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The boys of BTS are returning to the stage after a nearly four-year hiatus, during which the members completed their mandatory military service. Despite pouring rain in Seoul, fans packed a stadium to watch the K-pop group kick off their long-awaited world tour.

Israel bombed more targets in Lebanon on Thursday, putting the Middle East ceasefire in further jeopardy after its most intensive strikes of the war on its neighbour killed more than 300 people, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.

The Middle East ceasefire appeared shaky less than two days after it was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, as Israel bombed more targets in Lebanon on Thursday and Iran showed little sign of relinquishing its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's sunny assessment of the prospects for a long-term peace agreement with Iran, there are fundamental differences in the visions the two sides have put forward for a deal.

The announcement of a ceasefire between Iran and the United States was met in Lebanon with the war's bloodiest day, as Israel launched a massive air campaign that its media termed "Operation Eternal Darkness." The Israeli strikes killed and wounded hundreds, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled his intent to pursue Hezbollah regardless of international pressure.

A wave of Israeli airstrikes swept across Lebanon on Wednesday, leaving at least 112 dead and hundreds wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Shippers looking to revive the passage of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz were seeking clarity on the logistics on Wednesday, while refiners inquired about new crude loadings, in response to a ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran.

U .S. President Donald Trump is sending an Iran negotiating team, led by Vice-President JD Vance, to Pakistan for talks, the White House told reporters on Wednesday, adding that the first round of negotiations would take place on Saturday.

In China, the energy landscape has reached a historic tipping point. For the first time, its total installed wind and solar capacity has officially surpassed that of coal. It's a shift driven by massive industrial scale and artificial intelligence - and Chinese energy giants have their sights set on the Canadian wilderness.

As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world's bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD.

Canada's response to Israel's 2026 invasion of Lebanon has been unequivocal condemnation of what Prime Minister Mark Carney called "an illegal invasion." That's a marked contrast to Stephen Harper's defence of Israel's 2006 invasion.

Over the weekend more than 1,000 spectators gathered in Ukraine to carefully open cloth bags and release dozens of rescued bats into the air. Alona Pryslutska, co-founder of the Ukrainian Bat Rehab Center, says not even the war is stopping this unconventional marker of the arrival of spring.

Australia's most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, faces war crime charges on allegations he killed five unarmed Afghans while serving in Afghanistan from 2009 and 2012, police and media reported on Tuesday.

Michigan's new Fab Five threw style points out the door and brought home a prize not even the school's most famous team could capture.

Three assailants opened fire at police outside a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, sparking a gunfight that left one attacker dead, Turkish officials said. The two other assailants were captured with injuries.

U.S. President Donald Trump said early Tuesday evening that he has agreed "to suspend the bombing and attack on Iran for a period of two weeks" subject to Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Vancouver-based Vizsla Silver has confirmed the deaths of nine of its 10 workers who were abducted in Concordia, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, in late January.

Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa overnight Monday, killing a 30-year-old woman, her two-year-old daughter and another woman, while damaging residential buildings and energy infrastructure, the regional governor said.

They're the chili peppers in the spicy chicken at a restaurant you might know. And they were an ingredient used by a Canadian company to build the first solar power plants in Malawi.

An upcoming book authored by a prominent royal commentator says U.S. President Donald Trump was primarily interested in annexing Canadian territory just above the U.S. border - and his respect for King Charles may have quashed his interest.

A video demonstration from Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson is adding fresh fuel to one of the most debated moments of Olympic curling.

Pope Leo urged global leaders in his Easter message on Sunday to end the conflicts raging across the world and abandon any schemes for power, conquest or domination.

An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, local health authorities said, in the latest violence to overshadow a fragile ceasefire amid a new push by mediators to bolster the agreement.

The timing of King Charles's upcoming state visit to the United States has sparked controversy and questions - particularly given the ongoing U.S.-Israel war against Iran, the geopolitical turmoil it has caused and the current strain in the relationship between the United Kingdom and the U.S.

Until the bathroom is fixed, mission control has instructed the astronauts to break out urine collection bags. The so-called lunar loo malfunctioned following Wednesday's liftoff and has been hit-and-miss ever since.

