Hello Australia!! - Another killer quake hits southwestern Japan - Brazil's Supreme Court refuses to stop a drive to impeach the president - Germany will allow the prosecution of a comic who really, really let Turkey's president have it - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

At least four people are dead in the latest earthquake in southwestern Japan, and more than 470 people are being treated in hospital for various injuries, mostly broken bones.  The temblor, reported as a magnitude 7.3, struck at about 1:25 AM on Saturday morning local time in the same general area as Thursday night's killer earthquake that left nine dead, where buildings are already damaged and weakened, and debris litters the streets.  Emergency workers say they're getting plenty of calls from people trapped in their damaged homes.  At least one police station and one town hall are in danger of collapsing. 

The government is telling people to evacuate homes along a river where a farming reservoir at Nishihara Town appears to have been damage and is causing the river level to rise.  A landslide knocked down half of a hill and it came down on a highway bypass outside Kumamoto City near Minamiaso Town, where most of the worst damage appears to be; crews will get out there to determined if any cars, homes, or people are buried.  The power is out for most of the region, but supposedly the nuclear reactors are not damaged.

Brazil's lower house of congress has begun debate on impeaching President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly manipulating government accounts to cover-up a deficit.  Dilma and her supporters note that she has not been charged with any crime in the matter, unlike most of the cesspool of lawmakers who are deciding on her fate.  But the Supreme Court rejected the Attorney General's request for an injunction to stop the process.  If anti-Rousseff lawmakers get a two-thirds majority, the case goes to the Senate.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has caved to Turkey's demand to allow prosecution of a comic who read a vulgar (and hilarious) poem about thin-skinned and authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on TV.  Rather than simply demonstrating that he doesn't actually fornicate with goats and watch child pornography while bombing the Kurds, Erdogan insisted on pursuing comedian Jan Bohmermann under an obscure section of Germany’s criminal code.  Merkel was criticized by members of her own cabinet, but insists her decision affirmed the independence of Germany's courts rather than speak to Bohmermann's guilt or innocence.

In an insane and dangerous bit of election year politics, Republican party legislators brought a Draconian anti-Abortion Rights bill to a US House committee, which would outlaw terminations based on sex or race.  Aside from being flagrantly unconstitutional, it would also effectively institutionalize racial profiling on the part of doctors and violate the physician-patient relationship.  "This bill is so horrendous that I could not believe it when it was first brought up," said Representative Judy Chu of California.  "It is a nightmare.  This is a piece of legislation that would impose criminal penalties on providers and limit the reproductive choices of women of color and all women."  Supporters quoted a mismatched hodge-podge of the bible and anti-slavery figures. 

US Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders called for creating a moral economy based on the common good during a visit to the Vatican on Friday.  "At a time when so few have so much, and so many have so little, we must reject the foundations of this contemporary economy as immoral and unsustainable," Bernie said at a conference attended by Bolivian and Ecuadorean Presidents Evo Morales and Rafael Correa at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.  "Financial excesses, indeed widespread financial criminality on Wall Street, played a direct role in causing the world's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression," he added while insisting that allowing market forces to go unchecked is "not acceptable".

Belgian transport minister Jacqueline Galant has resigned over accusations she ignored a 2015 report that highlighted security lapses at Brussels airport.  The PM initially initially defended her, but eventually accepted her resignation.  The so-called Islamic State claimed reponsibility for the bombings at the Brussels airport and a Metro station which killed 32 people.

Rwanda handed a life sentence to a former politician and academic who described Tutsis as "cockroaches" during a 1992 speech, and urged Hutus to kill them and dump the bodies in a river.  That's exactly what happened two years later in 1994, and 800,000 people died in the Rwandan Genocide.  Leon Mugesera claimed his speech had been taken out of context.