Hello Australia!! - Tillerson goes to Moscow - Chechnya's concentration camp for gays - A man is beaten and dragged off a United Airlines plane, the carrier is feeling the backlash in its stock - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A Borussia Dortmund footballer was injured when three explosions went off near the team's bus in Hoechsten.  26-year old Spanish international player player Marc Bartra was injured in the hand, was taken to hospital for treatment, and released.  Borussia Dortmund tweeted that the other players were safe and there was no danger at the stadium, which has now been evacuated.  The team's first-leg match with Monaco was postponed until Wednesday night.  Authorities say a letter found near the bus "took responsibility for the act".

The Russian republic of Chechnya is effectively running a concentration camp for gay men some 20 kilometers outside the regional capital Grozny, after reports of LGBT round-ups leaked out of the area a week ago.  "Torture is going on with electric shocks, beatings with cables. All the people arrested are homosexual men or perceived as being gay," said Natalia Poplevskaya of the Russian LGBT Network, which is trying to evacuate people who want to get out of Chechnya.  International LGBT campaigners are urging US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to press Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet this week, and are asking US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley to condemn Chechnya's actions.  Amnesty International, meanwhile, launched a petition of its own, demanding that Chechnya to "stop abducting and killing" gay men.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin about Syria, and their public positions show a vast divide.  Tillerson accused Russia of trying to "cover up" Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's role in a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of his own citizens, followed by a US retaliatory missile attack on a Syrian air base.  "The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end," said Tillerson earlier at the G7 summit in Italy, while expressing concern over the impact Assad's exit could have on Syrian unity.  Delegates at that G7 summit failed to agree to economic sanctions against Russia, with some members preferring more engagement with the Kremlin before lowering the boom.

But Russian President Vladimir Putin hardened his support for his ally in the Mideast, claiming its opponents planned false-flag chemical weapon attacks to justify further US missile strikes:  "It reminds me of the events in 2003 when US envoys to the security council were demonstrating what they said were chemical weapons found in Iraq," Putin said in his first public remarks about the chemical weapons attack in Syria, "We have seen it all already." Turkey said its investigation showed that sarin gas was used in the chemical weapons attack on the rebel-held village of Khan Sheikhun, and the US says the Russian-made Syrian air force Su-22 warplane from the al Shaybat air base carried it out.

The G7 didn't just fail to reach consensus on Syria; representatives of the world's seven wealthiest countries also couldn't a common statement on climate change.  The US administration of fascist demagogue and climate change denier Donald Trump blocked action by claiming it needed more time to work out its policies.  Trump has been busy trying to undo his predecessor president Barack Obama's clean energy policies.  Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Europe would "respect everyone's opinion on the matter but it would not accept making any steps backward with respect to the strategic choices made on climate change".

Meanwhile, North Korea and the orange clown are taunting each other like nine-year olds with their own nuclear arsenals.  State-run media in Pyongyang threatened the US with a nuclear attack if the North any sign of aggression from a US Navy strike group steamed toward the western Pacific.  During his morning opioid-hardened BM tweet storm, Trump said North Korea is "looking for trouble" and the United States will somehow "solve the problem" with or without China's help.  North Korea has conducted five nuclear weapon tests and there is speculation that something similar might be planned around Saturday's 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the country's founding father and grandfather of current ruler, Kim Jong Un.

Shares in United Airlines plunged some US$950 Million after people saw the disturbing video of a 69-year old doctor being forcibly removed from his pre-paid airline seat to make room for a United Airlines employee.  United dropped as much as 4.3 percent, or US$3.10 per share.  United Continental CEO Oscar Munoz took a lot of heat for his Orewellian apology for the violent assault, using the phrase "re-accommodate" instead of the more accurate "lifted a man out of his seat by a now-suspended cop who dropped his face into a armrest causing blood to spill, and finally dragging him along the floor like a rag doll as he cried out". 

But here's why Mr. Munoz might be in even bigger trouble that he thinks:  The video of Dr. David Dao being manhandled has gotten more than 340 million hits on Chinese social media, and there is a growing belief - probably incorrect, but growing nonetheless - that he was targeted because he is Asian.  United got about 14 percent of its 2016 revenue from flying Pacific routes.  That's not very good math for Oscar Munoz or United Airlines, nor is the fact that Dr. Dao retained the high powered Chicago law firm of Corboy and Demetrio.  United might want to settle quickly.