Good Morning Australia!! - Russia tosses Putin's top rival in the cooler - Nuclear powers yawn at a worldwide weapons ban proposal - Germany's multi-million dollar coin heist involved just one coin - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Cyclone Debbie is going to slam into Queensland today - follow the Bureau of Meteorlogy for the latest updates.  Winds of up to 190 KPH were already battering the Whitsunday Islands, and it's going to be a tough one.

Russia is throwing opposition leader Alexei Navalny in jail for 15 days after he was arrested for organizing and taking part in large anti-government protests over the weekend, the largest since 2011-2012.  Mr. Navalny is planning to run for president against Vladimir Putin in a year, although he is banned from doing so because of a corruption conviction that most human rights campaigners regard as bogus and politically motivated.  Before his hearing, Navalny tweeted from the courtroom, "Hello everyone from Tverskoy Court.  The time will come when we will have them on trial (only honestly)."  His lawyer plans to appeal the sentence.

Russia and the US are among 40 countries not bothering to take part in nuclear non-proliferation talks at the United Nations.  US UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said, "There is nothing I want more for my family than a world with no nuclear weapons.  But we have to be realistic," referring to rogue nations like North Korea that presumably aren't going to adhere to international agreements.  Sweden is leading the effort to get a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons; Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom expects this will take "a long time".

An avalanche in the mountains north of Tokyo killed seven mountaineering students and a teacher, and dozens were injured.  It followed a night of unusually heavy, late-season snow at the Nasu Onsen Mountain Resort and avalanche and advisories were in force in the area at the time - which has led to questions as to why the exercise involving 63 students and teachers from regional schools was allowed to continue.  One survivor described a strong wind followed by a wall of white descending on the group. 

Hong Kong cops arrested several leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy "Umbrella Protests", a day after Beijing's chosen candidate Carrie Lam was elected the territory's new leader.  "The target of the Beijing Government is to wipe out all democratic force in Hong Kong, from the prosecution of Umbrella Movement leaders to unseating democratic lawmakers," said Joshua Wong, founder of the pro-democracy Demosisto party.  Since fewer than 1,200 people were actually allowed to vote in Hong Kong's election, critics say Ms. Lam is hardly a true representative of the people.

South Korean prosecutors applied for an arrest warrant against impeached former president Park Geun-hye.  She is accused of allowing her close friend Choi Soon-sil to allegedly extort money from big firms, and prosecutors want to prevent her from potentially destroying evidence in the case.

London police say they've yet to find a link between Westminster attacker Khalid Masood, who killed four people outside UK Parliament before being shot dead by police - and terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State, the latter of which claimed responsibility for his attack.  Masood's mother denounced the attack and said she had "shed many tears for the people caught up in this horrendous incident".

The Brazilian airline Gol is agreeing to pay US$1.3 Million to the indigenous Caiapo tribe over a 2006 plane crash.  The tribe said it couldn't go back to its area of the Amazon rainforest where a Gol Boeing 737 passenger plane collided with a private jet because it was now polluted and cursed with the presence of the dead.  The money will be managed by the foundation of tribal chairman Raoni Metuktire, who became famous when he traveled around the world with British rock star Sting in the late 1980s to campaign for rainforest preservation.

Canada expects to legalize recreational marijuana by 1 July 2018.  The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will reveal the legislation in the second week of April.  If it goes through, Canada will become the first G7 country to fully legalize marijuana use.

A gigantic Canadian gold coin is gone, stolen from a museum in Berlin, Germany where it had been on loan for the past few years.  The Big Maple Leaf "was stolen last night, it's gone," said Bode museum spokesman Markus Farr.  This isn't something one would slip into their trouser pocket - The Big Maple Leaf weighs a hundred kilograms, and has a diameter of 53 centimeters and is three centimeters thick.  Cops believe "the thief, maybe thieves, broke open a window in the back of the museum next to the railway tracks" - which given every heist film ever made, would be the FIRST frickin' window you'd want to put bars on.  Anyway, the thing is worth AU$5.3 Million, assuming it's not being melted down and sold off.