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The Mexican government followed through with its threat to use force against a teachers strike in southern Oaxaca state.  Police attacked members of the dissident CNTE Union, killing three to six people and injuring several more.  Police say 21 have been arrested.

Apple is refusing to offer funding or technology to support the upcoming US Republican Party national convention due to presumptive presidential nominee and fascist demagogue Donald Trump's bigoted attitudes toward immigrants, minorities, and women.

China is accusing Indonesia of firing at one of its fishing boats and injuring one of the crew members.  Indonesia's navy confirms that warning shots were fired, but no one was harmed before the vessel and its crew were detained.

Good Morning Australia!! - Civilians get the worst of the latest Battle of Falluja - Italy's anti-establishment political movement is about to capture its highest office yet - The actor who played Star Trek's Chekov is killed in a freak accident - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - Rio warns of a crisis over a lack of money to deal with the needs of the upcoming Olympics - The alleged killer of a British MP acts like a jerk in court - Indonesia plans to cast a group of refugees out to sea - A woman fights a lion to save her little boy - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - Russian Athletes are banned from the Olympics over doping allegations - An Auschwitz guard finally faces justice seven decades after the holocaust - Iraq strikes a major and overdue blow to Islamic State - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The man arrested by UK police in the murder of MP Jo Cox of West Yorkshire had ties to American neo-nazi groups, and purchased from them instructions on how to make explosives and firearms.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he wouldn't have invited a senior Imam to the PM's official residents for a multi-faith Iftar dinner had he known the guy was a homophobe.

During the 2011 nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the man at the helm of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) ordered workers not to use the term "meltdown" to describe damage.

Good Morning Australia!! - A crazed right-winger apparently supporting a "Brexit" murders a British MP on the street - Obama goes to Orlando - Searchers recover one of the black boxes from the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the sea - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The interim President of Brazil Michel Temer is denying allegations of soliciting bribes and kickbacks, as spelled out in the plea bargain of a former executive of the corruption-soaked state run oil company Petrobras.

New South Wales will build a 270-kilometer pipeline to bring water from the Murray River to Broken Hill in the state's far west, to solve the town's longstanding water supply problems.

US Senator Bernie Sanders will address his supporters in a video announcement due out on Thursday night in the US.  But even though all of the primary elections are over and Hillary Clinton is the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, Mr. Sanders is not going to pull the plug on his campaign.

Good Morning Australia!! - Investigators find much of the missing EgyptAir flight that crashed into the sea - Is ASEAN knuckling under to China's territorial claims in the South China Sea? - Trump flip-flops and irks his most loyal supporters - Jamaica needs to get on the program - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Orlando, Florida was struck with a third tragedy in less than a week, when an alligator attacked and dragged off a child into the Seven Seas Lagoon near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.

Singapore held its first-ever Ivory crush on Monday night, destroying nearly eight metric tons of confiscated elephant ivory worth about AU$13 Million.  The banned tusks were run through a rock crusher and then incinerated.

The first species to go extinct as a result of human-caused climate change anywhere in the world appears to have been Australian.  The tiny rodent called the Bramble Cay Melomys might be the tip of the rapidly melting iceberg.

Good Morning Australia!! - President Obama responds to the Orange Idiot - A controversial Muslim cleric quickly leaves Australia - Health Officials will not recommend moving the Olympics from Rio because of Zika - The neighborhood hairdresser who coiffed the world - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Microsoft is buying the professional networking site LinkedIn for more than AU$35 Billion.  The deal could reinvigorate the software giant's slipping grip on corporate computer systems and employee interactions.

Two consecutive years of severe drought decimated crops and exacerbated hunger among the poor in Central America.  The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says around 2.8 million people in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras are relaying on food aid to survive.