Good Morning Australia!! - A political upheaval in Hong Kong that Beijing may not have anticipated - Why did Russian cops bust the mothers of murdered children? - Tokyo issues a stark warning over the Brexit - Obama deals with Duterte's potty mouth - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

At least four pro-democracy activists have been elected to Hong Kong's 70-member legislative council, including one of leaders of the "Umbrella Protests" of 2014.  "This is absolutely unexpected - nobody imagined this would happen," said 23-year old Nathan Law, who founded the Demotisto Party after the protests.  "Every day and night, our team used hard work and sweat to turn defeat into victory," he added.  Some of the newly-elected lawmakers want the city to break away from China when the "One Country, Two Systems" deal expires in 2047, five decades after the UK ceded control back to Beijing.

US President Barack Obama abruptly cancelled a planned meeting with crazy Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after he called Mr. Obama a *quote* "son of a whore".  Duterte vowed to curse at the US leader some more if the US President criticized Duterte's bloody "war on crime".  No-Drama Obama deadpanned, "Clearly, he's a colorful guy."  More than 2,400 people in the Philippines have been killed for allegedly being "drug dealers" since Duterte took office in June, extra-judicial killings committed by cops and vigilantes and who knows how many people hiding behind the chaos to exercise their own grudges.  UN Human Rights experts call Duterte's incitement a "crime under international law".

Police in Sao Paulo claim they were trying to avoid "vandalism" when they launched a tear gas attack on tens of thousands of protesters against the coup.. oops.. I meant "interim" government "President" Michel Temer, who formally took power after the Senate impeached democratically-elected President Dilma Rousseff (for stuff that isn't illegal).  The protests against Temer have been growing over the past seven days, and many are demanding fresh elections immediately.  Temer intends to finish out the rest of Rousseff's term and force through neo-liberal economic reform (austerity) that has proven to fail everywhere it's been tried and that no one voted for.  So, good luck with that.

Russian cops detained five mothers who blame President Vladimir Putin for the deaths of their children in the 2004 hostage crisis in Belsan, and two journalists who attempted to cover their protest at a memorial for Beslan victims.  The women removed jackets to reveal t-shirts reading "Putin is the executioner of Beslan".  Twelve years ago, Islamists from the North Caucuses took hundreds of children hostage in their school - Putin eventually sent in Russian special forces to end the siege in a battle that left 334 people dead, including 186 children. 

Iran's supreme spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is accusing Saudi Arabia of "murdering" the people who died in last year's tragic Hajj stampede.  Khamenei claims the injured and the dead were tossed into shipping containers without medical care or so much as a drink of water.  Saudi Arabia's official death toll was 769 lives lost, but unofficial estimates are more than three-times that.  The Ayatollah is asking the Muslim world to "reconsider" Saudi Arabia's "custody" of Islam's two holiest sites, and management of the Hajj.  The 2016 Hajj begins on Friday.

The Afghanistan Taliban claimed responsibility for twin bomb blasts in Kabul that killed at least 24 people and injured 91 others near the defense ministry.  In Syria, four bomb blasts spread out around the country killed at least 40 people.  The deadliest one was in Tartous, the stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad's Allawite sect and home to Russia's only Mediterranean base.  Islamic State claimed credit for those attacks.

Local media is contradicting officials reports from Ethiopia of a fire sweeping a prison, killing at least 23 prisoners.  But other reporters say prison warden shot and killed the victims.  The dead were human rights protesters critical of the government's treatment of the Oromo ethnic group. 

A garage under construction in Tel Aviv collapsed, killing two workers.

The port city of Calais in northern France has had its largest protest of citizens demanding the government shutdown "The Jungle", a squalid refugee shanty town of some 7,000 people mainly from the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.  Trucks and tractors clogged the main highway while citizens and police marched, complaining of high crime and disruptions at the port of Calais, where many migrants try to hop onto trucks heading in the English Channel Tunnel for the UK.  The French government has promised to clear the camp.

The French Prosecutor says former President Nicolas Sarkozy should stand trial for violating campaign finance laws in the 2012 election.  His party is accused of falsifying accounts in order to hide 18 Million Euros of illegal spending in an election he lost to Francois Hollande.  Sarkozy says he left it to subordinates to raise and spend money, but prosecutors say the candidate is ultimately responsible.  Sarkozy hopes to run for president again next year.

Japan is pulling no punches with the UK over the Brexit:  In a 15-page blunt report (.pdf link), Tokyo warns that its industrial giants might pull its regions HQs and manufacturing plants out of the UK if it no longer gets access to the lucrative European marketplace.  That's a potential 140,000 jobs disappearing.  The report is remarkable because it is addressed directly to the British people, not Prime Minister Theresa May's government; and it uses uncharacteristically straightforward language - no typical Japanese vagueness or political spin.  It comes as parliament was forced to debate a potential revote on the Brexit, after 4.1 MILLION people signed a petition.