Good Morning Australia!! - Australia will challenge Thailand on its increasingly repressive military government - President Barack Obama will be the first sitting US chief executive to visit Hiroshima - Meet two of the incredibly corrupt men lining up to replace Brazil's twice-elected President - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Australia will use the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland to question Thai officials about the arrest of a woman for receiving a message on social media.  Thailand's military dictatorship wants to jail Patnaree Chankij - mother of a political activist - for up to 15 years in prison because she "failed" to reprimand the person who sent a message that police claim violate the country's strict lese majeste laws.  The UN and several human rights groups have criticized Thai authorities for this action.  Australia will demand answers on how this is consistent with the Thai government's international commitments on humans rights, and how this is compatible with free speech.

Thailand is ordering an Aussie-run gold mine in the country's north to shut down by the end of the year because of health and environmental concerns.  Akara runs the Chatree Mine, and Akara is 48-per cent owned by Australian company Kingsgate Consolidated.  The shutdown will eliminate about a thousand jobs in the area, but locals have alleged that the mine has caused elevated levels of arsenic and manganese in people and crops.

US President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month, the first sitting US president to do so.  But the White House says that Mr. Obama will not revisit the decision of his predecessor to drop the Atomic Bomb on that city and Nagasaki, ending World War II - in other words, no apology.  But maybe he'll have lunch at Okoni-mura?  I love that place.  This will occur around the same time leaders of the world's seven biggest economies will gather in Ise-Shima in central Japan for the G7 meeting.

Japan says it will use the G7 Summit on 26 May to push a new plan to fight international tax evasion, in the wake of the Panama Papers which exposed how one Panamanian law firm set up thousands of corporate front through which rich people hide their money.  At least two major Japanese investment houses have been implicated in the leak.  BTW, the latest person named in the Panama Papers?  Actress Emma Watson.  Just wave your wand and say "Income Disappearus!"  Emma's spokesman person says she does not use the offshore entity to hide her wealth.

The interim speaker of Brazil's lower house has reversed himself, will allow the impeachment vote against President Dilma Rousseff to go forward.  Waldir Maranhao at first wanted to re-do the vote sending the matter to the senate because of procedural problems.  I'm guessing the right-wingers and uber-wealthy oligarchs immediately came down on ol' Waldir and he changed his mind.  The Brazilian senate on Wednesday will vote on suspending Dilma for six months pending her impeachment trial.  Her supporters are now out in protest, blocking roads with burning barricades in every state. 

It cannot be stated enough that Dilma Rousseff is accused of accounting irregularities and not charged with any crime, nor is she accused of profiting from Brazil's problems.  The same cannot be said of the two men who are in line to be interim president should Dilma be suspended.  Vice President Michel Temer is accused of taking millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions and bribes, selling appointments to the state-run oil firm, and signing the same kind of budget decrees that triggered the current impeachment process against Rousseff.  Senate leader Renan Calheiros is the subject of seven different investigations, including for bribe-taking and obstruction of justice.

France's "Socialist" government will push through a package of really, really unpopular labor reforms that will make it easier for companies to hire and fire, and cut back on workers' break time.  Because that will totally increase the number of jobs. 

China scrambled war planes as the US sent its guided missile explorer USS William P. Lawrence to within twelve nautical miles of Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea, upon which Beijing has constructed a naval and air base.  The Defense Department says this was done to "challenge excessive maritime claims" by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam which were seeking to restrict navigation rights in the South China Sea.

The world corporate media freaked out when a man yelling "god is great" in Arabic stabbed four people at a Munich, Germany train station.  But then police said the 27-year old German national attacker had a history of drug abuse and mental illness, and there was no Islamist motive.  And the corporate media said, "Oh," and stopped paying attention.

Bangladesh executed the leader of the country's largest Islamist party.  Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hung after being found guilty of acts of genocide and war crimes during the country's independence war against Pakistan in 1971.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been caught on an open microphone trashing two world leaders coming to London as "fantastically corrupt".  At an event in Buckingham Palace, Mr. Cameron told Queen Elizabeth the leaders are from "Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world".  Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby - a man with years of corporate experience in Nigeria - immediately defended President Muhammadu Buhari as "actually not corrupt". 

And the ABC reports that Advocacy group Transparency International said both Mr. Buhari and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani "have sent strong signals that they want things to change, and the London Anti-Corruption Summit creates an opportunity for all the countries present to sign up to a new era."  Today's lesson:  Stop gossiping with little old ladies in front of open mics.