Hello Australia!! - The right-wing terrorist stand off in the US reaches a critical crossroads - North Korea is possibly about to launch another missile - Greece says it is being unfairly blamed for the European migration crisis - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

In the US, the FBI is telling the remaining members of an armed, right-wing extremist group to end their occupation of the Malheur Nature Preserve in the state of Oregon - now that the group's leaders have been arrested and one follower was shot and killed.  From jail, protest leader Ammon Bundy also asked his group to go home.  Police aren't giving a lot of details about the shooting of Lavoy Finnicum, other than to say he approached officers with his gun drawn.  Earlier, Finnicum gave several interviews about how police would have to shoot him and he'd never surrender - and it looks like he got his wish. 

The armed terrorists made the preposterous demand that the Malheur Nature Preserve - the property of the people of the United States - be given to local ranchers for free grazing land.  The reason that then-President Teddy Roosevelt created the nature preserve in 1908 was that rancher had over-grazed the land and left it an environmental disaster. 

North Korea is planning a long-range missile launch within a week, according to an anonymous Japanese official quoted by the Kyodo News Agency.  The official claims that satellite imagery indicates preparations for a missile launch at the Tongchang-ri missile test site on North Korea's west coast.  This comes as the UN Security Council is looking for more sanctions to slap on Pyongyang for the North's nuclear weapon test on 6 January.

Sweden plans to deport as many as 80,000 migrants who arrived last year, but whose applications to stay have been rejected.  More than 163,000 have applied for asylum.  Interior Minister Anders Ygeman says that charter aircraft will be used, and the process will take several years.  Sweden has taken in the most migrants per capita of all European states in the current crisis. 

Greece is angrily defending its handling of the migration crisis, after the European Commission accused Athens of "seriously neglecting" its obligations.  Greece controls the external frontier of Europe's 26-nation free-travel Schengen Zone.  But out of the hundreds of thousands that passed through Greece on their way north, only some were fingerprinting or otherwise subjected to background screening: "There are serious deficiencies in the carrying out of external border control that must be overcome," said a finger-wagging Valdis Dombrovskis, a commission vice-president.  But the idea of suffering sanctions from sanctimonious northern Europeans is not sitting well in Greece, which blames Turkey for failing to abide by a November agreement to slow the rate of refugees.

The Chinese dissident artist Ai Wei Wei has shut down an exhibit in Denmark because of the country's decision to confiscate cash and assets from migrants to pay for their stay.  Mr. Ai echoed the severe criticism of the Danish government from Human Rights groups, noting that these people are refugees who left everything behind to escape war and poverty in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.  "They come with nothing, barefoot, in such cold, they have to walk across the rocky beach," Ai said from the Greek isle of Lesbos, where many of the million or so migrants entered Europe for the first time. 

Venezuelan doctors are banging on the government's door, demanding to publish statistics about the Zika virus.  Many are worried the country faces an epidemic of the mosquito-born disease that is suspected of causing around 4,000 birth defects in Brazil since October.  "Data is an essential tool for controlling this new health problem and to guiding public health measures," said the Venezuelan Society of Public Health.  The group says a study of fevers found a rise in cases of acute fever in the past six months that could correspond to as many as 400,000 cases of Zika in Venezuela.