Hello Australia!! - Trump's favorite soldier is revealed as "toxic" and "freaking evil" by his fellow Navy SEALS - The international arms race is back - War games and increased military actions in a sensitive area - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The New York Times has released a series of videos in which US Navy SEALS - the branch's elite troops - accuse team Chief Edward Gallagher of war crimes in Iraq.  Donald Trump later overruled his own military leaders and blocked them from disciplining Gallagher, despite him being convicted of posing with a teenage corpse in a high-profile war crimes case.  Gallagher visited Trump at the Mar-a-Lago golf course last weekend.  The SEALS describe Gallagher as a homicidal maniac who "was perfectly OK with killing anybody"; "toxic"; "crazier and crazier"; and "freaking evil".  

But a Thai Navy SEAL who actually was a hero has died of a blood infection he picked up during the rescue of that youth football team from a cave last year.  The Royal Thai Navy said Petty Officer Beiret Bureerak had been receiving treatment, but his condition worsened as time wore on.  Another rescuer died during the operation in July 2018.  

Russia says that its hypersonic nuclear missile has entered active service.  President Vladimir Putin says the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle can fly at 27 times the speed of sound, and likens the technological breakthrough to the 1957 Soviet launch of the first satellite Sputnik.  The missile is designed to be able to make rapid course changes to avoid Western anti-missile shields.

At least twelve people were killed when a passenger plane attempting to take off from Almaty, Kazakhstan smacked the runway several times and crashed through a concrete fence around the airport, eventually destroying a home.  Bek Air flight Z92100 was carrying 93 passengers and five crew members.  The plane was a Fokker 100, a passenger jet that has been out of production for 23 years ever since the manufacturer went belly up.  Kazakhstan declared a day of national mourning, and grounded all Bek Air and Fokker 100 flights for the investigation.

Tensions are rising in the Gulf of Oman as China, Russia, and Iran carry out four days of Naval exercises in the area that is crucial to international oil shipping.  Japan plans to deploy a destroyer to the region early next year.  The Gulf of Oman has become a center of geopolitical concern after an unidentified party attacked two oil tankers there in June.  The White House blamed Iran for the attack, which Iran denied.

More than 235,000 civilians are on the run in Syria again as the government and its Russian allies pound the Idlib region, the last stronghold of rebels opposed to the government of Bashar al-Assad.  Aid groups say the majority have fled north in trucks and cars towards the Turkish border.  Many of them had already been displaced several times from other parts of the country during the eight years and nine months of the Syrian Civil War.  

Protests against India's controversial new citizenship law continue, with more demonstrations planned for this weekend.  The law provides a path to Indian citizenship for undocumented immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, unless they are Muslim.  Opponents say it's part of Prime Minister Narandra Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP party's attempt to officially marginalize India's 200 million Muslims.  At least 25 people have been killed in the Modi government's crackdown on the demonstrations. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won his Likud Party's leadership contest with a whopping 72.5 Percent of the vote.  Rival Gideon Saar conceded defeat and pledged to support Netanyahu, who still faces a High Court ruling next week on whether he can run in the election in March because he is facing bribery and corruption charges.