Hello Australia!! - A terrorist attack in Iran hints at wide regional tensions - Scientists land two probes on an asteroid  - The woman accusing a US Supreme Court nominee of attempted rape agrees to testify - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Gunmen attacked a military parade in Iran's southwestern city of Ahvaz, killing at least 29 people, including women and children.  "I saw a four-year old child get shot, and also a lady," said Iranian journalist Behrad Ghasemi, "The terrorists had no particular target and didn't really seem to care as they shot anyone they could with rapid gunfire."  Security forces fought back and killed four attackers, who apparently were able to slip past scrutiny in Iranian Revolutionary Guard uniforms.  Tehran is vowing "crushing" reprisals:  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said regional "puppets of the US" were trying to "create insecurity" in Iran; Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said "Iran holds regional terror sponsors and their US masters accountable". 

However, two groups claimed responsibility for the Ahvaz attack: The so-called Islamic State, which admittedly has a habit of claiming responsibility for a lot of stuff.  The other is the Ahvaz National Resistance, which claims to protect the interests of an Arab minority in Persian-majority Iran.  Members of the ethnic Ahvaz community had staged several protests in recent years against their perceived treatment by the central government.

The university professor accusing Donald Trump's Supreme Court choice of attempted rape when they were teens will testify against him before a US Senate committee next week.  Getting Professor Christine Blasey Ford to Washington has been the subject of touchy negotiations and several extended deadlines.  If she didn't agree to testify, the elderly white males who run the Senate Judiciary Committee said they would have gone ahead with a preliminary vote on Kavanaugh's nomination on Monday.  GOP favorite Brett Kavanaugh has denied allegations he tried to rape Ms. Ford at a party during the 1980s when they were students at elite prep schools. 

Police in Taiwan arrested Cody Wilson, the American who created the 3-D printed gun, on an American child molesting warrant.  Austin, Texas cops say Wilson had met an underage girl over a "sugar daddy" website, took her to a hotel, and paid her $500 for illegal sex last month.  He fled to Taiwan, and a local real estate salesperson said he a deposit down on an apartment, possibly indicating that he was not planning to go back to the US for a while.  Meanwhile, a groups of US states and the District of Columbia are suing to stop Wilson's company from distributing plans to make guns on 3-D printers, which critics say would allow criminals and terrorists to sidestep regulations and background checks.

A court in Chile handed prison terms to 20 former members of the country's secret police apparatus under fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet.  Under the US CIA-backed "Operation Condor" campaign, the victims were Leftist activists from Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia who were abducted and spirited away from Chile to be tortured and killed.  Sentences ranged from 100 days to ten years in prison, with the seven most-serious offenses getting 15 to 17 years in prison.

Rescuers found one more survivor hanging on in an air pocket in that ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria off northern Tanzania.  But 207 people are known to have died when the MV Nyerere ferry capsized near Ukara island last week, and more bodies are being pulled from the water.

The Japanese Hayabusa-2 successfully deployed two small robots onto the surface of an asteroid 300 million kilometers from Earth.  They'll take photos and temperature readings according to the Japanese space agency JAXA.  if successful, it will be the first moving, robotic observation of an asteroid's surface.  Next month, the Hayabusa-2 will drop an "impactor" onto the asteroid's surface to create a small crater, enabling scientists to use probes to examine the core material that hasn't been exposed to millennia of wind and radiation.  They hope to learn if material from space helped give rise to life on Earth.

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