Hello Australia!! - Tasmania exists, despite a certain retail chain's unfortunate hat - The US meeting on fighting Islamic State is drawing attention for who was not invited - One European nation is reversing the flow of refugees in the dead of winter - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Woolworths is frantically withdrawing a line of hats intended for Australia Day next week, because the headgear left off Tasmania from the map of Australia.  Somehow the designers managed to include the Union Jack (from another side of the world) and the Southern Cross (which technically are in different star systems), but didn't think to put in the Apple Isle.  Some Tasmanians were quick to hit social media with their outrage, others were happy to see their favorite place "kept a secret". You would think that after the Commonwealth Games of 2014 and 1982, people would be expecting this sort of thing..

The US is snubbing its neighbor Canada by not inviting it to this week's meeting of defense ministers in Paris to discuss the fight against Islamic State militants.  When he assumed office in November, Canada's new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to remove six Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter jets from the anti-IS coalition.  But that came just as the US was nudging its allies to step up their contributions.  No date has been set for withdrawing the Canadian Jets, and 69 Canadian Special Forces are training Kurdish forces in the north.

The meeting is raising eyebrows in many quarters, because the Arab world is in no way represented:  Ministers from Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Italy will attend.  Syria and Iraq.. not so much.

Islamic State is for the first time confirming that Mohammed Emwazi - AKA "Jihadi John" - was killed in a US drone strike last year.  Emwazi's obituary appears in IS's online magazine "Dabiq".  The black-masked Emwazi featured in several IS propaganda videos killing hostages.  IS has since put up another ex-Londoner to wear the black pajamas:  Siddhartha Dhar, who change dhis name to Abu Rumaysah.

Norway has sent 13 migrants back to Russia, the first of what could be 5,500 heading back across the border.  Many are Syrians who fled the civil war, but took a different route to Europe:  They went through Russia, heading all the up way to Murmansk on the Arctic Sea coast.  From there, they took bicycles to Kirkenes in Norway, because the law forbids walking or driving.  Russia eventually agreed to take them back, but only by bus.  Critics are blasting Norway for deporting people in the Arctic Circle during January, when the daytime temperature can get down to -30 C degrees.

Violent protests have gone into a second day in Haiti before this weekend's second round of voting in the presidential election.  About 2,000 people burned tyres and cars, and chanted slogans warning of a "revolution".  Their anger is shared by opposition candidate Jude Celestin, who isn't bothering to campaign and is threatening to pull out of the balloting unless reforms are carried out.  Mr. Celestin says the deck is stacked in favor of establishment candidate Jovenel Moise, who enjoys the backing of outgoing President Michel Martelly.

Firefighters in Paris beat back the fire the caused damage to the top floor of world-famous Ritz Hotel.  150 workers had to be evacuated during the episode, but no one was hour.  The hotel was already closed to undergo renovations, so no guests were there in the first place.  The Ritz was the hotel of choice for Charlie Chaplin, Coco Chanel, and Ernest Hemingway;  it was the last place Princess Diana stayed before she was killed in a car crash with her boyfriend Dodi al-Fayed.

The world's oldest man Yasutaro Koide died of heart problems at age 112.  Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said he died at a hospital in Nagoya, central Japan.  A former tailor, Mr. Koide was born just before the Wright Brothers would perform the world's first powered flight.  Japan's oldest man is now 111-year-old Tokyo native Masamitsu Yoshida.  Guinness says it will soon announce the inheritor of the title of Oldest Living Man, once a verification process is completed.  The group recognizes Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York, as the world's oldest person at 116.