Hello Australia!! - Farewell Spicy, we hardly knew ye - China sends a spy ship to Australia - Several are killed in a gruesome day in the Mideast - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

His reputation as a communicator in tatters, White House spokesman Sean "Spicy" Spicer parted ways with the Trump Administration, and it appears to be at least a little acrimonious.  NBC News reported that Spicer last night told friends that he would leave the White House if Donald Trump hired his Wall Street financier buddy Anthony Scaramucci as Communications Director above him.  But that is exactly what Trump did, after a meeting with Scaramucci attended by his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner.  Spicer didn't give a final news conference - but frankly, most people will probably miss Melissa McCarthy's impersonation rather than Spicy himself.

The US will ban its citizens from traveling to North Korea, after an American suffered mortal brain damage during a 15 year prison sentence for stealing a propaganda sign.  The new restrictions will go into place 30 days after being published in the Federal Register next week.

A strong earthquake rocked the Greek island of Kos, killing at least two people.  Another 115 were wounded and several hundred more were were hurt just a short hop over the water on the Turkish coast. 

A suspected Palestinian attacker with a knife stabbed three Israeli civilians to death near Ramallah in the West Bank.  The Israeli army shot and killed the attacker.  This came at the end of an ugly day in which Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians in protests and clashes over the Israeli government blocking Palestinian men under the age of 50 from entering the Old City in Jerusalem because of earlier violence.

In a first for Beijing, China is keeping an "unfriendly" and "provocative" eye on Australia's joint military exercises between with the United States.  A sophisticated Chinese People's Liberation Army spy ship - called a Type 815 Dongdiao-class Auxiliary General Intelligence (AGI) vessel - is off Queensland just beyond the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) , and apparently training its advanced communications systems to eavesdrop on "Exercise Talisman Sabre".  It's believed to be the first time China has deployed such a ship off Australia.