Hello Australia!! - Russian Athletes are banned from the Olympics over doping allegations - An Auschwitz guard finally faces justice seven decades after the holocaust - Iraq strikes a major and overdue blow to Islamic State - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Russian Track and Field team will not be heading to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because of doping allegations.  The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) upheld its ban after Russia failed to comply with efforts to end state-sponsored cheating on drug tests.  The IAAF says that Russian athletes who can prove they were outside the corrupt Russian system will be able to apply to compete under a neutral flag.  Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva said she would challenge the IAAF's decision in court, claiming it was "a human rights violation".

The ban is a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was announced just as Mr. Putin welcomed attendees to the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, a showcase he was hoping would help end Russia's status as an international pariah and win allies among European politicians.  The European Union and the United States imposed sanctions on Russia over the 2014 Crimean Crisis, but some were just beginning to signal a softening of opinion towards Moscow.  Putin said Russia would appeal the ban to the International Olympic Committee, but Russia would also "strengthen the fight against doping" in athletics.

A third minister has resigned in disgrace from the month-old conservative "interim" (coup) regime of Brazil.  Tourism Minister Henrique Alves is the latest to be linked to the scandal in the state-owned oil company Petrobras.  Interim president Michel Temer denies allegations of his involvement in the massive bribery scandal.  Democratically-elected President Dilma Rousseff had already been cleared in that probe, but she was impeached for unrelated accounting practices she insists are not against the law.

A German court convicted a 94-year old man for his role as a guard at the Auschwitz Death Camp during World War II.  Reinhold Hanning was sentenced to five years in prison for being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people.  Because of the passage of time, it is likely to be one of the last trials to come out of the Holocaust.

Another court in India sentenced eleven people to life in prison for the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in which more than a thousand people were killed.  This group was involved in the Gulbarg Society killings, in which a Hindu mob hacked and burned to death 69 people in a Muslim housing complex.  Critics say that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi - who has since been elected Prime Minister - did nothing to stop the killing, and ignored pleas for help from inside the Gulbarg complex.

Iraqi forces have retaken City Hall and main government in Falluja, the western city that's been under the control of Islamic state for a year and a half - longer than any other city in Iraq.  Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said only a small number of IS fighters remain in the city, and promised that the government would retake Mosul in the north next.  US military officials say some IS fighters have been seen ditching their jihadist gear and weapons as the fled. 

Meanwhile, the hacker collective Anonymous did its part against Islamic State, hijacking the group's Twitter account and loading it up with lots and lots of LGBT pride imagery.  The hack follows the massacre of 49 people at an Orlando, Florida gay bar by a gunman who claimed allegiance to IS - but didn't have a clear link to the group, according to US officials.  The hacker said he had taken control of 250 IS-related social media accounts over the past month, and filled them with gay porn images.

British police are prioritizing the probe into right-wing links to the alleged killer of West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox.  Authorities arrested 52-year old Thomas Mair, who was heard shouting slogans against UK membership in the European Union, and found all sorts of nazi regalia inside his home.  A US civil rights group also reported Mair had purchased bomb and weapon-making plans from an American neo-nazi group.  PM David Cameron and Opposition Labour Jeremy Corbyn put their differences aside to stand together and describe Ms. Cox's murder as an "attack on democracy".

The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it will no longer take money from the European Union because of its deal with Turkey to send back refugees from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia if their asylum pleas are rejected.  MSF gets 90 percent of its funding from private sources, so the move shouldn't harm its efforts to provide urgent health care to people caught in war and other crisis situations. 

Egyptian investigators say they've retrieved the Flight Data Recorder of EgyptAir Flight MS804 from the Mediterranean Sea.  This comes a day after teams announced recovering the Cockpit Audio Recorder.  With both "black boxes" in hand, investigators hope to determine what caused the Airbus A320 to cut short its Paris-to-Cairo run and plunge into the sea last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.  

A South African town's policy of awarding university scholarships to virgins is discriminatory, unlawful, and should be scrapped.  The program - in the socially conservative town of Uthukela in KwaZulu-Natal province - was intended to cut down on teen pregnancies and stop the transmission of HIV.  But the Commission for Gender Equality ruled that "it goes against the ethos of the constitutional provisions in relation to dignity, equality and discrimination".  The commission added, "Virginity is not intrinsic to the task of studying."

68-year old US rock singer Meatloaf is in a stable condition in Calgary, Canada after collapsing on stage.