JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Tuesday for the first time identified the Australian-Israeli at the heart of an espionage saga that has tested ties between the close allies, relations that Israel's prime minister said remain strong. Ireland apologizes to women of Catholic laundries
DUBLIN (AP) -- Ireland ignored the mistreatment of thousands of women who were incarcerated within Catholic nun-operated laundries and must pay the survivors compensation, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Tuesday in an emotional state apology for the decades of abuses in the so-calle d Magdalene Laundries. Missile strike in northern Syria kills 33
BEIRUT (AP) -- A Syrian missile strike leveled a block of buildings in an impoverished district of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, almost half of them children, anti-regime activists said. Fort McMurray public school board votes on whether to adopt four-day week
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – A school board in northern Alberta is to vote tonight on whether to adopt a four-day week.
Busted furniture, smeared sheets: census-taker gave hotel rock-star treatment
OTTAWA – Who knew census-takers could behave like rock stars?
$50 million in diamonds stolen at Brussels airport
BRUSSELS (AP) -- When the armored car set off for the Brussels airport carrying $50 million worth of precious stones from Antwerp's diamond district, eight gunmen knew all about it. Halifax navy spy Jeffrey Delisle eligible for conditional release in three years
HALIFAX – The Parole Board of Canada says a former Halifax naval officer convicted of spying for Russia is eligible for conditional release in three years.
Pressure mounts on Israel over Palestinian prisoner fast
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared a one-day fast on Tuesday in solidarity with four inmates whose hunger strike has fuelled anti-Israel protests in the occupied West Bank. Samer al-Issawi, one of the four Palestinians who have been on hunger strike, has been refusing food, intermittently, for more than 200 days. His lawyer says his health has deteriorated. Gaunt and using a wheelchair, Issawi appeared on Tuesday before a Jerusalem civil court, which deferred releasing him for at least another month. … Irish PM apologizes for "national shame" of Magdalene Laundries
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny apologized on Tuesday for the "national shame" of forcing thousand s of women to work without pay at the Catholic Church's notorious Magdalene Laundries and promised compensation for the survivors. The laundries, depicted in the award-winning film "The Magdalene Sisters", put 10,000 women and girls as young as nine through uncompromising hardship from the foundation of the Irish state in 1922 until 1996. … French soldier killed in Mali clash with radicals
PARIS (AP) -- A French soldier was shot to death on Tuesday in a clash with jihadists in a mountainous region of Mali's far north, a critical operation in France's bid to end a growing stranglehold by radicals who had imposed an extreme brand of Islam over more than half the West African country and threatened the borders beyond. Israel's Netanyahu makes first move for new government
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister B enjamin Netanyahu took a first step in forming a new government on Tuesday, announcing a coalition deal with former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and naming her to handle efforts to renew stalled diplomacy with the Palestinians. Netanyahu's choice of Livni, a moderate voice for a government led by his right-wing Likud party, seemed a positive signal ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit next month on a push to resume peace talks deadlocked since 2010. … Report questions Canada's 'politicization' of climate change policy options
OTTAWA – A new report says a fragmented approach to carbon policy by Ottawa and the provinces could result in higher costs.
Brazil's Rousseff says extreme poverty almost eradicated
BRASILIA (Reuters) 211; President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday raised the monthly stipend of 2.5 million people living below the poverty line to make good on her promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil, a nation with enormous income gaps between rich and poor. She said she has almost met her anti-poverty target halfway through her four-year term, though Brazil's last census points to 700,000 Brazilian families who still live in extreme poverty but are not registered on government social programs. … Navigation officer blames other boat, visibility for deadly BC ferry crash
VANCOUVER – A B.C. Supreme Court trial has heard that minutes after a B.C. Ferry slammed into an island, the man who was navigating the ship blamed another boat and limited visibility.
Cyprus socialists will not support candidate in runoff
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus's socialist party said on Tuesday it would not throw its support behind either remaining candidate in a runoff vote on February 24, closely watched by investors as the cash-starved island teeters on the brink of default. The vote will pit Nicos Anastasiades, a conservative candidate in favor of a swift bailout deal with international lenders, against Communist-backed Stavros Malas, who supports a bailout but with fewer austerity measures. "The positions (of the party) … … Bulgaria PM pledges power price cut to stop protests
SOFIA (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boiko Borisov sought to calm protests on Tuesday by promising to slash electricity prices and punish foreign-owned power companies, setting Bulgaria on a coll ision course with EU partner the Czech Republic. A day after sacking his finance minister, Borisov said the distribution license of central Europe's largest listed company, Czech-based CEZ will be revoked, and other firms fined after the latest round of increasingly violent protests. … 
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