Good Morning Australia!! - Austria dodges a bullet - Obama approved arms sales to a former enemy - A woman who escaped Boko Haram explains how the terrorist group's victims are forced to become suicide bombers - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Austria's far right was thwarted by less than one percentage point in the alpine nation's presidential election.  Independent leftist and former Green Party leader Alexander Van der Bellen came out with 50.3 percent of the vote, very narrowly preventing the so-called Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer from becoming the European Union's first far-right head of state.  Hofer campaigned on stopping immigration and blocking Muslim refugees, bashing the EU, and freely sporting symbols that invoked Austria's nazi past.  Mr. Van der Bellen is the first environmental activist to become Austrian president.

The UK is granting asylum to ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, who was convicted on trumped-up terrorism charges last year but allowed to travel to London for medical treatment.  The former human rights campaigner and environmentalist became the Maldives first democratically-elected leader in 2008, but was arrested on bogus charges in 2013 amid a police and military mutiny.  Mr. Nasheed became well-known in Western circles for campaigning to stop global warming, which he correctly noted causes rises sea levels that will adversely harm island nations like the Maldives.

Scammers took the equivalent of AU$19 Million from ATM machines across Japan, using data stolen from South Africa's Standard Bank.  Police suspect more than 100 people were involved in the coordinated effort, targeting machines at 7-11 conveniences stores which are more welcoming to foreign ATM cards than most in the country.  Cops also say it happened in a three hour window on 15 May; each person withdrew the maximum of 100,000 Yen and moved on to another stores.  Standard bank called the scam "sophisticated", but added that customers won't suffer any losses.  Police in both countries are now working with Interpol to examine security video and identify potential suspects.

US President Barack Obama is lifting the US arms embargo on Vietnam, which he referred to as a "lingering vestige of the Cold War".  On a visit to Hanoi before the G7 summit in Japan, Mr. Obama said, "It's based on our desire to complete what has been a lengthy process of moving towards normalization with Vietnam."  The US President denies it has anything to do with the common interest of the US and Vietnam in containing China's expansionist claims in the South China Sea.

A Nigerian woman has a harrowing tale of almost being forced to become a suicide bomber for the terrorist group Boko Haram.  30-year old mother of three Khadija Ibrahim was abducted while waiting for a bus in Maiduguri when two men put a cloth with some chloroform like substance over her nose.  But she woke up in the back of their car, overhearing them talking about doing "god's work", and realizing they strapped an explosive to her.  When the car overheated and the men were distracted, she bolted to safety.  Police are looking for the car because it was also involved in abducting a 15-year old girl. 

Islamic State is claiming responsibility for a series of car and suicide bombings that killed scores of people in two Syrian government strongholds.  The combined death toll is being variously reported as 78 to more than 140 lives lost.  These occurred in bus stations in the port city of Tartous and in the northern city Jableh - both had pretty much escaped the worst of the Syrian Civil war until now. 

Another pair of IS suicide bombings killed more 40 people - mostly police recruits - in the Yemeni city of Aden and a nearby military base.

A meeting between the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party and the German Muslim Council broke up after less than an hour.  The AfD told the group that Islam "did not belong to Germany", and the Muslim Council accused the AfD of being a party "from the Third Reich".  The German government on Monday said there was a 35 percent rise in right wing extremist crimes in 2015 over the previous year; the 23,000 reported incidents involve everything from racist and anti-Semitic graffiti to violent attacks.

A third climber has died on Mount Everest, and two of his climbing companions are missing.  All three men are from India.  This follows the death of Dr. Maria Strydom of Melbourne and a Dutch climber over the weekend.  Each had made it to the summit, but succumbed to altitude sickness on the way down.  Dr. Strydom's husband suffered a high-altitude pulmonary edema, and is lucky to be alive.  He's been evacuated to Kathmandu, but it's questionable whether the bodies of Strydom or the other two will ever be recovered:  "Everest is a killer," said Gropel's uncle Kurt Gropel to Fairfax Media.  "There are 200 corpses up there that decorate the path.  They are all people who thought they could go up and down."