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Excitement for the games among athletes and organizers is growing.But so too are tensions in the circumpolar world, with U.S. President Donald Trump openly musing about a takeover of Greenland.

Inuit advocacy groups, as well as Greenlanders who live in Canada, are emphatically opposed to American designs on their homeland. And, they say, they're tired of being used as geopolitical chess pieces by powerful people in faraway capitals.

Olympic ice dance champion Guillaume Cizeron said Tuesday his former on-ice partner Gabriella Papadakis is spreading lies about him in the lead-up to the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.

Russia launched a second major drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine in four days, officials said Tuesday, aiming again at the power grid amid freezing temperatures in an apparent snub to U.S.-led peace efforts as Moscow's invasion of its neighbour approaches the four-year mark.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will end humanitarian protections that grant deportation relief and work permits to some 1,100 Somalis in the U.S., administration officials said on Tuesday, the latest restrictive move targeting Somali immigrants.

A rainstorm swept across theGazaStrip on Tuesday, flooding hundreds of tents, collapsing homes sheltering families displaced by two years of war and killing at least six people, local health officials said.

A suspect in an arson fire at a synagogue that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan decades ago admitted to targeting the historic institution because it's a Jewish house of worship and confessed what he had done to his father, who turned him in to authorities after observing burn marks on his son's ankles, hands and face, the FBI said Monday.

The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked Tuesday to at least 2,000 people killed, activists said, as Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during a crackdown.

NATO is talking about improved Arctic security, says the alliance's secretary general. Some of those talks reportedly involve a European troop presence in Greenland. It's a remarkable turnaround for an alliance that has until recently tried to ignore the region.

Tensions have grown between Washington, Denmark and Greenland this month as U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration have continued to push the narrative that Greenland should belong to the U.S. They've led to a flurry of meetings and talks this week.

The United States is telling its citizens to leave Iran, as Washington maintains its pressure on Tehran to cease its crackdown on protesters and U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to strike the Iranian government over the issue

Officials in Minnesota are suing the federal government over what they call a 'dangerous' immigration enforcement, looking to stop the deployment of thousands of immigration agents to the state.

Even for some Republicans who've been staunch supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, the move by the Department of Justice to launch a criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve and its chair Jerome Powell is a red line that should not be crossed.

Children in the Gaza Strip are resuming their education after two years of near-constant Israeli bombardment.

Nationwide protestshave been shaking Iran for weeks. They started Dec. 28 in response tosoaring prices, then turned into wider anti-government protests against the clerical rulers who have governed the country for nearly 50 years.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly sued the Pentagon on Monday over attempts to punish him over his participation in a video that called on U.S. troops to resist unlawful orders.

Last week, a second Native American-owned corporation announced it was severing a multi-million dollar contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after community pressure.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she ruled out a U.S. military intervention to combat drug cartels, following a "good conversation" on Monday with PresidentDonald Trumpon security and drug trafficking.

CBC News obtained more than a dozen wiretap recordings from a two-year Colombian federal police investigation into a multinational drug-smuggling organization based out of Colombia. The organization moved cocaine to the U.S., Europe, Asia and northern Africa by air using human drug mules and by sea through shipping containers.

No ice is colder and harder than speed skating ice. The precision it takes has meant Olympic speed skaters have never competed for gold on a temporary indoor rink, until the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games.

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images.

Reza Pahlavi has sought to speak as an Iranian leader despite living outside the country since protests against the clerical regime erupted late last month. Here is a closer look at the 65-year-old exiled son of royalty, whose support within Iran is open to question.

ASwisscourt on Monday ordered that the co-owner of a bar in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Montana that caught fire on New Year's Day, killing 40 people, must remain in custody.

U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell says that the Trump administration had threatened him with a criminal indictment and served grand jury subpoenas over congressional testimony he gave last summer regarding a Fed building renovation project.

Residents started returning to a contested neighbourhood in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Sunday after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. First responders entered to tend to residents, clear rubble and disarm mines.

