Good Morning Australia!! - Denmark passes draconian laws against asylum seekers - Thousands of refugees are in limbo as two countries expel the newcomers - Brazil calls out the military against the Zika virus - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Denmark's parliament pulled down that "Welcome" signed and replaced it with "Just Kidding", passing new laws to confiscate the valuables of refugees and migrants to pay for their stay.  Under the bill, refugees could keep cash and possessions amounting to 10,000 Danish Krones, which is a little more than A$2,000.  And that's roughly three times than the original proposal, which was intensely criticized by human rights groups.  Items of special emotional value such as wedding rings will be exempt (wait, Europeans confiscating valuables from homeless, vulnerable masses?  Where have we heard that before?).  In addition, refugees will now have to wait three years before they could bring over family members, up from the single year waiting period.  Denmark took in around 20,000 refugees and migrants - far less than its neighbors Sweden and Germany, both in raw numbers and per capita.

Moscow is refusing to take back thousands of migrants who crossed into Norway from Russia.  The 5,400 come from the same places as the other million or so migrants who've come to Europe to escape war and want in the Middle East, African, and South Asia.  But they took a different route through Russia, going all the way up to Murmansk in the Arctic Circle, and riding to Kirkenes, Norway by bicycle.  Oslo decided it didn't want them, and sent them back to Russia - via bus, because of the cold.  But now, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says those who've returned lied on their entry forms: "This is why we do not want to admit these people back to Russia."  Norway says since the migrants already had permission to live in Russia earlier, they're not "refugees".

Islamic State lost territory to Syrian government forces around villages east of Aleppo, but not before carrying off a twin bombing that killed at least 24 people in Homs.  This happened in an area controlled by the Alawite sect to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs. 

Iran might be coming in from the cold, but it's not necessarily changing all of its ways.  Great works of art were covered up behind President Hassan Rouhani and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the Capitoline Museum in Rome, so the nudes sculptures wouldn't offend the visiting dignitary, apparently out of respect for Muslim traditions.  The two had just signed off on business deals previously unobtainable under international financial sanctions on Iran.  Italy also refrained from serving wine at official functions involving Rouhani - some that France says it will not copy when the Iranian president visits later today.

Kenyan troops have pulled out of two bases in Somalia, including the el-Ade facility where more than 100 died in an assault by Al Shabaab militants last week.  The Islamists also took control of the Badhadhe base as soon as the Kenyans left.  A Kenyan army spokesman claims this was a "normal operational maneuver" and not a withdrawal.

Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Castro says he country is "losing badly" in its fight against the Zika Virus - so the country will deploy 220,000 troops to go door to door and hand out leaflets on how to avoid the spread of Zika.  Most people do not have serious symptoms from Zika, and many show none at all - but Brazil has charted around 4,000 babies born with a birth defect called microcephaly, or abnormally small skulls, although some beleive that more research is needed to prove a link.  There's no treatment and no vaccine, but people can eliminate standing water where the mosquitoes that carry Zika will breed.  Yesterday, virologists said several Aussies have been diagnosed with Zika after returning home from Latin American trips.  Pregnant women are urged to avoid traveling to Latin America.

Officials in Cleveland, Ohio finally sacked six police officers involved involved in a wild chase that ended in white cops pumping 137 shots into a car with two unarmed black suspects, killing Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.  This was in 2012.  Last year, the cop who stood on the hood of the car and fired point-blank was acquitted, proving how difficult it is to get a conviction against out of control, racist cops in America.