Global News

Good Morning Australia!! - Austria dodges a bullet - Obama approved arms sales to a former enemy - A woman who escaped Boko Haram explains how the terrorist group's victims are forced to become suicide bombers - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Critics say a new report that actually advises people to eat a high fat diet to cut obesity and type 2 diabetes is irresponsible, and cherry picked its facts (before rolling them in egg and bread crumbs, pan frying them in butter, and sprinkling them with cheese).

Portugal managed to keep its lights on without burning fossils fuels, using only renewable energy for four consecutive days this month.  It's the second European country to report great success with its renewables in May, and people in the clean energy sector hope such announcements will become commonplace.

Good Morning Australia!! - A struggle at the top of the world to recover the body of a Melbourne woman - A singing star is in a critical condition after a crazed fan attacks - Afghanistan says a drone attack hit its mark - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - One Australian woman dies on Mount Everest, another becomes Oz's youngest to make the summit - New images show debris from EgyptAir Flight MS804 which crashed in the Mediterranean Sea - Greece might be halting the deal to stop refugees from flooding into Europe and returning them to Turkey - And more in your CareerSpot International News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - Searchers find the first debris from crashed EgyptAir Flight MS802 - Israel's cabinet is getting a troubling addition - EoDM singer Jesse Hughes opens his mouth, gets his band kicked out of two festivals - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Federal Government says a passenger aboard EgyptAir Flight MS804 which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea who was identified as a UK citizen is actually a dual UK/Australian national.

The government of Victoria will spend AU$1.5 Million to help dairy farmers struggling because of destructive cuts to the farm gate price of milk paid by Murray Goulburn and Fonterra.

The German drug and chemical company Bayer AG is making an offer to buy the US agricultural giant Monsanto for an undisclosed sum.  If the deal is allowed to go through, it would create world's biggest supplier of seeds and pesticides - but there are some hurdles to clear first.

Good Morning Australia!! - A haphazard beginning to the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight MS804 - Australian Federal Police raid Labor sites in the middle of an election season - Hillary sticks it to Trump - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Within the next few days, India is expected to commence work on a massive dam and canal building project that will channel water away from regions that have too much and being it to drought stricken areas.

Egypt sent several rescue groups out to the Mediterranean Sea after an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo passenger jet disappeared from radar.

Warning that it's "now or never", researchers are pushing all sides of government to commit to a ten year, AU$10 Billion emergency effort to save the Great Barrier Reef. 

Good Morning Australia!! - One of the Chibok Girls has been rescued, and she says others are alive - Landslides bury scores of people in Sri Lanka - A group of racist jerks loses their identity to a faster Feminist - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Despite the jobs it would have created in a hard-hit area, voters in a green and wooded corner of America's Pacific Northwest have approved a ban on the production and transport of bottled water.  It effectively kills a proposed Nestle water bottling plant.

Much has been made about the dangers of glyphosate - the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide.  But there's mounting evidence that some of the inert ingredients in Roundup and other glyphosate-based weedkillers may be dangerous as well.

Venezuelan opposition leader and twice-failed presidential candidate Henrique Capriles is inciting the military to revolt against democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro, declared a 60 day state of emergency to deal with the country's spiralling economic crisis.

Good Morning Australia!! - Fire ravages an Australian mosque, authorities call it suspicious - An Australian is killed in a gruesome day in Iraq - A judge in Germany sides with Erdogan - And more in your CareerSpot International News Briefs:

One of Thailand's most popular tourist attractions is shutting down to visitors.  Authorities are closing Koh Tachai island in the Similan Islands National Park off Phangnga because of environmental damage caused by tourists.

A software company has won a US$250,000 prize for developing a service that helps seafood companies vet their supply chains to determine the risks for slave labor, and eliminating it from the supply chain.