Good Morning Australia!! - Sea Shepherd vows to keep up the pressure on Japanese whalers - Paris is having a very bad year for tourism - A court gives the last word on Russians taking part in the Paralympic Games  - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Sea Shepherd Australia doesn't plan on changing a thing, now that its US branch has reached a court settlement with Japanese whalers.  While Japan's public and private whaling interests - the Institute of Cetacean Research and Kyodo Senpaku - claim the settlement in a US court would bar the US group from interfering with its whaling ships in teh Southern Ocean, it may actually have little impact on anti-whaling activities.  "The ruling in the US courts affects ONLY our US entity," read the statement from Sea Shepherd's global chief executive Alex Cornelissen;  "Sea Shepherd Global and all other entities around the world, other than the USA, will continue to oppose the illegal Japanese whaling in the Antarctic," it continued.

Russian athletes will remain banned from the Paralympic games to take place in Rio de Janeiro next month.  The International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland on Tuesday upheld the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) decision to ban Russia because of the McLaren Report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which detailed widespread, state-sponsored cheating in Russian athletics.  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called it a "cynical decision"; Russian cross-country skier Roman Pethushkov bitterly complained the decision was "inhumane" and a "humiliation".  But IPC president Sir Philip Craven, who has said in the past that Russia put "medals over morals", is not happy.  "It is a sad day for the Paralympic movement," said Sir Phil.  "But we hope also a new beginning.  We hope this decision acts as a catalyst for change in Russia," he added. 

Turkey ordered the evacuation of a town of about 3,000 residents on the border of war-torn Syria.  This comes after mortars fired by Islamic State came crashing down on Karkamis, where a force of Turkey-backed fighters are assembling to cross the border and attempt to take the Syrian town of Jarablus from IS control.  Ankara also blames IS for the suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding over the weekend that killed dozens of people.

After a series of terrorist attacks, plus labor unrest and some crappy weather, Paris is seeing a drop in tourism.  Between January and June, the French capital saw one million fewer visitors than the same period last year.  That's a loss of more than AU$1.1 Billion in a country that depends on tourism for seven percent of its Gross Domestic Product.  French tourism took a hit after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January 2015, and was recovering in November of last year when terrorists struck at the Bataclan Theater and other locations, killing more than a 130 people.

Peru is investigating allegations of a police death squad behind the killing of at least 20 civilians since 2012.  Deputy Public Order Minister Ruben Vargas said around 18 cops and soldiers might have illegally murdered civilians, and attempted to pass the bodies off as Leftist rebels or dangerous criminals whom they had "neutralized".  Mr. Vargas noted at half of the victims had no prior criminal histories before winding up dead.

Nigeria's army is once again claiming to have gotten Abubakar Shekau, the missing leader of the terrorist insurgent group Boko Haram.  This time, the military says Shekau's shoulder was badly injured in an air strike on Friday in Boko Haram's stomping ground, north-eastern Borno state.  Nigeria has claimed to have killed Shekau before, only to have him reappear in one of his bombastic propaganda videos.  But he hasn't been heard from in many months, and Boko Haram has presented another jihadist as its leader in recent video.

Indian doctors removed 40 knives from a policeman's stomach after he - you guessed it - complained of abdominal pain.  The 42-year old officer said demons made him do it.  Dr. Jatinder Malholtra said that patient "is getting counseling.  He has promised that he will never touch a knife again, but his family will have to monitor him".

That's a big, giant pearl.  Philippine officials believe this 34 kilogram pearl might be the largest ever discovered.  A fisher found it off Palawan Island a decade ago, and kept it for good luck, unaware of its value - possibly US$100 Million.