Hello Australia! - The migrant truck tragedy in Austria was worse than originally feared - Assessing the PR disaster that was "Operation Fortitude" - A formerly high ranking Vatican official dies before he could go on trial - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Labor, the Greens, and the Union representing Australian Border Force (ABF) agents are demanding answers from the government and specifically Immigration Minister Peter Dutton about the debacle dubbed "Operation Fortitude".  The plan was to send ABF agents out with local police to Melbourne's CBD over the weekend to check people's Visa status - while somehow not racially profiling them or violating their rights - was cancelled within hours of its announcement, after angry protesters appeared outside Flinders Street Station. 

Community and Public Sector Union's Nadine Flood told the ABC its members have "never seen their work politicised in this way", and the social and political mess makes the work more difficult for union ABF members.  Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Richard Marles put the onus directly on Dutton, demanding to know, "Who sanctioned this announcement being made, what was its purpose, who called for its retraction and who is responsible for compromising this operation?"  My favorite reaction was from Independent MP Andrew Wilkie:  "Joseph Stalin would be proud of (Prime Minister) Tony Abbott," he said in a statement, "Just as East Germany's Stasi would be delighted with the Australian Border Force — why, even (Chilean dictator) General Pinochet would be impressed."

Officials in Austria now say that 71 people died in the back of that truck that was abandoned by human traffickers on a busy highway near the Hungarian border.  The state of the remains initially made it difficult to determine how many bodies were in the back.  Travel documents indicate they were from Syria - 59 men, eight women and four children - and they suffocated in the sealed rear of a truck designed to deliver meat to stores and restaurants. 

With 71 dead in Austria and another 200 believed drowned after two boats sank off the coast of Libya, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the European Union to come up with a "collective political response" to avert "a crisis of solidarity".  Mr. Ban is calling on member states to "expand safe and legal channels of migration", and crack down on human traffickers.

Chad sentenced ten Boko Haram militants to death for their roles in twin attacks on the capital in June, which killed at least 38.  Within weeks of the attack in the capital N'Djamena - the Nigerian militant group's first in the country - Chad reestablished the death penalty for acts of terrorism. 

The Vatican's former envoy to the Dominican Republic has died before he could stand trial on child sex charges.  66-year old Jozef Wesolowski was the highest-ranking Roman Catholic official to face trial in a special court established by Pope Francis, having been accused of paying for sex with children in the DR.  The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) says the Vatican dragged its feet in putting Wesolowski on trial, and that he should have been turned over to "secular authorities" where the crimes occurred.

From the Dominican Republic to Dominica, where Tropical Storm Erika caused flash flooding and landslides that killed at least twelve people, according to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.  Erika is now moving towards Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola; Cuba and Puerto Rico; and is expected in Florida next week, where the governor has already declared a state of emergency.

Officials in Poland are close to confirming the story of the nazi gold train.  Poland's Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski says satellite imagery makes him "more than 99 percent sure that the train is there", but he stopped short of confirming the claim that it was filled with gold, weapons and valuable art.  Officials also warn that the train, hidden away at the end of World War II to keep it it out of the hands of advancing Soviet troops, might have been booby trapped.

Minnesota state troopers responded to a complaint about someone driving a big, giant Buick Roadmaster rather erratically.  They caught up to the car and followed it home, where an eight-year old boy climbed out of the driver's seat, followed by siblings, aged three- and five-years old.  The pint-sized joy riders were dressed in their pajamas.