Hello, Australia! – Horse racing has a Triple Crown winner for the first time in 37 years – The G7 Summit starts today with thousands of protesters already clashing with police – An Aussie climber says Malaysia botched the rescue of people from Mount Kinabalu after the earthquake – Sometimes just watching sport can be life-threatening – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

American Pharoah has overcome the decades-long drought and won the Belmont Stakes, securing horse racing’s Triple Crown for the first time in 37 years.  He finished 5-1/2 lengths ahead of Frosted, while Keen Ice was third.  “It’s just unbelievable how things worked out,” said jockey Victor Espinoza, “I feel so good.  I hope American Pharoah feels like me.”  American Pharoah previously won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

German police are preparing for the first day of the G7 Summit on Sunday, a day after cops clashed with some of the thousands of protesters camped out near the summit location in the resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.  Cops responded with pepper spray, and as many as 30 civilians were harmed during the scuffles.  “I’m protesting because the big financial corporations have too much influence over politics,” said 50-year old protester Thomas Schmidbauer, “Poverty isn't being tackled.  It is unfair.  We could organize our economies much better for the people.”

Police in Kiev arrested 25 when members of the Pravy Sektor fascist scum attacked a rare gay rights march in the capital of socially conservative Ukraine.  You might recall that Pravy Sektor played a role in the Western-backed street protests that eventually chased pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych out of the country.  Amnesty International praised the organizers of the march – which was completed despite the violence – but admonished, “Ukrainian authorities should have done more in advance to prevent attacks against gay pride marchers.”

Thirteen people are now confirmed dead after Friday’s earthquake on Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia, with 20 people injured.  All 137 climbers who were stranded on the slopes are believed to have descended the mountain safely.  Australia climber Vee Jin Dumlao is not impressed with Malaysia’s efforts to help people on Kinabalu, telling the ABC that it was a “farce” of disorganized military members unable to follow the leads of the experienced mountain guides who did most of the work. 

China confirms 396 people are dead as a result of the capsizing of a passenger ship on the Yangtze River almost a week ago.  More than 40 people are still missing, and only 14 of the 456 people on board are known to have survived. 

It’s another one of those weekends in the Mediterranean, with the Italian coast guard rescuing some 3,500 migrants from crap wooden fishing boats and rubber dinghies – all of them found drifting 45 miles off Libya’s coast.  One Italian Navy boat says no fewer than seven pregnant women are among the hundreds it is ferrying to safety to the north.  Human trafficking gangs take advantage of the chaos in Libya to launch and more or less abandon boats packed with would-be immigrants escaping war and poverty in sub-Saharan African and the Middle East.

The UK says that as many as 450,000 to 500,000 people are waiting on Libya’s lawless shores for a ride north.  UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said, “We could see hundreds of thousands trying to cross this summer.”  Fallon says Europe needs to “get after the gangs themselves” by identifying and eliminating their sources of funding.

An American baseball fan is expected to survive after being slammed in the head by a broken baseball bat.  This happened at Boston’s Fenway Park on Friday night where the Red Sox were hosting the Oakland A’s.  The bat wielded by Oakland Athletics batter Brett Lawrie snapped into pieces and the heaviest chunk with its jagged edges flew right into the stands.  Initially, officials said Tonya Carpenter’s injuries were life-threatening, and the game was delayed while medics rushed the bleeding woman out of the ballpark to hospital.  Carpenter is still in a serious condition

Political and military leaders led the mourners at the funeral of Beau Biden, the son of US Vice President Joe Biden.  Joseph Robinette “Beau” Biden III, a 46-year-old Iraq war veteran and Delaware's former attorney general, died May 30 of brain cancer.  Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin sang “’Til Kingdom Come,” offering to come to the funeral after learning Biden was a fan of the band.  A thousand mourners crowded the old Catholic Church in Wilmington, Deaware to hear eulogies and tributes read by the family, US President Barack Obama, and Army Chief of Staff Raymond Ordierno who said he believed Beau Biden would have become President of The US had he survived.

Vladimir Putin says the world, especially NATO, should not fear Russia.  “Only an insane person and only in a dream can imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO”, the Russian president told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.  NATO has repeatedly accused the Kremlin of arming and occasionally sending soldiers to help separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, something Moscow denies.