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Israel said Thursday it was preparing for the reopening of Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt to allow Palestinians in and out, but set no date for its completion as it traded blame with Hamas over violations of the U.S.-mediated ceasefire.

The Vatican's child protection commission criticized senior Catholic leaders in an annual report Thursday for not moving quickly enough to help victims of sexual abuse by clergy and to implement new safeguarding efforts worldwide.

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy.

U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in U.S. efforts to pressure President Nicolas Maduro's government.

Rain and wind were forecast Wednesday along the Alaska coast where two villages were devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong and officials were scrambling to find shelter for more than 1,500 people driven from their homes.

Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The U.S. government has called the new rules "common sense."

Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered on Wednesday.

Alberta beef is now stocked in the meat section of Costco Mexico's 41 locations, joining a host of other Canadian products on the shelves of the retail giant in the country. Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald was on hand for a ribbon cutting in front of a Costco cooler filled with prime Alberta cuts during a weeklong visit to the country.

U.S. President Donald Trump's late arrival at the summit he convened in Egypt this week gave his fellow leaders, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, a chance to talk among themselves about the future of Gaza and the prospects for wider peace in the Middle East, according to a senior Canadian government official with knowledge of the talks.

A Scottish jury has convicted a man of killing his Canadian girlfriend in the remote Shetland Islands of Scotland. Aren Pearson, 41, was found guilty Wednesday of assault and murder in the death of 24-year-old Claire Leveque, who had been living and working in Edmonton.

U.S. support for Argentina hinges on the ruling party of President Javier Milei succeeding in this month's midterm legislative elections, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, roiling markets in the South American country with what could be the Republican's most overt intervention in a foreign vote.

Ukraine was supposed to receive more than two dozen rebuilt light armoured vehicles from Canada in a deal brokered through a federal agency. However, the plan has been dropped from the Canadian Commercial Corporation listing and the agency, along with the Defence Department, refuse to say why.

Stellantis announced Tuesday it will invest $13 billion US over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the U.S. - a move that will take production of one model out of Ontario and raises concerns about Canadian jobs.

Local authorities in Ukraine ordered the evacuation of residents from dozens of villages on Tuesday near the all-but-destroyed northeastern city of Kupiansk, citing the "worsening security situation," in a region that has faced heavy Russian attacks.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting parts of the city had been "taken over" by unrest.

Stellantis says it will invest $13 billion over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the United States, a move that the automaker says will increase its U.S. vehicle production by 50 per cent and add more than 5,000 jobs.

Cristiano Ronaldo, 40, became the player with most goals in World Cup qualifiers after scoring twice for Portugal in its 2-2 draw with Hungary on Tuesday in Lisbon.

The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.

After two years of navigating a bitter diplomatic spat over the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil, India and Canada have tentatively sketched out a road map to rebuild their strained relationship. That's the end result of a two-day visit to New Delhi and Mumbai - one which Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand has called a success.

The death toll from heavy rains that occurred late last week in Mexico's Gulf Coast and central states has climbed to 64 and left a trail of destruction.

Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected, with the world's coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first "tipping point" in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.

One person is dead and two are missing in western Alaska after the remnants of Typhoon Halong over the weekend brought hurricane-force winds and ravaging storm surges and floodwaters that swept some homes away, authorities said.

Russia's Federal Security Service said on Tuesday it's opened a criminal case against exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accusing him of creating a "terrorist organization" and of plotting to violently seize power.

Four days of heavy rains fell unexpectedly across five Mexican states last week, leaving devastated lives and communities. The rains caused rivers, gullies and ditches to overflow, triggering landslides that washed out highways and roads, and leaving dozens dead and missing.

News organizations including the New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defence Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon.

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina said he fled the country in fear for his life following a military rebellion but did not announce his resignation in a speech broadcast on national television late Monday from an undisclosed location.

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that supplying U.S. Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could end badly for everyone, especially U.S. President Donald Trump.

Canadian economist Peter Howitt is among a group of three researchers who won the Nobel memorial prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday.

The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is unusual, and which raises questions about whether Ottawa should block the deals in the interest of national security.

Madagascar's presidency said on Sunday that an attempt to grab power by force was underway in the African nation as more soldiers joined a youth-ledprotest movementthat has rocked the former French colony for more than two weeks.

The two sides have skirmished along the border in the past, but Saturday night's heavy clashes underscore the deepening tensions.

Inderjeet Singh Gosal, the Brampton, Ont., man who picked up the mantle of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar following his 2023 assassination, explains why he refused to enter a witness protection program after being informed his life was in imminent danger.

Authorities said Saturday that a Friday blast in rural Tennessee that levelled an explosives plant killed 16 people and left no survivors.

At least 53 people, including 14 children and 15 women, were killed in an attack by Sudanese paramilitaries that hit a shelter in a besieged Darfur city, a doctors' group said Saturday.

Former U.S. president Joe Biden is receiving radiation therapy for his prostate cancer diagnosed in May, a spokesperson said on Saturday.

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started, an attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown dragged into a 10th day.

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000 US after settling a lawsuit.

Stocks fell sharply on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq suffering their biggest one-day percentage declines since April 10, while Treasury yields dropped and the U.S. dollar weakened as comments by U.S. President Donald Trump reignited worries over a U.S.-China trade war.

Voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), founded in Toronto and a target of conspiracy theories in the 2020 U.S. presidential election spread by Republican Donald Trump and his allies, has been sold.

John Lodge, the singer and bassist of British rock band the Moody Blues for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 82.

A blast levelled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee, leaving behind a mass of twisted metal, burned-out shells of cars and at least 18 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

Trump's top negotiator on the Gaza conflict said the U.S. military confirmed that Israeli soldiers have pulled back as part of the ceasefire agreement on Friday. Details on how the hostage and prisoner exchange will work are still sparse. But here's what we do know.

Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swathes of Ukraine early Friday, authorities said. A child was also killed in separate attacks in the southeast of the country.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, it was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

A veteran federal Mexican lawmaker told CBC News the era of trilateral trade deals between Mexico-Canada and the U.S. is ending. The interview occurred moments before U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he favoured bilateral accords during Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to the White House. Trump's comments made front page news in Mexico.