Hello Australia!! - Deadly rioting follows a religious leader's rape conviction - A machete-wielding man attacks cops in Brussels - Where's Yingluck?  Probably not Thailand.. - And MUCH more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Belgian police shot and killed a man who attacked and wounded two troops on patrol in Brussels.  One of the troops suffered a wound to the hand, the other was slashed across the face.  Soldiers have become a frequent site in Brussels following the terrorist attacks which killed more than 30 people last year.  Meanwhile, London police say it's too soon to say if terrorism was the motivation for the attacker who slashed two cops outside Buckingham Palace.  The officers suffered mild defensive wounds to their arms.  Police wrestled the suspect out of a car near the scene.

Yingluck Shinawatra has more than likely fled Thailand, according to sources close to the family.  The former democratically-elected Prime Minister was ousted in the 2014 coup, and was awaiting a verdict in her trial for a rice subsidy scheme that the conservative royalists in Bangkok didn't like because it sought to even out economic disparities in the rural areas where Yingluck was and still is popular - the places where the rich people used to get their servants.  Her older brother, another former PM, went into voluntary exile under similar circumstances. 

The shrinking, so-called Islamic State is getting even smaller after Iraqi troops busted through IS lines around Tal Afar, one of the terrorist group's last strongholds.  An estimated 2,000 militants now control only a quarter of the city near the Syrian border.

An IS suicide bomber killed at least 20 people at the gates of a Shiite mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Afghan special forces then fought a four-hour gun battle, killing the rest of the attackers.

Muslim militants staged revenge attacks on police outposts in Myanmar's Rakhine State, killing at least 71 people including twelve security personnel.  The state in the western part of the country is home to more than a million Rohingya Muslims, an oppressed minority considered to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh - even though most families have lived there for several generations.

More than two dozen people have been killed in rioting and violence after a court in India covicted a popular guru of raping one of his followers.  Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan claims he is the embodiment of god on earth, wears ridiculously bejeweled costumes, and has produced a series of movies starring himself as a magical secret agent who fights baddies and aliens and HOLY SHYTE are you telling up to 50 million people actually follow this guy?!?! 
Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan
His Dera Sacha Sauda sect controls a sprawling empire of 46 centers community centers, schools, colleges, and hospitals around India.  The "Baba of Bling" is also facing trial for over the murder of a journalist and an investigation into allegations he urged male cult members to cut off their weenies to bring them closer to god.  So, careful which hospital you go to in India.

A US federal court sentenced a Volkswagen engineer to 40 months in prison for rigging cars with two-liter diesel engines to lie during local emissions testing and give a false impression of how much pollution they produce.  James Liang, a German national, is the first person to face prison in the scandal.  US officials are still trying to extradite higher-ranking VW executives who were allegedly more central to the scheme.

Teachers in Peru are entering the third month of their strike for better working conditions and higher wages.  The government has responded to them this week with cops on horseback, tear gas and water cannons.  Teachers and their union allies are protesting in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Paraguay for better treatment and against cruddy neo-liberal austerity.

Angola's ruling MPLA party has won the country's parliamentary election with 61 percent of vote.  Former defense minister Joao Lourenco will be the new president after Jose Eduardo Dos Santos who retired after four decades in power.  The opposition UNITA - which began life as a Maoist insurgency that crossed the political divide to become neoliberal right-wingers - came in a distant second with 27 percent.

Two racist ratbag white farmers in South Africa were convicted of attempted murder and kidnapping for forcing a black man into a coffin in August 2016.  Theo Martins Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen will be on 23 October.  The attack, which for some reason was caught on video and went viral on YouTube (only then were charges filed), exposed the racist underpinnings of some of South Africa's rural communities.

A trip to Mexico ended with a trip to jail for a California teen who tried to smuggle a Bengal Tiger cub back home.  The fuzzy little kitty kat (that will grow into a pitiless death machine) is being cared for at the San Diego Zoo.