Hello Australia!! - Climate Change ruins another bit of Australia's natural beauty - A neighbor is warning its black citizens to beware police violence in the USA - A diplomatic fracas with a sinister twist in Moscow - And more in your Careerspot Global News Briefs:

Russia and the US have expelled pairs of each others' diplomats after a fracas outside the US Embassy in Moscow.  A video of the 6 June incident shows a Russian guard attacking a US diplomat as he exits a taxi to enter the embassy, and the diplomat wrestling his way from guard position to make his way across the building's threshold - US territory where the Russian has no business being.  The US last week kicked out two Russian embassy staff to protest the incident, and Russia responded by expelling two Americans.  Tit for tat expulsions are nothing new in diplomacy, but violent assaults are rare, even for the Russians.

Days after Australia announced it would extend its Afghanistan mission through 2017, NATO announced it would help fund Afghan security forces with about US$1 billion annually over the next three years.  This is despite fatigue in Western countries about their involvement in the long-running conflict.  The US invaded 15 years ago to topple the Taliban rulers who had harbored al Qaeda militants behind the 9/11 attacks in the United States.  But the country has failed to stabilize in that time, and the Taliban merely retreated to the hills, and Islamic State has shown up in the country, complicating matters even further.

NATO is also planning to use surveillance planes to detect the movements of Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, and will start a training and capacity-building mission for Iraqi armed forces.  The alliance, during a summit in Warsaw, announced it will also train Iraqi forces and support special forces in Tunisia, a major recruiting ground for IS. 

US President Barack Obama left Warsaw, likely one of his last visits to Europe as President, to rush back to a nation troubled by the recent police killings of two more black men, and the apparent revenge attack that saw the deaths of five police officers in Dallas, Texas.  He said he would bring together civil rights and law enforcement leaders for talks at the White House in the upcoming week.  And he cautioned that the issue of gun control could not be separated from the tensions felt between America's black community and the police.

The Bahamas has issued a travel warning to its citizens visiting the United States because of the police killings of black men.  Some 90 percent of Bahamians are black, and cops in Baton Rouge and a suburb of Saint Paul have long the long list of communities where police have been caught on video killing black men for no reason.  The advisory warns citizens to not get involved in protests and avoid crowds.

The British government says that despite a petition signed by 4.1 Million people, there will be no do-over of the Brexit vote.  "The Prime Minister and Government have been clear that this was a once-in-a-generation vote and, as the Prime Minister has said, the decision must be respected," read a statement from the Foreign Office.  "We must now prepare for the process to exit the EU and the Government is committed to ensuring the best possible outcome for the British people in the negotiations."  The referendum on 23 June ended with 52 percent voting to leave the European Union - although polling, internet search, and other scattered bits of data have suggested that many people didn't fully understand what they were voting for.

Man-made Climate Change is being blamed with the deaths of 10,000 hectares of mangroves across a 700 kilometer stretch of coastline reaching from Queensland to the Northern Territory.  "It's a world-first in terms of the scale of mangrove that have died," said internationally-known mangrove expert Dr. Norm Duke of James Cook University to the ABC.  He notes that a cataclysm such as "a large oil spill, like a cyclone or severe storm - none of those things had occurred in the region in recent times"; but the die off coincides with the bleaching of coral in the Great Barrier Reef, which is also being caused by Global Warming.