Good Morning Australia!! - The US drops a weapon of mass distraction from Trump's Russian problems - North Korea is "primed and ready" to blast another nuke - The UN decides it can't do anymore damage in Haiti - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The US military dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon on eastern Afghanistan in an area where 95,000 people reside.  The 22,000 pound GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb is nicknamed the MOAB - "Mother of all bombs".  It's designed to collapse underground bunkers and take out trees in a 135 meter radius.  "What it does is basically suck out all of the oxygen and lights the air on fire," said defense analyst Bill Roggio to the Military Times.  "It's a way to get into areas where conventional bombs can't reach."  Fighters with the so-called Islamic State in the target area are using "bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defense" according to General John Nicholson, the top commander in Afghanistan, adding that it's "the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against" the terrorists.

The MOAB program has cost the US $314 Million to develop and build about one and a half dozen units, one of which has since gone boom.  It's the first time the US has used it in an actually military application rather than testing.  Wall Street was not impressed, with the Dow plunging 135 points upon the news of the bomb's deployment.  Aside from the uncertainty of war, bomb-maker Dynetics is employee-owned and has no shares to trade, therefore no profit to be made except for the workers.  However, the target audience wasn't Wall Street..

North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site is "primed and ready" for another blast.  The blog 38 North from Johns Hopkins University examined news commercial satellite imagery and found "continued activity around the North Portal, new activity in the Main Administrative Area, and a few personnel around the site's Command Center" - indications of an imminent event, based on similar activity preceding Pyongyang's other nuclear tests.  Already this week, Pyongyang warned it would strike the US mainland with nuclear weapons at any sign of aggression from Washington - although analysts don't believe the country has the ability to do so yet.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claims reports of a chemical attack by his forces were "100 percent fabrication".  In an interview with AFP the hereditary leader said "there was no order to make any attack" on the rebel-held village of Khan Shaykhun, where more than 80 people died of suspected sarin gas poisoning.  Assad's Russian allies claimed that Syria jets hit a rebel depot of chemical munitions.  The West accuses Syria of deliberately targeting civilians and Russia of at the very least trying to cover-up evidence of the attack by bombing a hospital.

Moscow plans to appeal the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Russia failed to protect the hostages of the Beslan school siege.  More than 350 people were killed in the Chechen separatist siege of a school in Beslan; the terrorists armed with suicide belts took more than a thousand kids hostage.  The counter-assault by Russian special forces was ruthless.  The court claimed that Russian officials knew the attack was imminent but didn't stop it; The Kremlin says that conclusion is "utterly unacceptable".

Cops in Lagos, Nigeria raided a flat and recovered US$43 Million in cash, plus smaller piles of UK Sterling and Nigerian Naira.  The money is believed to be from unlawful activity, but investigators don't have any details on which to arrest anyone.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously to end the 13-year old peace-keeping mission in Haiti and replace it with a smaller police force.  This reflects a growing view that the recent peaceful elections and transfer of power (to someone whom the West approves) shows stability is setting in.  However, Haiti is still one of the world's poorest countries, unable to come back from the 2010 earthquake which killed 230,000, the subsequent UN-caused cholera outbreak that killed 8,000 and sickened 200,000, and Hurricane Matthew which killed 1,000 last year.

Okay.  So. 

Why did the US just now drop a MOAB on eastern Afghanistan?  The answer might be buried in the last paragraph of a UK Guardian Newspaper story about British intelligence alerting the US to contact between Trump advisers and Russian officials.  The source told The Guardian that there is "specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion" that occurred between "people in the Trump campaign and agents of (Russian) influence relating to the use of hacked material".  If that is true, it means that US investigators have gone from smoky and murky reports of  collusion to actual proof of illegal conduct on the part of Trump's people - potential impeachment-level evidence.  If that is true.

But now, Trump is a war president.  And in the last week he has changed his disruptive policies to get right inline with the national security mainstream in Washington - he claims to no longer see Russia as a buddy, he's getting militarily involved in Syria, he's talking trade with China.  George W. Bush, Part II.  Only stupider and orange.  Will the Republican-controlled US congress actually move against a puppet president who is now doing its whims internationally and domestically?  We'll see.