Good Morning Australia!! - Putin knocks out a presidential competitor - Yemen faces starvation - Trump's "defense" of Ivanka may have crossed ethical lines - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

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A Russian court found Alexei Navalny guilty of (purported) embezzlement, and barred him from running for President next year - effectively knocking out Vladimir Putin's greatest rival.  Mr. Navalny is Putin's most-prominent critics, and was given a five-year suspended sentence.  This is his second conviction on the charges, which he denies, after the European Court of Human Rights ruled the first trial to be unfair.  Navalny says he is undeterred and will run for president in 2018 anyway - something that may not be legally possible.

The UN is appealing to members for US$2.1 billion to provide food and other life-saving aid for Yemen.  "If there is no immediate action, and despite the ongoing humanitarian efforts, famine is now a real possibility for 2017," and 12 million people are in immediate danger said UN emergency relief coordinator Stephen O'Brien.  Two years of civil war between proxies of Saudi Arabia and Iran, with the added chaotic element of jihadist groups did this to the country.  There is no economy, there are no places left to hide, and there are few ways out.  "In Yemen, if bombs don't kill you, a slow and painful death by starvation is now an increasing threat," said Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Yemen is asking the US military to call off anti-terror ground missions after this month's disaster in which elite Navy Seals lost one of their own, but managed to kill an eight-year old girl who was an American citizen, all while missing their target.  The plan had been rejected by Barack Obama during his last weeks in the White House, but approved by the orange clown, alienating potential allies in the war on terror.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is temporarily suspending its work in Afghanistan after six of its workers were killed by suspected Islamic State gunmen.  This happened in Qush Tepa in the far north.  There will be an investigation, but ICRC Director of Operations Dominik Stillhart said, "This is one of the most critical humanitarian contexts and we will definitely do everything to continue our operations there." 

Fire tore through a shantytown in Manila, Philippines, leaving as many as 15,000 people homeless.

South African (why is this guy still) President Jacob Zuma will deploy more than 400 troops to keep order in and around parliament when he delivers his annual State Of The Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday.  Zuma is awash in corruption allegations and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is divided; the government fears a "massive uprising" during the speech.  One source told South Africa's News 24 that "this won't just be teargas; this could mean sharp point ammunition".  There are reportedly planned disruptions at ANC events preceding the speech, and the boisterous Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) party has staged loud and demonstrative protests in the recent past.

An El Salvador radio and TV presenter is denying charges her beauty and cosmetic companies are laundering money for the Sinaloa drugs cartel.  After being taken on a "perp walk" earlier this week, Pamela Posada said: "I've been in front of the cameras before, but obviously under different circumstances, but I'm not having a bad time.  Everything will be fine."  Prosecutors say Ms. Posada and a group of fishers were a link in the trafficking of drugs from South America, up the west coast of Central America, to waiting noses in North America, Australia, Asia, and Europe.

Romania's government survived a confidence vote, after days of gigantic protests against it in the streets outside parliament in Bucharest.  Ruling coalition lawmakers simply abstained, denying the opponents the 50 percent support needed to pass the vote.  Protesters plan to return in great numbers, despite the government having already bowed to demands that it scrap a hair-brained scheme to weaken corruption laws and free some convicted pols from the slammer.

Instead of governing, orange clown Donald Trump had an unpresidential twitter meltdown over the impending collapse of his daughter's fashion line.  A campaign called Grab Your Wallet is urging shoppers to boycott retailers and other companies connected with the Trump family business empire.  With sales plummeting, retailers from the high-end Nordstrom and Niemann Marcus to discounters TJ Maxx and Marshall's are dumping Ivanka's lines.  Trump said the retailers were treating his daughter - who, like him, hasn't lived up to promises to back away from outside business interests - unfairly.  No such sympathy was displayed for the eight-year old girl killed in his ill-thought out Yemen raid, the victims of the right-wing terrorist attack at a Quebec City mosque, nor the millions about to lose their health care with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

Aside from being childish, it's potentially unethical:  Trump did this on his personal account, but retweeted it on the official @POTUS twitter account.  Opposition Democratic Party Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania "feels it is unethical and inappropriate for the president to lash out at a private company for refusing to enrich his family".  Former President Barack Obama's ethics czar Norm Eisen called the move "outrageous" and advised California-based Nordstrom to sue cheeto hitler under the California Unfair Competition Law.