Hello Australia!! - Police conduct a counter terrorism raid south of Brisbane - A stuttering comedian dupes the orange clown - Europe kind of reaches a deal on immigration - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and local authorities conducted an early morning raid in Kuraby, QLD, a suburb south of Brisbane.  The Joint Counter-Terrorism team swarmed a home and arrested a man in his 20s and took him to the Brisbane city police watch house, where he is being questioned in relation to terror-related offenses.  Authorities said there was "no current risk to the community related to this matter".

A Maryland court denied bail for the dirtbag who shot and killed five people at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis on America's East Coast yesterday.  Investigators acknowledge that 38-year old Jarrod Ramos had a history with the newspaper, which he sued for printing details of his earlier conviction for harassing a female coworker.  He is not cooperating with the investigation.  The worst attack on US journalists followed years of the orange clown Donald Trump attempting to stir up hatred of the media, calling reporters "enemies of the people", "the lyin' press" (the English translation of the nazi pejorative "lugenpresse"), and "fake news".

The orange clown was duped (not by North Korea this time) by a comedian who pretended to be a US senator in a phone call, while Trump was flying on Air Force One - and the White House is admitting to this stunning breach of security.  "Stuttering John" Melendez said, "I am shocked," and, "I mean we did this as a goof, I'm a comedian," adding, "I just could not believe that it took us an hour and a half to get Jared Kushner and Donald Trump on the phone from Air Force One."  The comedian was able to talk on the phone to the clown, identified as New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez - even though he personally doesn't know the Senator, the Senator's party, nor the Senator's home state.  The kicker is that Trump has met "Stuttering John" and his distinctive, non-Senatorial voice several times in the past when he was a guest on the Howard Stern radio show, where the comedian got his start in show biz.

United Nations aid agencies are hailing a new European Union agreement on handling the influx of migrants and refugees, even if the leaders themselves seem to have differing takes on it.  On a day when around a hundred migrants reportedly drown when their boat sank off of Libya en route to the north, Leonard Doyle of the UN’s International Organization for Migration said:  "You now have a rationalisation of the existing search and rescue (operations) and you have a predictable mechanism to provide immediate assistance to those who have been saved."  The agreement specifies creating processing centers for the migrants in Europe, although French president Emmanuel Macron already said his country won't have one.

Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians in a protest at the Gaza border, and injured 415 more with live fire and tear gas.  One of the dead was a 14-year old boy.  The Israeli military had no immediate comment on Friday's protests and a spokesman said a statement would be issued later.  Gaza officials say Israeli troops have killed at least 135 people since the weekly protests began on 30 March.

A Syrian army offensive on eastern Daraa province has routed 120,000 civilians, trapping them in between Russian-backed government forces and rebels.  The offensive has killed at least 98 civilians, including 19 children, since 19 June.  UN refugee officials fear another humanitarian catastrophe on the level of the Ghouta disaster earlier this year.