Hello Australia!! - Fear and anticipation in Gambia - A strange pairing against IS - A German pol is tired of being reminded about the Holocaust - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Troops from Senegal are massing at the Gambian border, highlighting the growing crisis of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's refusal to step down after losing last month's election.  Nigeria has now sent fighter planes to the area, bolstering its earlier contribution of a Naval warship.  The Gambia's parliament rubber-stamped a bill giving Jammeh another three months in office, in an attempt to halt election victor Adama Barrow from taking office as scheduled today.

The death toll from Nigeria's accidental bombing of a refugee camp near Boko Haram territory has grown to more than 70 lives lost, with well more than 100 injured.  The camp is home to more than 25,000 refugees from Nigeria's internal conflict with Boko Haram Islamist separatists.  The Red Cross says many of the wounded desperately need to be evacuated to better medical facilities in the south.

Russian and Turkish warplanes have conducted their first joint strikes on so-called Islamic State targets in Syria.  Moscow says they targeted the town of al-Bab, Aleppo province, where Turkey suffered heavy casualties last month battling the group on the ground.  The highly unusual site of a NATO country - albeit one of NATO's problem children - working with the Russians might be a preview of things to come as blowhard strongmen take control of more countries.  It's even more unusual because the two countries almost came to blows only a few months ago.

Outrage in Germany, after the head of the ultra-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party condemned a Holocaust memorial, and claimed that Germans were the "only people in the world who planted a memorial of disgrace in the heart of their capital" (well, there might have been a compelling reason for that).  Politicians from across the spectrum accused Bjoern Hoecke of "nazi language" and currying favor with neo-nazi scum.  The AfD started out as a mainstream Euroskeptic party, but last year made the transition to full-fledged racist and anti-immigrant hate.

Italy is still digging out from under heavy snow, and three earthquakes struck - each one stronger than a magnitude five.  This happened in the Marche region on the northern Adriatic coast.  European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker promised Italy would not be "left alone".

Thousands of people in India's Tamil Nadu state are protesting against a ban on a traditional form of bullfighting called Jallikattu, camping at Marina beach in the state's capital, Chennai.  The government banned the centuries-old spectacle in 2014 and this was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2016.  But animal rights activists support the ban, saying the sport is "cruel to animals".  Riders are supposed to stay on the bull for three jumps - but since this takes place out in the open instead of in stadiums, people tend to get gored and trampled, and otherwise killed or injured.

Colombia's peacemaker President Juan Manuel Santos says there's progress in talks with the country's second-largest Marxist rebel group.  The ELN is releasing a politician it has held for a year, which clears the way for peace talks to begin next month.  Mr. Santos was awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize for ending 50 years of civil war with the much larger, rural-based FARC Communist group and bringing them into the political process. 

The CIA released 800,000 formerly classified files from over the decades after a lawsuit by Freedom of Information advocates.  They involve real stuff, such as intelligence estimates and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's dealings in two administration.  There's also silly crap like UFO, psychics, and other stuff that didn't pan out.