the legislation written by Democratic Senator and gun-control advocate Chris Murphy with Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn.  The National Rifle Association, which opposes practically all gun control measures, gave about US$11.5 Million to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and spent another US$19 Million just to disparage Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.  The NRA gave Cornyn $9,900 in his most-recent election cycle in 2014 - the most to any Republican senate race that year.  And Trump has a history of changing his mind on an issue several times in a week.

It's feared that children have been among the 17 people killed in Mozambique in a trash dump collapse.  The Hulene dump on the fringes of the capital city Maputo is known to be the home of some of the country's poorest who make a living picking through the garbage, eating what is unspoiled and reselling what they can.  Heavy rain loosened the mounds, some of it 15 meters high.  Usually the government moves people out of the dump before the rainy season begins.

The Red Crescent is contradicting reports that searchers have found wreckage from the Iranian passenger plane crash in the Zagros mountains.  The search as been hampered by awful weather conditions, including blizzards, wind, and fog - not to mention inaccessible, rough terrain.  Authorities say 65 were likely killed with the Aseman Airlines ATR 72-500 twin-engine turboprop crashed in the mountains over the weekend.

Oxfam is admitting that that three of its aid workers accused of sexual misconduct in Haiti had physically threatened witnesses during an internal investigation in 2011.  The agency's report also said that more needed to be done to prevent abusive men from getting jobs with other charities - but despite that acknowledgement, some of the men in the scandal did land softly at other NGOs.  The redacted version of the report was released for public consumption - Oxfam will give the full, uncensored version to Haiti's government.

Hamas blocked a cable TV channel aimed at a female audience, adding to the Islamist group's crappy record on women's rights in the Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean Sea.  Taif TV says it is the first channel of its kind and aims to "shed light on Palestinian women as an integral part of the social fabric, and the role of women in building society".  Hamas claims the channel hadn't obtained the proper licenses, which the channel denied.

Authorities in Philadelphia charged a man with theft for allegedly breaking off and stealing the thumb of a 2,000-year-old Chinese terracotta statue.  24-year old Michael Rohana was attending a party at the Franklin Institute when he wandered off into the Chinese exhibit, which was on loan from Beijing.  Rohona admitted to taking the thumb of the US$4.5 Million statue and keeping it in his desk drawer.  China is not amused, and is calling for the maximum punishment for this tomfoolery.

Sumatra's Mount Sinabung is shooting ash into the air.