Hello Australia!! - Guatemala sends an ex-soldier to jail for 500+ years - The hoaxer who threatened Aussie schools and institution gets a stiff jail sentence - Step by step, the Brexit passes key tests - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

It's never too late to punish an atrocity:  A court in Guatemala sentenced a former military commander to 5,160 years in prison for his role in commanding the Dos Erres massacre of 171 people during the country's US-backed fascist dictatorship in the 1980s.  The massacre of indigenous villagers on the false basis that they were "Leftist sympathizers" was condemned as a genocide, and inspired the 1980s Bruce Cockburn song "If I Had a Rocket Launcher".  Santos Lopez Alonzo was trained by the US military to serve then-President Effrain Rios Montt, who died in April before he could be punished.  He was sentenced to 30 years for every person killed at Dos Erres, plus another 30 for hunting and killing a girl who survived the massacre.  Guatemalan law says that no one will actually service more than 50-years in prison - now 66-years old, it's unlikely that Santos Lopez will be able to beat that clock, should his sentence be allowed to run its course.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May says a full deal on a Brexit is "within our grasp".  Two things makes it easier to believe her:  The Tory party backbench rebellion appears to have fizzled; and European Council President Donald Tusk said the deal had been agreed to in principle.  However, the parties still have to resolve the issue of Gibraltar, and as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pointed out in Parliament Thursday the preliminary deal as written contains a lot of vague promises to resolve other details later.  "This is the blindfold Brexit we all feared - a leap in the dark," said Mr. Corbyn.  "It falls short of Labour's six tests," he added asking, "What on earth have the government been doing for the past two years?"  Similarly, Lib-Dem leader Sir Vincent cable complained it was "full of worryingly vague aspirations".  Deal or no, the UK is scheduled to leave the European Union on 29 March.

Chinese police arrested a driver whose car slammed into a crowd of children outside a primary school, killing five people and injuring 18.  This happened in the coastal city of Huludao in Liaoning province.  It's not clear if the crash was deliberate, and if so, what the motive might have been. 

Israel handed a ten year prison term to an Israeli-American who made thousands of bomb threats to schools and Jewish community centers in Australia, NZ, the US, and Europe, that set off several panics and evacuations.  The parents of Michael Kadar - an autistic 20-year old who was a teen at the time of the threats - pleaded for leniency, claiming their son has a brain tumor as well as autism.  But the court noted that Mr. Kadar demonstrated he knew right from wrong - he used sophisticated software to disguise his voice as a woman; and he profited from his activities with his own "dark web" businesses offering to make the threats in exchange for what would amount to more than US$300,000 in Bitcoins.