Hello Australia!! - Europe still doesn't believe Trump - Hundreds of thousands march to support immigration and ignore xenophobes - It turns out the Earth has eight continents! - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Hundreds of thousands of people filled the the streets in Barcelona to support migrants, defying xenophobia and nationalism.  Carrying banners reading, "Enough Excuses!" in the Catalan language, they demanded that Spain's government make good on promises to allow more refugees into Spain from war-hit areas such as Syria.  Madrid in in 2015 agreed to take in more than 17,000 refugees within two years - but only 1,100 were granted entry.

Xenophobic Dutch politician Geert Wilders called Moroccan people "scum" at a campaign event in The Netherlands.  He's still barely in the lead for the presidential race in April, but that's been steadily eroding as people reassess his relationship with Donald Trump, and how the latter person is screwing up the White House.

US Vice President Mike Pence failed to totally placate European fears of America's commitment to the continent's safety and security with Donald Trump in the White House.  "I bring you this assurance: The United States of America strongly supports NATO and will be unwavering in our commitment to our trans-Atlantic alliance," Pence told the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany.  "Your struggles are our struggles.  Your success is our success."  But while European officials were mostly okay with Pence, they are still not sold on Trump, who has called the NATO alliance "obsolete".  And France's foreign minister pointed out that Pence somehow left the European Union out of his talk about European security.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for international cooperation to face common challenges:  "In a year in which we see unimaginable challenges we can either work together or retreat to our individual roles.  I hope that we will find a common position," the chancellor said, without specifically mentioning Trump.  But it's no coincidence that Ms. Merkel lauded the benefits of "a free, independent press" a day after the orange clown tweeted his view that the news media is the "enemy of the American people".  BTW, the news media is the ONLY profession explicitly singled out for protection in the United States Constitution. 

Also in Munich, US Secretary for Homeland Security John Kelly outlined the next version of a travel ban to supposedly fight terrorism:  Unlike the one issued last month that has been found unconstitutional by several courts, the next one will not stop green card residency holders or travelers already on planes from entering the United States.  The botched roll-out of the unconstitutional plan to ban people from seven predominantly Muslim nations found scores of people with legal, valid paperwork to enter the US held at immigration checkpoints and in some cases kicked out on return flights.  Critics say Trump's ban was a thinly disguised attempt to limit Muslims, and note that not one person from the seven countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen - has carried out a terrorist attack on US soil.  Coincidentally, none of the countries have a Trump real estate development.

The so-called Islamic State's economic model is in shambles, and the terrorist group that fancies itself a nation is hemorrhaging money.  A report from The International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence says revenues declined from US$1.9 Billion in 2014  - when the group was taking over banks and oil wells in Syria and Iraq - to US$870 million in 2016.  Terrorism expert Peter Neumann of King's College in London says IS "has a lot more expenses" than previous jihadist groups.  "It needs to fix roads.  It needs to pay teachers.  It needs to run health services.  It needs to pay for these things that al Qaeda never had to," he added.

At least 19 people are dead in a bus crash in Argentina.  The vehicle "flipped" over on a remote mountain road near Mount Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, in the southern Andes mountains.  The two drivers have been held for questioning.

Colombian civilians are fleeing the borderland near Venezuela, because criminal gangs are filling the vacuum left by disarming Communist rebels.    Around a hundred families have abandoned their homes as government forces find more difficult than expected to take command in former rebel areas.  The government has already begun bringing the FARC in from the jungle, and peace talks are commencing with the ELN.

China is suspending all imports of North Korean coal in protest over Pyongyang's most recent missile test.  A shipment worth AU$1.3 Million has already been rejected and the ban will run through the end the year.  The move is significant because China is seen as the repressive and insular North Korea's only friend in the world.

The woman at the Roe versus Wade case that legalized abortion rights in the US has died.  69-year old Norma McCorvey died in a care center after suffering cancer.  She never actually did get an abortion, as the ruling came years after the case commenced.  Sometime after the landmark 1972 Supreme Court decision, McCorvey found religion and campaigned against abortion, but the case wasn't about "one" woman - it was about the reproductive rights of all women.

Geologists say the Earth has one more continent than previously thought - and it's right next door.  A new study in the journal of the Geological Society of America says Zealandia wasn't identified earlier because it is 94 percent submerged underwater.  The other six percent consists of New Zealand and New Caledonia.  The world's eighth continent spans almost 2 million square miles, and is a bit larger than India.