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The world's biggest nickel producer is admitting that a spill from one of its plants turned a river in the Siberian Arctic a deep blood red.  The images of the Daldykan River in the Taymyr Peninsula in far northern Krasnoyarsk have been burning up Russian social media.

Good Morning Australia!! - The Gay Marriage plebiscite goes before the party room today - Newly discovered wreckage might point to a cause to whatever downed MH370 - If the world is a burning cinder a year from now, blame the US corporate media - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

US Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has canceled a fundraising swing through California after she appeared shaky on her feet on Sunday morning and her doctor later revealed she was diagnosed with pneumonia days earlier.

Israeli police, acting on a tip from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested two 18-year old men for allegedly running a cyber attack service that may be responsible for "a majority" of the Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) attacks over the last few years.

Good Morning Australia!! - Hillary picks the wrong day to feel ill - South Korea threatens the nuclear North - Child soldiers are put on the road back to home - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - Republicans fail to examine their racist supporters after a quip from Hillary - Dozens are killed in the lead up to the next Syrian cease fire - Fiji's democracy seems fragile as opposition figures are rounded up - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

US Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser referred to half of Donald Trump's supporters as "a basket of deplorables" - not all of them, to be sure, but just the bigots and malcontents.  She later took back the "half", but continued to attack her Republican opponent and promised to keep fighting "bigotry and racist rhetoric". 

Hello Australia!! - International scorn follows North Korea's nuclear test - Dozens spend the night dangling over the Alps - France says Islamic State was behind the failed terrorist plot in Paris - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Pyongyang says it has successfully carried a fifth test of a nuclear device.  The confirmation comes hours after the United States Geological Survey detected a magnitude 5.3 disturbance in the northeast of the country.

The biggest shareholder in the foundering Hanjin Shipping, Korean Air, is delaying on a decision on possibly coming up with funding for the world's seventh-largest container carrier.  It leaves billions of dollars in cargo marooned on Hanjin ships at sea and waiting outside ports it can't pay to get into to unload.

The US Federal Reserve Bank wants Congress to limitWall Street's ability to own physical commodities, among other things, because of the risk to the global financial system. 

Good Morning Australia!! - Is the world going to survive this US Election Season?  Is the US corporate media trying to busy the only qualified candidate to emerge from an embarrassing field vying the world's most powerful office? - Japan's deadliest cult is cleared for execution - More arrests in a potential terrorist plot in Paris - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Former Liberal Prime Ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard are coming out against holding a referendum to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The two major party candidates running for President of the United States appeared in a "Commander-in-Chief Forum" to discuss their qualifications for leading the most-powerful military the world has ever seen.  After the biased host confined Hillary Clinton to subjects she answered a long time ago, fascist demagogue Donald Trump was allowed to spout falsehood after falsehood without push-back, attack US military commanders, and praise Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

Good Morning Australia!! - Disturbing clues in Paris - Did Turkey's Erdogan reveal something he shouldn't have? - A political career is over because of associating with Trump - Human Rights progress in South America - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A federal judge in Washington, DC ordered a temporary halt in construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is opposed by Native American activists in the north-central United States because of the threat it poses to a reservation's water supply.

A luxury cruise ship is about two-thirds of its way through its historic and controversial voyage through the Northwest Passage, the first time a non-reinforced passenger ship has sailed the Arctic Ocean.  And it's made possible by man-made climate change.

Good Morning Australia!! - Duterte doesn't actually remove his foot from his mouth - The UN pushes safe sex because of Zika - Paris is building refugee camps - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Swedish government has dismissed the board of the Karolinska Institute which awards the Nobel Prize for Medicine.  This comes after a scandal involving an alleged quack surgeon, numerous accusations of scientific fraud, and the death of patients.

The French woman who recieved the world's first partial face transplant in a groundbreaking surgery that led to dozens of other successful transplants around the world has died.