Hello, Australia! – The ayatollah signals he might back the nuclear deal – Drones stopped firefighters from getting to a highway disaster – Loathsome US businessman Donald Trump slams John McCain’s war record – Yanis says Greece’s latest deal is doomed to failure – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Iran’s “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stopped just short of endorsing the nuclear deal his country reached with the six major world powers – The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China.  Khamenei claimed the nuclear agreement is a victory for Iran because it does not require the country to completely stop enriching uranium – something considered a major problem by Israel’s government and conservatives in Washington, DC.  Earlier, some of Khamenei’s fellow hardliners say the agreement is too strict on Iran and its nuclear ambitions.  But the ayatollah also said the deal doesn’t change the country’s relationship with the US, which he considered the great satan and all that crap.

Saudi Arabia announced that it has arrested more than 400 suspected members of Islamic State, breaking up several planned attacks.  The suspects were allegedly also involved in successful attacks, including a suicide bombing that killed 22 people in the eastern village of al-Qudeeh.  The Saudi Interior Ministry claims one of the disrupted plots involved bombing another eastern Mosque than could hold 3,000 people.

Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis predicts the latest round of economic “reforms” imposed on his country will “go down in history as the greatest disaster of macroeconomic management ever”.  But he doesn’t fault his former boss Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for agreeing to the awful, terrible, horrible deal that will force Greece to privatize 50 Billion Euros worth of The Commons, raise taxes on those who can least afford it, and slash at pensions.  “We were given a choice between being executed and capitulating,” Yanis explains, “and he decided that capitulation was the optimal strategy.”

Sicilian police arrested three Egyptians who were allegedly in charge of a smuggling boat on which a ten-year-old Syrian girl with diabetes who died after they threw her insulin overboard.  She was with a group of 335 migrants who set off Alexandria, Egypt and didn’t make it to port in Italy until a week later.  Prime Minister Matteo Renzi spoke of the girl’s death on Saturday to emphasize the need for mercy, as right-wingers increasingly express opposition to resettling the migrants.

A fifth member of the US military has died as a result of injuries from that mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  The gunman 24-year-old Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez had several firearms and attacked a military recruiting office and a reservist training center.  Investigators are still trying to piece together his motive.

Firefighting helicopters couldn’t get into the scene where a wildfire burned 20 cars and trucks on a freeway east of Los Angeles on Friday – because hobbyists were flying drones, apparently to capture video of the disaster.  The miniature aircraft could get in the way of or damage the choppers’ rotors.  US officials are now commencing a major public service message campaign to tell people to stop flying those remote control drone helicopters during disasters. 

US businessman Donald Trump’s “campaign” for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination has been criticized as a circus sideshow, but now he may have finally crossed a red line.  Trump spoke of Arizona Senator John McCain, a former GOP presidential candidate and Vietnam War POW:  “He’s not a war hero.  He’s a war hero because he was captured.  I like people who weren’t captured.”  And, “yes”, Trump instantly trashed every single American who was captured by the enemy in every war.  Most of the other candidates immediately rose to McCain’s defense.  McCain had recently criticized Trump for riling up “crazies” in the party with inflammatory remarks about illegal immigrants from Mexico.

Nairobi, Kenya’s Westgate Mall reopens, two years after the Al Shabaab terrorist attack that killed 67 people and virtually gutted the original building.