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While a ceasefire that took effect last Oct. 10 has halted the heaviest fighting, Israeli strikes have continued in what the military has said are responses to threats or attacks.

British police arrested five men near an airbase used by the U.S. on suspicion of explosive and terrorism offenses on Sunday after a tip-off that three vans had been heading to the military airfield, which has been used to strike Iran.

To avoid triggering massive U.S. price cuts, pharmaceutical companies now incentivized to protect their larger U.S. profits by raising prices elsewhere, drug policy experts say.

European military experts warn that Russia is actively planning targeted aggression against NATO to test alliance solidarity. Recent high-alert incidents include a foiled explosive drone plot at a German airport and a strike near the Ukraine-Poland border targeting European VIPs. However, officials are deeply split on the immediacy of a conventional threat.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has put "strategic autonomy" at the forefront of Canada's address to the United Nations General Assembly today.

The United States and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on $30 billion US of goods and launch a dialogue on AI, both countries said following President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington.

A slow-moving, powerful storm crept along the coast of the northeast U.S. on Saturday, producing high winds that knocked out electricity to tens of thousands while whipping up big waves and heavy rains that created dangerous conditions in some places.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end fighting in the Middle East.

China pushed back against the United States in its speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, saying sovereignty of countries in the Gulf should be respected and urging the "relevant country" to stop threatening Cuba and lift its blockade on it.

OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review into the company's models' unanticipated behavior.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed Paris's iconic Champs-Elysees avenue for Pope Leo XIV's big outdoor mass on Saturday, a sign of the Catholic Church's enduring appeal in the once staunchly Catholic but officially secular country.

The recent publication of a book by Charles Spencer, the younger brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, has only added to the way in which her legacy will keep being a focus of debate and interpretation as time keeps passing on from her sudden death in 1997.

Russia's jet-powered drones being used to carry out strikes on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine are often able to evade air defences because they fly at higher altitudes and faster speeds. To stop these new models, faster interceptors are needed, but that technology is still in the trial phase, Ukrainian officials say.

While the migrant caravans may have disappeared from Tijuana, and this Mexican border city is no longer the waiting room for entry into the U.S., there are still those seeking to cross. Many who risk the journey are deported mothers desperate to get back to their children, advocates say.

U.S. President Donald Trump is cancelling nearly $1 billion US in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives.

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal said it was shutting production at Ukraine's largest steel plant, underscoring the growing economic toll of Russia's airstrikes that on Friday killed seven people in Kyiv including a 14-year-old boy and injured more than 50.

U.S. President Donald Trump's summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was more about pageantry than policy, says analyst Michael Kovrig. Nevertheless, he says that in cozying up to Xi, Trump is undermining the U.S.'s own interests, and potentially those of Canada.

People on Hawaii's Big Island are preparing for another potentially life-threatening and catastrophic storm as Hurricane Nolo is expected to bring flash floods and extreme surf as it churns just south of the islands through the weekend.

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to lessen Canada's chokehold on potash supply with alternative imports from Belarus - but that's exposing a critical vulnerability in American agriculture. Andrew Chang breaks down why U.S. farmers depend so heavily on Saskatchewan's vast potash reserves, and why relying on a Russian ally may be easier said than done.(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)

A woman with a baby strapped to her chest, a diaper bag on her back, and her arms full of food at a Major League Baseball game has inadvertently become a metaphor for the disproportionate load mothers carry - in this case, literally.

The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November's elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against non-citizen voting.

The European Union's executive arm said Friday it's prepared to defend a 120 million euro ($137 million US) fine against the social media platform X after the U.S. government threw its support behind a legal effort by Elon Musk this week to have the case dismissed.

Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a "paradise of machines" risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence, nuclear arms race and other threats to life itself.

CBC's visual investigations team uncovers satellite imagery that shows the IDF removing rubble from sites in Gaza that it bombed, which experts and human rights advocates warn risks destroying evidence of alleged war crimes.