U.S. PresidentDonald Trumpon Sunday said no more Venezuelan oil or money will go to Cuba and suggested the communist-run island should strike a deal with Washington, ramping up pressure on the longtime U.S. nemesis.

More than 1,000 apartment buildings in the Ukrainian capitalKyivare still without heat following adevastating Russian attackearlier this week, local authorities said on Sunday.

When Prince William took his son, Prince George, to help at a homeless shelter recently, he was continuing George's cautious but deliberate introduction to the public side of his royal life ahead while also offering a reminder of the influence William's mother, Diana, had on his own upbringing.

The U.S. attack on Venezuela has shifted the ground for the various guerrilla groups operating across the borderlands with Colombia, raising fears of possible betrayal by Venezuelan regime officials, while opening the door to a wider conflict should U.S. boots ever hit the ground, local security experts say.

Rescuers detected "signs of life" in an avalanche of garbage that killed at least four workers and left more than 30 others missing on Thursday in a central Philippines landfill and plan to intensify search efforts, an official said Saturday.

Kyiv's water and heating systems were back on after being briefly shut down amid intense cold on Saturday, as engineers scrambled to stabilize a power grid brought to the brink by a campaign of Russian strikes, including one two nights ago.

Iran escalated its threats against demonstrators on Saturday, with the country's attorney general warning that anyone taking part in protests will be considered an enemy of God," a death-penalty charge.

As Ottawa gears up to review the Canada-U.S.-Mexico-Agreement, do the developments in Venezuela undercut the Canadians' bargaining position? CBC's The Housespoke to experts and former officials about the feasibility of ramping up Venezuelan oil production and the road ahead.

A rare copy of the comic book that introduced the world to Superman and also was once stolen from the home of actor Nicolas Cage has been sold for a record $15 million US.

As protests continue to spread with a rising death toll, some believe Iran's ruling clerics are facing an unprecedented threat, in part because of U.S. President Donald Trump's moves on Venezuela.

Moscow used its hypersonic 'Oreshnik 'missile to target critical infrastructure near Lviv in western Ukraine. Its use of the missile is being seen as more about political messaging, than battlefield strategy.

Luigi Mangione's federal death penalty trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could begin before the end of the year, a judge said Friday while weighing a defence bid to bar the government from making it a capital case.

Elon Musk's startup xAI has put some restrictions on the image generation function of itsGrokchatbot on social media platform X, after the tool's use of AI to create and publish sexualized images sparked a widespread backlash.

Three people were unaccounted for as out-of-control bushfires raged in the Australian state of Victoria, destroying homes and burning through vast swathes of bushland amid the worst fire conditions since 2019's Black Summer.

Another round of protests were planned for Friday in Minneapolis over the killing of a local woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer during the Trump administration's latest crackdown on a major city, a day after federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Ore.

The U.S. has seized the Olina tanker in the Caribbean, the fifth vessel targeted in recent weeks as Washington steps up efforts to curbVenezuelan oil exports, U.S. officials said on Friday.

Protests in Iran raged Friday night, online videos purported to show, despite a threat from the country's theocracy to crack down on demonstrators after shutting down the internet and cutting telephone lines off to the world.

Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people. For only the second time, it used a new ballistic missile that it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable.

Eutelsat, a company largely owned by the French and U.K. governments, is offering Canada an alternative to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband communications in the Far North. The company says it can create secure channels that cannot be disconnected for "political" reasons.

The official White House narrative of what lead a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to shoot and kill a U.S. citizen in her vehicle in Minneapolis is bumping up hard against what can be seen in videos of the incident.

Further information emerged Thursday about the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement officer who allegedly shot and killed a woman inside her vehicle in Minneapolis. The information was revealed after federal officials shared details about the ICE officer that closely those in court documents from another incident in June.

People in Iran's capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after the country's exiled crown prince called for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after the protests began.

Harvey Weinstein is weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve an undecided rape charge and avoid going to trial for a third time in New York, a judge said Thursday.

Here is a look at the history of ICE, and some of the major developments and controversies surrounding the agency in the first year of Trump's second administration, leading up to the fatal shooting this week a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis.

The womanshot and killedby a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer inMinneapolison Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.