Hello Australia!! - Protesters storm Baghdad's Green Zone and occupy Iraq's Parliament - Ireland's long-time rivals are on the verge of an historic partnership - Kenya strikes a blow against elephant poachers - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

German police arrested hundreds of protesters who disrupted the party congress of the far-right "Alternative for Germany" (AfD), which will vote on a disgusting proposed manifesto this weekend.  The document would put the AfD on record as opposing Islam, banning the burka, and outlawing minarets.  "We are united by our conviction that we cannot let the AfD go unchallenged, and that it is a party which is not only racist, but which is engaged in the politics of exclusion and social division," said protester Dominik Schmeiser. "We will not allow ourselves to be divided and we stand together for a compassionate society."

Hundreds of Shiite Muslim protesters stormed Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" - supposedly, the most-secure place in the Iraqi capital - and occupied parliament and other government buildings.  Supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr are angry that MPs failed to convene a session to to replace ministers with non-partisan technocrats.  This political crisis has been brewing for months, with the country's Shiite and Sunni factions unable to break the gridlock in government.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, a car bomb killed at least 21 people in a Shiite religious procession.  Islamic State claimed responsibility.

Iran's moderates scored big victories in parliamentary elections.  42 percent of seats went to allies of President Hassan Rouhani, and 30 percent went to independents said to favor more reforms.  The results are being interpreted as public approval of the nuclear agreement that President Rouhani reached with the major western powers.

Thousands of Argentinians marched against the pro-market reforms of conservative President Mauricio Macri.  Unions say 100,000 people have lost their jobs in the few months since Macri took office - Macri says the reforms are necessary to restore the economy.  So, let that sink in:  Macri's version of a "better economy" is one where 100,000 people lose their jobs.  Alrighty then.  Hard-hit working families are also being ravaged by skyrocketing consumer prices in Argentina.

Ireland's rival Fianna Fail and Fine Gael parties have agreed on a coalition government that could see the return of Enda Kenny as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) as early as week.  Both are milquetoast center-right parties but were on opposite sides of the civil war in the 1920s, and have viewed each other with varying degrees of contempt and suspicion ever since.  Sinn Fein TD Sean Crowe said, "The two conservative parties have come together.  It's not going to be a good thing for working people and their families.

A mosque undergoing renovation in Somalia collapsed during Friday prayers, killing 15 people and injuring 42.  Police arrested an engineer on the project on suspicion of negligence.

Both the Somalia mosque disaster and the collapse of a residential building in Kenya occurred during heavy rain.  The six-storey building in Nairobi was illegally built, unlicensed for human occupation, and was slated for demolition.  With at least 17 people killed and dozens injured, President Uhuru Kenyatta visited the site and called for the owner of the building to be jailed.

Earlier, President Kenyatta set fire to huge piles of confiscated elephant ivory and rhino horn in a blow against poaching and trafficking.  "No-one, and I repeat no-one, has any business in trading in ivory, for this trade means death of our elephants and death of our natural heritage," said Mr. Kenyatta.  More than 100 tons of tusks came from 6,000 murdered elephants over the years, and the largest pyres of their type are expected to burn for several days until the stock is destroyed.  Wildlife organizations warn that elephants and rhinos have little more than a decade left if poaching is not stopped.