Good Morning Australia!! - A medical charity is yet again targeted on the battlefield - Did Sean Penn go too far in meeting with a notorious drug lord? - Hundreds more Germans step forward with complaints about crime at New Year's Eve - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The White House is criticizing actor Sean Penn and Rolling Stone magazine for conducting an interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, apparently while he was on the run from the authorities in Sinaloa state last year, calling it "grotesque".  The piece was released on the magazine's website over the weekend.  Unnamed Mexican officials say it was Penn's secret meeting helped lead them to world's leading supplier of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines last week.  Guzman is back in prison, and Mexico is reportedly going to extradite him to the US to face trial for drug running, and a likely lengthy sentence in an American Super-Max prison.

The US is not likely to prosecute Sean Penn for aiding and abetting one of the world's worst felons, even though Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa drug cartel is responsible for thousands upon thousands of deaths in the US, Mexico, and around the world - be they through through violence or through the natural outcome of drug abuse.  America's strong tradition of Freedom of the Press tends to protect journalists doing their jobs, even if the job is abhorrent and even if the journalist is more of a hobbyist.  "The fact that he's acting as a journalist, if anything, would be even more helpful in showing that he wasn't engaged in some conspiracy," said noted attorney Floyd Abrams.  "Had he given him money, had he given him advice of some sort, how to avoid detection, that might be something else," Adams added.  Mexican authorities, however, still want to question Penn and actress Kate del Castillo who allegedly arranged the meeting in the jungles of Sinaloa.

Hey, remember when Argentina claimed to have captured three prison escapees who were convicted of one of the country's most-notorious drug-related murders?  Well, they backed off that and now say only one of the three were captured.  The case has become highly politicized, with the new conservative president blaming the escape (that happened on his watch) on the previous administration.

The number of criminal complaints arising from the debacle outside Cologne, Germany's New Year's Eve festivities has risen to 516: And 40 percent of them are related to sex harassment or assaults.  Germany's justice minister smells a rat:  "If such a horde gathers in order to commit crimes, that appears in some form to be planned,'' he said, "Nobody can tell me that this was not coordinated or prepared."  Police have been roundly criticized for their response, which went to denying anything happened to 516 complaints in a week.  And because many suspects are believed to be asylum-seekers, Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door policy to 1.1 million refugees who arrived in 2015 is coming under close scrutiny.

A missile struck yet another Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital, this time in Yemen.  At least four people are dead.  MSF says it's not clear if the missile was fired from a warplane with the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebels, or from a ground-based launcher.  It's the third attack on an MSF hospital in Yemen in the past few months.  And last October, US aircraft bombed an MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz, killing several people.

Arab League ministers voted to condemn Iran for the protesters in Tehran who attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy.  The crowd was angry over Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, who preached non-violent resistance to the Saudi regime.