Good Morning Australia!! - Shocking revelations about Trump's taxes, or lack thereof - The UK PM is setting a scheduled to leave the EU - Duterte feels the warmth from Moscow and Beijing - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The first of the October Surprises is in, and it's huuuuge:  US Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump - who claims to be a great business leader - claimed a US$916 Million loss on his taxes in 1995.  Not only that, but the New York Times reports that the deduction that he claimed for the loss - which is not available to the average non-fat cat billion taxpayer - may have allowed him to skip out on paying his taxes for the next 18 years.  Trump's front bench spokesmen/apologists fanned out on the Sunday morning political shows, but didn't deny the facts in the New York Times report; rather, they actually came up with the talking point that Trump's apparent failures makes him a business "genius".  The NYT didn't say where it got the documents. 

BTW, Hillary and Bill Clinton paid $75,437 in taxes that year.  We know that because Hillary released decades of her tax returns early on.  But Trump did not release the rest of his taxes to put the matter to rest, raising the point:  Whatever is actually is in the rest of Trump's tax returns must be even worse than the New York Times report revealing he blew US$916 Million and skipped paying his fair share for the next two decades.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders defended Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton against the other side's attempt at an October surprise, which was already debunked before anyone actually opened their mouths.  No, Hillary didn't say the Sen. Sanders' Millennial supporters are "basement dwellers" - that's a lie being repeated by RWNJ sock-puppet fake twitter profiles.  Bernie says that Hillary is "absolutely correct" when she said, "If you're feeling like you're consigned to, you know, being a barista, or, you know, some other job that doesn't pay a lot, and doesn’t have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing.  I think we all should be really understanding of that," Clinton actually said.

One more word on "October Surprises":  Apparently, Julian Assange is planning something against Hillary Clinton that will help fascist demagogue Donald Trump's campaign for the most powerful political office in the world.  Mark your calendars for Wednesday, hopefully not as the day the world began to end.

MOVING ALONG..

British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will trigger Article 50 of the "Lisbon Treaty" by the end of March, and begin the process of pulling her country out of the European Union.  Ms. May claims she will win the "right deal" in what could be two years of complex re-negotiations of every trade and border deal the UK has with the EU. 

A Hungarian referendum to reject the EU's mandatory quotas for accepting refugees failed, because voters failed to turn out.  Hungarian law states that 51 percent of eligible voters must come out for the referendum to be binding; only about 43 percent did.  Although the outcome is moot, almost all who did bother to cast ballots wanted to reject the EU's refugee quotas,  RWNJ Prime Minister claims that as a "sweeping victory"; analysts said that the result was actually an "embarrassing but not totally catastrophic defeat".

A troubling sign in Colombia:  Results are too close to call an immediate result in the referendum on approving the peace deal with the FARC Marxist rebel group.  The deal took years to negotiate and would formally end five decades of civil war.  The count will go on into the night in Bogota.

Ethiopian officials are confirming that at least 52 people died in a human stampede after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at an anti-government demonstration.  It grew out of a religious festival in the town of Bishoftu attended by around two million people; that's in the politically restive Oromia  region where there are more and more frequent demonstrations demands more rights from the government.  Many of the dead were driven by the rushing crowd into a mud pit where they suffocated.

Militants attacked India's army base in Kashmir with gunfire and grenades, killing one border guard and wounding another.  It came days after India said it conducted a "surgical strike" against Pakistani militants who killed 18 Indian troops earlier.  India and Pakistan are nuclear powers, so, extra scary.

Three journalists arrested in Cairo last week were beaten and tasered by Egyptian cops, according to their lawyer.  Authorities arrested the three last week as they conducted "man on the street" interviews in Cairo for a Turkish news organization authorities claim is linked to the banned Muslim Brotherhood.  The journalists are now charged with publishing false news and membership in the Brotherhood.

Blood-on-his-hands Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is threatening the balance of power in the Pacific Rim:  He revealed that Russian and China gave him support at last month's ASEAN summit when he complained to them about criticism from the United States about his drug war, which has now killed more than 3,500 people since 1 July.  China and Russia, he said, tried to woo him away from the Philippines alliance with the US.  Rodrigo's relations with Washington have grown increasingly acrimonious, not least because of him calling President Barack Obama a "son of a bitch".  Duterte is threatening to review the treaty that gives US forces access to Philippine military bases.

A gas leak caused an explosion that injured around 90 people at a cafe in Malaga, a popular tourist spot in southern Spain.  People in and out of the La Bohemia were hurt as cafe's walls and counters collapsed, chairs and tables flew, and shattered glass from the cafe's windows and doors.  At least two are in intensive care.

The French church where an elderly priest was murdered by Islamist extremists has opened its doors for the first time since the attack on 26 July.  A special service followed a procession through the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in Normandy.