Hello Australia!! - Terrorism hits the UK, Trump screws it up - Iceland's government collapses in a scandal over a pedophile - The Kurds move to go it alone - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The UK has raised its terrorism alert to "critical", meaning that officials are expecting another attack.  This, as police hunt the person or network who tried to bomb a commuter train in London.  A "bucket bomb" detonated at the Parson's Green station in southwest London, injuring 29 people - most of whom suffered burns.  Witness Sylvain Pennec recorded footage of the device burning itself out on the evacuated train. 
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Apparently, no one paid any mind to the device prior to the blast:  "It looked like a bucket of mayonnaise," Mr. Fennec he told the Independent.  But it apparently didn't function as the terrorist(s) hoped because no one was killed and police say the blast could have been bigger.  "This is a very complex investigation which is continuing at speed," said Britain's top counter-terrorism officer Mark Rowley.  "We are chasing down suspects."

In the middle of a national emergency, British PM Theresa May had to respond to an idiotic tweet from the Orange Clown who tweeted something stupid.  Ms. May said, "I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation."  This was because Donald Trump described the attackers as "loser terrorists" and "sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard", and there is concern about that last part.  Did Trump give up insider information regarding British Police surveillance, tipping off the bomb plotters that their identities were already known to authorities?  Bad show.  In May, US officials angered British authorities by leaking details about the deadly bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.

The UN Security Council in an emergency session has unanimously condemned yesterday's North Korean missile test.  But Russia chided the US for "aggressive" rhetoric, and China said "directly-involved parties should take responsibility", a clear reference to the role of threats and bombast from the White House.  US Ambassador Nikki Haley urged patience to allow the latest round of economic sanctions to wear down Pyongyang.

Meanwhile, Seoul is reminding North Korea that despite the missile tests, it is the South that has military and technological superiority.  "If North Korea provokes us or our allies, we have the strength to smash the attempt at an early stage and inflict a level of damage it would be impossible to recover from," said South Korean President Moon Jae-in.  Within moments of North Korea launching its ballistic missile yesterday morning, South Korea test-fired short range missile which locked on to and destroyed a target that was as far from from the launch site as is Pyongyang. 

Anyway..

The Vatican recalled one of its diplomatic staff from Washington after the priest was targeted in a child pornography investigation.  The US asked the Vatican to remove the Embassy staffer's diplomatic immunity, but that request was refused and the priest is now back in the Vatican.

Iceland's center-right government has collapsed and the PM called for a snap election.  One of the ruling coalition parties bailed out after learning Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson's father worked to have a convicted pedophile's "honor restored" - an Icelandic term for allowing the man to work in certain legal and government jobs from which he is banned.  It effectively erases a criminal record.  Iceland's previous government collapsed when the former PM was revealed in the Panama Papers investigation into off-shore tax evasion, one of the only world leaders to actually have been somewhat held accountable.

Brazil's top anti-corruption prosecutor has filed a second set of charges against un-elected president Michel Temer, this time charging him with obstruction of justice and racketeering.  The charges stem from the plea bargain reached by two billionaire brother who own the country's largest meatpacker; they accuse Temer of taking bribes and conspiring to buy the silence of a witness against them.  The conservative-dominated congress refused to allow the first set of corruption charges against Temer to go to trial.

Tunisia's parliament voted to give women the right to marry non-Muslims, overturning a ridiculous 1973 law that is out of place in the most progressive of predominantly Arab countries.  President Beji Caid Essebsi congratulated women on gaining "the freedom to choose one's spouse".

Iraq's Kurdish parliament voted to support an independence referendum scheduled for 25 September.  But it is opposed by Iran and Turkey which have substantial Kurdish minorities, and by the US which fears even more regional instability (than that which it has already caused, I guess).  Washington also beleives the vote to be a distraction from the effort to defeat the so-called Islamic State, in which Kurdish forces have proven to be - say it with me now - the MOST-EFFECTIVE FIGHTING FORCE AGAINST the terrorists of IS.

What's a Kangaroo to do in the capital of Bratwurst and Cheese?  A joey (named "Joey") got loose from a small Zoo in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which is north of Chicago.  Cops followed him and the bewildered Roo was eventually recaptured.  So far from home...