Hello Australia!! - The White House is scrambling as word come down that charges are coming - Terrorists kill 23 people in Mogadishu just weeks after Somalia's deadliest attack - The US warns of North Korea's "accelerated" threat - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

US Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has filed the first criminal charges in the investigation into ties between Donald Tump's presidential campaign and Russia.  It was not clear what the charges were and who they targeted, and attorneys for former National Security Advisor Robert Flynn and former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort claim they have not been notified of impending charges, as is customer in so-called white collar crimes.  The charges were approved by a federal grand jury in Washington, are sealed under orders from a federal judge.. so we won't know the contents until Monday.

The threat of North Korea launching a nuclear missile attack has "accelerated" according to US Defense Secretary James Mattis, appearing in Seoul alongside his South Korea counterpart Song Young-moo.  "North Korea has accelerated the threat that it poses to its neighbors and the world through its illegal and unnecessary missile and nuclear weapons programs," said Mattis.  This comes less than a week before Donald Trump makes his first trip to Asia as occupant of the Oval Office.  Or, if the Mueller investigation is proceding as quickly as some believe, maybe he won't.

Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for an attack in Mogadishu that killed at least 23 people on Saturday, including children.  A suicide truck bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia's capital, while gunfire and explosions continued as security forces pursued other attackers inside the building.  This comes two weeks after more than 350 people were killed in a massive truck bombing on a busy Mogadishu street, also blamed on al Shabaab.

Tanzania accused three South African lawyers of "promoting homosexuality" and threw them out of the country, for attending a summit on trying to stop a law stopping private health clinics from providing HIV and AIDS services.  Homosexuality is a crime in the southeastern African country, where a top health official last month vowed in front of parliament to "fight with all our strength against groups supporting homosexuality in our country".  The lawyers plan to sue the Tanzanian government.

Illegal gold miners and prospectors are suspected of setting fire to the offices of environmental agencies in the northern Brazilian town of Humaita, in the heart of Brazil's Amazon region.  The attackers were apparently seeking revenge for a raid that shut down an illegal mining operation.  Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency (Ibama) and the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation lost important documents, as well as facilities, furniture, and vehicles.  Witnesses say hundreds of armed men took part in Friday's attack.

The British Royal Navy sacked nine sailors serving on a nuclear-armed submarine after they tested positive for cocaine.  "We do not tolerate drugs misuse by service personnel," said a spokesman, "Those found to have fallen short of our high standards face being discharged from service."  They failed the drug tests while the submarine was docked in the United States for repairs and to pick up a spare six pack of nuclear weapons; while this was going on, the sailors had to he housed at a hotel on shore where they met temptation and failed.