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On his very last day as Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae spoke to As It Happens host Nil Kksal.

Unionized baristas from 65 Starbucks locations across the U.S. launched a strike on Thursday.

Dozens of Indigenous protesters blocked the front of the COP30 summit venue in Belem, Brazil, on Friday morning, staging a sit-in that forced delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling climate change.

A man convicted of the 1979 killing of a six-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom has been put to death in a record 16th execution in Florida this year.

Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Friday, killing six people in Kyiv and two more in the south in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

Mu'ayyad Ajjour and his neighbour Mohamed Zaida have searched every day among the ruins of a building, hoping to find the remains of five-year-old Masa, Ajjour's cousin, so they can give her a proper burial. Her body is one of thousands thought to be buried in the debris of the war in Gaza.

Many industry observers have been cool to Donald Trump's proposal to allow 50-year mortgages in the United States. And it's very unlikely such an idea would gain traction anytime soon in Canada, where amortization periods have been shortened over the last two decades.

Israel said Thursday that militants have handed over the body of one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza.

The giant New Glenn rocket from Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched from Florida on its debut mission for paying customers on Thursday, sending two NASA satellites toward Mars while also nailing the landing of its reusable booster for the first time.

Paris is marking 10 years since the Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people after gunmen and suicide bombers targeted cafes, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. People gathered at Place de la Republique for a candlelight vigil on the eve of the anniversary on Wednesday, and French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo were among those paying tribute at the attack sites on Thursday.

The state of Michigan is giving up ownership of a rare relic from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, just weeks after it strangely obtained it through a settlement in a lawsuit that was unrelated to the doomed freighter.

Former FBI director James Comey and current New York State Attorney General Letitia James have argued their recent indictments are politically motivated prosecutions fuelled by Donald Trump's animus. They say the appointment of Trump's hand-picked choice to oversee their cases negates their indictments altogether.

Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank overnight, scribbling hateful messages in a show of defiance, a day after some Israeli leaders condemned a recent attack by settlers against Palestinians.

European Union officials warned Ukraine on Thursday that it must keep cracking down on graft in the wake of a major corruption scandal that could hurt the country's ability to attract financial help. But they also offered assurances that aid will continue to flow as Kyiv strains to hold back Russia's invasion.

Iran is grappling with its worst water crisis in decades after a scorching summer. President Masoud Pezeshkian has cautioned that if rainfall does not arrive by December, the government must start rationing water in Tehran and may even have to evacuate the city.

While crews were deployed to parts of Gaza to do maintenance work on power lines, they say they face challenges that stall the work, including border closures blocking essential equipment and machinery.

Actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have signed a deal with AI company ElevenLabs, becoming the latest stars to license their voices for digital recreation.

Over a decade after Canada stopped producing the penny, the U.S. Mint on Wednesday announced it's ending production of one-cent coins to save money and because they had become increasingly irrelevant.

Marion County in rural Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3 million US for its role in authorizing police raids against a smalltown newspaper, its publisher and a city councilor.

A California court on Wednesday denied rapper Tory Lanez's appeal of his guilty verdict on charges he fired a gun at Megan Thee Stallion.

Taiwan evacuated more than 8,000 people from coastal and mountainous areas and closed schools ahead of the arrival of tropical storm Fung-wong. In Yilan County, rescue workers ferried people using boats and amphibious vehicles after torrential rains triggered severe flooding, and residents worked to clear debris and water from their homes.

Israel's president on Wednesday called for an end to a growing wave of settler violence following a "shocking and serious" attack by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Global oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, departing from previous expectations of a speedy transition to cleaner fuels following U.S. criticism about its climate focus.

Security has been tightened at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil after Indigenous activists and other protesters burst through barriers at the venue on Tuesday night. Indigenous groups from across Latin America sent representatives with demands for an end to logging, mining, farming and fossil fuel extraction in the Amazon.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump "knew about the girls," according to emails released on Wednesday by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

During a G7 meeting in Ontario, France's foreign affairs minister said the deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean carried out by the United States since early September violate international law. Colombia, California's governor and the Washington Post also weighed in on the strikes on Tuesday - but Canada has been relatively silent on the U.S. actions.

Turkey's defence ministry said on Wednesday that 20 soldiers were killed in thecrashofits military aircraftin Georgiaa day earlier,as inspectors continued to seek clues what caused the NATO member's cargoplaneto go down.

Many Canadians continue to boycott travel to the United States, and the U.S. economy is paying the price. A U.S. Travel Association report forecasts a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spending in the country for 2025, a loss of $5.7 billion US compared to the previous year.

A few days before the federal budget was tabled, the CEO of Swedish industrial giant Saab flew to Ottawa to meet with the country's top bureaucrat, fuelling the sense a deal is brewing between the Canadian government and the military manufacturer. Now, the country's king, queen and a delegation of political and business leaders are set to visit from Nov. 18-20.

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT. Her research includes looking for life in the clouds of Venus and searching for Earth 2.0.

Masked Israelisettlers hurled stones and torched dairy trucks, farmland andBedouin structures, injuring four people on Tuesday in thelatest in a surge of settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.

Skygazers are spotting the lights deeper into Canada, the U.S. and Europe because the sun is going through a major facelift. Every 11 years, its poles swap places, causing magnetic twists and tangles along the way.

American model-turned-actress Sally Kirkland, who was noted for her stage, TV and film roles - including sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting and earning an Oscar nomination for 1987's Anna - has died at 84.

The number of confirmed deaths from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica rose to 45, with 15 other people missing, authorities said Tuesday. The death toll is expected to rise, with officials still trying to reach two towns that remain cut off since the catastrophic Category 5 storm made landfall in western Jamaica on Oct. 28.

Non-profit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen demanded in a Tuesday letter that OpenAI withdraw its video-generation software Sora 2 after the application sparked fears about the spread of misinformation and privacy violations.

The U.S. Senate is on its way to ending the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health-care subsidies, angering many in their caucus.

Several ancient statues dating back to the Roman era were stolen during a break-in at the national museum in Syria's capital, officials said Tuesday.

Pakistan's interior minister says a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a police vehicle outside the gate of a district court in the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding 27.

A small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential neighbourhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, killing two people shortly after takeoff and narrowly missing homes, authorities and a local resident said.

Yemen's Houthi rebels are signalling they've stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will travel to Greenland's capital, Nuuk, this week to open a new Canadian consulate as both allies seek to strengthen ties amid turbulent relations with the United States.

Belgium is the latest target in a string of mysterious drone incidents across Europe, with some officials directly pointing the finger at Russia. It has left authorities scrambling to boost defences.

Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, authorities said Monday.

U.N. climate negotiations began Monday on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon as leaders pushed for accelerating efforts to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it. But top U.S. negotiators were absent.

Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 US and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3-1/2 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights.

When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realized an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself.

At least eight people were killedon Monday inacarexplosion near the historic Red Fort in a densely populatedareaof theIndian capital of New Delhi, a police spokesperson said.It was arare blastin the heavily guarded city of more than 30 million people.

The pain Americans are facing at airports across the country is expected to get worse this week if Congress is unable to reach a deal to reopen the federal government.