Hello Australia!! - An scene from apartheid in Today's South Africa - Egypt cracks down hard after a terrorist attack - Saudi Arabia recruits child soldiers - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

South Africa is vowing to "go hard" on a private security company that cleared black visitors from a public beach in Cape Town, bringing up memories of an ugly era that should have perished decades ago.  Mayor Dan Plato said that the security firm, which was hired by local residents over crime concerns, "had no authority to ask anyone to leave Clifton beach".  Plato also says people of all races were targeted, but demonstrators dispute that.  "These private security guards are actually briefed to not allow black people who appear to look like they are from the townships on to the beach," said local activist Chumani Maxwele.  More protests are planned for Sunday.  You know, it'd be great if beaches were places where people could just hang out and enjoy the sun without involving themselves in everyone lives.  Just saying.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League coalition is looing for a third-consecutive win in today's election.  An opposition bloc under the banner of Jatiya Oikya Front (JOF) and led by jailed ex-premier Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is mounting a strong challenge.  Right-wing Islamists are angered over the executions of their leaders for atrocities in the 1971 civil war and are now aligned with the BNP.

Egyptian forces made terrorists pay a heavy price, killing 40 suspected militants in three separate raids in north Sinai and Giza.  This follows the roadside bombing that killed four people on a bus of Vietnamese tourists going to see the sights in Giza.  The Egyptian state news described the suspects as "terrorists" and said they were killed in a gun battle.  It did not say whether there had been any casualties or injuries among the security forces.

Saudi Arabia is using African child soldiers to do the fighting in the Yemen Civil War.  The New York Times revealed the oil kingdom offered desperate Sudanese families as much as US$10,000 to enlist their children to fight in the nearly four-year-old war against Iran-aligned Houthi rebels.  The Saudis and its US backers support teh Yemeni government.  Sudanese fighters who had returned from Yemen told the New York Times that children made up as much as 40 percent of their units in Yemen.

Syrian troops apparently put off entering Manbij, a strategic city in the north that appears to be a target of Turkish forces preparing to cross the border and attack Kurdish forces.  Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan considers the Kurdish YPG a terrorist group, despite its record of beating the pants off of the so-called Islamic state.  But after Donald Trump announced he was pulling US forces out of Syria, the Kurds invited government troops to take over security and border protection.  The Syrians say they're taking up positions outside the city; Turkey is massing troops and weapons on the border.

Call him a terrorist, call him a propagandist, just don't call him Australian.  The Federal Government stripped the Aussie citizenship of Neil Prakesh, the 27-year old Melbourne native and former rapper who became a recruiter for the so-called Islamic State.  Prakesh, who also has Fijian citizenship through his father, is currently jailed in Turkey where he faces trial on terrorism related charges.  "Dual citizens who choose to be involved in terrorism forfeit the privileges of Australian citizenship, and I remain committed to enforcing the legal provisions that remove them," said Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.  Prakesh is the 27th Australian to lose his citizenship over terrorist ties.

Hanover Airport in Germany had to cancel several flights when a car burst through a security barrier and got onto a runway.  Police were able to stop the car with Polish tags, "overpower" the driver, and take him into custody. 

Ecuador is banning the sale and use of fireworks in the Galapagos archipelago to protect its unique fauna.  Conservationists say pyrotechnic events have caused the animals to suffer elevated heart rates, trembling, and anxiety.  Anyone with a dog or cat who lives within earshot of a local fireworks display already knew that.  Located a thousand kilometers off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos islands - which inspired Charles Darwin to develop the Theory of Evolution - are visited by thousands of tourists annually.