Good Morning Australia!! - An Australian company is first to grab a piece of Mexico's privatized oil exploration plans - Poland seeks to restrict the people's right to assembly - A mistrial for a white cop caught on video murdering a black man - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Australia's BHP Billiton won a historic bid to join with Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in the Trion oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, the first of eleven deep water blocs to be auctioned off on Monday.  BHP Billiton beat out British Petroleum to be the first private partner in exploration and production under Mexico’s 2013 opening of the oil industry.  Billiton will have 60 percent of the project and Pemex 40 percent.  Meanwhile, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed decrees creating four new protected biological reserves.  These will be in the country's Pacific Islands, the Mountains of Tamaulipas, the Mexican Deep Pacific, and the Mexican Caribbean - but not the Gulf, where the oil drilling will occur.

The British government went before the Supreme Court to appeal last month's High Court ruling that MPs must be consulted before triggering Brexit.  But the Supreme Court warned the government that its ruling would be about law, not politics.  The government's lawyer says earlier legal ruling was wrong, arguing that parliament had accepted before the referendum that ministers would use executive "prerogative" powers to implement its result.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls formally launched his bid for president, stepping down from his post to concentrate on uniting the Socialists and the Left in next month's party primary.  The 54-year-old said he was a "lucid" leader with experience to face authoritarian leaders in China, Russia, Turkey, and "the America of Donald Trump".  Valls enjoys higher popularity than current French President and fellow Socialist Francois Hollande, who will not run for reelection.

European Human Rights officials are sounding the alarm about legislation in Poland that would limit freedom of assembly.  The crazy right-wing government wants to give preference to official rallies and those organized by the powerful Roman Catholic church, to the detriment of other groups.  This comes after massive demonstrations that forced the government to back off of plans to outlaw Women's Reproductive Rights.  Nils Muiznieks of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights says the amendments "would restrict unnecessarily and in a disproportionate way the possibility for a large part of the population to enjoy their human right to freedom of assembly".

Prosecutors in Argentina accuse two Roman Catholic priests of abusing at least 22 children at a school for the deaf in northwestern Mendoza province.  The victims are now in their twenties, and were finally able to tell authorities of the abuse via interpreters.  Two priests, aged 82 and 55, were arrested with three other men last week.  The older priest - Nicola Corradi - was already accused of sexually abusing deaf children in Italy, but was allowed to move to Argentina.

A Judge in North Carolina, USA declared a mistrial in the trial of a white police officer who was very clearly caught on video shooting an unarmed black man in the back, killing him.  It came out over the weekend that one juror - a white male - refused to convict, and had been pegged by other jurors as a troublemaker.  Officer Michael Slager shot and killed Walter Scott when he attempted to run away from a traffic stop, but didn't know that a witness was behind a tree recording the evil deed to video.  Slager is not out of trouble:  Local prosecutors could still refile charges, and Slager still faces Federal Civil Rights charges.