Hello Australia!! - Malcolm and Trump have different things to say about guns - Nigeria slowly admits that Boko Haram has committed another mass abduction of school girls - Myanmar hides the evidence - A cocaine smuggling ring in an Embassy - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A vehicle crashed into the security barrier outside the White House while PM Malcolm Turnbull was taking part in a photo op with the orange clown Donald Trump.  No one was hurt and the female driver was quickly taken into custody.  The vehicle was a white Chevrolet mini-van with Tennessee plates, a US flag sticker, and one of the Christian fish magnet things on the back.  The US Secret Service threw the White House into lockdown while Malcolm and entourage had to hang out with the moron in the Oval Office longer than anticipated.

Unfortunately, Malcolm demurred when the time came to champion Australia's successful, life-saving solution to armed massacres.  At a news conference during which the cheeto-hued shitgibbon talked about arming teachers to kill school shooters, PM Turnbull refused to get into the debate: "We are very satisfied with our laws.  We maintain them.  They're there," he said.  "But," he added, "we certainly don't presume to provide policy or political advice on that matter here.  You have an amendment to your Constitution that deals with gun ownership.  You have a very, very different history.  We'll focus on our own political arguments and debates and wish you wise deliberation in your own."  The children of America aren't going to get a chance to say, "Thanks, Malcolm."

US Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's grand jury filed new charges against former Trump campaign official Paul Manafort.  The superceding indictment alleges Manafort "secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United States".  Earlier in the day, former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to lying to investigators.  Gates is now now the third Trump associate to strike a cooperation agreement with Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties to the campaign.

Slowly over the course of a week, Nigerian officials are finally admitting that Boko Haram got away with another mass abduction from a girls's school in the north of the country.  President Muhammadu Buhari told parents, "This is a national disaster.  We are sorry that this could have happened," and, "We pray that our gallant armed forces will locate and safely return your missing family members.  Our government is sending more troops and surveillance aircraft to keep an eye on all movements in the entire territory on a 24-hour basis in the hope that all the missing girls will be found."   On Monday night, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram raided a government girls' secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe state, and kidnapped as many as 111 young women.

Yobe state officials say that they were relying on false information when they reported a rescue mission earlier this week - no such operation had occurred.  The local government's awful response recalled the 2014 kidnapping of 270 schoolgirls from Chibok, which consisted of days of delays and denials and unverified false reports seemingly intended to take the heat off of incompetent local government hacks.  Then-president Goodluck Jonathan's seeming disinterest in rescuing the girls and fighting the terrorist army in his country's northeast helped sweep him from office and elect Muhammadu Buhari - who now faces down a similar scenario.

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Satellite imagery suggest the Myanmar government is bulldozing former Rohingya villages in Rakhine state; Human Rights watch accuses Myanmar of doing this to get rid of the evidence, and insists the villages "should be treated as crime scenes" and preserved.  It's believed that thousands of people were killed and villages were emptied as Myanmar forces and nationalist mobs took part in with the UN called "textbook ethnic cleansing", driving hundreds of thousands of refugees over the border into refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Police in Argentina arrested six people and confiscated almost 400 kilos of cocaine found in the Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires.  The Russian ambassador initiated the investigation two years ago with his suspicions over the use of diplomatic luggage being used at a Russian school adjacent to his embassy.  A former Russian diplomatic official and an Argentine police officer were among those detained, and at least one more suspect is on the run.

An apparent suicide bomber who hurled an explosive at the US Embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro earlier this week was a former soldier in the 1990s Balkan Wars who resented NATO for the 1998 aerial campaign against Serbian targets that brought an end to the fighting.  46-year old Dalibor Jaukovic wielded two really, really old Yugoslavian-made grenades in his attack, which didn't do much damage except to himself.  For some people, wars never end.