Hello Australia!! - Trump travels to Europe, and it doesn't go well - The death toll increases in the California wildfires - The Philippines open a controversial case against a prominent journalist - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The "Camp Fire" in northern California has grown into the state's worst in recent history, killing nine people and wiping out most of the town of Paradise in the Sierra Nevada mountain range north of Sacramento. 
Paradise, California
A video posted to social media showed the perilous escape from the 100,000 acre inferno that one family endured; several others were not so lucky and died in their cars.  The smoke and soot has spilled down across the state's enormous Central Valley, fouling skies all the way down to the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Two more deaths are under investigation west of Los Angeles to determine if they're related to the Woolsey Fire, which started near Simi Valley and chewed through the dry bush straight through to the beach at Malibu. 
Malibu, CA/ABC7 News, Los Angeles
Malibu, CA
Several Hollywood celebrities are among the evacuees; Guillermo del Toro, Rainn Wilson, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian West, and Caitlyn Jenner are included.  "Doctor Strange" director Scott Derrickson said the fire destroyed his home.  The third major wildfire is burning near Thousands Oaks, where thirteen people died in a mass shooting last week.  In all 250,000 Californians have been forced to evacuate because of wildfires.

With all of that death and destruction going on, all Donald Trump could think to do was to pick a fight with California, blaming the fires on the state's alleged poor forest management.  Of course, this is 100 percent false, and much of California's forests are federal lands.  But logging interests are among Trump's big campaign donors and they've trying to get at California's old growth for decades, stopped only by state and federal environmental regulations.  Trump made no mention of the dead nor of the thousands of homes destroyed.  And it's not the first time that Trump has thrown rhetorical gasoline as California burned:  For at least three other wildfire emergencies this year, he has used the White House to hurl insults and criticism instead of offering the Federal Government's help.

Trump's ill-timed jabs at California came as he visited Europe for Armistice Day memorials, where barely waited to touch down at Orly Airport to insult French President Emmanuel Macron for his idea to create a European military "in order to protect itself from the US, China, and Russia".  Mr. Macron is an expert at handling Trump, however, and managed to calm things down by agreeing with him and name-checking him as "Donald" several times during a joint news conference.  Macron then went on to a ceremony marking the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, promising alongside German Chancellor Angeles Merkel to continue to fight to European unity.

However, Trump complained about the drizzly rain and cancelled his planned visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near where 2,000 US marines died in the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918 - one of the main reasons he traveled 3,600 miles to France.  White House chief of staff John Kelly went in his place.  The decision stunned Left and right pundits alike:  "It's incredible that a president would travel to France for this significant anniversary - and then remain in his hotel room watching TV rather than pay in person his respects to the Americans who gave their lives in France for the victory gained 100 years ago tomorrow," wrote former GW Bush speechwriter David Frum.  In fairness, Trump didn't remain in his hotel:  he's actually staying at the US ambassador's residence in Paris.

Eleven people were killed after heavy rain caused flash floods in Jordan.

The Philippine government is pursuing tax evasion charges against a journalist who has been very critical of Presidenti Rodrigo Duterte.  Maria Ressa, founder of the major news site Rappler, denies the allegations and says the case is a "clear form of continuing intimidation and harassment", and her lawyer saysthe government's case has "no legal leg to stand on".  Earlier this year, the site had its licence revoked by the state, igniting a national debate about press freedom.

And former Chilean military general was sentenced to three years and a day under house arrest for his role in the "Caravan of Death", a series of extra-judicial killings of opponents of fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s.  Juan Emilio Cheyre later became Pinochet's army commander-in-chief and is therefore the most senior member of Pinochet's oppressive regime held to account so far.  His commanding officer at the time, Ariosto Lapostol, got 15 years in prison for the killings.