Hello Australia!! - Stalemate in Israel's election - The US cranks up claims against Iran - Trudeau clams the Five Eyes allies - Concern after a Russian Ebola lab blows up - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Israel's election is too close to call according to the exit polls, and this time there really is some doubt if hawkish right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will get another term.  Netanyahu's Likud appeared to get a similar number of seats as the centrist Blue and White and its leader Benny Gantz.  That leaves Netanyahu's frenemy Avigdor Lieberman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party as kingmaker - his relationship with Netanyahu has had its ups and downs, but this time it is said that he is favoring a national unity government.  However, Israeli exit polls have been wrong in the past and no one should underestimate Netanyahu's political survival skills - and his motivation is doubled because he needs to stay in power to avoid a slew of corruption charges.

Anonymous US defense officials have been telling the media that the attack on two Saudi Aramco oil processing facilities were launched from the southwest of Iran - that would be a lot closer than Yemen, where the Iran-allied Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack.  Iran denies any involvement and maintains the Houthi launched the attack in "self defense" from Saudi Arabia's role in the Yemen Civil War, which in reality is a proxy war pitting the two major and antagonistic Persian Gulf powers against each other.  Donald Trump has said the US is "locked and loaded" to strike Iran on behalf of Saudi Arabia - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Iran "will hold no talks at any level with the US" until Trump returns to the JCPOA, the international agreement known as the Iran Nuclear Deal which - for a while - got Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for economic sanction relief.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has moved to reassure allies after a top police official was arrested for allegedly leaking classified information to a foreign power.  Australian secrets shared among the Five Eyes intelligence alliance of major anglophone countries might have been compromised.  "We are in direct communications with our allies on security," Trudeau said on the campaign trail in Newfoundland, "We are also working with them to reassure them, but we want to ensure that everyone understands that we are taking this situation very seriously."  The case against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intelligence unit's former director Cameron Ortis looks pretty serious - some are calling it Canada's worst security breach.

A week after Donald Trump declared US peace talks with the Taliban "dead", the terrorist group claimed responsibility for two separate suicide attacks in Afghanistan that killed at least 48 people and injured dozens others.  One blast in Parwan province, north of the capital Kabul, killed 26 people at an election rally where President Ashraf Ghani was due to speak.  A second explosion killed 22 people near the US embassy in central Kabul.

Russia claims there is no threat to the outside world after an explosion and fire at a lab performing work on deadly viruses - including Ebola, small pox, various bird influenza, and several hepatitis strains.  A gas canister exploded during refurbishing work at the Vektor centre in Koltsovo, a town near Novosibirsk in Siberia.  The Russian news agency Interfax reports that Vektor was set up by the Soviets in 1974 to research "defenses against bacteriological and biological weapons".  In 2004, Dr. Antonina Presnyakova died after accidentally jabbing herself in the hand with a syringe containing Ebola.  Last month, five scientists and two military personnel were killed in the failed test of a nuclear powered missile in Russia's far north.

A special envoy from South Africa has apologized to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari over a series of xenophobic attacks which led to diplomatic tensions between the two countries.  Earlier this month, mobs attacked foreign-owned businesses in and around Johannesburg killing twelve people.