Hello Australia!! - Trump meets Turnbull, sticks foot in mouth - France prepares to decide between fascism and neo-liberalism - Anger builds towards the prosecutor who blamed the victim for her own murder - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull finally had his face to face meeting with Donald Trump in New York City, where the two shook hands and exchanged pleasantries at a black tie dinner honoring veterans of the Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II.  Trump claimed that the widely-reported terse phone call between the two in January was "fake news".  Mr. Turnbull said, "As we reflect on the Battle of the Coral Sea, we are reminded of how the stability and prosperity of our region over so many decades has been secured and is secure today by the United States."  During the same media availability, Trump praised Australia's health care system - considered to be "universal" health care when compared to America's crappy for-profit model.  He said this just hours after his Republican allies in the lower house of Congress passed a health care bill that would take coverage away from tens of millions of people. 

There are security alerts in effect in and around Paris before Sunday's election.  Police arrested a suspected radical Islamist allegedly possessing weapons and a USB stick containing a pledge of allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.  The 34-year old former soldier has been on police radar since 2014 because of radicalization.  Police are particularly intent on preempting any potential terrorist strike after the murder of an officer three days before the first round of the election last month.  Despite the tighter security, Greenpeace activists were able to scale the lower part of the Eiffel Tower and unfurl banners reading "Liberte, egalite, fraternite" and "resist" in opposition to far right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen, who is running about 20 points behind centrist Emmanuel Macron in the polls. 
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Greenpeace France chief Jean-Francois Julliard said, "We wanted to say we are against the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism in France and in other countries."

Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he will back an inquiry into state terrorism and abuse of LGBT in the Russian Republican of Chechnya.  Several hundred gay men have been rousted and rounded up by police, many of them beaten and abused at a site outside Grozny. Three men have been killed.  But Putin's feigned concern is already ringing hollow - the inquiry will take place outside Chechnya, and Putin downplayed the confirmed incidents as "rumors, you could say, about what is happening in our North Caucasus with people of non-traditional orientation" - the Russian government euphemism for gay people.

There is outrage in Mexico after a prosecutor blamed a woman for her own murder.  22-year old Lesby Berlin Osorio was strangled with a telephone cord in Mexico City.  Prosecutors tweeted criticism of her living arrangements with her boyfriend, and accused the murder victim of drinking and taking drugs.  That sparked pushback on Twitter under the hashtag #SiMeMatan, Spanish for "If They Kill Me".  Thousands of women blasted the prosecutors and worried that they would be smeared posthumously if they fell victim to a violent crime. 
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"I hope the police (and media) focus on my killer, not on my clothes, studies, work and who I go to bed with," tweeted Paula Villareal, a Mexican computer scientist.  The United Nations says that in Mexico, a woman is raped every four minutes and 40 percent of the female population has suffered sexual abuse.

The head of Brazil's indigenous rights agency Funai says he was fired for speaking out.  Ranchers attacked the Gamela indigenous reserve in a dispute over land rights and injured several people with machetes; Funai chief Antonio Costa said the unelected conservative government slashed his budget by 40 percent and had been pressuring him to hire political cronies "who've never seen an indigenous person in their lives" in the positions that were left.  And with that, Mr. Costa was sacked.  Violence against indigenous groups in Brazil is growing as ranchers and farmers encroach further into the rainforest, chopping down trees for land used to meets the demands of agricultural globalization.

An Indian court has upheld the death sentences against four men convicted in the notorious gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a bus in Delhi back in 2012.  The case and several following it highlighted India's problem with sex assaults.  These four can still appeal to the Supreme Court, and if that fails they can try asking the president for clemency.  The fifth suspect in this gruesome crime committed suicide in prison, and the sixth was underage at the time in December 2012 - he's already served the maximum sentence for a juvenile and has been released from prison.

More than a hundred convicts are on the run in Sumatra after breaking out of an overcrowded prison there.  Indonesian authorities say about 200 convicts were let out of their cells for Friday Muslim prayers, but they overpowered guards at the side entrance at Sialang Bungkuk prison in Pekanbaru City and made a break for it.  About a third were recaptured almost immediately.  An official with the law ministry said 1,900 prisoners were packed into a prison designed for 300 with only five or six guards watching them.

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari sort of appeared in public for Friday prayers at a mosque in the presidential villa in the capital Abuja.  People have been urging him to at least take another leave of absence because of apparent health difficulties.  The 74-year old already took seven weeks off late last year and early this year to seek unspecified treatment in London.

North Korea claims it foiled a CIA plot to kill dictator Kim Jong-un with chemical weapons.  Uh huh.

China unveiled its first domestically designed and produced large-scale passenger airplane.  The C919 is designed to be a direct competitor to Boeing's 737 and the Airbus A320.

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo welcomes its new baby Lemur.