Hello Australia!! - The US missile attack on a Syrian air base appears to have done little damage - A truck attacker kills in Stockholm - asd - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

On the surface, it appears that the US Tomahawk Missile attack on Syria ordered by Donald Trump has put a strain on US-Russian relations.  Six people were killed in the attack, and US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley says more attacks could follow "if necessary".  The Pentagon is investigating if there was any Russian involvement in the chemical weapon attack that sparked this episode.  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursdays night's missile barrage broke international law - Moscow has suspended an agreement to keep its personnel in Syria from coming into direct conflict with US and allied forces. 

At US$1.59 Million per Tomahawk cruise missile, multiplied by 59, America apparently did not get much bang for its buck.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which reports on the six-year old Syrian Civil War, quoted witnesses who saw Syrian aircraft taking off from the al-Shayrat airbase where missiles rained down a day earlier.  Apparently, the US didn't take out the runways.  Russian TV released video of the airbase - damaged, to be sure, but with several intact aircraft seen inside and out of bunkers.  Later, the SOHR quoted witnesses who said warplanes - unknown if Russian or Syrian - attacked Khan Shaykhun, the village hit with Sarin gas earlier this week.

If the US missile attack didn't do as much damage in Syria, it did expose the utter and craven hypocrisy of congressional Republicans in Washington, DC.  In August of 2013, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons in a similar attack against people in the Syrian city of Ghouta.  President Barack Obama requested congressional permission to launch air strikes, but the Republicans opposed.  Those same Republicans - Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, and many others - are now congratulating Trump for attacking without asking for congressional authorization. 

By the way, be glad you're an Aussie:  As earlier stated, each US Tomahawk Cruise Missile will cost in excess of US$1.59 Million to replace (.pdf link) and 59 were launched at Syria.  That's more than US$93.8 Million to distract the media's attention from the investigations into Donald Trump's links to Russia.   (yeah yeah yeah I corrected the math phffft)

ANYWAY...

A stolen beer truck plowed into pedestrians in a shopping area of Stockholm, Sweden killing at least four people and wounding more than a dozen before it crashed into the corner of a department store.  Mobile phone footage showed people running away from the attack.  Officials are calling it terrorism, and a suspect has reportedly been arrested.  "We are determined to never let the values that we treasure - democracy, human rights and freedom - to be undermined," said Prime Minister Stefan Lofven .  "Terrorists can never defeat Sweden, never."  There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

The woman seen falling from London's Westminster Bridge during last month's vehicle attack has died.  31-year old Andreea Cristea is now the fifth victim of the attack on 22 March in which Khalid Masood drove a rented Hyundai into crowds on Westminster Bridge and then stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament.  Police shot and killed him for a total of six dead.  It's not clear if Ms. Cristea, an architect from Romania, was thrown off the bridge by the force of the truck driven my Masood, or jumped to avoid getting run down.

Indonesia police authorities say that a group of cops will be "counseled" after triumphantly posing with the dead bodies of five motorcycle thieves they had just killed.  Three were just teenagers.  Police insist the shootings were justified because the suspects allegedly attacked officers.  But, "It should not happen again," said National Police Chief Tito Karnavian, who will go to Sumatra today to meet with the officers.

Protesters calling for the ouster of South African President Jacob Zuma filled streets in Pretoria, Cape Town, and other cities.  A few clashes with African National Congress supporters were reported.  Zuma is not due to leave office until 2019 when his second five-year term comes to an end, but opponents want him gone for rampant corruption and for his latest cabinet reshuffling with sacked the only person keeping the country's lousy economy from imploding.

Uruguayan pharmacies will begin selling marijuana in July, the last stage in the South American country's legalization process.  The cannabis trade was set into motion in 2013 when then-President Jose Mujica championed the decriminalization law.  Uruguayan citizens or permanent residents can register to purchase up to a maximum of 40 grams per month.