Hello Australia!! - US Foreign Policy is coming apart, and the Taliban is "happy" - Police arrest two in over the drones that shutdown a major world airport - The faith healer's secret stash - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A top US official in the fight against the so-called Islamic State has quit in protest of Donald Trump's curveball decision to pull US forces out of Syria.  Brett McGurk is the US special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat IS, until he leaves in February.  McGurk is a long-time anti-terrorism figure in the US, serving in the Bush and Obama administrations.  He was instrumental in putting together and coordinating a coalition of more than 60 nations working against the spread of IS.  This latest resignation follows the announced departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, also because of Trump's rash decision.  Critics say leaves US rivals Russia and Iran in powerful positions in the Mideast while abandoning the US-backed Kurds to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who wants to launch a massive military operation against the entire ethnic group.

The Taliban is gloating over Trump's other bombshell announcement, that he would order 7,000 US troops out of Afghanistan.  "Frankly speaking, we weren't expecting that immediate US response," a Taliban spokesman said, "We are more than happy."  While Trump had claimed that the so-called Islamic State had been defeated in Syria - it hasn't - not such claim can be made about the Taliban, which has recently increased the territory it commands.  The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001 with a brutal form of Sharia law that included public beheadings and punitive amputations, as well as a complete lack of rights for women.  It was the crucible of planning for the 9/11 attacks against the US which killed 2,996 people.

At least 16 people are dead in a car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.  Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack near the presidential palace.

Sussex, UK police are questioning a man and a woman arrested in the drone harassment of Gatwick Airport.  More than ten thousand travelers had their holiday plans spoiled after as many as four large drone quad copters were spotted buzzing the runway at Gatwick, forcing airlines to cancel almost two days of flights.  Police detained 47-year old Paul Gait and his 54-year old wife Elaine Kirk at their West Sussex home on Friday night.  He is said to be a drone hobbyist, although friends said they've never seen him with a drone matching the scale of the "industrial sized" RC aircraft spotted over the airport; the same friends said Ms. Kirk didn't share Mr. Gait's hobby.  Gatwick is back to normal, with only a couple of days to move all of those people before the holiday.

Yellow Vest protests in France were fewer and smaller than they had been in weeks past, returning most of the country to normal. 

Police in Brazil say they found a suitcase jammed with the equivalent of US$300,000 and emeralds in the home of an evangelical christian faith healer who is accused of molesting hundreds of women in his congregation.  Joao Teixeira de Faria has been a faith healer for several decades, went on the run earlier this month after TV news reports exposed the sex allegations, but was arrested and charged.  The cases against him may have a tough time, because Brazilian law allows women to report sex abuse only up to six months after the crime - many of the current allegations against him go back years.

Havana, Cuba is dealing with severe flooding after a storm pushed huge waves over the seawall, flooding low-lying first-floot homes and businesses.