Hello Australia!! - Trump threatens war crimes against Iran - Al Shabaab's first direct attack against the US kills three - The brutal attack that killed dozens in Libya - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Firefighters are hoping that slightly cooler, wetter weather will give them a chance to make progress against the bushfires in eastern Victoria, but disastrous hot and dry conditions are expected to return before week's end.  For more information about bushfires in your state, please click through to these sites:  For Victoria - VicEmergency; South Australia - SA CFS; New South Wales - NSW RFS; Western Australia - EmergencyWA; and Tasmania - TasFire.

Donald Trump is threatening to order US attacks on targets that are "at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture" - which would be a war crime, according to:  the United Nations; the Geneva Convention; and the US Department of Defense (.pdf link).  Trump claims to have picked 52 targets representing the 52 Americans who were held hostage by Iran in the late 1970s.  Trump put the US on the brink of war with Iran by last week's assassination by airstrike of Major General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps elite Quds Force.  The Trump administration has not yet shared any of the intelligence it claims proves that Soleimani was planning an imminent attack on the US or US interests.

Iran has made clear it will strike back after the death of Soleimani at the Baghdad, Iraq airport, but is not saying when or where:  "The response for sure will be military and against military sites," said Hossein Dehghan, military adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  "The only thing that can end this period of war is for the Americans to receive a blow that is equal to the blow they have inflicted."  Meanwhile, Tehran announced it will no longer abide by any of the limits set by the nuclear agreement reached with world powers in 2015 - Trump already pulled the US out of the deal in May 2018.  Yes, that is correct:  Less than two years ago, there were international inspectors on the ground in Iran making sure than its nuclear program followed the rules.

After the assassination on Iraqi soil, Iraq's parliament has passed resolution to ask the government to end the agreement to host US troops in Iraq.  The move would essentially oust US troops and all other foreign troops from Iraq.  "The Iraqi government must work to end the presence of any foreign troops on Iraqi soil and prohibit them from using its land, airspace or water for any reason," it read.  The measure is non-binding and caretaker PM Abdul Mahdi is not legally authorized to sign the bill into law - but it does demonstrate the complete lack of faith that the US has created for itself in the age of Trump.  

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The terrorist group al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack on the US military Camp Simba in Kenya that killed one US service member and two military contractors.  Two more Department of Defense contractors were wounded.  This is the first time al Shabaab has directly attacked a US target.  As for the timing, it should be noted that al Shabaab and Iran are on opposing sides of Islam's Sunni-Shia schism, with the former considering the latter to be apostates.  Cooperation between the two may not be likely.

In Libya, 30 people are dead and 33 are injured after renegade militia commander Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) attack recruits at a military academy in Tripoli run by the internationally-recognized government.  The carnage was so bad that individual body parts could not immediately be recognized and the death toll may yet rise.  The government wants Haftar and his aides to be put on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of "crimes against humanity".  This thing could get even worse after Turkey announced plans to send troops there to support the government, which Haftar opposes.

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Indonesian troops and health workers are spraying disinfectant in standing flood water to try and prevent any outbreak of disease after the massive flooding in Jakarta.  At least 60 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were routed from their homes.

A building collapse in Cambodia has claimed 36 lives.

Spain's interim prime minister Pedro Sanchez failed on Sunday to win the support of the country's parliament to form a left-wing coalition government, the country's first since the end of the Francisco Franco far-right dictatorship in the 1970s.  But he gets a second chance on Tuesday when the bar for success will be lowered to a simple majority to pass - and it is believed he has those votes.

Croatia's Social Democratic former prime minister Zoran Milanovic won the country's presidential election with a wider-than-expected margin.  The role is largely ceremonial, but could give Milanovic's party a leg-up in parliamentary elections at the end of 2020.

A rival to Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido had the door to the legislature blocked and had himself sworn in as parliament leader.  Guaido, who claims to be Venezuela's interim president even though there was no election, then complained that the vote to the other guy was illegitimate.