Good Morning Australia!! - The US cop who shot Justine Damond speaks - The ex-Pope's brother is named in a report detailing horrific child abuse - Malala takes on Beijing - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The US cop who fatally shot unarmed Sydney woman Justine Ruszczyk Damond is reaching out to her family.  Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Mohammad Noor "extends his condolences to the family and anyone else who has been touched by this event," according to the statement released through his lawyer, Thomas Plunkett.  "He takes their loss seriously and keeps them in his daily thoughts and prayers," the attorney added.  Her family in the US and Australia are calling for justice in the matter.

The details and rationale for the shooting remain unclear:  Ms. Damond called police to report a possible crime; Noor was in the passenger seat of his squad car when he drew his weapon and fired across his partner in the driver's seat, killing the former Sydneysider.  There were no other witnesses and the police recording devices were not switched on. 

The US Republican party's latest attempts to end Obamacare, better known as the Afford Care Act (ACA), have crashed and burned.  Basically, moderate conservatives don't want to repeal it or replace it with something worse, and hardcore right-wingers believe that the GOP replacement plans aren't cruel enough.  Donald Trump is "ordering" the GOP to allow the US healthcare system to fail - in reality, the capitalist construct of the ACA is firming up for middle-class Americans.  Still not as good as Aussie Medicare.

A bombshell report out of Germany says more than 500 young boys were sexually abused as members of a Roman Catholic Boys' Choir from 1945 through the 1990s, and it singles out the former choirmaster for looking the other way while pedophile priests had their way with boys.  The choirmaster of the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir - George Ratzinger - is the older brother of retired Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to resign in 600 years.  Ratzinger is not suspected of sexual abuse, although he has admitted physically abusing some boys by slapping them.  Many of the 49 priests who are suspected of sexual abuse will likely not face justice because the length of time that has passed since the crimes.

A Swiss couple who went missing during World War II have been found, their remains exposed as a glacier melts.  Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin apparently fell into a crevasse while walking in the Alps above their farm during 1942, and were covered by snow.  The glacier is now retreating, exposing their bodies and intact identity papers.  Their orphaned children, now elderly, will hold a proper funeral.  These sorts of discoveries are becoming more and more common as the global climate warms and melts glaciers.

Saudi Arabian police have questioned a woman for the crime of walking around in a short skirt, although I'd hesitate to call it a miniskirt as has been reported by the corporate media.  Video of the woman walking around a historic site went viral in the internet earlier this week, and her actions have been fiercely debated between backwards traditionalists versus normal people.  Women have practically no rights in the stone age country, and are required to wear massive, baggy coverings so as not to excite and corrupt innocent men with their lusty and decadent girl parts.  Saudi Arabia's general directorate of public security questioned the woman for "information crimes" after the case had been referred over complaints of public indecency.

Malala Yousafzai is condemning China over its treatment of her fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo following his death from liver cancer last week.  Mr. Liu was serving eleven years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power" and critics say he was getting lousy medical care.  "I condemn any government who denies people's freedom," said Malala, "I'm hoping that people will learn from what he did and join together and fight for freedom, fight for people's rights and fight for equality."

On what would have been her ex-husband's 99th birthday, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela says South Africa's ruling ANC party has "messed up" and the country "is in crisis".  Under President Jacob Zuma, the economy is cratering and the government is awash in corruption allegations.  Zuma will be replaced as ANC leader at the end of the year, but his presidential term won't end until 2019.  Winnie Mandela was married to Nelson Mandela, the father of modern South Africa, from the 1950s  through the 1990s when he went from political prisoner to president.  But the ANC has largely failed to adhere to Mandela's path - "Something is very very wrong with what we have done," she told reporters.