Good Morning Australia!! - Markets put their hopes on Hillary Clinton - China throws a roadblock before Hong Kong separatists - A German yachtsman is kidnapped at sea for a second time - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A day before the US presidential election, the US Dollar rose on word that the FBI decided that U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will not face criminal charges, which was seen as a boost to her chances of beating Republican dumpster fire rival Donald Trump.  "It’s all the election.  It’s all the Comey letter," said Joseph Trevisani of Worldwide Markets in New Jersey, referring to FBI Director James Comey who cleared Mrs. Clinton for a second time against Republican fever swamp conspiracy theories.  It was also good news for the Mexican Peso, which had been under pressure because of Trump's bigoted stance on immigration, foreign policy and trade.

The country that has an orange fascist within a hog's breath of becoming president says it is "concerned" over the reelection of Nicaraguan president Danny Ortega to a third consecutive term.  His wife Rosario Murillo is expected to become vice-president.  Ortega won Sunday's election with more than 72 percent of the vote, and his nearest rival got only 14 percent.  And while that might raise eyebrows - especially since Ortega refused international election monitors - the result is close to pre-election polling.  

The first female Attorney General of the United States Janet Reno died at age 78.  Ms. Reno oversaw the prosecutions and convictions of white male terrorist Timothy McVeigh who blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building, and Unabomber Ted Kaczinski who baffled law enforcers for years with his mail bombs.  Her tenure in the Clinton Administration of the 1990s also included the siege at the Branch Davidian cult of child molesters and drug fiends in Waco, Texas, and the return of Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez to his custodial parent in Cuba.  Ms. Reno's cause of death is complications from Parkinson's disease, which was diagnosed in 1995.

China's Communist Party issued a stern warning to Hong Kong separatists not to overplay their hand.  Beijing blocked two pro-democracy lawmakers from taking office, invoking a clause in Hong Kong's constitution to require all lawmakers, senior civil servants, and judicial officers to pledge allegiance to China.  Pro-independence elected lawmakers Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching refuse to take that oath.  The two activists were victorious in the city's first election since the pro-democracy "Umbrella Protests" of 2014 that stirred up more civil unrest than China has seen in a long, long time. 

Philippine Abu Sayyaf Islamist guerillas kidnapped a German yachtsman and probably killed his wife off Laparan Island in southern Sulu Province.  The body of a woman was found on the boat, and the passports left on board named Jurgen Kantner and his wife Sabine Merz.  If those names are familiar, it's because they were kidnapped by Somali pirates off eastern Africa in 2008, and held for 52 days before being released.  After the ordeal Mr. Kantner said, "My boat is my life and I don't want to lose her," and, "I don't care about pirates and governments."  Abu Sayyaf aren't just pirates - they're hardcore killers known to behead their prisoners.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has resigned as leader of Ukraine's Odessa region, accusing his old boss president Petro Poroshenko of supporting corrupt local officials who were undermining his reform efforts.  Poroshenko appointed Saakashvili the governor of Odessa in May 2015, with a mandate to fight corruption in the key port city made famous almost a century earlier in the Soviet Epic Film "Battleship Potemkin" and its famous "Odessa Steps" sequence.  Some see Saakashvili staying in Ukraine, where he is now a citizen, and starting a radical anti-corruption political party.