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An Indian man pleaded guilty on Friday to U.S. criminal charges that he orchestrated a failed Indian government-backed plot to kill a Sikh separatist in New York City, in connection with what U.S. and Canadian authorities have called a broader effort to target Indian dissidents.

Democrats in Washington say they're launching an investigation into the Trump administration and its links to the wealthy owner of the Ambassador Bridge after the U.S. president threatened to block the opening of the competing Gordie Howe Bridge earlier this week.

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has apologized for his yearslong friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that included regular correspondence and multiple visits to the disgraced financier's Manhattan apartment, as well as visit to his private island.

Different versions of the Iranian flag have appeared at protests around the world. Here are the facts about what each of them represent.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi says he plans to return to Iran after Oscar season is over, despite the looming threat of his arrest amid a government crackdown on protests that has killed thousands and detained many more.

Investigators in Arizona want residents near Nancy Guthrie's home to share surveillance footage of suspicious cars or people they may have noticed in the month before she disappeared.

The Olympics have long been a platform for political posturing, with countries boycotting or being banned from sending athletes to Games over geopolitical conflicts.But the International Olympic Committee bars political demonstrations from podiums and competitions.What constitutes an inappropriate political demonstration, however, can be complicated.

Air Transat says it plans to bring home thousands of Canadians from Cuba in the coming days, at a time when Ottawa is telling people to avoid delaying their exit from the island country.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attacked Democrats during her fiery House Judiciary Committee testimony as she faced criticism from lawmakers over the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files.

U.S. President Donald Trump is applying severe economic pressure to an already-strained Cuba mired in a food and power crisis. Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is choosing now to cut off the country's oil supply, and why, for Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, it's also personal.

The brief shutdown of El Paso airport by the Federal Aviation Administration because of safety concerns posed by the use of a military laser-based anti-drone system was unacceptable, the top Democrat on the Senate's commerce committee said on Thursday.

Syrian government forces have taken control of a base in the east of the country that was run for years by U.S. troops as part of the war against the Islamic State group, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and the deaths of two U.S. citizens is nearing an end, U.S. President Donald Trump's border czar said Thursday.

Vizsla Silver Corp.'s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel.

The Trump administration has rescinded a legal opinion that has guided emissions controls in the U.S. since the Obama era, withdrawing the so-called endangerment findingof the Environmental Protection Agency.

Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the U.S., Iraq is one of the most overlooked, at least outside the Middle East.But U.S. reaction to the reappearance on the political scene of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - a candidate for the job once more - is a sharp reminder of the tightrope Iraq walks between the two.

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington to discuss U.S. nuclear talks with Iran, but nothing definitive was decided. Meanwhile, thousands in Tehran marked the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

The International Olympic Committee is not an organization that generally begs, but they are begging Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych not to compete in a customized helmet showing the faces of more than 20 Ukrainian athletes and coaches killed since Russian invaded Ukraine in 2022.

American skier Lindsey Vonn said Wednesday that she had a "successful" third surgery on her broken left leg following her downhill crash at the Olympics.

James Van Der Beek, the actor best known for his role on 1990's TV show Dawson's Creek, has died. He was 48.

Over the decades, Greenland has gained more autonomy from the Kingdom of Denmark. But recent threats from U.S. President Donald Trump about taking over Greenland has brought the autonomous territory closer to the country that colonized it.

Moderna received what's called a refusal-to-file" letter from the FDA that objected to how the company conducted a 40,000-person clinical trial comparing its new vaccine to one of the standard flu shots used today. Its a rare move by the FDA, which is under the control of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution against President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods, delivering a stinging rebuke to the administration for launching a trade war on its northern neighbour.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has called down a notice to halt all flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas for "special security reasons" just hours after it was issued.

Online flight trackers show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew hundreds of kilometres through Canadian airspace on his way to meet U.S. President Donald Trump this week - despite Prime Minister Mark Carney previously saying he would honour an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.

