Hello Australia!! - Iran and North Korea defy Trump, who picks a racist and petty fight to divert attention - The NZ government is up for grabs - popular abroad, Emmanuel macron faces a giant protest back home - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told the United Nations General Assembly said the only reason the country is carrying on with its nuclear program is "self defense", but the escalating rhetoric from "mentally deranged" Donald Trump makes a missile strike on the US "more inevitable". 
Ri Yong-ho/United Nations
Ri said his very short, sharp, blunt diatribe was the direct rebuttal to Donald Trump's bombastic ad-libs from the same platform earlier in the week, strong language which we've since learned were a complete surprise to his beleaguered handlers who were visibly demoralized at Trump's idiocy.
Last Tuesday, although he probably still has a headache
Trump on Tuesday threatened to "destroy" North Korea because, he said, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a "rocket man on suicide mission".  US bombers flew very close to North Korea's east coast, which the Pentagon says was a mission meant to demonstrate to Pyongyang the options America has in the event these two arseholes make everything worse.

Meanwhile, China has moved to conform to the trade sanctions it agreed to at the UN Security Council, and began to cut oil exports to North Korea while ending imports of Pyongyang's textiles.  Under the UN resolution, China will still be able to export a maximum of two million barrels of refined petroleum to North Korea annually, beginning next year.

A seismic shock near the site of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site was probably not a seventh bomb blast, but might have been a geological collapse caused by the sixth test:  "The most probable hypothesis currently is that it is the consequence of the previous event," said Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the UN's Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).  Russia confirmed that radiation levels were normal in the area following the quake.

Iran has tested a medium range ballistic missile in defiance of Donald Trump, who claimed that such activities were grounds from abandoning the multi-national agreement that got Tehran to give up its nuclear program.  The Khoramshahr missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers, which is enough to strike Israel but a shorter range than some of the weapons already known to be in Iran's arsenal.  Missile tests were not specifically banned in the agreement signed by Iran, The US, UK France, Germany, Russia, China, and the EU.  Iran - which US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has admitted is in compliance with the agreement - has maintained it would not be the first party to back out of the deal. 

While the fires that Donald Trump set were starting to grow in North Korea and Iran, what was the orange clown up to?  Getting into twitter fights with jocks. 
Daaaahhhhrrrrrr
The ignorant man-child whose personal irresponsibility has tarnished the US Presidency blasted Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players who protest racism by "taking a knee" instead of standing during the playing of the US National Anthem, calling them "sons of bitches".  The tantrum-throwing orange clown also rescinded a White House invitation to the NBA Championship Golden State Warriors, because star player Steph Curry didn't want to go, and had been critical of Trump in the past.  The Golden State Warriors responded to the fool by saying the team would journey from home in California to Washington, despite it all:  "We'll constructively use our trip to the nation's capital in February to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion." 

Just to be clear, the White House infestation who said that "very fine people" were involved in the murderous nazi rioting in Charlottesville, Virginia was out there picking twitter fights with black athletes who protest racism, which was pointed out thousands of times by online critics. 
Covfefe Logic
US Civil Rights leader Ben Jealous said that given Trump's behavior, Colin Kaepernick should wear Trump's words as a "badge of honor".  Houston Rockets point guard Chris Paul said Trump isn't "man enough" to call athletes a "son of a bitch" to their faces.  Basketball's biggest name LeBron James called Trump "U Bum" and added, "Going to the White House was a great honor until you showed up". 

BTW, The Warriors already visited the White House as champions two years ago. 
What a real president looks like
When a REAL president lived there.

While the orange enema was picking fights with jocks, the US territory of Puerto Rico was going to hell.  The island's Governor Ricardo Rossello said on Saturday afternoon that the Guajataca dam was in imminent danger of collapse:  "We don't know how much longer it will hold," said Rossello, "The structure has been significantly compromised."  The 1920s-era dam was damaged from hits from successive Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and 70,000 people are still being evacuating from the Guajataca River.  Power is still out for most of the island - and will be for months - so teams are trying to bring generators out to cell phone towers to at least reestablish communications.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit Oaxaca, Mexico - it was an aftershock to the deadly temblor to hit the southern area on 7 September, but was felt all over the area where first responders and crews are trying to recover from last week's magnitude 8.1 quake.  Officials put a temporary halt to recovery efforts until the danger to the people sifting through debris passed.  The death toll from the most recent quake is 305 lives lost.  Almost a hundred people died in the earlier, southern quake in Chiapas and Oaxaca.

As many as 150,000 people filled the streets of Paris for a massive protest against President Emmanuel Macron's conservative labor reforms.  he waved French tri-colors, union banners, and signs reading "Macron, Resign!" and "No to the Social Coup D'Etat".  Critics say France's ten percent unemployment rate isn't going to be fixed by Macron making it easier to fire workers or assign them to unfavorable work schedules.  Macron's reforms also include a cap on the amount of compensation awarded by courts in cases of unfair dismissal – a key demand of bosses that has absolutely nothing to do with the national unemployment rate.

Spain is trying to put federal cops in charge of local law enforcement in restive Catalonia, where Madrid is trying to stamp out an independence referendum scheduled on 1 October.  Madrid has criticized the local "Mossos" Catalan police for not doing more to crack down on the independence referendum that was ruled illegal by the Constitutional Court.  "We are not accepting that the Spanish Interior Ministry assumes command over the Mossos," said Catalan Interior Minister Joaquim Forn in a sign of defiance.

Neither Labour nor the ruling National Party won enough seats for an outright majority to claim a clear victory in New Zealand's election.  But if Labour leader Jacinda Ardern can cut a deal with both the Greens and the anti-immigration New Zealand First party, she could wind up the next Kiwi Prime Minister.  PM Bill English is also looking to parlay with New Zealand First, so we'll see.