Happy Holidays, Australia!! - The Kremlin's biggest critics is poised to run for Putin's job - A horror fire sweeps a Philippine mall, many are presumed dead - The impact of Trumpism in America - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Vladimir Putin's biggest rival, Alexei Nalvany, has gathered enough nominating signatures to challenge the Russian president in next year's election - "if" he were allowed to run.  Election officials loyal to Putin ruled Navalny ineligible because of a corruption conviction which the opposition leader and his international supporters say is politically motivated.  Pro-Navalny rallies took place in 20 Russian cities, and the would-be candidate himself appeared at the one in Moscow, calling Putin a "bad president".  None of the candidates who are allowed to run stand a chance against Putin, and Navalny says the biggest among them - TV host Ksenia Sobchak - is a "Kremlin stooge" placed in the race to dilute the opposition.

Rescue teams will attempt to find the 37 people who are missing and presumed dead in a horrible fire at a mall in Davao City on Mindanao island, Philippines.  Many of the dead worked at a call center for the American firm SSI located in the NCCC Mall.  Of the missing 37, Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio told reporters that firefighters had "assessed that no one would survive in that heat and with that thick, black smoke".  Her father, President Rodrigo Duterte, is known for his blunt and crude language and tough guy posturing, but covered his face and wept at the scene of the tragedy on his home turf.  

Meanwhile, rescue and recovery efforts are going slowly on the rest of Mindanao because all of the other damage caused by the tropical storm that killed at least 200 people.  Local Red Cross official Richard Gordan say 150 are still missing, nearly 1,000 houses have been wrecked, and many rice-fields washed away.

A Holiday travesty in Trump's America:  A teen is charged with killing his girlfriend's parents, after they banned their daughter from seeing the scumbag because of his neo-nazi beliefs.  Buckley Kuhn-Fricker and her husband Scott Fricker of Reston, Virginia were Democratic party organizers for the Obama Presidential campaign.  They went to red alert when their 16-year old daughter came home repeating anti-Semitic garbage she had learned from the nazi scum, who isn't being named because he is 17-years old.  He broke into the Fricker home at 5:00 AM, murdered the parents, and turned the gun on himself, failing to complete the job.  He's now in hospital in a critical condition.

Where would a teen get the idea that this form of racism is okay?  White House infestation Donald Trump exploded in vile racist epithets during an administration meeting on immigration policy, according to a bombshell report in the New York Times.  As his advisors debated, Trump said all Haitians have AIDS and mocked Nigerians as living in huts.  It's the latest in a long line of racist comments that began with his presidential campaign kickoff when he said Mexicans were rapists.  And it's been downhill since then, most recently praising a fringe conservative group after members were caught making evil racist comments.

Rescuers pulled at least 150 people out of stalled ski lifts at the French Alpine resort of Chamrousse.  Teams had to climb up to the top of each gondola and release the stranded skiers through the roof hatch before lowering them to the ground.  The lift connects the town of Chamrousse to the summit of the Croix de Chamrousse, 2,250 meters above sea level.

Denmark's dumbest drug dealer faces some legal trouble after hopping into the back of what he thought was a taxi - "He received a big surprise when he realized it was actually a police car he was sitting in," said police in a statement.  This happened in Copenhagen's Christiana district, known for casual drug traffic.  Since the genius was carrying more than a thousand joints - a little more than personal use - he faces jail time.

China showed off its AG-600, the world's largest amphibious airplane.  Roughly the size of a Boeing 737 but with four turboprop engines, it can carry 50 people and stay aloft for 12 hours.