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In a Venice Biennale taking place at a time of wars, tension over migration and climate anxiety, the Canadian pavilion poses a quieter question: Who gets to live with nature, who gets to protect it and who is shut out from it?

Iranians have faced a near-total blackout for more than 70 days straight. The shutdown has cost the Iranian economy an estimated $250-million US a day.

One hundred years after Winnie the Pooh was published, it continues to enchant. Its origins have a happy beginning in the bond between a Canadian veterinary soldier and the cub he named for his adopted hometown, but the story takes an unhappy turn as the Milnes struggled with the effects of fame.

U.S. authorities announced on Friday that three men - two of whom have Canadian citizenship - have been charged in New York state with allegedly attempting to smuggle dozens of firearms into Canada.

A Frontier Airlines plane struck and killed a pedestrian on the runway at Denver International Airport during takeoff, airport authorities said, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to evacuate.

A diplomatic row over a shipload of wheat and barley taken from occupied Ukraine to Israel has stirred lingering tensions between the two countries - and brought attention to Israel's ambiguous relationship with Russia.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer moved quickly to acknowledge a bruising local election result for his governing Labour Party, appearing before cameras before the final votes were counted in a contest widely seen as a referendum on his leadership.

The head of Canada's intelligence agency says Alberta's potential secession vote is susceptible to disinformation and foreign interference from players like Russia.

The American company has had a footprint in Canada since at least 1991, when it swallowed Distinctive Software, a Burnaby, B.C.-based video game developer. EA now boasts five offices in the country that have contributed significantly to the company's hit soccer and hockey games and Canada's broader $5.1 billion video game industry.

The U.S. government has made public dozens of previously classified files about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) - formerly known as UFOs - in what the Trump administration is calling a historic effort at transparency.

The hardest part about solving a Rubik's Cube while plummeting from an airplane at 200 kilometres per hour is trying not to think about your potential demise, says Tom Kopke. The German YouTuber has beat the Guinness World Record for "fastest time to solve a rotating puzzle cube whilst in freefall."

Russia's Victory Day celebrations have been a chance for President Vladimir Putin to project pride and power, but this year's events have been stripped down amid an onslaught of Ukrainian drone attacks across the country.

Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday that they had agreed to a U.S.-brokered three-day ceasefire that will run from May 9 to May 11, and U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped it would be extended.

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least five people Friday, while the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group fired rockets on northern Israel without inflicting any casualties.

Real Madrid fined Federico Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni half a million euros (the equivalent of $588,000 US) each on Friday for their altercation during practice.

Efforts to end the war between the U.S. and Iran appeared to stall as the two sides traded fire in the Gulf on Friday, while a U.S. intelligence analysis concluded Tehran could withstand a naval blockade for another four months.

Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations.

While the Mexican government insists it needs more proof before acting on a U.S. request to hand over the former governor of Sinaloa, court records suggest the case against Ruben Rocha stems from a sprawling investigation into the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin El Chapo" Guzman Loera.

Soon after he ordered a naval blockade in mid-April, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Iran's pipelines would "explode" within a few days from the inability to export crude oil. While that extreme prediction didn't come true, there's evidence the blockade is starting to hurt Iran's economy.

The U.S. military said it intercepted Iranian attacks Thursday on three Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz and "targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces," highlighting the fragility of the month-old ceasefire between the two countries.

A man who sprayed vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis earlier this year pleaded guilty to assault Thursday in federal court after reaching a deal with prosecutors.

A U.S. trade court dealt another blow to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff strategy, ruling that his latest 10 per cent temporary global duties are unjustified under a 1970s trade law, but blocked the levies for only two private importers and the state of Washington.

The United States on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a sprawling business conglomerate run by Cuba's military and a Cuban-Canadian mining joint venture, as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on the island's communist leaders by targeting sources of foreign investment.

When staff at the Humane Society of North Texas first saw the scared little kitten, shaking and covered in industrial-strength glue, they didn't know if he would survive the night. But after roughly 24 hours of care, the little creature was free.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Pope Leo at the Vatican on Thursday morning, in a visit that was officially about diplomacy but in reality was about cleaning up after President Donald Trump's latest swipes at the first American pope.

In a political shift Thursday, the International Olympic Committee said athletes from Belarus should once again compete with their full national identity and not be vetted for neutral status, even as the war in Ukraine continues.

Three women who were among 13 Australians returning home from Syria were arrested at airports on Thursday on allegations of slavery and terrorism inside the Islamic State group's former so-called caliphate, police said.

Facing an existential breaking point, Lebanon's government is attempting to disarm Hezbollah and assert state sovereignty following a fragile, often-violated April ceasefire with Israel. The path forward remains a dangerous gamble.

A major Mexican trade mission to Canada launched Thursday, involving over 200 Mexican businesses seeking to expand commercial links during the two-day, two-city encounter that will include high-level talks on the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement.

Anthropic on Wednesday said it reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk's SpaceX, marking a detente with its one-time critic and a boost for both companies in the high-stakes artificial intelligence race.

Nearly three weeks into a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, escalating attacks and widening incursions are exposing major cracks in an agreement that analysts say was never going to ultimately halt the violence.

Russia fired dozens of drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, disregarding a unilateral ceasefire announced by Kyiv that began at midnight.

Israel struck Beirut on Wednesday for the first time since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last month, with Israel saying it targeted a commander of the militant group's elite Radwan force in the city's southern suburbs.

Ted Turner, the brash sportsman and entrepreneur whose ambition, instincts and vast wealth led to a media empire that included groundbreaking news network CNN and a longtime focus on philanthropy, has died. He was 87.

A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek "vast swaths of information" about his personal life following social media posts critical of Donald Trump's administration.

Health authorities have identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can be transmitted from person to person in passengers who were on a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of the rare infection, officials said Wednesday.

The Claudia Sheinbaum administration's demand for "irrefutable" proof before handing over a top elected politician to the U.S. over alleged drug cartel dealings reveals how the Mexican government applies a double standard in its stated battle against organized crime, experts say.

Palestinians living in tents amid the rubble in the Gaza Strip and aid groups trying to help them say rodent infestations have left them suffering from diseases and unsure how to cope.

A U.S. federal civil rights agency filed a discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against the New York Times, claiming that the news organization passed over a white male employee for a promotion in favour of a lesser qualified woman to meet its diversity goals.

The EU's Ambassador to Canada, Genevieve Tuts, says the bloc is looking to "elevate" its relationship with this country and take it to the "next level."

U.S. President Donald Trump says that he has paused the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to finalize an Iran deal.

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday added a charge of assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon to the case against the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House correspondents' dinner in Washington, D.C., last month.

Karl Arps was demonstrating the signs of a heart attack during a training course when he really had one, and went into cardiac arrest.

After a spate of deaths and illnesses stemming from a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, health officials now suspect human-to-human transmission may have played a role in the spread of this potentially deadly infection. So what's the risk to broader public health?

Which celebrity photos from the Met Gala are real, and which are fake? Several AI-generated photos and videos circulated online during this year's event.

In Moscow, residents have experienced multiple internet outages recently, which have made it impossible to use the mobile web. The government says the measures are necessary for security, but many see it as part of the Kremlin's tightening grip on the country's digital space.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka believes tennis players should organize a boycott if they don't start receiving a bigger share of tournament revenues at the Grand Slams. The likes of Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Jasmine Paolini are prepared to protest, too.

With cocaine and its metabolite, benzoylecgonine, being detected in waterways across the globe, Canadian researcher Erin McCallum and her team set out to understand the impact of these illicit drugs on fish in Sweden.