Good Morning Australia!! - Malcolm makes plans to exit - The Trump-McCain feud continues after death - Germany's far-right problem turns violent - A scathing report points fingers in Myanmar's Rohingya "genocide" - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull will resign his parliament seat on Friday, and trigger a by-election in the Wentworth constituency.  Tony Abbott's sister, Christine Forster, intends to run to replace Turnbull - but the front-runner is said to be businessman and former Australian ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma.  Labor has pre-selected investment analyst Tim Murray to contest the by-election, the date of which will be set after Mr. Turnbull makes his resignation official.

The White House has once again lowered its flag to half-staff to honor the late Senator John McCain - and only under immense public pressure, including from the influential veterans group The American Legion.  After it was announced that McCain had died over the weekend, the White House was the last official building to lower its flag.  But on Monday morning, the flag was hoisted all the way up again, instead of remaining at a respectful half-staff until the funeral - as is the custom with the deaths of sitting lawmakers.  It stayed up for hours as pundits from both sides within the US mainstream media blasted Trump for his pettiness.  A feud between Trump and McCain was largely of Trump's own making, stemming from 2015 when he belittled McCain's military service, saying:  "He's a war hero because he was captured.  I like people who weren't captured."  McCain gets the last laugh, however, because Trump is not invited to his funeral.

A UN report accuses Myanmar's military of "genocide" against the Rohingya Muslim Minority and is demanding leaders be put on trial before the International Criminal Court.  Six generals are singled out for responsibility for "the gravest crimes under international law" commited by their troops in Rakhine state.  After interviewing 875 witnesses, the UN investigators determined soldiers were "killing indiscriminately, gang-raping women, assaulting children and burning entire villages".  Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, gets off easy in the report:  It says she failed to use "her de facto position as head of government, nor her moral authority, to stem or prevent the unfolding events in Rakhine state."

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is blasting far-right rioters and vowing that "vigilante justice" will not be tolerated in Chemnitz.  On Sunday, a 35-year old German man was stabbed to death; police arrested and charged a 23-year-old Syrian and a 22-year-old Iraqi.  But all hell broke loose on Monday, with hundreds of far-right thugs incongruously gathering under the disapproving gaze of the city's giant sculpture of Karx Marx (a leftover from pre-unification) and some breaking off into smaller groups to "hunt down" immigrants. 
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Police were accused of losing control of the situation, and at the very least ignoring open displays of naziism which are illegal in Germany. 
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Merkel's office said the far-right violence "has no place in our cities and we, as the German government, condemn it in the strongest terms. Our basic message for Chemnitz and beyond is that there is no place in Germany for vigilante justice, for groups that want to spread hatred on the streets, for intolerance and for extremism."

But the problems in Chemnitz had been brewing for years, and started boiling over after 2015 when Ms. Merkel allowed around a million refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia to stay during the migration crisis.  A former East German region that unlike the West remained economically depressed after the end of the Cold war, Chemnitz's reaction was to give birth to the anti-immigration Pegida movement.  The surrounding state, Saxony, has as many voters for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party as it does for Chancellor Merkel's mainstream Christian Democrats.  Anti-immigrant violence in Chemnitz is higher than the rest of Germany, and its police force spent much of last week denying it had been infiltrated by the far-right after a civilian employee was revealed to be a Pegida member.

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The European Union "can no longer rely on the United States for its security," said French President Emmanuel Macron in a speech to diplomats and lawmakers.  He's planning to unveil proposals in the coming months to "take new initiatives" and "build new alliances" for Europe to take over its own security.  Macron's remarks come as Donald Trump continues to question Washington's commitment to NATO, grousing over an inaccurate interpretation of the alliance's budget that claims the US pays far more for defense than other member states.