Hello Australia!! - Amazon workers try to slow Black Friday - US government scientists openly defy Trump - A deadly assault on a Chinese Consulate - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Gunmen killed two police and two civilians in an assault on the Chinese consulate in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Friday.  Police fought back and killed all three assailants, who were armed with automatic rifles, hand grenades and suicide vest.  No one in the embassy was injured.  The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for this attack - the separatist movement from the southwestern province resents the sudden influence that China has bought in the region with massive investments in the port and in a roadway leading to to the Chinese border.  After the embassy attack, a suicide bomber killed 31 in an attack apparently targeting minority Shiite Muslims.

Spain is reiterating its threat to veto the Brexit, and UK Prime Minister Theresa May is warning her detractors that the EU isn't going to offer a better deal.  Interviewed on BBC Radio, Ms. May said 29 March is coming even if Parliament fails to approve her deal: "From my point of view, personally, there is no question of 'no Brexit' because the government needs to deliver on what people voted on in the referendum in 2016".  Meanwhile, EU leaders meet on Sunday to sign off on the preliminary deal in all of its vagueness.  But Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said he may not attend unless he gets written assurances from the UK that Madrid will be directly consulted over its future trade negotiations with the EU which relate to Gibraltar. 

Thousands of Amazon workers around union stayed off the job, disrupting Black Friday to call attention to accusations of poor and unsafe working conditions as well as low pay.  "It is one of the days that Amazon has most sales, and these are days when we can hurt more and make ourselves be heard because the company has not listened to us and does not want to reach any agreement," said 38-year old striker Eduardo Hernandez outside a logistics depot near Madrid where only two people showed up to work on the loading dock.  Unions claim as much as 90-percent of the workforce took part in strikes at fulfillment centers in Spain, France, Italy, Germany - Amazon claims the walkouts didn't hamper its delivery efforts on Black Friday, which started off in the US as a post-Thanksgiving consumerist binge and spread to other countries.

While many Americans were buried in Black Friday shopping, the White House tried to bury a key environmental report by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving.  The Fourth  National Climate Assessment report says climate change is "presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth".  That's a direct contradiction of Donald Trump's climate change denial and fossil fuel agenda.  Report co-author Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University said "we are seeing the things we said would be happening, happen now in real life", adding, "As a climate scientist it is almost surreal." In addition to agricultural loses, the report predicts a rise of mosquito-borne diseases as the US gets warmer.

Indian Police still haven't figured how to get the body of an American missionary off Sentinel Island after he was killed by the protected indigenous tribe who lives there.  But they will pursue the fishers who broke the law and brought 27-year old John Chau close enough to the quarantined island that he was able to take his canoe to shore and get riddled by arrows.  "We should not interfere with them, we should let them be.  They are not troubling us, they are not going out of their island to create a difficult situation," said anthropologist T.N. Pandit. "They are living peacefully within their island.  All that they want is, leave us alone." 

German prosecutors charged a 95-year old man with more than 36,000 counts of being an accessory to murder on allegations he served as an SS guard in the Mauthausen concentration camp in northern Austria from mid-1944 to early 1945.  Identified as "Hans Werner H." in court papers, he is accused of serving as a perimeter guard and inside the camp as nazi scum murdered Jews, Soviet POWs, prisoners who fought Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War.

Osaka, Japan won the rights to be the host the 2025 World Expo, beating out rivals Ekaterinburg in Russia and the Azerbaijan capital, Baku.  Supporters jumped for joy as the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) announced the results from Paris.  The Expo returns to Osaka after 55 years; the 1970 Osaka Expo drew 64 million visitors and is regarded as one of the most successful expos ever held.