Good Morning Australia!! - Republicans squirm after Trump's latest outrage - Troubling rumbles come from Russian-occupied Crimea - Italy moves to clean up The Godfather's home town - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

There has yet to be one big-name Republican to step forward and tell presidential candidate and fascist demagogue Donald Trump to stand down and end his campaign specifically over yesterday's assassination threat against Democratic party rival Hillary Clinton.  Others had earlier announced that they wouldn't support him, but this latest incident crosses a line never before tested in US politics - so much so that the Secret Service has interviewed Trump about the comment.  A new poll of Republicans found that a fifth of that party's voters want Trump to step aside for another GOP to run against Clinton.

Brazil's senate ordered to commence the impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff, dealing her a major setback.  She is accused of manipulating the federal budget to conceal a deficit, which she maintains is not a crime.  Ms. Rousseff's supporters call it a judicial coup - but there seems little to stop her removal from office at this point.  The margin of the vote to impeach was way above the threshold to convict after the trial is over.

Vietnam says a report that it moved rocket launchers to the Spratley Islands within range of China's new bases in the South China Sea is "inaccurate".  But A military spokesman said Vietnam has the right to arrange military hardware any way it likes on its sovereign territory.

Oh crap, is Putin getting ready to reignite the fighting in Ukraine?  The Russian FSB secret police claim to have stopped attempted Ukrainian terrorist attacks in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since March 2014, which supposedly happened under heavy fire from the Ukrainian side.  But Kiev denies not only any infiltration attempt, but also the occurrence of any fighting between the two sides - it simply didn't happen.  One thing activists are seeing:  The transfer of Russian military gear from Crimea towards the northern towns of Dzhankoy and Armyansk, near the frontier with Ukrainian-controlled territory.

Authorities blamed faulty electrical wiring after fire swept a Baghdad maternity hospital, killing twelve babies - some of them premature newborns in their incubators.  Yarmouk hospital director Saad Hatem Ahmed says 29 women and eight infants were rescued from the fire and transferred to another hospital.

Libyan forces recaptured the convention center, university, and a hospital from Islamic State in the terrorist group's stronghold in the coastal city of Sirte.  US Africa Command backed the government forces with at least 29 air strikes since 1 August.

Turkey blames the Kurdish PKK for a series of bombings that killed at least twelve people in the southeast.  It started with on attack near the border with Iraq that killed four soldiers and injured nine others near the border with Iraq; this was followed by two bombings targeting police in Kiziltepe and Diyarbakir.  These come as Turkey is still clamping down on security after the failed coup attempt, and after last year's breaking of the ceasefire with the Kurds.

Oman has arrested three journalists and shut down their daily Arabic newspaper Azamn, apparently over a story about the country's judiciary.  The Monitor of Human Rights in Oman, the Gulf Center for Human Rights and Amnesty International all called for the journalists' release.  The government news agency responded with a statement demanding that Oman's court system "should be an object of respect and gratification rather than a target of deliberate accusations meant to shake confidence". 

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is blasting Ecuador's "ridiculous and clear" attempt to censor information of public interest after a journalist broadcast a story about the country's healthcare system.  Media authorities are ordering the Teleamazonas network to apologize for Janet Hinostroza's report exposing problems with contracting that leads to substandard healthcare.  Ms. Hinostroza has already won a press freedom award from the CPJ, looks like Ecuador wants her to get another one.

The US has deported one of the former Guatemalan soldiers wanted for trial in the Las Dos Erres Massacre of 1982.  Authorities took Santos Lopez Alonzo, now 64-years old, into custody as soon as he arrived at the airport in Guatemala City.  Back in the bad old days of the Reagan-era, the central American country's US-trained special forces troops attacked an indigenous village in search of Leftists and weapons; finding neither, they murdered more than 200 villagers and raped the women.  The US-backed dictator at the time, Ephraim Rios Montt, has successfully avoided conviction on charges of crimes against humanity.

The Italian government says the mafia has infiltrated the local administration of the village of Corleone, the town that inspired Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" and the movies based on it.  Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's cabinet dissolved the Sicilian town's government and put city hall under the direction of the Interior Minister to sanitize the infection, as it has down with so many towns in the south and increasingly in the north.  Corleone's mayor had also expressed concern about Mafia infiltration.  In the novels, a young Vito Andolini is forced to leave his home village of Corleone, goes to New York and is renamed Vito Corleone, and seriously just read the novel you'll like it.

How about those Humpbacks?