Good Morning Australia! - Nauru reveal spying against an Australian senator - China fears toxic chemicals at the scene of the Tianjin blast - When the Middle East is involved, nothing is ever as simple as a day at the beach - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Former guards from the Nauru detention facility say Wilson Security's spy operation on Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young was much more extensive than originally admitted.  The ABC reports that the guards said the surveillance involved up to eight members of the Emergency Response Team and continued for the senator's full three-day stay on Nauru in December 2013 - following her, photographing her, and taking notes on who she met with and when.  Creepy, creepy, creepy.  They're accusing Wilson of misleading parliament about abuse and cover-ups at Nauru.

China sent military chemical experts to the scene of the massive explosion in Tianjin, as officials raised the death toll to at least 50 lives lost.  The warehouse at the epicenter held all sorts of dangerous chemicals, and the fear is that some of them could have been spread over a large area.  More than 700 people are injured and 71 are in a critical condition.  In excess of 3,500 people spent the night in temporary housing or shelters.  The blast was so large that it was detected by the US Geological Survey which monitors the world for earthquakes, and seen from space by a Japanese weather satellite.

Islamic State is taking responsibility for the suicide truck bombing in Baghdad's Sadr City, a major Shiite enclave in the Iraqi capital.  At least 59 people were killed when the blast tore through the busy Jameela Market.  The attack in Sadr City was one of the deadliest in the capital since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office a year ago.

Paris called out hundreds of cops to patrol to break up scuffles at what was supposed to be a riverfront event honoring trade and relations with Tel Aviv, Israel.  Critics said "Tel Aviv on the Seine" was inappropriate after the death of a Palestinian baby in an arson attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank last month, and after last year's Gaza war that killed almost 1,500 Palestinian civilians.  Protesters set up their own rival "Gaza Beach" yards away from the sanctioned event.  Paris is home to some of Europe's largest populations of Muslims and Jews, and events like this tend to draw out the protesters.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari swore in four new military chiefs and gave them a hard task and a deadline:  To defeat Boko Haram in three months.  Nigeria and its neighbors Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Benin will soon deploy a joint task force to fight the terrorists, whose stated goal is to establish an Islamic Caliphate based on its looney tunes interpretation of Islamic sharia law.  Boko Haram has killed 10,000 people in its quest over the past six years - 1,000 of the victims died in the weeks since Buhari was inaugurated.

Doctors in Paraguay performed a Caesarian Section on an 11-year old girl who was raped by her stepfather, months after the government denied her permission for an abortion.  The predominantly Roman Catholic nation only allows abortion when the mother's health is in danger, and some overly religious bureaucrat in the health ministry decided that was not so in this case.  The UN Human Rights panel ruled that Paraguay "failed to protect" the girl, and Amnesty International decribed her treatment by the government as "inhumane".  Cops in Asunsion came down hard on a rally demanding the country change its draconian, Taliban-like abortion ban.

Egypt convicted four cops in their retrial for killing 37 detainees by lobbing tear gas into the back of a crowded transport vehicle, asphyxiating them.  But the sentences were a joke - one supervisor got five years in prison, the others were handed one year suspended sentences.  The detainees were allegedly members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood protesting the military ouster of Muhammad Morsi from the Egyptian presidency.