Vietnamese President To Lam has upgraded ties with Canada to a strategic partnership, building on Prime Minister Mark Carney's efforts to get middle powers working more closely together to confront American and Chinese coercion.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he's considering a ban on diesel exports to improve gas prices for Americans, a move experts say would only push an already-strained global market -further raising diesel prices in Canada and abroad.

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday for a lavish state summit that was heavy on symbolism but light on substance, with no sign that a closed-door meeting yielded breakthroughs on thorny issues such as AI, trade, Taiwan and the war with Iran.

The head of the RCMP says there's no evidence to suggest investigations were impacted following a report last week that FBI Director Kash Patel temporarily halted co-operation with the Mounties in retaliation for an internal CBC memo.

Actor Hannah Einbinder has posted a statement online saying the world's attention should be on Gaza and not on the "spectacle" of her arrest at a protest outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the UN earlier this week.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told world leaders Thursday that attacking Iran "was one of the easiest decisions I've ever had to make" and denounced as "moral cowards" a mass of delegates who walked out of the UN General Assembly when he took the podium to speak.

Pakistan said it carried out airstrikes early Thursday on 10 sites in Afghanistan that it said were used to launch drone attacks against Pakistan a day earlier, a sharp escalation in recent fighting between the two countries that threatens international mediation efforts.

Reporters from three news outlets banned from the White House by U.S. President Donald Trump were back on its grounds Thursday afternoon, hours after a federal judge ordered the administration to reinstate their access.

American officials have scolded Canada for making a deal with China. But the numbers show the U.S. does vastly more business with China than Canada would possibly dream of.

With Russia intensifying attacks on Ukraine's power, water and sewage systems, Ukrainian lawmakers are asking Canada to help fund desperately needed electrical transformers before winter. Their warning is stark: Moscow is trying to make cities unlivable - while exhaustion and fading Western attention threaten to become weapons of war.

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington on Wednesday, where he was met with a rare planeside greeting from U.S. President Donald Trump after their top officials agreed to extend a trade truce until January.

Parallel parking is a driving skill that can be hard to master. Dan Leber founded Pittsburgh's Parallel Parking Championship in 2021. Now hundreds of drivers participate in the low-stakes, silly competition.

FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials' job assignments, including sensitive work against Chinese spies, Russian intelligence, drug cartels and more, Reuters has found.

U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Canadian immigration policies on Wednesday, saying the country is "destroying itself" by allowing "millions" of people into the country without proper security checks - comments federal ministers say are ill-informed and grossly inaccurate.

European soccer leader Aleksander Ceferin said Wednesday it is "our work" to repair the unity and trust broken by FIFA president Gianni Infantino's failed World Cup sell-off plan.

Outkast members Big Boi and Andre 3000 are suing Ovrkast, an Oakland rapper and music producer, for trademark infringement, unfair competition and breach of contract over similarity in the two acts' names.

This year's powerful El Nino and the record global heat it's driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday.

The U.S.-backed Board of Peace is proposing a six-month, $2.45 billion US plan to begin reconstruction and governance in Gaza as President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan struggles to stay afloat.

U.S. President Donald Trump's approach to allies and trading partners is reverberating well beyond North America. As Trump forges his own brand of diplomacy, Washington correspondents Katie Simpson, Willy Lowry and Paul Hunter ask: Who are Trump's allies anymore? And does he even care?

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after the disgraced movie producer's original conviction was overturned and a retrial last year ended with a jury again finding him guilty of a serious sex crime.

The Canadian government sees Mexico as a growing market for tourism and projects visits to rise by 40 per cent over the next four years, hitting nearly half a million visitors spending about $1 billion a year by 2030.

Russia pounded Kyiv with drone strikes on Wednesday, hitting railway infrastructure, warehouses and fuel stations, just hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Hurricane Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades, and it was expected to skirt Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm.

Three shooters killed at least 11 people, including a woman who was believed to be pregnant, in an attack at a house party in South Africa, police said Wednesday.

The rise of both Germany's far-right and hard-left signals a significant shift for a country that founded its postwar political system on stability.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new security agreement with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Tuesday. But the U.S. already had a security arrangement with the two parties dating back 75 years. So what's changed? Observers say moderate improvements in the new deal have come at an immense cost.