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The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is unusual, and which raises questions about whether Ottawa should block the deals in the interest of national security.

Madagascar's presidency said on Sunday that an attempt to grab power by force was underway in the African nation as more soldiers joined a youth-ledprotest movementthat has rocked the former French colony for more than two weeks.

The two sides have skirmished along the border in the past, but Saturday night's heavy clashes underscore the deepening tensions.

Inderjeet Singh Gosal, the Brampton, Ont., man who picked up the mantle of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar following his 2023 assassination, explains why he refused to enter a witness protection program after being informed his life was in imminent danger.

Authorities said Saturday that a Friday blast in rural Tennessee that levelled an explosives plant killed 16 people and left no survivors.

At least 53 people, including 14 children and 15 women, were killed in an attack by Sudanese paramilitaries that hit a shelter in a besieged Darfur city, a doctors' group said Saturday.

Former U.S. president Joe Biden is receiving radiation therapy for his prostate cancer diagnosed in May, a spokesperson said on Saturday.

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started, an attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown dragged into a 10th day.

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000 US after settling a lawsuit.

Stocks fell sharply on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq suffering their biggest one-day percentage declines since April 10, while Treasury yields dropped and the U.S. dollar weakened as comments by U.S. President Donald Trump reignited worries over a U.S.-China trade war.

Voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), founded in Toronto and a target of conspiracy theories in the 2020 U.S. presidential election spread by Republican Donald Trump and his allies, has been sold.

John Lodge, the singer and bassist of British rock band the Moody Blues for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 82.

A blast levelled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee, leaving behind a mass of twisted metal, burned-out shells of cars and at least 18 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

Trump's top negotiator on the Gaza conflict said the U.S. military confirmed that Israeli soldiers have pulled back as part of the ceasefire agreement on Friday. Details on how the hostage and prisoner exchange will work are still sparse. But here's what we do know.

Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swathes of Ukraine early Friday, authorities said. A child was also killed in separate attacks in the southeast of the country.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, it was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

A veteran federal Mexican lawmaker told CBC News the era of trilateral trade deals between Mexico-Canada and the U.S. is ending. The interview occurred moments before U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he favoured bilateral accords during Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to the White House. Trump's comments made front page news in Mexico.

Canada's Department of National Defence says it will continue a longstanding operation with the U.S. Coast Guard to capture drug smugglers in the Caribbean, despite a string of deadly U.S. airstrikes in the region.

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday said she would temporarily block U.S. President Donald Trump from deploying hundreds of National Guard soldiers in Illinois, five days after another U.S. judge blocked a similar deployment in Portland, Ore.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime foe of U.S. President Donald Trump, was indicted on Thursday on criminal charges including bank fraud, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to a win a Nobel Peace Prize to burnish his already significant legacy as a U.S. president, and a lasting peace that ends the war in Gaza could be a consideration for the committee that determines the prize winner.

U.S. federal auto safety regulators have opened yet another investigation into Tesla's full self-driving technology after dozens of incidents in which its vehicles ran red lights or drove on the wrong side of the road, sometimes crashing into other vehicles and injuring people.

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to persuade Americans that the anti-fascist movement dubbed Antifa poses as grave a threat to the country as designated terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah.

As the front lines of the war in Ukraine continue to be described as a meat grinder," the shadow wars between the Kremlin and Kyiv have intensified, with covert assassinations, railway sabotage and car bombings become more common.

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border - including allowing U.S. officers to more freely operate on Canadian soil.

The most promising effort yet to end the war in Gaza was bolstered as senior figures from Israel and the United States joined the negotiations on Wednesday after Hamas handed over its lists of hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be freed in a swap.

The Ebola outbreak in Congo shows signs of containment, with no new confirmed or probable cases since the World Health Organization's last update on Oct. 1.

What's President Donald Trump's endgame with repeated U.S. strikes on boats near Venezuela? Andrew Chang breaks down the threats the Trump administration says it's reacting to and why Venezuela's relationship with China may also be a factor.Images provided by Getty Images, The Canadian Press and Reuters.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which has not been utilized by a U.S. president in more than three decades. Here's a look at why that possibility concerns local officials and some legal analysts.

Authorities in California charged a 29-year-old man with starting a fire that days later erupted into the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history and destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, U.S. federal law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.

The man whose attack on asynagoguein northern England last week resulted in the deaths of two Jewish worshippers phoned police to say he was acting for Islamic State, also known as ISIS, investigators said onWednesday.

Footage released by Cao Bang Public Security in Vietnam shows rescue crews ferrying a man to safety after strong storms triggered by a typhoon led to swollen rivers and flooded streets.

Former FBI director James Comey on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation.

The Israeli military intercepted a nine-boat flotilla trying to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza early Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea and detained scores of activists on board, the flotilla organizers and the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal-organic frameworks," the award-giving body said on Wednesday.

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a snowstorm over the past weekend on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday.

National Guard troops are positioned outside Chicago and they could be in Memphis by Friday as the Trump administration pushes ahead with an aggressive policy toward big-city crime whether local leaders support it or not.

Zelda Williams - actress, director and daughter to the late actor Robin Williams - has spoken out on Instagram about what she calls "disgusting" AI recreations of her father.

Over 32 years after Joe Carter hit his historic homerun to win the 1993 World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays, the baseball legend believes the current roster has what it takes.

Gold futures have soared above $4,000 US per troy ounce for the first time, as many investors seek a safe place to park their money as the U.S. government shutdown continues.

Thirty paintings by Ross, whose TV show The Joy of Painting aired on public TV stations in the 1980s and 90s, will be auctioned off with proceeds going to stations that use content from distributor American Public Television. The idea is to help stations in need with licensing fees.

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.

LeBron James had another "decision" to announce. Turns out, it was an ad.

Indonesian rescuers wrapped up the search on Tuesday for victims trapped under the rubble of a collapsed Islamic boarding school in the province of East Java after retrieving more than 60 bodies, disaster authorities said.

Shipments of frozen shrimp from India to the U.S. have ground to a halt after American tariffs rose to 50 per cent, leaving farmers deeply worried about their livelihoods and some seriously considering abandoning the industry altogether.

The UN says more than 12 million Sudanese have been displaced since its civil war began in spring 2023, making it the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Aid agencies,including Medecins Sans Frontieres, warn the situation could become even more dire if the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces overruns the besieged city of El Fasher in North Darfur.

The first supermoon of the year has risen in the skies around the globe.