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President Donald Trump is slashing the number of refugees allowed into the United States, and people fleeing war-torn countries, human rights abuses and catastrophes will now be of lower priority than white people from South Africa.

Mass killings continue to be reported in the Sudanese city of El Fasher after rebel forces took control on Sunday, ending an 18-month siege and sparking further alarm about a massive humanitarian crisis.

The MP overseeing Canada's foreign aid announced $7 million in humanitarian relief for Caribbean states hit by Hurricane Melissa on Thursday.

U.S. PresidentDonald Trumpsaid on Thursday he had agreedwith PresidentXiJinpingtotrim existing tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, resuming U.S. soybean purchases and keeping rare earths exports flowing.

Police have arrested five more suspects linked tothe theft of treasures worth $143 million Cdnfrom theLouvremuseum's Apollo gallery, a Paris prosecutor said on Thursday, expressing hope the latest developments will help find the jewels.

India is pitching Ahmedabad as the host city for the 2036 Olympic Games, but there are significant hurdles to India's longstanding ambitions, including persistent questions over mismanagement and governance issues within the country's Olympic Association, as well as low medal counts at previous Games.

Speed cameras are widely in use across Europe, where studies have shown they are highly effective at preventing accidents.

U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defence to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an "equal basis" with other nuclear powers.

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the country's military carried out another strike on a boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing all four people aboard.

Before Chris Dennis, a.k.a. La Voix, found fame on RuPaul's Drag Race U.K. and the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, he worked as a makeup artist in London - where, in 2009, he unwittingly played a role in one of the biggest robberies in British history.

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services.

Olympic athletes in February will compete in Milan-Cortina, Italy and three other mountain clusters. The Games will mostly make use of existing infrastructure, though some venues are being renovated or built from scratch.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney were seated across the table and even acknowledged each other during a toast at a dinner ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, but the two appeared to have virtually nothing to say to one another amid the U.S.-Canada trade war.

The death toll from a massive police raid on a notorious gang in Rio de Janeiro rose Wednesday to 119, including four policemen, Brazilian police said.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that itwill abide bya ceasefire accord inGaza, as health officials in the enclave said airstrikes had killed 104 people, with both sides trading blame for violations of the deal.

CBC News visited Taiwan's Kinmen islands, which are just a few kilometres across the bay from the Chinese city of Xiamen. The islands have been on the frontline of hostilities between China and Taiwan for more than seven decades. Many Kinmen locals say they don't believe war with China is near - despite mounting evidence to the contrary.

North Korea said Wednesday it fired sea-to-surface cruise missiles into its western waters, in another display of its growing military capabilities as U.S. President Donald Trump travels to South Korea for a regional summit.

The lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton comes weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump linked Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism in children. The claim is a long-standing one that researchers have not found conclusive evidence to support.

Three strikes conducted by the U.S. military on boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed 14 people and left one survivor, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, alleging those on board were drug traffickers.

At least 26 people were killed on Tuesday after Israeli strikes in Gaza, health officials said, including strikes in Khan Younis and Gaza City.

Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere.

Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British comedy Fawlty Towers, has died, her children said Tuesday. She was 93.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Jamaica Tuesday as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island since records were first kept 174 years ago. It is tied for the strongest Atlantic hurricane to ever hit land.

China still has substantial leverage over the U.S. in its dominance of the rare earth minerals market, despite the two countries agreeing to a framework trade deal days before a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The NBA, in reaction to the arrests of Miami guard Terry Rozier and Portland coach Chauncey Billups last week for their alleged role in gambling schemes, has started a review of how the league can protect not just the integrity of the game but its players and coaches as well.

U.S. states are warning food aid recipients their benefits may not be distributed starting on Nov. 1 if the federal government shutdown stretches into its fourth week.

A Sudanese paramilitary force is battling the last pockets of resistance in El Fasher, a Darfur city that has endured a brutal 18-month siege and where a full takeover would entrench a geographical division of the country between rival military factions.

As Canadian officials scramble to find clarity on Donald Trump's social media post announcing a 10 per cent hike to what he called "the Tariff on Canada," the U.S. president himself appears to be thin on the details.

Hurricane Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm Monday as it drew closer to Jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread damage.

Jamaican authorities issued mandatory evacuations orders for Port Royal in Kingston and six other areas as the powerful Category 4 Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the Caribbean nation.

Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defences, inching closer to deploying it to its military, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks released on Sunday.

The Paris prosecutor said on Sunday two suspects have been arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris's Louvre museum.

The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.

Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensified into a potentially catastrophic storm in the Caribbean overnight, U.S. forecasters warned early Sunday.

Two people were killed and 13 others injured in Kyiv after Russian missiles and drones hit sites in Ukraine overnight, including infrastructure and energy sites, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday.

Mahmoud Abu Foul says he was detained by the Israeli military in late December last year, only to be released days ago after losing his eyesight from alleged torture and abuse he endured in his more than nine months in detention.

President Donald Trump has punished most U.S. trading partners with tariffs and threats, but he has lavished favours on Javier Milei's Argentina, including a $20 billion bailout of its currency. Why has Argentina succeeded in getting such favourable treatment where other countries have failed?

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country's monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the Thai Royal Household bureau said on Saturday.

"I think we all cling to a model of behaviour of a president, out of comfort," Flavio Volpe, president of Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, said on Friday morning, "and I don't know what good it does us now."

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs.

As Americans have posted "RIP East Wing 1902-2025" on social media platforms, the Democrats are promising to investigate how Donald Trump and his administration moved ahead with a White House demolition that has proceeded at a rapid pace. We now know more about who's donating to Trump's treasured ballroom project.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to walk an international tightrope over the next week as he departs Friday for a set of Indo-Pacific Summit meetings, one of which involves both the United States and China.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a late-night social media post that he is terminating all trade negotiations with Canada over an advertisement by the Ontario government that uses the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan's words to send an anti-tariff message to American audiences.

Donald Trump will not deploy federal agents to San Francisco, the U.S. president and the California city's mayor said in separate social media posts on Thursday, a surprising stand-down as Trump pressures Democratic-led cities around the country to step up enforcement against crime and illegal immigration.

The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's environmental jewels.

Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying travel at airports in New York, Washington, Newark and Houston, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said late on Thursday, as a U.S. government shutdown hit its 23rd day.