Good Morning, Australia! – Anti-terror legislation could still strip dual nationals of Australian citizenship – US Republicans throw in the towel on the Confederate Flag – Taylor Swift is getting back together with Apple – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The cabinet is to get its hands on revised legislation to strip Aussie citizenship from dual nationals who go off to fight overseas.  Critics don’t believe it will mean a thing to people to leave the country anyway, and might actually prevent them from facing justice back in Oz.  Others say that the courts, and not government ministers, should decide who is eligible to lose their Australian citizenship.

In America’s southeast, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate Flag from the grounds of the state capital.  “The flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state.” Haley said while surrounded with African-American and White lawmakers from both major parties.  The announcement comes a week after a scrawny white supremacist with a gun killed nine African-American people at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. 

SO, just to be clear:  If gunman Dylann Roof had gotten a flat tire a week ago and was run over by a truck while changing it, the Confederate Flag – that ugly symbol of America’s racial divide – would still be at the state capital all year and next year, waving its racism and disrespect in the faces of those nine people.  Instead, it took their deaths for republicans to finally agree to introduce legislation calling for its removal by August.  Prior to last week’s massacre, Governor Haley refused to back legislation to remove the flag because corporate CEOs didn’t complain about it.

US President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at the funeral for the murdered pastor of Charleston, SC’s Emanuel AME Church.  Mr. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other national figures were friends with the reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator.  Pinckney and eight other people were shot to death last week at a Wednesday night Bible study session.

Eurozone ministers are welcoming the latest plan offered by Greece to end the deadlock on its debt crisis.  It would raise taxes on the wealthy and on health businesses and put in a slight increase of the VAT rate on certain luxury items.  Eurozone finance ministers have welcomed the plan, saying there could be a deal “within days”.  If that doesn’t happen, Greece could default on 1.6 Billion Euros in debt and crash out of the Eurozone by the end of the month.

The camera was switched on in the Afghan Parliament as the Taliban set off a car bomb at the gates and mounted an attack.  Seven gunmen stormed in and made it as far as the chamber next to the parliament where lawmakers were working.  MPs were showered with broken glass, and the chamber filled with smoke as the fighting went on.  All seven attackers were killed, as were two civilians.

Germany freed Al Jazeera reporter Ahmed Mansour, after detaining him for almost two days on a request from Egypt.  A Cairo court tried Mansour in absentia on some fairly ridiculous charges such as torture and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.  “Against this background, you will surely understand that there are doubts in the Mansour case,” said German foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer.  Egypt’s government accuses Qatar-based Al Jazeera of supporting the ousted Muslim Brotherhood government.

Yulin, China’s annual dog meat festival is underway.  Animal rights activists and pet lovers are incensed. 

More than 100 people are dead after drinking tainted moonshine in India.  Police say seven people have been arrested.

The death toll in Pakistan’s heat wave is 224 lives lost, mostly elderly people in Karachi.  Temperatures have been as high as 45c degrees.

Taylor Swift took on one of the biggest corporations in the world and won.  Apple announced it would compensate artists, writers, and producers while continuing to offer three free months to new subscribers of its streaming music service.  Swift threatened to withhold her most recent multi-platinum from the service unless Apple reversed course with regard to the people who actually make and perform those “song” things that Apple wanted to sell.  24 hours later, Apple saw the light.