Hello Australia!! - No more delays, the Brexit is going to happen this week - The World Heath Organization is taking a second look at the Wuhan Coronavirus - Is an even deeper extreme replacing a far-right movement? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

In the end, the Brexit was not achieved with a bang nor a whimper, but with a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne".  Members of the European Parliament broke out in a chorus of the Scottish song after approving the withdrawal of the UK from the continental union.  On a vote of 621 in favor, 49 against, and 13 abstentions, the United Kingdom's 47 years as a member of the European Union which it helped create ends at midnight central European time on Friday, culminating years of troubled talks, uncertainty, and convulsions in British politics.  The president of the European parliament David Sassoli concluded the session with a quote from Jo Cox, the pro-EU British Labour MP who was assassinated by a Brexiteer in 2016:  "We have a lot more in common than divides us".  

International reaction to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's Middle East Peace Plan - on which Israel gets everything it wants and the Palestinians don't - has been lukewarm at best.  Only the government of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed it was a "serious" proposal.  France, Germany, the United Nations, and others said that only the Two-State Solution would bring a lasting peace and called on all parties to "study" (that means, "stall") the US-Israeli plan.  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the plan as "nonsense'', promised to "resist the deal in all its forms.", and declared:  "This conspiracy deal will not pass.  Our people will take it to the dustbin of history."  Since most nations believe that Israel and the Palestinians most be in complete agreement, that pretty much signals the end of the Trump-Netanyahu plan.

The UN World Health Organization will revisit the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV at an emergency meeting on Thursday, a week after giving the world the impression that the body wasn't too concerned about it.  WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organisation "deeply regrets" ranking the global health risk as "moderate" instead of "high".  The coronavirus has now killed more than 130 people, and infected more than 6,000 - mostly in China, but also in Australia, the US, Europe, and Africa.  So far, the fatalities have only been among the very old, very young, or those with compromised immune systems - so-called normal, healthy adults have thus far withstood the infection.  The mortality rate is also far below the SARS epidemic of a few years ago, or MERS.  

Australians stuck in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, are anxiously awaiting the Federal Government to come up with details of the plans to get them out of there.  There are as many as 600 people who might want a ride home.  Some - like 38-year old Amy Xia, who got caught in China's lockdown while visiting family - are concerned about Prime Minister Scott Morrison's plan to quarantine returnees at Christmas Island for as long as two weeks, which is believed to be the incubation period of the Wuhan Coronavirus.  "A lot of the Australians living in Wuhan have very young children, I think the government could consider a better way where they can bring us back to the mainland of Australia and quarantine us that way," she told the SBS.

Despite corporate media attempts to say these strikes are dying out, thousands returned to the streets of French cities to protest Emmanuel Macron's controversial proposed pension reform.  The eighth major day of protests since trade unions called a series of strikes in early December involved roadblocks, marches, and even the occupation of retail stores.  All this comes one day after French police viciously attacked firefighters calling for better working conditions and a hike in emergency pay which has remained stagnant since 1990.

A judge in Peru ordered far-right opposition leader Keiko Fujimori back to jail so she can't interfere with investigations into corruption in an illegal campaign financing scheme involving her Popular Force party and the scandal-drenched Brazilian firm Odebrecht.  The daughter of the murderous 1990s dictator Alberto Fujimori has not been formally yet.  Fujimori lost her presidential bids in 2011 and 2016, and her Popular Force party got destroyed in last weekend's elections, going from 73 seats to just twelve.  Unfortunately for Peru, some of that support bled to a screwball evangelical party called Frepap whose leaders literally strut around in robes and long beards in the style of Caucasian Jesus from old paintings.  Seriously, this is happening.

Firefighters rescued people from the roof of a 25 storey condo building in West Los Angeles as a fire raged on the 6th floor.  Investigators say the blaze that resulted in eight injuries is "suspicious".

After an uproar from within and without, the Washington Post has reinstated a reporter who was suspended for pointing that Kobe Bryant, who died in a chopper crash outside Los Angeles over the weekend, was once credibly accused of rape and settled the case out of court with a public apology to the victim.  The Washington Post, whose motto is "Democracy Dies in Darkness" has reinstated reporter Felicia Sonmez after a backlash from its own staff and from journalism groups.  Ms. Sonmez has been deluged with threats of murder and rape after tweeting about the allegations against Bryant after the chopper crash.

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