Hello Australia!! - A nazi learns his fate in Charlottesville, Virginia - French cops decried for treating high school students like captured troops - New concerns the DR Congo Ebola outbreak is now growing faster than it can be contained - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A court in Charlottesville, Virginia found 21-year old nazi James Alex Fields guilty of first-degree murder and four other counts for plowing his car into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters at the ugly and notorious "unite the right" rally in the college town last year.  Murdered was Heather Heyer, a promising and beloved young law clerk who joined the demonstration against the hundreds of far-right, neo-nazi scum, and fascist malcontents who appeared in the town.  Fields had come in from another state, where his high school teachers revealed his life-long obsession with Hitler, naziism, and hate culture.  Sentencing will be later, and Fields still faces trial on 25 other charges.

The US wants to prosecute Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou for alleged fraud, according to information presented at her bail hearing in Vancouver, Canada.  The exact nature of the US complaint was unknown until the hearing.  Meng is CFO of Huawei, one of the world's biggest suppliers of network gear for phone an internet companies.  The Americans claim that Huawei violated US economic sanctions on trade with Iran from 2009 to 2014 by using a shell company called Skycom to deal with Tehran; Meng in the past said Huawei and Skycom are two different entities, the US claims they are one in the same.  The arrest has put Canada in the middle of the increasing bad blood between the US and China, and Beijing is extremely unhappy that she was arrested a week ago while traveling from China to Mexico City. 

Video of French militarized police treating high school students like captured enemy soldiers or jihadists is sparking outrage on social media.  The teens are seen outside their school handcuffed and forced to kneel facing a wall, while others were forced to kneel and sit in the dirt - also handcuffed.  They have taken part in demonstrations against changes to the end-of-year exam in Mantes-la-Jolie, west of Paris; police claims it was an "armed gathering".  The cops' "frightening", "humiliating", and "unacceptable" behavior underlines the paranoia in official France after the Yellow Vest protests forced the government of President Emmanuel Macron to back off of unpopular gas tax hikes.  Some are expected massive, violent protests to return to Paris this weekend.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stepped down as head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which elected her protege Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as its new party leader.  Merkel plans to serve out her term as chancellor until 2021, and was rewarded with a standing ovation at her party's farewell address.  Assuming the CDU remains in power, it puts Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer in position to possibly be the next Chancellor.

Police and bank robbers had a running gun battle in Milagres in northeastern Brazil, killing at least twelve people.  Authorities say the gang attempted to hit two bank branches when they were surprised by officers.  They took hostages in their attempt to flee and everything got worse from there.  At least five hostages, all from one family and including a child, were killed.  The rest of the death toll is unclear, as some reports say six cops were killed and others say all of the robbers were killed.  At least two suspects are under arrest.

As a fire swept through as many as 690 shacks in South Africa, a mob lynched the the person it believed responsible for the blaze.  Police do not know what caused the fire in densely populated Alexandra township north of Johannesburg, where luckily most people were at work.  It is an impoverished area, with no fire hydrants for the thousands of homes of varying quality, all packed up against each other.  At least 2,000 people are homeless as a result.

The second largest Ebola outbreak in history is raging on with no end in sight in the DR Congo, and that is prompting health officials to worry that there is no enough experimental Ebola vaccine around to fight it.  The virus that causes oft-deadly hemorrhagic fever has arrived in Butembo, a city of a million people.  It's a significant complication for health care workers, who have already been hamstrung by armed militia factions in the region that prevent their free movement.

China launched a the first mission to land a robotic craft on the far side of the Moon.  The goal is to put a static lander and a rover in the Von Karman crater on the side of the Moon which never faces Earth.  The Chang'e-4 mission will: Collect rocks for eventual transport to earth; test lunar soil to learn if potatoes and other crops can be grown; assess the "radio environment" on the far side to determine if future radio astronomy telescopes should be installed there.  The mission is expected to land on the moon in January.

Comic actor Kevin Hart has stepped down as host of the upcoming 2019 Oscars after an uproar over homophobic social media posts from eight and nine years ago.  Hart insists he has apologized for the tweets in the past, but said he did not want to be a distraction and that he was "sorry he had hurt people".