Good Morning Australia!! - The killer of a British MP learns his sentence - Trump names two women to his cabinet - Colombia takes another crack at peace - MORE Baby Pandas?!?! - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A British right-winger will spend the rest of his life in prison after bring convicted of the murder of MP Jo Cox.  Prosecutors said 53-year old nazi-obsessed Thomas Mair screamed "Britain First!" as he shot and stabbed Ms. Cox outside a constituents meeting.  Jo Cox opposed the Brexit, and was considered a rising star in the Labour Party.  The judge described Mrs Cox as "a wonderful mother, daughter, sister, partner, and companion", while excoriating the dirtbag Mair as someone who betrayed Britain's World War II generation which fought naziism.

US president-elect Donald Trump has finally nominating women to his incoming cabinet.  One is South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to United Nations Ambassador; a tea party conservative, she defied the prevailing political winds to take down the Confederate Flag at state facilities.  However, she has no international experience.  The second women is Michigan billionaire Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary;  she is the sister of the Blackwater mercenary founder Eric Prince and a long-time Republican party fundraiser dedicated to extreme positions such as gutting the Medicare and Social Security safety nets.  Both opposed criticized Trump during the primary campaign earlier this year.

Colombia's government will sign the new peace deal with the Marxist FARC militia on Thursday, after the first deal was rejected by the Colombian people in a plebiscite.  President Juan Manual Santos - who won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts - will put the new deal before congress, rather than hold a second vote.  The new deal seeks to alleviate conservative opposition by requiring the FARC to give up its assets to pay reparations for the 50 year civil war.

Bolivia's drought is bad that three districts are ending the school year two weeks early - there's simply no water to run the facilities.  President Evo Morales blames Global Warming, and declared a national state of emergency earlier this week.  Some reservoirs are down to one percent of normal, and lakes in the high Andean nation have gone dry.

An outbreak of Dengue Fever has killed 20 people in Burkina Faso, causing alarm in the land-locked western African country.  Officials are urging calm and trying to avoid any widespread panic.  The UN World Health Organization says the mosquito-borne disease have been reported from all twelve districts of the capital Ouagadougou, as well as the north and the west.

An Iraqi militia group says it has completed the encirclement of Mosul, cutting off Islamic state's crucial supply route to its de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria.  The predominantly Shiite Hashed al-Shaabi linked up with Kurdish and other anti-IS forces in the area, including the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters.  A US air strike in Mosul took out the city's the fourth bridge on the Tigris River, leaving the IS occupiers with only one functioning connection over the river and and further disrupting its supply lines.

Air travel was pretty hellish in Europe, and it could be bad for the rest of the week.  Lufthansa pilots extended their strike through Friday.  The German airline cancelled hundreds of flights, impacting tens of thousands of travellers.

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