Good Morning Australia! - An admission that could change the way Japan deals with the workers who tried to clean up the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - Obama meets the Clock Kid - Canada is high on marijuana! - And more in your CareerSpot World International News Briefs:

Japan for the first time has acknowledged that a worker at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant may have gotten cancer as a result of the 2011 triple meltdown.  The worker is being treated for leukemia, after working on the clean-up project for more than a year, exposed to a total of 19.8 millisieverts of radiation.  The Health Ministry in Tokyo says he'll receive compensation to cover medical costs and lost income. 

Canadian marijuana stocks jumped up on the morning after the center-Left Liberal Party routed the formerly ruling conservatives in parliamentary elections.  Shares for companies like Canopy Growth, Aphria, and Mettrum Health rose by double digits in the early hours before settling into high single digit gains.  Prime Minister-elect Justin Trudeau campaigned on legalizing marijuana, but it's not the top priority.  Trudeau and his Liberal government is expected to pass tax cuts for the middle class as its first act.

Saudi Arabia sentenced a human rights activist to ten years in prison and banned him from traveling for another ten years after that.  Abdel-Karim al-Khadar's crime was to post anonymous videos on the internet criticizing religious extremism, and advocating women's rights and co-existence.  Al-Khadar is the third rights activist to be sentenced to prison in the past week, and was a founding member of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights.

France's ultra-right wing nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has gone on trial on charges of inciting racial hatred, for allegedly comparing Muslims praying in the street to the nazi occupation.  "I have the right, as a political leader, to evoke a crucial issue and it's even a duty for me to do it", Le Pen said, describing herself as a victim of "judicial persecution".  Le Pen didn't actually use the world "nazi".  The hinges on the loaded word "occupation" - It's the same word in French and English.  But when spelled with a capital "O" in France, almost always refers to the German occupation.  Prosecutors will have to prove Le Pen's intent.

Republic of Congo police opened fire on an opposition rally in the capital Brazzaville, protesting President Denis Sassou Nguesso's bid for a third term in office, effectively extending his rule past three decades.  Despite at least four deaths, protesters remained on the streets.  The constitution bars a third term, and sets the age limit for the presidency at 70 - Nguesso is 72 years old.

An unlicensed medical practitioner in Cambodia faces life in prison if convicted of reusing needles on patient after patient, spreading HIV to at least 100 people.  Yem Chhrin has been in protective custody since December because the people of Roka would really, really like to lynch him.

US Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is in Jerusalem, where he asked Israelis and Palestinians to step back from a "dangerous abyss" of spiraling violence.  "This conflict has gone on for far too long," he said.  "We must, for the future of our children, come back from this dangerous abyss, safeguard the two-state solution and lead people back onto the road towards peace."  Israel is on edge after a series of unorganized stabbings by Palestinians and retribution attacks by nationalists.

The US Muslim teen arrested for building an alarm clock as his science project for his high school in Texas (where stupidity happens) finally got to meet US President Barack Obama at a White House event to promote tolerance and technology.  14-year old Ahmed Mohamed chatted up the president on the South Lawn of the White House for Astronomy Night.  Critics say school officials overreacted - perhaps with malice - by interpreting a legitimate class assignment as a potential bomb.  President Obama threw cold water on the school officials with a tweet:  "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?"