Good Morning Australia!!  It's International Women's Day, but don't worry.. doofus men are still screwing up everything they touch - Maybe your TV really is spying on you - Trump is reportedly prying into the lives of reporters - Is an Asian arms race beginning? - George Michael's cause of death is released - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

In what is believed to be the first case of Rhinoceros poaching in Europe, criminals broke into the Thoiry Zoo west of Paris, shot and killed a Rhino named Vince, and took off his horn with a chainsaw.  The killers tried to get the animal's smaller second horn, but failed - perhaps because their equipment failed or they were interrupted, according to authorities.  Three other Rhinos in the exhibit survived.  Rhino horn is illegally trafficked to South Asia and particularly China where regressives believe it has medicinal powers (it doesn't).  The Zoo turned its security camera footage over to police.

"The game is up" for the so-called Islamic State in Mosul, its last stronghold in Iraq, according to a US General.  Iraqi forces recaptured key government buildings including the central bank branch and the museum where three years ago the militants filmed themselves destroying priceless statues.  The Iraqis are still killing dozens of IS soldiers intent on delaying the restoration as long as possible:  "The fighting is strong because most of them are foreigners and they have nowhere to go,” said the head of an Iraqi military sniper unit.

South Sudan is teetering on the edge of genocide and ethnic cleansing, according to the results of a seven-month-long probe conducted by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.  The report documents intense hate speech by President Salva Kiir, as well as deliberate starvation and bombardment of civilians.  "Violations have mainly been committed by government soldiers, members of the National Security Service, police officers and militias aligned with" government forces, the report says.  Unless "perpetrators of serious violations are brought to account, the viability of South Sudan as a new nation state will be stymied, if it has not been already."

Wikileaks released a ton of documents it claims detail CIA capabilities to use everyday apps and items - your computer, smart phone, even the camera on your fancy TV - to spy on individuals.  The organization claims the CIA sought out and found security holes in these items, and did not disclose them to the manufacturers - meaning that Apple, Samsung, and many other companies don't even know what they'd have to fix to keep James Bond out of your smart phone.  But it's not just spies people need to worry about: "If the CIA can discover such vulnerabilities so can others," says Wikileaks, hinting that stalkers, foreign intelligence, and cyber-criminals may also be finding these holes.

Strangely, Wikileaks - which has been linked with Russian intelligence - released this headline-grabbing news shortly after a former US National Security Agency (NSA) analyst alleged that Russian intel is helping Donald Trump target individual journalists.  "Learned fm very reliable IC sources that Trump WH, w/help fm Russian intel, is targeting US journalists. Rough road ahead. Get ready, peeps," tweeted security expert John Schindler, who did not specify which reporters are being targeted or how.  It comes amid a string of very negative reports on Trump and his administration, fueled by internal leaks from disgruntled White House staffers.  Trump has declared Journalists to be the enemy of the American people, even though journalism is the ONLY professional singled out for protection by the United States Constitution.

Hungary's brand-new rules for dealing with immigrants and refugees are a "flagrant violation of international law", according to rights groups.  The draconian law specifies building border camps and housing people in shipping containers, covering all asylum-seekers - including women and children fleeing war and poverty.  Blowhard fascist PM Viktor Orban says asylum seekers are a "Trojan horse of terrorism" and threaten Europe's Christian identity and culture.  "Dumping all refugees and migrants into containers isn't a refugee policy - it's avoiding one," said Amnesty International.  The UN says the new law "violates Hungary's obligations under international and EU laws".

Israel's Knesset approved a law banning entry to anyone who has publicly supported the BDS movement, to boycott Israeli goods and services as long as the Palestinians are oppressed and without a nation.  It states that no visa or residence permit will be given to anyone who "knowingly issued a public call to impose a boycott against the state of Israel or committed to participate in a boycott".  In football terms, BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti calls it an "own-goal par excellence" - "If anything, banning (BDS activists) from entry will further motivate them to increase their work."

For a country with few friends and its back continually against a wall, you'd think that Venezuela would try a little harder to make friends.  Peru withdrew its ambassador to Caracas after a Venezuelan official referred to Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski a coward and a dog (crap, I do that all the time!).  This comes after Kuczynski said the US didn't invest money or time in Latin America because it is like a well-behaved dog.  Fiery Socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, no fool of the US, took offense and demanded an apology.  And then Venezuela's Foreign Minister said it was the conservative Kuczynski who wags his tail for the US.  And you know what?  Knock it off, you two.  Seriously, knock it off.

The United States started to deploy the first elements of its advanced anti-missile defense system in South Korea, following North Korea's test of four ballistic missiles earlier this week.  The Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry, not happy with all of the new hardware in the neighborhood, vowed that Beijing would "take the necessary steps to safeguard our own security interests".  Arms race!

Singer George Michael died of "natural causes" a result of heart and liver disease.  The senior coroner of Oxfordshire, UK reports that "as there is a confirmed natural cause of death, being dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver, the investigation is being discontinued and there is no need for an inquest or any further inquiries".  George Michael died on Christmas Day at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, aged just 53 years.

"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." - Malala Yousafzai