Hello Australia!! - France stops an attack at the Louvre - The White House lies about a massacre that never happened - The UN blasts Myanmar for the appalling abuse of the Rohingya - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

French security forces shot and gravely wounded a man who attacked them with a machete at the Louvre art museum in Paris.  Prosecutor say the suspect is believed to be a 29-year old Egyptian who traveled to Paris from Dubai on a tourist visa last month.  They're now establishing his motive, and if he had any assistance.

The United Nations is condemning the "devastating" abuse suffered by Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.  A damning report detailed human rights abuses committed by civilians and security forces including gang-rape, savage beatings and child killing.  "The cruelty to which these Rohingya children have been subjected is unbearable - what kind of hatred could make a man stab a baby crying out for his mother's milk?" posited UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein.  "I call on the international community, with all its strength, to join me in urging the leadership in Myanmar to bring such military operations to an end," he added.  Myanmar's de facto ruler Aung San Suu Kyi is promising an investigation.

Tehran says it will not be moved by new US economic sanctions in retaliation for an apparent Iranian missile test.  Donald Trump thumped his flabby, moob-covered chest on Twitter saying, "Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them.  Not me."  The sanctions target 13 people and 12 companies.  Iran says the sanctions are "useless" from an "inexperienced" president.

Enjoy the cat food, America!  Trump signed another executive order, this time to examine the Dodd Frank Act which is designed to stop Wall Street from committing the same financial abuses that directly led to the 2008 worldwide financial crisis, especially in the area of mortgage banking.  Wall Street has complained the law, regarded as pretty weak by consumer advocates, is too restrictive.  Critics say a full repeal would be a disaster, because 2008.  Seriously, 2008.

The US has cancelled 60,000 legitimate visas as a result of Trump's moronic and bigoted executive order to ban people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.  This came out in a federal court in Virginia, one of five states hearing challenges to the foul directive.  It stalled babies, toddlers, and grandparents from entering the US to get medical treatment or to see relatives, many of them US mlitary members.  Another person stalled for an hour earlier this week is former Norway Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, because of his 2014 visit to Iran.  US officials later tried to lie to him and said his hour long detention was because of a 2015 law, but Bondevik had traveled to the US several time since then - and was only detained after the orange clown's executive order.

Never forget that which never happened.  Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway justified Trump's travel ban by citing the arrest of Iraqis who were supposedly "the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre".  Except.. there never was a Bowling Green Massacre.  It didn't happen.  What did happen is the quick and hilarious proliferation of social media hashtags such as "Bowling Green Massacre", "Je Suis Bowling Green", and others.  Conway later admitted her error - but as New York Daily News columnist Shawn King pointed out, "Donald Trump & the White House have now talked more about the fake Bowling Green Massacre than the bigot who murdered 6 Muslims this weekend," referring to the actual massacre in a Quebec City mosque carried out by a Trump-loving rightwinger.

Russia is "weaponizing misinformation" in a deliberate campaign to destabilize governments in the West.  With Dutch elections imminent and more coming in Germany and France, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is positioning his country as the adversary of the West.  "Today we see a country that in weaponizing misinformation has created what we might now see as the post-truth age. Part of that is the use of cyber-weaponry to disrupt critical infrastructure and disable democratic machinery," Fallon said in a speech at St. Andrews University in Scotland this week.

With the occupant of the White House in Putin's pocket, fighting in Ukraine has exploded.  More than 30 people are dead; the number of explosions tracked by monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) skyrocketed from 420 on 26 January to 10,330 on 31 January.  Hey, remember when 37 Australians and Australian residents were killed when a Russian made missile downed Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine?  Trump doesn't.