Collien Fernandes says her husband spread pornographic deepfakes of her for around a decade. Multiple experts and online commenters are now calling the actress a "digital Pelicot" after she spoke out about what she has called her "virtual rape," generating protests and a push for change in Germany.

British police arrested a fourth person in connection with an arson attack on Jewish community ambulances that happened last month, with the detention happening at a London court where three males already charged in the case were appearing, prosecutors said on Saturday.

The family of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre on Saturday urged Britain's King Charles to meet with survivors during his state visit to the United States later this month, saying the trip coincides with the anniversary of her death.

The ongoing war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are impacting Canadian pocketbooks in ways we might not expect. Experts warn Canadian homeowners facing mortgage renewals that rates are going up, despite the Bank of Canada holding its key interest rate for months.

An extremely dry winter has made for another challenging harvest of India's famous Darjeeling tea, with the flavour the region is renowned for at risk as quality dips. As climate change makes the weather more erratic in the Himalayan foothills, estate owners are growing ever more worried about the future of their businesses.

The fire was burning in a populated - but not densely so - unincorporated part of Riverside County, in a recreational area near the city of Moreno Valley, which has a population of roughly 200,000.

The White House released a budget on Friday, in which the Trump administration requested funds for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to cover the first-year costs of rebuilding Alcatraz into "a state-of-the-art secure prison facility."

Israel pounded Beirut with airstrikes on Friday that the military said had targeted what it calls militant "infrastructure" in Lebanon's capital, as the U.S. warned that Iran may target universities in the country as war in the Middle East rages.

Although Chinese tariffs on Canadian pork products remain in place after a visit to China by Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, he says the important task is relationship-building - and it's not realistic to expect immediate solutions.

U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the army's top uniformed officer to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure as the United States wages a war against Iran.

As Iran strikes countries across the Persian Gulf, Ukraine is making defence agreements in the Middle East. Andrew Chang explains how Ukraine's expertise in fighting Iranian-designed Shahed drones in its war with Russia could reshape the war in the Middle East and help regional allies rethink their defence strategies.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images

After crashing his SUV last week in Florida, Tiger Woods took out his phone and told a deputy, "I was just talking to the president," according to body camera footage released Thursday showing Woods' arrest on a DUI charge.

U.S. President Donald Trump removed Attorney General Pam Bondi from her post on Thursday, a White House official said, following mounting frustration with her performance, including her handling of investigative files related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

On March 19, the day before Eid al-Fitr, Osama Abu Nassar took his 18-month-old son, Jawad, to a supermarket east of al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza when eyewitnesses say he approached a restricted area and was detained by the Israeli military.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo, N.Y., street in February - five days after U.S. Border Patrol agents left him outside a Tim Hortons - has been ruled a homicide.

An undersea magnitude 7.4 earthquake toppled buildings in parts of northern Indonesia, sent people fleeing from their homes, killed at least one person and generated a small tsunami Thursday.

It's an exciting time as four intrepid astronauts - Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen, along with NASA astronauts, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover - are heading to the moon on a 10-day mission. Here's just some of what to expect over the next week.

U.S. President Donald Trump is telling Americans that while his objectives for the war against Iran are nearly achieved, he intends to escalate military operations for at least another two weeks.

NASA's Artemis II mission will send the astronauts around the moon and back, farther from Earth than any previous human spaceflight. Among the crew is Canadian Jeremy Hansen who is set to become the first Canadian to reach deep space.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday evening that Iran has been decimated and that the hard part of the war is done, telling Americans that his "core strategic objectives" are near completion and that the war will end soon.

Utah officials announced on Wednesday that they were closing a five-decade-old case after finding "definitive proof" that American serial killer Ted Bundy killed a 17-year-old Utah girl.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that banning conversion therapy for minors is a violation of free speech. But a man who once underwent the practice himself says it's about protecting vulnerable young people from serious - and sometimes fatal - harm.

The Artemis II SLS rocket with the Orion capsule and its crew blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Wednesday on a nearly 10-day mission that's expected to take them around the moon and back to Earth.

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