Good Morning Australia! - Heartless Hungary pulls a dirty trick on defenseless refugees - A major American newspaper excoriates Prime Minister Tony Abbott - A warning to stop Africa's next medical crisis before it can happen - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

While Australia weighs an American request to join in on anti-Islamic State bombing runs in Syria, the US Central Command says there may have been civilian casualties as the result of an Aussie operation in Iraq.  The ABC reports on a US military document that tells of civilians seen in the area of the airstrike on 21 December.  Australia has a number of military assets in the US led coalition, including six F/A-18 Fighter jets.

Tony Abbott's refugee policies have been soundly hammered in an editorial in the New York Times.  The editorial board of America's newspaper of record condemned the Prime Minister and Liberal government's policies of turning back immigrants from inhospitable lands as "inhumane, of dubious legality and strikingly at odds with the country's tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and war".  The Border Force Act, which jails people for two years for revealing the illegal, squalid, and violent conditions in Tony's off-shore detention camps was of particular concern.  It also says that it would be "unconscionable" if Europe were to adopt Abbott's methods.  Unfortunately...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is taking an Abbott-like hard-line against the weary Middle Eastern refugees that he allowed to pile up outside the main train station in in Budapest, refugees who don't even want to stay in his country.  The refugees want to pass through and go to Germany or Austria, countries that are much more welcoming than Hungary which tends to deny even the most obvious asylum pleas.  Orban blamed Germany's humane and reasonable policies for creating the crisis, and issued a warning to future refugees:  "Please don't come.  Why do you have to go from Turkey to Europe?  Turkey is a safe country.  Stay there.  It's risky to come."

After days of refusing to allow refugees to get onto to trains for the west at Budapest's main railway station, Orban's cops finally allowed a few to board - but it was a trick.  The train didn't cross to Austria, it went to a "reception center" (improvised refugee camp) in Bicske where authorities intended to process and hold the people.  Once they were on to the ruse, many of the passengers refused to leave the train, others staged a sit-down strike in the station - and then there was this scene of a couple and a baby trying to run away on the tracks, only to be surrounded by club wielding cops.

Turkey has freed two British Vice News journalists who were arrested while reporting from the predominantly Kurdish southeast.  Their Iraqi translator remains jailed.  Vice News management says that allegations that Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury were aiding banned groups were "baseless and alarmingly false" and were "an attempt to intimidate and censor their coverage" of unrest in the Kurdish area.

Hours after a judge issued an arrest warrant, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina turned in his resignation.  Prosecutors accuse him of taking millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for lowering tariffs, something that Perez Molina denies.  For weeks, Guatemalans had staged protests calling for Perez Molina's resignation - today, they're partying in the streets.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is warning of a Measles epidemic in the DR Congo, with only 60 days until the start of the rainy season.  "It is a very difficult place to work already, the roads are bad and places are inaccessible,"said MSF regional coordinator Michel Janssens, "After the rains start, it would be difficult to solve."  At least 320 people have died this year of a disease that's preventable and treatable in a country with resources.

A US Judge ruled a Kentucky county clerk was in contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite two Supreme Court rulings, and sent her off to jail.  The judge said financial sanctions were not going to be enough to ensure Kim Davis' eventual compliance with the law.  Davis claimed "god's authority" and a blatantly unconstitutional religious exemption

Also in Stupid America, the city of Orlando, Florida - home of Disney World and many other theme parks - is on the lookout for an escaped poisonous King Cobra snake more than two meters long.  The owner is supposedly an "experienced snake handler" and the star of some idiotic reality show.  Florida is the dumbest state in America and you can guess how some people are preparing.  "I'm going to go load my guns," said local ammosexual James McLeod to TV station WESH.  "Well, they're already loaded, but I'm going to have them ready for sure.  I mean, that thing's big enough to take you down for sure."