Hello, Australia! – Authorities arrest an Australian nurse who claims he was forced to work for Islamic State – An American right-winger goes on a killing spree – A groundbreaking anti-Malaria vaccine is a mere step from reality – Obama goes to Kenya – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Adam Brookman returned to Australia from Syria overnight, and was promptly arrested by Federal Police.  The 39-year old Muslim convert and father of five told Fairfax Media that he went to the Middle East last year to do humanitarian work, but Islamic State forced him to be a battlefield medic.  Authorities want to charge him with terrorism-related offenses.  

Turkey is vowing to maintain its crackdown on Islamic State, after launching its first air strikes against IS positions in Syria.  Militants killed a Turkish police officer in cross border fighting earlier, and an IS suicide bomber killed 32 people in Suruc in southern Turkey earlier this week.  But among the 297 people detained by police during raids on Friday were dozens of youth from the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Marxist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party Front (DHKP-C) – both enemies of Islamic State and currently battling the terrorists in Syria.

A new Malaria vaccine is one step closer to being rolled out in Africa.  The European Medicines Agency approved GlaxoSmithKline’s Mosquirix, and the World Health Organization will consider later this year whether to recommend it for children.  Malaria kills more than half a million people every year, and the vast majority are children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa.  Malaria ceased to be endemic in Australia in 1981, but hundreds of cases are still treated here every year – mostly travelers infected elsewhere.

The gunman who killed two young women and wounded several more people in a Louisiana movie theater was an American right-winger with a history of mental illness and brushes with law enforcement.  And yet, 58-year old John Houser was still able to legally purchase a Hi-Point .40 caliber semiautomatic and two ten-round magazine with which he shot moviegoers at random before killing himself.  Described as a drifter living out of a motel, he had a family at one time who took out a temporary protective order against him in April 2008.  Houser was also involuntarily committed to a hospital in Georgia and his wife said had a history of mental illness, including manic depression and bi-polar disorder.  Houser was active on the Internet, leaving a history of comments displaying his racist, right-wing views.

Seven people are dead after an explosion at the Bruscella fireworks factory in Modugno, a town in southwestern Italy.  The first blast triggered a chain reaction and fire that threatened a nearby forest.  Investigators are determining the cause of the disaster.  The factory would have been filled with fireworks ready to ship out to towns celebrating summer festivals.

Russian nationalist leader Ilya Goryachev has been sentenced to life in prison for ordering five murders and a series of hate crimes.  The 33-year old baby-faced fascist scumbag denies the crimes, which include the killings of lawyers and journalists.  Goryachev cofounded a militant group whose victims included a judge, several anti-fascist campaigners and members of ethnic minorities.

A judge in Mexico ordered two prison guards and an officer to be taken into custody after the escape of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from what was supposed to be Mexico’s most-secure prison.  The head of the Sinaloa cartel exited prison through a sophisticated tunnel that no one noticed being built on 11 July.  Of particular interest to the judge is why the guards refused to answer their phones at the time of the escape.

A Chilean judge on Friday charged seven former military officers and soldiers with setting fire to two people during a protest against the fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1986.  Photographer Rodrigo Rojas died of his burns, Carmen Quintana survived and now works in the Chilean embassy in Canada, where she underwent extensive surgeries.  Pinochet died before ever facing justice for the thousands of murders under his evil regime, but his lackeys and attack dogs are coming before the courts and more and more recently.

Burundi’s electoral commission confirms a third term for President Pierre Nkurunziza, which opponents say is unconstitutional. 

US President Barack Obama is in Kenya for the first time since becoming America’s chief executive.  Mr. Obama barely knew his Kenyan father, and was raised by his American mother and her parents.  But it’s not just family reunions with his Kenyan half-sister and aunties – the President will deliver a “blunt message” to African leaders about gay rights and discrimination, as well as deal with economic issues.