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Energy and environmental organizations are reacting with alarm to the new Canada-Alberta deal to build a new oil pipeline to the West Coast, questioning whether new buyers can be found for the oil that may eventually flow through the pipelines.

When Quinn Brown, 19, found a Wilt Chamberlain L.A. Lakers warmup jacket at a Goodwill in Portland, Ore., he figured he could sell it for a couple hundred bucks. Turns out, it's worth as much as $250,000 US.

A Canadian whose son was killed on the front lines of the Ukraine war is now working to help families whose loved ones are missing in action get answers.

Mikel Merino scored seconds into second-half stoppage time, and Spain beat Portugal 1-0 on Monday in Arlington, Texas, possibly the end of superstar Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup career.

Microsoft said on Monday it would cut 4,800 jobs, or about 2.1 per cent of its global workforce, including overhauling its Xbox gaming business and divesting up to five studios as it looks to boost returns after years of heavy investment in the division.

Cuba began to slowly restore power on Monday after the country's national electric grid collapsed earlier in the day, the latest blow to an island already suffering from severe energy, fuel and medicine shortages.

Venezuelans say they are largely alone in their search for the dead after the June 24 earthquakes that killed thousands. Here's a visual overview of how Venezuelans are dealing with the search for bodies, and how they're remembering those who have died.

Weeks of rumours are finally over. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are officially married. Still, so many details are under wraps. But here's what we've been able to piece together about the couple's big day at the midtown Manhattan arena.

Particle 6, the same AI-powered content studio that created Norwood in the first place, announced Monday that the actor will play the lead role in its upcoming drama, Misaligned.

A Republican lawmaker in Washington is firing back at Canadian provinces for retaliating against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs by banning sales of U.S. alcohol.

Four people, including a school principal, were killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanon's Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest attacks in weeks.

A wildfire burning out of control in southwestern France has forced the evacuation of 10,000 people from two dozen small towns and villages near the Spanish border and officials said strong winds on Monday would further fan the blaze.

Prince Harry will not stay at Buckingham Palace during his stay in Britain this week, the palace said, despite a spokesman for the King's second son telling media on Monday that he had accepted an invitation to do so.

Russia unleashed waves of missiles and drones at Ukraine early Monday, killing at least 22 people in attacks that exposed widening gaps in country's air defences more than four years into Moscow's full-scale invasion, authorities said.

U.S.-Canadian novelist John Irving says he won't travel to America to promote his new book, Queen Esther, because of his opposition to President Donald Trump.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a falsified image of former president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One aircraft that had been spray-painted with graffiti.

The death toll from Venezuela's twin quakes has risen to 3,342, according to numbers released by the Venezuelan information ministry on Sunday. The new tally also puts the number of injured at 16,470, while the number of homeless has risen to 17,345.

Erling Haaland headed in the go-ahead goal in the 80th minute and scored again before the end of regulation time, carrying Norway into the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time with a 2-1 victory over Brazil on Sunday that

Reaction was still pouring in Monday after FIFA on Sunday suspended American striker Folarin Balogun's red card ban, clearing him to play in Monday night's quarter-final match with Belgium after U.S. President Donald Trump personally urged FIFA president Gianni Infantino to review the case.

Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon on Sunday.

The International Swimming League will pay more than 300 athletes long-overdue prize money owed from its 2021 season, Commissioner Ben Allen told Reuters, as the professional swimming circuit seeks to rebuild trust and relaunch after years of inactivity.

Hundreds of firefighters battled wildfires in Portugal and Greece on Sunday, with Spain and Italy sending reinforcements to help contain a massive blaze that's been burning for more than three days.

The son who succeeded Iran's slain leader wasn't at the funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and four other family members on Sunday, while three other sons showed up and prayed beside the coffins.

U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin by telephone for nearly 90 minutes, offered to help find a solution to the Ukraine war, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said in comments made public early on Sunday.

