Good morning, Australia! A dictator's son will pay for his privilege - The US denies a deal in the coming release of a notorious spy - A glimpse at the darkness the so-called "Shining Path" might have released on a national scale - And more in your CareerSpot AM news briefs:

A court in Libya has sentenced the son of the late dictator Moammar Gaddafi and eight others to death by firing squad. Saif al-Islam was not in court, and is being held by a rebel group which will not turn him over to the government, but has allowed him to take part in his proceedings via video link. Eight more defendants were sentenced to life in prison. The charges included the wordt excesses of the Gaddafi regime - murder, torture, corruption.

The US is preparing to parole Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard after three decades in prison. US Secretary of State John Kerry is denying any link to the nuclear deal with Iran which has strained relations with Israel. Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in for using his US Navy position to sevure classified information for Israel.

Peru says troops rescued dozens of slave laborers from a farm run by Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency in the South American country. Some were kidnapped as long as 30 years ago - several werewere children who born in captivity. Many of the youngest were afraid of their rescuers, having been told by the rebels that the soldiers came to kill them. Shining Path was defeated in 1992, but some cells managed to hang on in remote outposts.

Malaysian PM Najib Razak has sacked six top ministers including his closest deputy and Attorney General. The reshuffle is seen as a bid to hang on to power as a corruption scandal grows aroung him. The sacked ministers were among those raising questions after the discovery of A $960 Million routed from a state-owned bank to Najib's personal accounts.

"Nobody should be President for life," admonished US President Barack Obama speaking before a meeting of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mr. Obama said Africa cannot move forward as long as leaders refuse to relinquish power when their democratically determined terms end. That's an indirect reference to Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza's recent election to a third term, called unconstitutional by opponents who boycotted the poll. But Obama also dug at the 16 or so Republicans candidates who want to replace him in 2016, saying he'd like to run for a third term because he'd easily beat any one of them.