Good Morning Australia!! - Fire ravages an Australian mosque, authorities call it suspicious - An Australian is killed in a gruesome day in Iraq - A judge in Germany sides with Erdogan - And more in your CareerSpot International News Briefs:

Victoria police say a "suspicious" fire has destroyed a mosque in suburban Geelong.  This happened on Bostock Avenue in Manifold Heights after 2:00 am this morning.  The Geelong Advertiser reports that the building was fully involved when 35 to 40 firefighters in trucks from from Corio, Geelong West and Geelong City arrived, and it took 50 minutes to bring the fire under control. There are apparently no injuries.

At least 70 people including an Australian were killed in the latest round of violence Iraq.  Three bombs tore through Shiite Muslim districts of the capital Baghdad, while a fourth hit a mixed Shia-Sunni area.  Islamic State claimed reponsibility for at least one of the blasts, which it claimed was targeted at Shiite militias but in fact killed dozens in an open air market.  Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi later announced the arrest of a security official in charge of the area.

Meanwhile in the village of Tal Rabaa in the Kurdish north of Iraq, a blast claimed the life of the Australian supervisor of team working to remove mines from areas recaptured from the terrorists of Islamic State.  He was not immediately identified, but Hansjoerg Eberle, Director General of the Geneva-based Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) said, "The gentleman was known to us as a very senior, very experienced, very safe operator.  This is a complete shock to us, to his family and all who knew him," according to the ABC.  The foundation is working to repatriate his remains to Australia.

Kenyan police using "gruesome violence" to break up an opposition protest on Monday, according to accusations from the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.  The capital's police chief says the measures were necessary to stop "lawlessness", but rights campaigners say the cops kept beating people even after they were subdued.  The main opposition leader Raila Odinga claims the country's electoral commission is biased and should be dissolved and replaced before next year's elections.

A German court has ruled against a comic who made fun of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked by a horse).  Without a trace of irony, the court in Hamburg ruled that the parts of Jan Boehmermann's poem on President Erdogan's treatment of freedom of speech were allowed, but the sexual references were unacceptable.  Mr. Boehmermann's attorney said the ruling went against "artistic freedom".  Boehmermann himself responded by tweeting a link to the Beastie Boys song "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)", hinting that an appeal is next.

While the US is debating several state laws created by a conservative think tank that target LGBT rights, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has put forward a bill to extend human rights protections to transgender Canadians.  "This is a message to all Canadians that we live in a time where discrimination in any form is completely unacceptable," said Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, in a message that was also aimed at US right wingers.

Also on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed changing the constitution to formally legalize marriage equality across the country.  Same-Sex marriage is legal in the capital and a few states, and a recent Mexican Supreme Court ruling says the other states cannot ban it.