Marianyi Bastidas is one of several doctors and specialists who left their birth country of Venezuela years ago, but returned to help after the disastrous twin earthquakes in late June.

Hundreds of thousands of mourners began a days-long funeral on Saturday for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's late supreme leader, beating their chests in sorrow before the glass case containing his flag-draped coffin in Tehran and calling for revenge against Israel and the United States.

A Ukrainian drone attack struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Russian officials said, as Kyiv pressed on with the bombardment of Russia's oil infrastructure.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to deliver a really long' Fourth of July speech despite many celebrations for America's 250 birthday in Washington have already been cancelled due to severe heat.

As the Vatican excommunicated four bishops of the ultra-traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X this week, notice was also served that the society's priests and lay Catholics who formally adhere to it are also considered cut off from the Roman Catholic Church - a move that raises the spiritual stakes for thousands of followers worldwide.

The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lay in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects to Iran's late Supreme Leader, killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike earlier this year.

Interpol on Friday identified a 39-year-old woman from Ukraine as the main suspect in a bombing in Monaco that is thought to have targeted a Ukrainian tycoon with links to Russia.

An Indian sea captain who was stuck on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf for more than two months as the U.S. and Israel-Iran war raged says thousands of mariners are still at risk and don't get the recognition they deserve.

Nine months after Hamas and Israel agreed to a hard-fought ceasefire in Gaza, the term has become a cruel irony for the two million Palestinians trapped inside the territory.

The U.S. Secret Service did not receive more than 100 local radio transmissions about the gunman who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pa., according to a government watchdog report released on Thursday.

A former U.S. Olympian was indicted Thursday on a felony charge in what President Donald Trump has called vandalism of the reflecting pool.

An 11-year-old boy crashed a pickup truck into a group of monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing nine, officials said.

Iran's joint military command warned Thursday that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a "forceful response," again ratcheting up tensions over a waterway crucial for international energy supplies.

Russia hammered Kyiv with an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 21 civilians in the city and injuring scores more, in what Moscow said was retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities.

The Trump administration surprised no one with its long-expected announcement Wednesday that the U.S. would not join Canada and Mexico in extending the free trade deal between the three countries. Where things go from here, however, is anyone's guess.

Soccer fans in the U.S. are suing StubHub, accusing the resale platform of failing to deliver expensive tickets for the FIFA World Cup that they bought on the secondary market.

When it was announced that Canada would be entering the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest - it was music to Matti McLean's ears. A Canadian superfan of the international music competition, co-host of the Think About Eurovision podcast and creator of the Fringe Festival show A Canadian Explains Eurovision to Other Canadians, McLean says he has been campaigning for years to see this moment become a reality.

Two people got to the top of the Empire State Building's antenna and unfurled a banner about "the power of love" at midday Tuesday, before starting to descend, embracing, taking selfies and ultimately being arrested.

Thousands of displaced Venezuelans are living in dismal sanitary conditions without access to clean water as already strained hospitals struggle to cope with an influx of emergency patients following the June 24 earthquakes that have killed more than 2,000. Aid workers say the country is facing a major medical crisis that, unless quickly controlled, will take more lives in the days and weeks ahead.

Iran and the United States concluded a round of indirect talks Wednesday with no sign they had made headway toward a lasting peace, focusing instead on issues that they had supposedly resolved two weeks ago.

Actor and activist Danny Glover, best known for starring as an easy-going police officer in the Lethal Weapon franchise, has revealed he has Alzheimer's disease.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration officially announced that it's opting not to extend its trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, triggering what are expected to be tough negotiations on amending the deal.

U.S. President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion US from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Tuesday shows, locking in profits as his investors suffered losses.

CBC/Radio-Canada and the European Broadcasting Union have announced Canada will participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria.

Cities across Europe have hit record temperatures during this year's heatwave. As extreme heat becomes more common, what does it mean for life across the continent?