Hello Australia!! - Iran ups the stakes in the Straits of Hormuz - The son of an Aussie police inspector is murdered abroad - The country that took only a little responsibility - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops boarded two British tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and forced them back to Iranian waters before cutting off their satellite positioning systems.  The "Stena Impero" is British-flagged and the "Mesdar" is Liberian-flagged but British-owned.  It's believed the crew of each ship are okay, but UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt says the seizures were "unacceptable" and the emergency meeting would review what the UK could do to "swiftly secure the release of the two vessels".  This came hours after the Supreme Court in the British territory of Gibraltar announced that an Iranian tanker seized by UK commandos would stay in custody for another 30 days.  

Tehran also claims that the US did not shoot down one of its drones over the Persian Gulf yesterday, as claimed by Donald Trump and the Pentagon.  The Revolutionary Guard released video footage it claims was shot by the drone in question "before, during, and after" the time US officials said the USS Boxer warship shot down the drone for invading its airspace.  Experts say the video is far from conclusive.  Iran wasn't fazed and mocked the US, suggesting it shot down its own drone.

Police in Kyoto have identified the suspect in Japan's worst mass killing since 2001 as 41-year old Shinji Aoba.  He allegedly poured petrol around the ground floor of Kyoto Animation (Kyo-Ani), blocking the only exits, and setting it alight.  At least 33 people are confirmed dead, and there are still a few missing.  Aoba, who was seriously burned himself, apparently accused Kyo-Ani of stealing his idea for a cartoon.  

The Dutch Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that the state was only ten percent responsible for 350 of the more than 8,000 deaths in Bosnia's Srebrenica massacre in 1995.  The lower court didn't disclose how it managed to come to this percentage, but claimed that that its troops - who were assigned as UN peacekeepers in the 1990s war in the Balkans - only had a ten percent chance of success in protecting the 350 Muslim men and boys sheltering in their compound from the Serbian marauders.  Families of victims of the massacre condemned the ruling.

The son of a New South Wales police inspector has been found apparently murdered on a remote road in rural British Columbia Canada along with his American girlfriend.  The family of Lucas Fowler is en route to BC.  Fowler and Chynna Deece of South Carolina were found on a stretch of road known to locals as the "Highway of Tears" where 20 to 40 women have been murdered over the decades, possibly by a serial killer.  Canada was the latest stop for Fowler and Deece, who had been traveling the world together.

Germany is honoring the members of the plot to kill Hitler 75 years ago today.  Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg smuggled a bomb into Hitler's "Wolf's Lair" military headquarter in Prussia at the height of World War II, and tried to blow up the nazi command.  Several died, but unfortunately Hitler was protected by a heavy oak table.  The plotters were executed, as were several members of their families, and the war would continue for another year until Soviet Troops battled across Europe and took Berlin.  On Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay tribute to von Stauffenburg at an annual swearing-in ceremony for hundreds of new army troops.

Florida blew up an old power plant.

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