Good Morning Australia!! - Saudi Arabia lifts one of its ridiculous restrictions on women - People are dying in Puerto Rico as the US government is absorbed with an idiot's tweets - Russia arrests a couple of cannibal killers - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Saudi Arabia announced it is lifting its prohibition on women drivers, something that caused consternation with its allies in the Western world.  Until now, women who drove did so at their own risk of arrest and prosecution, and often did so in protest of the ridiculous ban.  King Salman's order doesn't go into effect for ten months because the conservative kingdom has no infrastructure for driver's education classes for women.  Just last week, Saudi Arabia ordered sports stadiums to admit female fans.

Two patients died in the  intensive care unit of a hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico because there was no diesel fuel to run the hospital's generators.  And San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, and there are fears the Trump administration's frustrating approach to aiding the US territory will kill more people.  "We are finding dialysis patients that haven't been able to contact their providers, so we are having to transport them in near-death conditions," she said, "We are finding people whose oxygen tanks are running out, because.. small generators now don't have any diesel."  The Mayor tried to impress upon Donald Trump that the island's financial crisis and the devastation caused by successive hurricanes are two different subjects.  Trump is hastily arranging a visit to Puerto Rico next week.

Trump spent part of Tuesday trying to play up the administration's response to Puerto Rico, but it's his tweet from Monday that is raising concerns.  The orange clown referred to "billions of dollars... owed to Wall Street and the banks" and the "old electrical grid, which was in terrible shape".  The island has long resisted privatizing its public utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).  But PREPA is US$9 Billion in debt, and there are concerns that Trump's slow response is playing into the hands of Wall Street banksters who will force privatization as the only recourse to rebuilding the devastated power grid.  The choking point was apparent before the second hurricane:  The Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER) says its 170 of its workers were not activated to fix downed wires after Hurricane Irma but before Hurricane Maria.

While complaining of Puerto Rico's debt, Trump neglects to mention how he reportedly contributed to it with a crappy golf course debacle.  In 2015, the Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico defaulted on millions of government-backed bonds, leaving US taxpayers US$32.7 Million in the hole.  Trump collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for licensing his name to the club, and son Eric Trump also filed a bankruptcy claim for $927,000 for unpaid fees related to the club.  While Puerto Rico suffered over the weekend, Trump was at his New Jersey golf course engaging in twitter wars with the NFL and the NBA, Kim Jong-un, and denouncing an Iranian missile launch that never happened.

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Kurds are calling on Baghdad to engage in "serious dialogue" now that a non-binding independence referendum has passed by a huge margin.  The Iraqi government has already rejected Kurdish independence, and the government is giving the Kurdistan Regional Government three days to hand over control of its airports or face an air embargo.  

Uber says it will quit the Canadian province of Quebec if the government implements stringent new rules.  The new rules would require the ride-hailing company's drivers to get police background checks and 35 hours of training, up from 20.  These are closer to what is required of traditional taxi services in the Francophone province, and welcome to those who believe Uber's business model consists of: skimming off the top while skirting local regulations and leaving drivers at risk of fines when caught; and putting passengers at risk of hailing rides from rapists and other violent criminals.  Oh, but it's on an App!  London, announced it would not renew Uber's licence to operate, citing concerns for public safety and security.

A couple arrested for murder in the southwestern Russian city of Krasnodar admitted killing and eating up to 30 people.  Labs are testing meat items in the refrigerator of Dmitry and Natalia Baksheev for human DNA.  Cops were led to the Baksheevs by a mobile phone found in a construction site; in its memory were dozens of photos of the couple posing with selfies with dismembered body parts, some dating back to 1999.  Were selfies even a thing back then?  No, but neither was cannibalism.  Anyway, they arrested Baksheev when he came back looking for the phone.  Investigators determined that Dmitry used dating sites to recruit women who he and his wife then killed and ate.