Hello Australia!! - Harsh words between the UN chief and Israel's Prime Minister - Cops capture the leader of a right-wing militia stand-off in America's Pacific Northwest - This time it's not a hoax, actor Abe Vigoda has died - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accusing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of "encouraging terrorism".  After years of carefully guarding his language, Mr. Ban is speaking more hard truths as he prepares to leave office at the end of the year.  He demanded an end to Israeli settlement building and told the Security Council, "Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of a half century of occupation and the paralysis of the peace process," adding that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands in the West Bank "serves as a potent incubator of hate and extremism".  Netanyahu was having none if it, accusing the UN of losing its objectivity and adding, "There is no justification for terror."

One man is dead and US police arrested five members of a right-wing terrorist group who've been occupying a nature preserve in Oregon since the beginning of the month.  The militia members were traveling from the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve to a community meeting in a nearby town when police swept in.  It's unclear if the FBI was also involved.  Authorities arrested the two leaders of the occupation, brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and three followers.  The person shot and killed in the confrontation was LaVoy Finicum, who distinguished himself by giving a television interview in the early days of the siege while hiding under a bright blue tarp. The Bundy group faces several conspiracy and weapons charges, and authorities warned any stragglers who might still be at the preserve to just freaking go home.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Beijing to push senior Chinese officials to do more to rein in North Korea's nuclear activities.  China is North Korea's only friend in the world, and the US believes China must do more to return to disarmament talks which have been stalled since 2008.  Mr. Kerry is also trying to ease tensions in the South China Sea, much of which Beijing has claimed as its own in defiance of common sense and maritime law.  China took over seven reefs claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan and converted them into islands with runways and military buildings.

Taiwan's outgoing president plans to visit the contested island of Itu Aba in the South China Sea on Thursday.  Ma Ying-jeou will offer New Year's greetings to the residents - mostly Taiwanese coast guard members and a few scientists.  The Philippines and Vietnam have rival claims to the island, and are likely to lodge strong protest.

An Afghan police officer is believed to have drugged and than shot-dead ten of his colleagues at a station in the southern province of Uruzgan.  Afghan authorities say the suspected Taliban infiltrator then stole their weapons and burned the facility.  Insider attacks on international and Afghan forces have emerged as one of the country's gravest security threats, resulting the deaths of at least 100 foreign troops and scores of Afghan police.

Actor Abe Vigoda is dead at age 94.  News of his death was first reported incorrectly in 1982, and has been the subject of repeated mistakes and hoaxes every few years ever since.  Each time, he'd pop-up again the next day with his big smile.  Vigoda shot to fame for playing the character Sal Tessio in "The Godfather", the old friend of Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone, who makes the fatal mistake of betraying the Don's son and successor Michael Corleone played by Al Pacino.  Co-star Robert Duvall said, "We had some great memories together and he will really be missed."  After that, he played perennially-exhausted and hemorrhoid-plagued Detective Phil Fish on the 1970s police sit-com "Barney Miller".