Good Morning Australia!! - America's top-rated sitcom "Roseanne" is canceled in a racism row - Puerto Rico's hurricane deaths were thousands more than the US admits - Three are killed in a terrorist attack in Belgium - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) has cancelled "Roseanne" after its star Roseanne Barr went on a racist and anti-Semitic Twitter rant rife with conspiracy theories.  Barr's tweet joked that Valerie Jarrett, a, African-American former advisor to President Barack Obama, was the child of the Muslim Brotherhood and the "Planet of the Apes".  She also false and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the billionaire George Soros, including the one in which the holocaust survivor was somehow a secret nazi.  It was unfunny, idiotic, racist hate from the fringes that was insulting to African Americans, Muslims, and Jews.  Producer and comedian Wanda Sykes quickly announced she was quitting the show, cast members denounced it, and by midday the network pulled the plug:  "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values and we have decided to cancel her show."  A couple of hours later, Roseanne's agent sacked her.

The US government says the death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was 64 lives lost.  But a new study from Harvard says that is way off, and the true death toll was more likes 4,650 people killed directly and indirectly by things like infrastructure damage, disease from tainted water supplies, and the like.  Earlier, CNN surveyed funeral homes and found at least 500 direct deaths caused by Maria, and the New York Times found another 1,000 deaths, but the Harvard study was a more comprehensive survey of households over a longer period of time.  "In our survey, interruption of medical care was the primary cause of sustained high mortality rates in the months following the hurricane," the study found.

Belgian police say the gunman who shot and killed two female police officers and a civilian in the eastern Belgian city of Liege shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.  He also took a female school custodian hostage before being killed by police.  Like so many of these western European attackers, the attacker is believed to have been radicalized in prison while doing time on a drug offense.

Portugal's government rejected a bill to legalize euthanasia by a 115-110 vote.  The center-Left Socialist-led government wanted to make it legal, but ran into opposition from the politically-powerful Roman Catholic church.  

Kremlin critic and Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was shot to death at his home in Kiev, Ukraine, where he had been living in self-imposed exile.  Babchenko ran afoul of the Putin government in 2016 by describing it as an "aggressor" in the Syrian civil war, and quickly became the target of death threats and abuse that prompted him to leave the country.

Truckees in Brazil are continuing their strike despite un-elected President Michel Temer's threat to use the military to clear their roadblocks.  Some accepted the government's offer to cut diesel prices by 46 Brazilian cents, but many others are holding out.  The roadblocks are preventing supplies from getting to and from cities, business, and farms, creating big losses in agriculture.  Ethanol fuel plants are also blocked, causing fuel shortages.

Senior North Korean official Kim Yong-chol is on his way to the United States.  He'll meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as the two countries lay the groundwork for on-again, off-again talks between Kim and the orange clown Donald Trump in Singapore on 12 June.  Believed to be Kim Jong-un's right hand, Kim would be the most senior official to visit the United States since 2000.