Good Morning Australia!! - A terrorist with alleged IS links kills four in Jerusalem - An Israeli official is caught meddling in someone else's election - Measuring the "Blackfish" effect - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian man who plowed a truck into a crowd near a busy promenade in Jerusalem.  Four young military cadets - three women and a man - were killed and several more people were hurt in the attack, echoing what happened last year in France and Germany.  Authorities say they were aware of the man behind the wheel - 28-year old Fadi al-Qanbar, an alleged supporter of the so-called Islamic State.  The other neighborhood terrorist group Hamas did not claim credit for the attack, but stupidly encouraged more like it. 

Israel's ambassador to the UK has apologized after one of his senior staffers was caught on video plotting with a senior Tory official to interfere in British elections to "take down" politicians deemed to be hostile to Israel.  One of the targets on the Israeli list is Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan, who has described expanding Israeli settlements as a "stain on the face of the globe" which "brings shame on Israel".  The consular official Shai Masot still hasn't left the UK after being heard plotting to invent "a little scandal" to discredit MPs on their list.  Ambassador Mark Regev said this was not the embassy or the Israeli government's view.

France was targeted in 24,000 cyber-attacks against defense targets last year.  Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said such attacks were doubling every year and this year's presidential elections could be targeted.  His warning comes after the US intelligence community released a report showing how Russia used propaganda and social media to influence the 2016 US Presidential campaign.

Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is dead of a heart attack at age 82.  Rafsanjani was president from 1989 to 1997 but was replaced by rhetorical bomb-thrower Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.  Although his influence had waned in recent years, he was an important figure in Tehran since the 1980s, urging moderation and better relations with the West that would eventually take place with current President Hassan Rouhani.

Mexican police arrested a suspect in the shooting of an American consular official in western Jalisco state.  The gunman wore a black wig and blue nurse's outfit when he shot and wounded the American outside a shopping center's garage in Mexico's second biggest city on Friday.  Cops are talking about a motive, but Guadalajara and the rest of the state are awash in violence perpetrated by the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel in recent years.

Ctrl-C nails another politician.  Ghana's new President Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn in over the weekend, giving an inauguration speech that lifted heavily from addresses by former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.  The president's office issued an apology on Sunday after social media users started pointing out similarities between Akufo-Addo's speech and those delivered by the two ex-US presidents.  In September, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had top apologize for plagiarizing speeches by Barack Obama.

Queen Elizabeth returned to church on Sunday, after missing Christmas and New Year's services due to a "heavy cold".

SeaWorld in San Diego, California is holding its last "Killer Whale" performances on Sunday - sort of.  Attendance has rightfully plunged after the 2013 documentary "Blackfish" revealed the dismal conditions of the captive Orcas, and implied that this led to the Orca Tilikum killing a trainer in 2010.  Tilikum died last week at age 36, showing signs of deep depression and poor health.  Replacing the old show will be a new exhibit showing how the remaining captive whales would behave in the wild, if they hadn't been taken out of their natural range of thousands of kilometers of ocean and dumped into a glorified fish tank.  Oh, and they'll still have to do tricks.  So.. what changed?