Good Morning Australia!! - The prosecutor knocks a pillar out from under Trump's election fixing defense - The FBI admits missing the chance to stop the Florida High school killer - Life sentences for six journalists - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

US Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies for the information warfare operation to influence the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton.  "The defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general," said Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.  They allegedly stole Social Security numbers and other personal information to fraudulently open PayPal and bank accounts to fund the purchase of ads on social media to further their goals.  The operation was allegedly run out of a "troll farm" in Russian President Vladimir Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg, by a Putin ally not directly employed by the Kremlin.

In his defensive reaction to news of the indictments, the orange clown Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged that Russia did indeed run an information warfare operation to influence the 2016 - something he has always denied until today.  The moron tweeted, "Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President.  The results of the election were not impacted.  The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!"  This boxes Trump into a corner, since his own tweet and the wording of the indictments makes it impossible for Trump to continue to claim that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is a "total hoax".

Trump's wife Melania refused to accompany him on the photo-op helicopter flight from the White House to Joint Base Andrews where they took Air Force one to another golfing vacation in Florida.  That's because of reporter Ronan Farrow's latest bombshell in The New Yorker about how Donald Trump had an affair with former Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal.  This reportedly happened in 2006, a year after Trump's affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.  Both happened while he was married to Melania.  The story details a system of pay outs and pay offs to silence women who have had affairs with the orange clown.  Because why the hell else would any woman...

The FBI is admitting it did not investigate a detailed tip it received in January about Nikolas Cruz, the teen arrested for murdering 17 people at a Florida High School this week.  The warning, which came in to a toll free tip line on 5 January, was not forwarded to the FBI's Miami office.  The tipster told "about Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting".  Republicans are quickly attempting to politicize the issue, with Florida Government Rick Scott coming to the aide of his fellow billionaire Donald Trump and calling for the FBI director's resignation.  Florida Senator Marco Rubio - who has received more than $3 Million in campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association (NRA) - is calling for a Congressional investigation on the Bureau's handling of the tip.

Anyway...

Turkey jailed six journalists for life because of links to an exiled cleric who President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames for the 2016 attempted coup.  Amongst the ridiculous evidence were allegations two of the men delivered coded messages during TV interviews on the eve of the violence.  Since then, Erdogan has jailed more than 50,000 people and dismissed more than 150,000 public servants, including journalists, teachers, police, and justice officials.

Brazil's unelected President Michel Temer has militarized security in Rio de Janeiro following gang violence during Carnival.  Mainstream TV broadcast video of gangs robbing and roughing up tourists, drumming up public fears.  Calling the gangs a "cancer", Temer appointed Eastern Military Command Brigadier General Walter Souza Braga Netto, who controlled security during the Summer Olympics in 2016. 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, on the job for just a day, delivered a rousing State of the Nation speech in which he promised to tackle rampant corruption.  Some might say he already began that by exerting pressure on scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma to resign the presidency earlier in the week.  "This is the year in which we will turn the tide on corruption in our public institutions," he told parliament, "We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity, that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people."