Hello Australia!! - The "Man in the Hat" admits to being at the Brussels airport during last month's terrorist bombings - A once-powerful US Republican was a raging child molester, according to prosecutors - Polish women stand up for their rights - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The terrorism suspect arrested by Belgian police on Friday reportedly admits being "the Man in the Hat" seen in CCTV videos recorded before and after the 22 March bombings in Brussels.  31-year-old Mohamed Abrini confessed that "he threw away his jacket in a rubbish bin and sold his hat after the attack," according to a statement from the Belgian prosecutor's office.  Investigators found Abrini's fingerprints and DNA in two "safe houses" in Brussels - but also in a car used during the Paris attacks on 13 November, linking those two terrorist events.  32 people died in the Brussels Bombings, 130 died in the Paris Attacks.

Before he was second in line to the Presidency of the United States of America, former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert was a molester of teenage boys - that's the allegation from Federal Prosecutors in documents preceding Hastert's sentencing on charges of failing to properly report large cash transactions.  Hastert, a conservative Republican congressman from a rural area south of Chicago, Illinois, admitted to mishandling the cash, which prosecutors say was hush money to some of the at least five boys he molested when he was a high school wrestling coach during the 1960s and '70s, before entering politics.  Hastert's term as House Speaker is marked by the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton for irregularities around an affair with a consenting adult; and for the "Hastert Rule", an informal policy in which Republicans refused bipartisanship for the good of the country.

Austria is seizing the house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 to stop it being a focal point for neo-nazi scum.  The government did not say what it plans to do with it - more than a few have suggested tearing the damned thing down and being done with it.  A Russian MP even offered to buy it so he could blow it up.  The only physical reminder of the building's link to history's worst villain is a small memorial outside to the victims of fascism, which includes the phrase "never again".

Thousands marched in Poland's capital Warsaw protesting a proposed tightened of the country's already repressive law on women's reproductive rights.  Surprised by the level of opposition, Poland's ruling ultra-right (and ironically named) Law and Justice party is already backing off the proposal last week - backed by the Catholic Church, naturally - to limit abortion only to cases in which the mother's life is in danger.  Poland's law is already Europe's most restrictive, allowing it in the previously mentioned cases, plus pregnancy caused by rape or incest, and when the fetus is malformed.

In London, even larger crowds marched to call for Prime Minister David Cameron to resign over his revelations that he profitted from his father's off-shore investment firm, as detailed in the Panama Papers. 

Claiming it is "unconstitutional", Egypt is refusing to give Italy mobile phone records that might relate to the torture murder of an Italian student in Cairo.  Rights activists have suggested that Egypt's security forces were involved in the killing of Giulio Regeni, whose battered body was found nine days after he disappeared.  Italy has withdrawn its ambassador from Cairo in protest of what it sees as the Egyptian government's obfuscation of the facts and evidence in Mr. Regeni's death.

At least 18 Philippine troops died in clashes with Abu Sayyaf Islamists on Basilan island.  Government forces were deployed to capture Abu Sayyaf commander Isnilon Hapilon - a man with a US$5 Million bounty on his head from Washington - but the militants had greater numbers than expected, and were armed with rocket propelled grenades.  Officials announced this on the archipelago nation's Day of Valor to commemorate those who died in World War II. 

North Korea says it has successfully tested a rocket engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile it claims could reach Washington, DC.

The US deployed B-52 bombers to Qatar's al-Udeid Air Base for future attacks on Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria.  This is the first time that the US has used the Cold War-era B-52 bombers in the Middle East since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. 

Russia is defending selling weapons to both Armenia and Azerbaijan - both former republicans of the USSR, but whose military forces have faced off in a sharp escalation of fighting around separatist Nagorno-Karabakh.  "They would buy weapons in other countries, and the degree of their deadliness wouldn't change," said Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev on Russian TV.  More than 75 people from both sides have died in last week's fighting that broke an uneasy peace that existed since 1994.  Russia has joined the peace talks going on in Yerevan, Armenia, which attracted protesters calling on all sides the speed it up.