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Hello Australia!! - A deal has been struck to keep the UK in the European Union - Worries over press freedoms in a country that's supposed to be an advanced Democracy - Two major authors whose work made the world a better place are dead - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A San Francisco tech executive apparently wants to challenge the "Pharma Bro" for the title of "America's Biggest, Most Insensitive Jerk".  He wrote an open letter urging the Mayor and Police Chief to do something about the homeless "riff raff", tearing open a split between the City's historic progressive character and new tech money.

fartbarfSaudi Arabia now says it is "not prepared" to cut oil production, days after the world's top exporter announced an agreement with its rival Russia to freeze output at January levels if major rivals follow.  Iran shocked markets saying it supported the move, but the announcement from the Saudis seems to blunt that.

The Aussie Dollar is too high, according to a board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia.  John Edwards says the currency risks climbing because central banks are embracing negative interest rates and the US Federal Reserve is postponing rate increases.

Good Morning Australia! - Donald Trump finds another political third rail to crap all over - Obama's travel plans removes one of the last vestiges of the Cold War - While new documents appear to confirm shocking allegations about a man generally credited with helping to end Soviet domination of Eastern Europe - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A hospital in Hollywood, California admits it paid a ransom of more than AU$23,700 to hackers who took control of the medical facility's computers and threatened to wipe the data unless they were paid.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro raised the Socialist country's heavily subsidized fuel prices for the first time in 17 years.  It's part of program to stem a spreading economic crisis that has left the country with triple-digit inflation and chronic product shortages - which Maduro blames on meddling by the US and its wealthy cronies, but his critics say are the fruits of state-run mismanagement.

Good Morning Australia!! - A car bomb strikes a military target in Turkey's capital - A cache of radioactive material has gone missing in Iraq - What does it take to peeve a Pope? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Apple CEO Tim Cook is defying a US court order to help the FBI access the encrypted phone of Syed Farook, one of the terrorists who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California last year.  The hang up is over the way investigators are demanding the Cupertino giant break into the mobile.

Hello Australia!! - China has installed missile launchers on disputed islands in the South China Sea - Canada finally admits that thousands of missing indigenous girls and women were likely murdered - Obama tells us who isn't going to be President of the USA - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

World Wide Fund (WWF) Australia says more than 40,000 hectares of Koala habitat in Queensland has disappeared since the state's land-clearing controls were weakened.  The group warns the populations of Koalas will decline because of loss of habitat.

Brazilian health officials are denying the allegations from an Argentine group of doctors who say the recent uptick in cases of microcephaly could be caused by a larvicide, instead of by the mosquito-borne Zika Virus.

Good Morning Australia!! - More help is coming for starving Syrians - Investigators point the finger of blame in a deadly train crash - A man shoots and kills a football ref because of a red card?!?!  Really? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Researchers in Brazil are confirming the discovery of the Zika in the brains of babies with microcephaly.  It adds to growing pile of evidence showing a link between the mosquito-transmitted virus and the birth defect.

The Tainan City government in Taiwan is moving to seize an additional AU$9.2 Million in assets and funds belonging to people under investigation in connection with the collapse of the Weiguan Jinlong "Golden Dragon" apartment tower.  The 17-storey building fell over during an earthquake earlier this month, at a cost of 114 lives.

Pakistan's seat of government in Islamabad, called the Majlis-e-Shoora, is now 100 percent powered by solar energy following the completion of a 1 MW solar PV rooftop array.  It's the first world capital to achieve this benchmark.

US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan will sell a stake in one of its biggest copper mines to Japan's Sumitomo Metal Mining.  The US$1 Billion deal is the biggest investment in the industry in a year, and shows the companies' two divergent views of copper after the worldwide price collapse.

Good Morning Australia!! - Bombs devastate several hospitals in Syria, dozens are killed - An investigation reveals luxury suites at a prison where dozens were killed in a  riot - The AFP might have exaggerated about the record Ice haul - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - Cops announce Australia's biggest Ice bust - Bad news for Japan's beleaguered economy - A Russian sports official dies after a massive scandal that endangered his country's Olympic dreams - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs: