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CBC News visited Taiwan's Kinmen islands, which are just a few kilometres across the bay from the Chinese city of Xiamen. The islands have been on the frontline of hostilities between China and Taiwan for more than seven decades. Many Kinmen locals say they don't believe war with China is near - despite mounting evidence to the contrary.

North Korea said Wednesday it fired sea-to-surface cruise missiles into its western waters, in another display of its growing military capabilities as U.S. President Donald Trump travels to South Korea for a regional summit.

The lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton comes weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump linked Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism in children. The claim is a long-standing one that researchers have not found conclusive evidence to support.

Three strikes conducted by the U.S. military on boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed 14 people and left one survivor, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, alleging those on board were drug traffickers.

At least 26 people were killed on Tuesday after Israeli strikes in Gaza, health officials said, including strikes in Khan Younis and Gaza City.

Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere.

Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British comedy Fawlty Towers, has died, her children said Tuesday. She was 93.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Jamaica Tuesday as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island since records were first kept 174 years ago. It is tied for the strongest Atlantic hurricane to ever hit land.

China still has substantial leverage over the U.S. in its dominance of the rare earth minerals market, despite the two countries agreeing to a framework trade deal days before a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The NBA, in reaction to the arrests of Miami guard Terry Rozier and Portland coach Chauncey Billups last week for their alleged role in gambling schemes, has started a review of how the league can protect not just the integrity of the game but its players and coaches as well.

U.S. states are warning food aid recipients their benefits may not be distributed starting on Nov. 1 if the federal government shutdown stretches into its fourth week.

A Sudanese paramilitary force is battling the last pockets of resistance in El Fasher, a Darfur city that has endured a brutal 18-month siege and where a full takeover would entrench a geographical division of the country between rival military factions.

As Canadian officials scramble to find clarity on Donald Trump's social media post announcing a 10 per cent hike to what he called "the Tariff on Canada," the U.S. president himself appears to be thin on the details.

Hurricane Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm Monday as it drew closer to Jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread damage.

Jamaican authorities issued mandatory evacuations orders for Port Royal in Kingston and six other areas as the powerful Category 4 Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the Caribbean nation.

Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defences, inching closer to deploying it to its military, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks released on Sunday.

The Paris prosecutor said on Sunday two suspects have been arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris's Louvre museum.

The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.

Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensified into a potentially catastrophic storm in the Caribbean overnight, U.S. forecasters warned early Sunday.

Two people were killed and 13 others injured in Kyiv after Russian missiles and drones hit sites in Ukraine overnight, including infrastructure and energy sites, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday.

Mahmoud Abu Foul says he was detained by the Israeli military in late December last year, only to be released days ago after losing his eyesight from alleged torture and abuse he endured in his more than nine months in detention.

President Donald Trump has punished most U.S. trading partners with tariffs and threats, but he has lavished favours on Javier Milei's Argentina, including a $20 billion bailout of its currency. Why has Argentina succeeded in getting such favourable treatment where other countries have failed?

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country's monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the Thai Royal Household bureau said on Saturday.

"I think we all cling to a model of behaviour of a president, out of comfort," Flavio Volpe, president of Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, said on Friday morning, "and I don't know what good it does us now."

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs.

As Americans have posted "RIP East Wing 1902-2025" on social media platforms, the Democrats are promising to investigate how Donald Trump and his administration moved ahead with a White House demolition that has proceeded at a rapid pace. We now know more about who's donating to Trump's treasured ballroom project.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to walk an international tightrope over the next week as he departs Friday for a set of Indo-Pacific Summit meetings, one of which involves both the United States and China.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a late-night social media post that he is terminating all trade negotiations with Canada over an advertisement by the Ontario government that uses the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan's words to send an anti-tariff message to American audiences.

Donald Trump will not deploy federal agents to San Francisco, the U.S. president and the California city's mayor said in separate social media posts on Thursday, a surprising stand-down as Trump pressures Democratic-led cities around the country to step up enforcement against crime and illegal immigration.

The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's environmental jewels.

Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying travel at airports in New York, Washington, Newark and Houston, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said late on Thursday, as a U.S. government shutdown hit its 23rd day.

In Singapore, protesting without permission from police is illegal, but that didn't stop three women from organizing a watermelon umbrella march in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Andrew Chang explains the charges against the organizers by breaking down Singapore's strict rules on public assembly - and why these three women were ultimately acquitted.Images from Ng Yi-Sheng/Facebook, sgacadboycott/Instagram, MustShareNews, Getty Images, ReutersThumbnail credit: sgacadboycott/Instagram

A seniorCanadian government official told reporters Thursday that it's hoped Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit in South Korea next week.

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.

The White House is tearing down part of the East Wing this week to make room for U.S. President Donald Trump's ballroom, but it's not the only renovation that has occurred since he took office in January.

Tropical Storm Melissa lumbered through the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola - an island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

A former British paratrooper who was the only soldier ever charged in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland was acquitted Thursday of murder charges.

Britain's King Charles and Pope Leo XIV prayed together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship including an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.

The European Union has agreed on a new raft of sanctions against Russia targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning its imports of liquefied natural gas, the Danish EU presidency announced Thursday.

The buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela and a series of deadly attacks on alleged drug-trafficking boats in waters off its coast has raised the spectre of an invasion of the South American country. Yet that still appears unlikely, some experts say, as any military action launched by the Trump administration would face significant resistance.

The U.S. military on Wednesday launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on social mediaWednesday.

The NFL is not considering replacing Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime performer, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday, reaffirming the decision to put the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist on the league's biggest stage - a decision that's led to criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump and some of his supporters.

How does a former French president end up behind bars in the isolation wing of a Paris prison? Andrew Chang explains the key charge against Nicolas Sarkozy that led to a criminal conspiracy conviction by breaking down his relationship to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and why despite the guilty verdict - he's currently presumed innocent.

The International Court of Justice said on Wednesday that Israel must allow the United Nations aid agency in Gaza, known as UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance to the war-torn territory.