Good Morning Australia!! - A gunman yelling about Aleppo assassinates Russia's ambassador to Turkey - Nine people die as a truck rams a crowded Christmas market - The children are being rescued from Aleppo - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A Turkish police officer shouting "God is great!" and "don't forget Aleppo, don't forget Syria!" shot and mortally wounded the Russian Ambassador to Turkey.  Some of the following links are disturbing scenes of a man being shot, so consider that before clicking:  Andrey Gennadyevich Karlov was shot from behind and immediately fell to the floor while speaking at an exhibition of photographs examining the relationship between the two countries; people ducked for cover - the ambassador later died in hospital.  Police shot and killed the gunman, who was later identified by Ankara's mayor as a police officer who was assigned to guard Mr. Karlov.

This probably isn't going to start a world war, but it comes at a difficult time between Turkey and Russia.  They picked opposite sides of the Syrian Civil war going on at Turkey's southern doorstep - Turkey backs some rebel factions, Russia is allied with President Bashar al-Assad.  Turkey shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 warplane a year ago, claiming that it strayed over the border from its patrol in Syria; Russia denied it.  Today's assassination - condemned by both countries - happened on the eve of a planned summit of Russia, Turkey, and Iran to discuss the Syrian situation.

More breaking news for your brekkies:  A truck has plowed into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital Berlin, causing several injuries and at least nine deaths.  The situation is still being assessed, and it's not clear if this is a terrorist attack.  However, it does seem to mirror the attack in Nice, France in July of this year during which a man drove a truck into a crown gathered to watch fireworks, killing 86 people.  

Evacuations resumed in Aleppo, Syria, with thousands of children being bused out of the besieged city.  Reportedly, one of them is seven-year old Bana Alabed, who had live blogged about the deteriorating conditions in the city via her Twitter account.  Concurrently, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution which requested "UN and other relevant institutions to carry out adequate, neutral monitoring" of the mass evacuations from Aleppo.

Three people are recovering from injuries after a shooting near an Islamic prayer center in Zurich, Switzerland.  It's not clear if the center was the target; gun violence is rare in the tiny alpine country.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board will meet to determine the future of its chief Christine Lagarde, after a French court convicted her of negligence.  As French finance minister in 2008, she approved an award of AU$580 Million to businessman Bernard Tapie for the disputed sale of a firm.  The court handed down no punishment.  The French government says it still has confidence in Ms. Lagarde.

The woman at the center of South Korea's political crisis appeared in court to deny corruption charges.  Choi Soon-sil is accused of using her friendship with President Park Geun-hye - who has since been impeached - to sell access to the highest levels of the Seoul government.

Kenya has ordered a US NGO to halt its work on the country's 2017 elections.  Officials accuse the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) to immediately stop its activities because it had not registered as an NGO, and because its employees had not acquired work permits.  Last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta accused unnamed foreign powers of pretending to promote "good governance or civic education" while working to "influence our electoral choice" for "their own selfish interest".

Bolivian Socialist Evo Morales will run for a fourth term as President, despite a referendum back in February that the opposition says makes any such move unconstitutional.  The ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) approved his candidacy, and Morales said "if the people say let's go with Evo, then let's continue defeating the right and continue with our process," adding "so many times we have defeated the right."