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In Singapore, protesting without permission from police is illegal, but that didn't stop three women from organizing a watermelon umbrella march in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Andrew Chang explains the charges against the organizers by breaking down Singapore's strict rules on public assembly - and why these three women were ultimately acquitted.Images from Ng Yi-Sheng/Facebook, sgacadboycott/Instagram, MustShareNews, Getty Images, ReutersThumbnail credit: sgacadboycott/Instagram

A seniorCanadian government official told reporters Thursday that it's hoped Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit in South Korea next week.

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.

The White House is tearing down part of the East Wing this week to make room for U.S. President Donald Trump's ballroom, but it's not the only renovation that has occurred since he took office in January.

Tropical Storm Melissa lumbered through the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola - an island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

A former British paratrooper who was the only soldier ever charged in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland was acquitted Thursday of murder charges.

Britain's King Charles and Pope Leo XIV prayed together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship including an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.

The European Union has agreed on a new raft of sanctions against Russia targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning its imports of liquefied natural gas, the Danish EU presidency announced Thursday.

The buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela and a series of deadly attacks on alleged drug-trafficking boats in waters off its coast has raised the spectre of an invasion of the South American country. Yet that still appears unlikely, some experts say, as any military action launched by the Trump administration would face significant resistance.

The U.S. military on Wednesday launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on social mediaWednesday.

The NFL is not considering replacing Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime performer, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday, reaffirming the decision to put the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist on the league's biggest stage - a decision that's led to criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump and some of his supporters.

How does a former French president end up behind bars in the isolation wing of a Paris prison? Andrew Chang explains the key charge against Nicolas Sarkozy that led to a criminal conspiracy conviction by breaking down his relationship to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and why despite the guilty verdict - he's currently presumed innocent.

The International Court of Justice said on Wednesday that Israel must allow the United Nations aid agency in Gaza, known as UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance to the war-torn territory.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's probably owed "a lot of money," responding to a newspaper report that he was seeking $230 million US in damages related to two investigations into his conduct.

Russia launched a wide drone and missile attack across Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least six people including two children, Ukrainian officials said, with diplomatic efforts to end the war on pause after the White House said the previous day there were no imminent plans for presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to meet.

Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The study also found issues around sourcing and accuracy.

A five-year-old girl who fell overboard from a Disney Dream cruise ship in June had been posing for a photo at the request of her mother, according to Florida authorities in reports obtained by CBC News. The girl and her father, who jumped in after her, were both rescued.

Whether it's the ongoing anti-ICE protests in Portland and Los Angeles, or the massive No Kings rallies that swept across the U.S. this weekend, the crowds are full of cutesy, cartoonish and colourful frogs, chickens, lobsters, dinosaurs, axolotls, unicorns and more.

A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump's mass pardons has been arrested on a charge that he threatened to kill Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation says its council has voted against allowing athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete in qualifiers for the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

Sources tell CBC News the Vatican and the Canadian Catholic Church are making good progress toward an agreement to return Indigenous cultural objects before the end of the year, in a handoff facilitated by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Dozens of officials from across the U.S. government, including intelligence officers, has been helping to steer President Donald Trump's drive for retribution against his perceived enemies, according to government records and a source familiar with the effort.

The White House on Monday started tearing down part of the East Wing, the traditional base of operations for the first lady, to build President Donald Trump's $250 million US ballroom despite lacking approval for construction from the federal agency that oversees such projects.

A man who sent a Facebook message that said, "So I raped you," to a woman he had sexually assaulted years earlier in college was sentenced on Monday to two to four years in prison.

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was electedJapan's first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering the nation's glass ceiling and setting it up for a forceful turn to the right.

After dangling the prospect of supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles, Trump has backed away from a deal and said repeatedly that he believes Putin wants peace.

The failure of a steel cable and maintenance flaws contributed to the crash of a streetcar in the Portuguese capital Lisbon last month that killed 16 people - including three from Canada - and injured 21 others, according to an official preliminary report published Monday.

AdividedU.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that Donald Trumpcan send National Guard troops intoPortland, Ore., despite objections by the leaders of the city and state, giving the Republican president an important legal victory as he dispatches military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led locales.

Millions of people are celebrating Diwali with gatherings, fireworks displays, feasts and prayer to mark the Hindu festival symbolizing the victory of light over darkness.

A bomb exploded outside the home of Italian investigative reporter Sigfrido Ranucci, damaging two cars belonging to his family and drawing widespread condemnation from advocates of the free press.

Colombia's foreign ministry said on Monday the country has recalled its ambassador from the United States after President Donald Trump said he would raise tariffs on the South American nation and stop all payments to it, in a feud stemming from U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly transporting drugs.

U.S. envoys met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday aiming to corral Israel and Hamas to get theGazaceasefire plan back on track after an explosion of violence over the weekend that threatened to derail theweek-old truce.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is ending aid to Colombia after the country's president, Gustavo Petro, accused the U.S. of murder' when it struck a small boat within Colombian territorial waters in September. The U.S. alleges the boat was a drug vessel, but Petro said the fisherman killed onboard had no ties to the drug trade.

The Orenburg gas processing plant,the largest facility of its kind in the world, has been forced to suspend its intake of gas from Kazakhstan after a Ukrainian drone attack, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Energy said on Sunday.

The Israeli military said on Sunday that a ceasefire in Gaza had resumed after an attack that killed two of its soldiers and prompted a wave of airstrikes that killed 26 people, in the most serious test yet of this month's U.S.-brokered truce.

Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris's Louvre museum on Sunday, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless objects from an area that houses the French crown jewels before escaping on motorbikes, officials said.

Canada's postal service has encountered major mail volume decreases - a situation that has prompted the government to propose significant changes, including ending home delivery. But could Canada go even further, and follow Denmark's path of eliminating letter delivery entirely?

Several Canadian snowbirds reported they were fingerprinted and photographed at the U.S. border this month when registering for their winter stay, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told CBC News is standard procedure.

Across Europe and North America, the picture is bleak: wool is often burned or discarded because processing costs outweigh returns. That's why Ilaria Venturini Fendi was hosting the first in-person World Hope Forum, a network committed to proving that wool production can be local, ethical and circular.

Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, Qatar's Foreign Ministry said Sunday. It follows more than a week of fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds.

The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday.

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will reopen Monday for people returning to Gaza, the Palestinian Embassy in Egypt said Saturday, but the territory's sole gateway to the outside world will remain closed to people trying to leave.

Protesting the direction of the U.S. under President Donald Trump, people have begun gathering in the nation's capital and communities across the country for "No Kings" demonstrations - what the president's Republican Party is calling "Hate America" rallies.

The Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which was listed as a terrorist organization in Canada in September, appears to have adopted a new public relations strategy designed to present it to the South Asian community as a group with principles that only extorts from those who deserve it, while leaving decent, hard-working people alone.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the more than seven-year prison sentence of former representative George Santos for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release.