Hello Australia!! - The bombshell rocking Trump's impeachment trial - America's FBI blasts Prince Andrew - The legend, the truth, and the reporter who got in trouble - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Republican case in Donald Trump's impeachment trial hit a major snag after former national security adviser John Bolton - he of the walrus-like mustache - released a draft of a memoir that undercut the defense.  Bolton revealed that Trump allegedly told him directly that he withheld aid to Ukraine because he wanted the country to investigate his political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.  Republican Senators who had been leaning away from calling witnesses in the trial are now saying that they might have to have Bolton testify (the Dems sure want him to), and have the unpublished manuscript entered into evidence.

The US FBI says Prince Andrew has provided "zero cooperation" with their investigation into rich guy-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators about an alleged pedophile ring.  Andrew has denied allegations of having sex with a then-17-year-old girl, Virginia Giuffre, who claims she was trafficked by Epstein and his confederates to New York, London, and Epstein's private island estate in the US Virgin Islands.  Epstein was found dead in his jail cell last year before his case could go to trial.

The Taliban is claiming responsibility for downing a US Air Force E-11A airplane, although the US is claiming: "While the cause of crash is under investigation, there are no indications the crash was caused by enemy fire," according to military spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett.  The E-11A Electronic Surveillance and Communications plane was over Taliban-held territory in Ghazni province when it went down.  The Pentagon is not confirming how many people were on board, although the crew compliment on such an aircraft tends to be low.

An Iranian passenger plane "ran out of runway when landing at Mahshahr airport" and burst through the perimeter and onto a highway, according to state-run media.  Officials say there were "no casualties" of the 135 passengers and crew on the 27-year old McDonnell Douglas plane run by Caspian Airlines.  Iranian officials complain the nation's lousy air safety record is caused by the US economic embargo which prevent Tehran from purchasing parts or new planes to replace the aging fleet.

While America is awash with tributes and hagiography for NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, a reporter has been suspended for telling the whole truth.  Bryant, his teenage daughter and several others were killed in a chopper crash in southern California over the weekend.  The Washington Post suspended political journalist Felicia Sonmez after she tweeted a link from The Daily Beast about Kobe Bryant's awful sexual assault case in the early 2000's.  Bryant settled that case and admitted the encounter with a Colorado hotel employee wasn't as he had purported.  The Post's own media critic and Union blasted the paper for punishing a reporter for telling the truth.

Police in Germany have opened an investigation into a microbrewery selling beer branded with the imagery of nazi scum.  Photos of the "German Reich Brewery" beer were posted on Facebook by Gotz Ulrich, an official in eastern Germany who says the nazi scum staged a provocation on the 75th anniversary of liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops in World War II.  Symbols and logos of naziism are banned in Germany.

Holocaust survivors and international leaders honored the 1.1 million people murdered by the nazis at the former Auschwitz death camp during a somber ceremony.  The presidents of Israel and Poland - Reuven Rivlin and Andrzej Duda - made powerful calls to fight resurgent anti-Semitism.  "Our duty is to fight anti-Semitism, racism and fascist nostalgia - those sick evils," said Mr. Rivlin, warning of "voices which spread hate" and threaten democracy.