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A controversial new study is linking artificially sweetened beverages with increased risk of stroke and dementia. Although it does not establish causality, but sheds light on an association that might make some people think twice about what quenches their thirst.
World AM News Briefs For Monday, 24 April 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - Results in the contentious French Presidential election come in - A noted conservationist is shot in Africa - One of the world's most-recognized child stars dies in apparent poverty - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
World News Briefs For Sunday, 23 April 2017
Hello Australia!! - North Korea threatens Australia with a nuke - More disturbing video of a passenger abuse on an airliner in the US - The world stands up for science - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
World News Briefs For Saturday, 22 April 2017
Hello Australia!! - A horror crash kills more than a dozen children - Police say a football team was bombed for profit - France prepares for Sunday's volatile presidential election - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Finance, Government - Venezuela Seizes GM Plant
Detroit-based General Motors (GM) has halted operations in Venezuela after authorities seized its factory in the industrial city of Valencia.
Finance, Government - Chevron Loses Tax Appeal
The Federal Court has rejected US-based multinational gas and oil company Chevron's appeal and ordered it to pay AU$300 Million in back taxes.
World AM News Briefs For Friday, 21 April 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - Breaking this morning, a shooting in the heart of Paris is investigated as terrorism - North Korea is doing WHAT on its nuclear test site?!?! - Fetch the jug, Granny! Trump is having folks up to the White House! - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Energy, Resources, Green - Coal Mine To Go Solar
A coal company in impoverished eastern Kentucky is planning to contruct a solar energy farm on the site of a former mountaintop removal coal mine, a project that would bring jobs and energy to the region.
Federal Government - Libs, Labor Spar Over Citizenship Test
The federal government wants to change the country's citizenship laws to require new arrivals adhere to "Australian values".
World AM News Briefs For Thursday, 20 April 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - Fox cuts its biggest host over sex harassment allegations - Muslim outrage beats the Christian governor of Jakarta - Earth dodges a really, really big rock - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Green - Global Warming Drains River
Scientists believe that global warming is responsible for rerouting the flow of a glacier's melt, a phenomenon they're calling "river piracy" because it took all of the water out of one river and put it into another.
Government, HR - Kiwis, US Follow Australia On Visas
Even as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's plan to cut 457 visas is coming under increasing criticism after just 24 hours, the US and New Zealand announced similar restrictions on skilled worker visas.
World AM News Briefs For Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - May "reluctantly" calls for a snap election - Trump actually called Erdogan to congratulate him on his power grab - The military confrontation that wasn't - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Federal Government, HR - Oz Doing Away With 457 Visas
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says is abolishing 457 visas which bring temporary foreign workers into Australia and replacing it with another visa class.
Health - Opioids Linked To Memory Mystery
A group of patients in the Boston, Massachusetts area are posing a medical mystery. They're suffering from an unusual and debilitating form of memory loss that appears linked to the scourge of opioid drug use.
World AM News Briefs for Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - North Korea threatens "thermonuclear war" - Emboldened Erdogan appears to be shutting doors to Europe - Trump screws up a kiddy party - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
World AM News Briefs For Monday, 17 April 2017
Good Morning Australia!! - Turkey as we've known it for almost a century might be over - The US maintains pressure as North Korea's latest launch goes flop - It's been a busy Easter weekend in the Mediterranean - April the Giraffe gave birth, and the new mum is not to be messed with - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
World News Briefs For Sunday, 16 April 2017
Hello Australia!! - Everyone would just love to get through the weekend without World War Three breaking out - Deadly bombs target fleeing civilians in Syria - The bittersweet tale of the world's oldest woman - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
World News Briefs For Saturday, 15 April 2017
Hello Australia!! - China fears war on the Korean Peninsula - Clerics threaten revenge on a newspaper that uncovered an atrocity - The US defends the "mother of all bombs" - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Finance, Executive - Bankers Offer Pay Cut
As sky high executive pay causes growing discomfort in Switzerland, the Chief Executive and Board of Directors of Credit Suisse are offering to take a 40 percent off their annual bonuses.
Finance - One-In-Three Chance Of Recession
The fellow who accurately forecast the 2008 Global Financial Crisis now says there is a one-in-three chance of a home-grown recession next year.