Good Morning Australia!! - Putin surprises the West with his decision on troops in Syria - Some migrants find a wet way around Macedonia's border blockade - Turkey strikes out at Kurds - The next mission to Mars takes off - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the withdrawal of most of his troops from Syria, saying they had largely achieved their goals.  This comes amid the latest round of Geneva-based peace talks aimed at winding down the Syrian Civil War.  But Mr. Putin said that Russia's airbase and Mediterranean port would continue to operate as normal, and both will be protected "from land, air and sea".  US officials say they had no advance warning of the announcement from the Kremlin.

Turkey lashed out at Kurdish positions in northern Iraq (yep, the same ones that are fighting Islamic State) in revenge for the suicide bombing that killed at least 37 people in Ankara over the weekend.  More than 200 people have been killed in five deadly bombings in Turkey since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke the cease-fire with the Kurds last July. 

A fighter jet from the United Arab Emirates crashed in Yemen after carrying out bombing raids on behalf of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels.  Both pilots were killed.

An Al Qaeda affiliate in western Africa has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Ivory Coast that killed 15 civilians and three terrorists.

The Lebanese army says two missiles found in the cargo of a flight at Belgrade airport in Serbia were not armed.  Serbian authorities earlier announced the disturbing discovery, but it appears the unarmed AGM-114 Hellfire were being shipped back to the US from a training exercise, with a final destination in Portland, Oregon.  This is the second time in recent memory that purportedly unarmed US missiles were discovered in the cargo of civilian planes - Last month, Cuba returned an inert Hellfire that was mistakenly shipped to Havana after being used in a training exercise in Europe in 2014.

More than a thousand migrants in northern Greece found a way around Macedonian border guards and made their way across a border river using a rope line to wade through.  Macedonia had earlier shut its border with Greece, leaving some 14,000 migrants - including many refugees from the Iraq and Syrian wars - stranded in squalid camps on the other side. 

A Colombian police captain who exposed a male prostitution scandal among his superiors escaped a kidnapping attempt.  Gunmen stopped the vehicle carrying Anyelo Palacios in a northern, rural province, but he managed to get away a few hours later.  Captain Palacios recently told reporters he had been abused as a young cadet, and revealed how young male police cadets were cajoled and threatened into having sex with higher-ranking officers and influential politicians.  It's not clear why he was kidnapped, except for the incriminating evidence he might possess.  The investigation into the prostitution ring is still under way.

Eight people are dead in a bizarre accident in a bank in Bangkok - they were in the basement of the Siam Commercial Bank when the building's chemical fire extinguishers deployed, flooding the area with suffocating chemicals.  Another seven are recovering in hospital.  Chemical fire suppressants are often used in institutions and buildings where large amounts of water and foam would ruin documents and electronic equipment.

The joint EU-Russian "ExoMars" mission took off from Kazakhstan.  It'll sniff around the atmosphere of Mars for traces of Methane gas which could be proof of life on the red planet.