Hello Australia!! - No amount of sugar coating will hide Marine Le Pen's true political roots - An outbreak of a nasty disease vexes Victoria - Trump's security guy isn't all that secure - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Health officials are racing to catch up with a horrible side effect of this wet, hot Australian summer:  857 cases of Ross River Fever in Victoria since 1 January, six of them in Melbourne.  Victoria's chief health officer Charles Guest says that normally would see only 20 to 50 such cases in that time frame.  But this is not a normal season:  "Because we experienced floods and lots of stagnant water around the place in Victoria late last year along with more rainfall and warm temperatures, it's been the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes," said Bram Alexander of Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services.  Those infected typically suffer days of intense joint pain, nausea, fever, shaking, lethargy, and weakness.  VIC Health Minister Jill Hennessy says people feeling unwell should contact their GP  "It's not necessarily a fatal illness but it is a really uncomfortable one to have."

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said she opposes dual nationality with countries outside Europe - meaning those with dual Australian, American, or Israeli citizenship would be forced to make an unpleasant choice should she become president.  The comment particularly appalled French Jews, who would be forced to to give up either their Israeli pensions or citizenship of their birthplace.  There is growing concern it's a sign that Marine Le Pen has not strayed far away from the anti-Semitic views of her father and Front National (FN) party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen.  Marine Le Pen has achieved some electoral success for the FN by dropping the anti-Semitism in favor of an anti-immigrant, anti-Islam stance; looks like that was a put-on.

US Democrats are demanding action against Donald Trump's National Security Adviser, retired General Michael Flynn, after it came out that Flynn appears to have violated a very serious US law banning private citizens from negotiating US policy with foreign entities.  After denying it several times, several sources are now confirming that Flynn discussed sanctions relief with a Russian official in early January - while Barack Obama was still president and Flynn had not yet become National Security Adviser.  Mr. Obama had slapped the penalties on Russia in retaliation for interference with the US presidential election.  Democrats are the very least want Flynn's security clearance revoked.

It could be that Flynn's indiscretion has slimed the one member of the Trump administration not yet embroiled in scandal:  A week before he took office, Vice President Mike Pence said that Flynn's conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were "strictly coincidental" and had nothing to do with the Obama administration's decision to punish Russia for meddling in the November election.  Either Pence was being less than truthful, or Flynn lied to Pence.  White House spokesman Sean Spicer also claimed that Flynn's contact with the Russians "had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions". 

That hilarious moment that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan - a country that prides itself on avoiding public displays of emotion - cringes and rolls his eyes after an uncomfortably long handshake with Trump.

In other cheeto-faced sh*t gibbon news, Trump hinted that he will reveal a new national security plan next week.  "We'll be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional security for our country," the moron said.  This comes after a Federal Appeals Court refused to reinstate his bigoted order that blocked people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US for at least 90 days and placed four-month hold on resettling refugees.  The White House did not provide details.  It should be said that Trump has promised to do things "next week" - and allowed the self-imposed deadlines to pass without ever mentioning it again.

Mexico is warning its citizens in the US to "take precautions" from the "new reality" after the deportation of a Mexican woman who had lived in the US for more than 20 years.  Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos came to the US at age 14 and has two American children; but she was undocumented, and upon checking in with the immigration department as she has done every year, cops slapped handcuffs on he and deported her to Mexico.  She had been fighting a 2013 deportation order.  Mexico says nationals should "keep in touch with its nearest consulate, to obtain the necessary assistance to face a situation of this type".

French officials say they halted an imminent terrorist attack with the arrests of three men and a teenage girl in Montpellier.  Cops found bomb-making materials by anti-terrorist police in a raid on a flat in the southern city.  Some reports suggested the girl made jihadist declarations on social media.

At least 17 people are dead in a stampede at a football stadium in the northern Angolan city of Uige.  Hundreds more are injured.  The crowd tried to get into the stadium, even though it was already packed to capacity.