Good Morning Australia!! - Aleppo falls - Trump's business interests are allowing foreign despots to pull his strings, and it's not just Putin - Poles stand for Freedom - And the UK Tories just like to tick off people, don't they - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Russia says the fighting in Aleppo is all but over, and Syrian rebels have agreed to abandon their former stronghold to government forces.  It's a significant victory for President Bashar al-Assad, and his Russian and Iranian backers.  This comes as the UN's human rights office said it had reliable evidence that Syrian troops have gone door to door in some areas, killing at least 82 civilians over alleged ties to the rebels.

The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Coptic Cathedral bombing in Cairo over the weekend.  At least 25 people were killed.

A court in Sicily convicted a Tunisian ship captain of causing the deaths of 700 African and South Asian migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea.  Mohammed Ali Malek denied being the captain of the heavily overcrowded boat that sank off Libya after colliding with a merchant vessel in April 2015.  The court sentenced him to 17 years in prison, and handed a five year sentence to a Syrian co-defendant.

Gambian troops seized the country's election authority, after the army chief appeared to switch sides from democracy to long-time strongman President Yahya Jammeh.  This happened as regional West African leaders met with Jammeh to try and convince him to respect the popular vote in the recent election in which he lost to reformer Adama Barrow.  The regional bloc Ecowas says it is "possible" it will send in multi-national forces to keep the peace as the issue of power is worked out.

In "Donald Trump is too conflicted to be US President" news:  A detailed report in Newsweek Magazine hows the conflicts-of-interest that are already tainting the Trump administration, and he hasn't even taken office yet.  Trump has licensed his name to real estate developments in the Philippines and in Turkey, both failing democracies that have strongman-style presidents who are consolidating power.  Rather than risk the project in the Philippines - which would include a store selling Ivanka Trump jewelry - Trump called to congratulate President Rodrigo Duterte on his "war on drugs" which has seen more than 4,500 extra-judicial street killings and has been condemned by most governments and human rights organizations. 

The other case shows how foreign leaders can leverage Trump's business interests to change US policy.  In a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump mentioned the name of a Turkish construction executive working on his project.  A short time later, Erdogan had an associate of the executive arrested for alleged links to Fethulluh Gulen - the US-based Islamic cleric whom Erdogan blames for the failed coup attempt.  Erdogan wants Gulen extradited - and lo and behold, Trump's national security advisor Lt. General Michael Flynn (ret.) said "We should not provide him safe haven" to Gulen - a legal US resident.  Erdogan might have his balls kicked in by a horse, but there's still enough there to repeatedly slap US president-elect Donald Trump's face. 

In "Donald Trump is going to destroy America from within" news, the US pretender-elect has formally nominated Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson as his choice for Secretary of State.  he has no diplomatic experience, but was awarded a Russian friendship medal by Vladimir Putin in 2013.  For Secretary of Energy, the orange clown picked totally macho real-man former Texas governor Rick Perry - who famously flubbed his presidential ambitions by failing to remember the names of the Federal Government departments he wants to shut down.  One of them is the Energy Department, which he is now slated to lead.

In "Donald Trump is a despot in the making" news:  The US Energy Department is refusing to turn over the names of workers who deal with climate change, as demanded by the Trump transition team.  While the scientists and their colleagues at DoE know global warming is real, Trump and his transition team continue to lie and claim it is a hoax invested by China to dominate manufacturing.  The American Federation of Government Employees compared the Trump demands to the political witch hunts of the 1950s. 

Under the slogans "Stop the Devastation of Poland" and "We will not surrender freedom", thousands marched in Warsaw against the conservative Polish government's moves against freedom of speech and the right to assembly.  The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) earlier in the day threatened to "to introduce some kind of order into the opposition's activity".  With more and more dark and ominous moves every day, the public's level of disgust for PiS is rising.  "I was really happy that I live in a free country, and they are taking the free country away from me," said high school history teacher Ewa Kniaziolucka.  

Prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he's running for President of Russia, so he'll be arrested or found dead or something pretty soon.

Romania's defense minister says his country will bolster its defenses in the face of Russia's growing military presence in the Black Sea.  Romania is a NATO member, and will raise defense spending to Two Percent of its gross domestic product on defense by 2017, something the military alliance wants all members to do.

The UK Tory party inexplicably appointed an MP with a history of misogyny and ranting against "feminist zealots" to Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee - which scrutinizes government policy to ensure it does not discriminate against women and minorities.  Philip Davies was unopposed in a ballot of fellow Conservative Party politicians.  UK Labour MP Jess Phillips said, "I have every faith that the intelligence and skills of those on the committee will mean (Davies) will have little effect, much like in the rest of his career."