Hello Australia! - Hundreds are killed in a passenger plane crash in Egypt - A nightclub allegedly ignored fire safety laws before 27 people died in a blaze - Russia warns of a "proxy war" in Syria - And Brazil's president protects indigenous peoples from an alleged land grab - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A Russian passenger jet with 224 people on board crashed into the desert of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula - officials say there were no survivors.  Most on board were tourists returning to Saint Petersburg from holiday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.  Egyptian aviation officials say Kogalymavia - or "MetroJet" as it's known in the West - Flight 7K9268 had reached an altitude of more than 10,000 meters when it disappeared.  That's beyond the range of shoulder-fired missiles, and would throw cold water on the claim of the local Islamic State affiliate which said it downed the jet.  Both "black box" flight recorders were reportedly recovered from the crash scene.

Romania's President says safety regulations were apparently ignored in the Bucharest nightclub where 27 people died in a fire on Friday night.  Witnesses say a heavy metal band set off fireworks as part of the show, igniting the ceiling and a pillar.  People stampeded to the exits to get away from the smoke and flames.  More than 140 people are being treated in hospital, some with severe burns.  "I am saddened, but also revolted that a tragedy of this scale could have taken place in Bucharest," President Klaus Iohannis said, declaring three days of mourning.

Six children were among 15 people killed in a fire in the Philippines.  Authorities say they were sleeping in a locked building in which faulty wiring sparked the blaze.

Attackers in Bangladesh hacked to death a man who had published books by Avijit Roy, the popular atheist blogger who himself was murdered the same way in February.  The murder of Faysal Arefin came hours after similar attacks on two secular writers and another publisher.  The government has cracked down on the Al Qaeda inspired "Ansarullah Bangla Team" because of the murders, but four secular bloggers have been killed for criticizing Islamic militancy this year.

The government of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has stopped an agribusiness push to rewrite the constitution in a way that would have weakened protections of Indigenous Peoples' reserves, and transferred the power to protect indigenous peoples from the government to congress.  The proposal also would have made it impossible to set aside more land for indigenous peoples. 

Meanwhile, Firefighters have contained several wildfires that have destroyed half of an Amazonian rainforest in an indigenous reserve in Brazil's Maranhao state.  Tribal leaders accuse hostile loggers and ranchers of starting the fires.

Colombian president Juan Manual Santos will ask the UN Security Council to monitor and verify a potential ceasefire between the government the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).  Although both parties could finally stop five decades of shooting before Christmas, it would formally come into effect in 2016.

At least 70 children have drowned in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas since photographs of the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi face down on a beach went viral two months ago.  Blasting Europe's dilly-dallying in dealing with the flow of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, Kate O'Sullivan of the rights group Save The Children said, "To have the small bodies of babies and children carried ashore or washed up on these idyllic beaches is devastating."  She added, "I have seen children sleeping in the mud under a flimsy bit of cardboard, and kids shivering with blue lips and hands. We expect the situation to get much worse as winter really bites."

Russia is warning of the risk of a "proxy war".  This comes after the US drastically shifted strategies and committed to sending Special Forces troops to Syria to train and assist vetted rebel groups fighting Islamic State and, by default, the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad - The Kremlin's ally.  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, "I am convinced that neither the United States nor Russia of course want any kind of slide into a so-called proxy war. But to me it is obvious that this situation makes the task of co-operation between the militaries even more relevant."  Russia, the US, and several other interested parties return to Vienna in a couple of weeks to continue discussions on how to end Syria's civil war.

US President Barack Obama is removing Burundi from a program that allows the nation to import certain US goods without tariffs,because of a crackdown on political opposition.  Mr. Obama told Congress that "assassinations, extra-judicial killings, arbitrary arrests, and torture" have drastically increased since Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza returned to power earlier this year in a highly criticized election.  Critics maintain that Nkurunziza's third term in office is unconstitutional and violates a deal that ended the country's civil war.  200,000 fled Burundi to escape violence surrounding Nkurunziza's reelection.