Donald Trump's success in attracting a broad range of Americans to vote Republican, including among the Latino community, was key to his presidential election victory in 2024. Now in 2026, Trump's distaste for the all-Spanish-language Super Bowl halftime performance by Bad Bunny suggests scoring points with Latino voters is no longer a high priority for the president.

Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. squeezing the country'soil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines suspended service to the island and are ferrying tourists back home.

Andrew Chang explains Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's landslide victory in a snap election - and what this means for the country's military amid rising tensions with China.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Andrew Athias was one of hundreds of human bushels of grass who helped make up the sugarcane field setting of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show performance on Sunday.

U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin is no stranger to making history. He became the first person to successfully land a quadruple axel in competition and is widely known for his quad-jumping prowess. Kurt Browning, the legendary Canadian figure skater who was the first person to ever land a ratified quad jump in competition, tells us what makes Malinin so good at it.

A fake video featuring CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault is spreading misinformation about Ukrainians at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games. The CBC's fact-check team breaks down how a real video was altered to create the fake.

A person was detained for questioning on Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie's front door the night she vanished from her Arizona home.

After U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to place new sanctions on countries selling oil to Cuba, Mark Entwistle, a former Canadian ambassador to Cuba, says the Trump administration is trying to inflict pain and throttle the country's economy.

A post-race interview with the bronze medal winner in the men's Olympic biathlon competition on Tuesday took an unexpected turn when he revealed in a live broadcast that he had been unfaithful to his girlfriend.

A group of 19 Buddhist monks have achieved superstar status in the United States with their 3,700-kilometre walk from Texas to Washington. Their trek is a mission to deliver a message of peace.

U.S. Commerce Secretary HowardLutnicksought to distance himself on Tuesday from Jeffrey Epstein, alleging he "barely had anything to do with" the convicted sex offender amid calls for his resignation over new revelations about ties between the two.

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge, poised to become the newest border crossing between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit.

Savannah Guthrie's family is "at an hour of desperation" in the search for her missing mother, the Today show co-host said in a video released Monday ahead of a looming ransom deadline apparently set by Nancy Guthrie's abductors.

Twenty athletes with Russian and Belarusian passports are competing in the Winter Olympics, but they're not representing a country. Here are the facts about 'Individual Neutral Athletes.'

Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more than 4,000 years. They offer surprising new insights about the first people who lived near what is now the Canada-Greenland border.

Lindsey Vonn says she "sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly" after her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill.

Lawmakers tried on Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be self-incriminating.

As the final anxious seconds ticked away in Italy's 3-2 win over Japan on Monday, Daniele Sauvageau, the team's Canadian general manager, looked at 35-year-old Laura Fortino, a gold-medal winner with Canada in 2014 who now wears Italian blue, both with tears in their eyes.

Vladyslav Heraskevych showed up for the Milan Cortina Olympics with a new helmet, one featuring the images of some fellow Ukrainian athletes killed in Russian attacks. And Heraskevych wanted to offer a tribute. The International Olympic Committee, he said, won't let it happen.

Air Canada announced it is suspending service to Cuba effective Monday as the Caribbean island's major airport warns it will run out of jet fuel.

The Feynuus Bowling Center in Mogadishu is the latest sign of revival in the once-thriving Indian Ocean port shaped by 35 years of civil war and militant bombings.

Buckingham Palace said on Monday it is ready to support any police investigation into King Charles' younger brother after emails suggested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor might have shared confidential British trade documents with Jeffrey Epstein.

Two babies are among at least 53 people dead or missing after an inflatable migrant boat sank off Libya, the UN migration agency said on Monday, the latest tragedy on a dangerous route for those seeking a better life in Europe.

Jaime Castaneda was in the coastal Mexican city of Mazatlan on Sunday to identify the body of his 43-year-old brother. Jose Manuel Castaneda Hernandez was working for Vancouver-based mining company Vizsla Silver Corp. when he was kidnapped last month, along with nine other employees.

There are unconfirmed reports that secret talks have begun between the CIA and Alejandro Castro Espin, the son of Raul Castro. U.S. President Trump has said talks are on, and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said the Communist Party is open to talking about "substantive" matters, but it's still not clear if that includes an end to one-party rule.