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The Trump White House is blaming Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden-era program that brought thousands of Afghan nationals to the U.S., for bringing the suspect in Wednesday's National Guard shooting to the U.S. Here's what we know about the program.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicked off Thursday in New York City, with new balloons depicting Buzz Lightyear and Pac-Man taking to the skies and float favourites such as Tom Turkey gracing the streets.

Pope Leolamented that the world was seeing an unusual number of bloody conflicts during his first trip outside Italy as Catholic leader on Thursday, and he warned that a third world war was being "fought piecemeal" with humanity's future at risk.

Thechaos of this year's Miss Universe pageantdidn't end after Miss Mexico was crowned the winner last week in a competition plagued by controversy. Some contestants have now renounced their titles, organizations have signalled they could cut ties, and arrest warrants have been issued for two pageant co-owners.

A judge on Wednesday dismissed the Georgia election interference case against U.S. President Donald Trump and others after the prosecutor who took over the case said he would not pursue the charges, ending the last effort to prosecute Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Donald Trump is sticking with longtime friend and special envoy for peace missions, Steve Witkoff, even as a report late Tuesday appeared to portray Witkoff as coaching an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin on how to approach the U.S. president.

Hong Kong's leader John Lee has said that 36 people were reported dead in the fire that spread through a dense highrise residential complex on Wednesday, and that another 279 people were reported missing.

Israel handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Wednesday, a day after Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli hostage.

The American-built F-35 fighter jet dominated its Swedish rival Gripen in terms of technical and military capabilities during a competition held by the Defence Department in 2021, according to data obtained by Radio-Canada.

Nearly 40 years after the Jamaica bobsleigh team's first Winter Olympics inspired the film Cool Runnings, the team made history again last weekend when it captured its first ever gold medal at an international bobsleigh race.

Pope Leo will embark on his first trip outside Italy as the leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, traveling to Turkey and Lebanon, where he is expected to make appeals for peace in the region and urge unity among long-divided Christian churches.

Gaza now has more child amputees per capita than anywhere else in the world. CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault meets with organizations in Cairo trying to help, including a Canadian non-profit organization hoping to provide 3D printed prosthetics.

Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered former president Jair Bolsonaro to begin a prison sentence of more than 27 years for plotting a coup in 2022, according to a court document.

All 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by armed assailants from a school last week in Kebbi in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued, the country's president announced Tuesday.

Israel on Tuesday said it received human remains that Palestinian militants handed over to the Red Cross, but it was not immediately clear if they were one of three hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip.

A lawsuit filed by a former security analyst at Campbell's alleges he was fired for reporting inappropriate conduct by a senior executive, including an hour-long rant in which the executive allegedly called the company's products "s--t for f---ing poor people" in a secret recording.

The United States has presentedSudan's warring parties with a proposal for a truce but neither side has formally accepted it, U.S. envoy Massad Boulos said Tuesday, as the army accused its rivals of staging an attack despite declaring a ceasefire.

Los Angeles police have blocked the county coroner's office from releasing details about the death of a teen girl whose body was found in the trunk of a car registered to the singer d4vd, the medical examiner's office said on Monday.

Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least seven people in overnight strikes that hit city buildings and energy infrastructure, while a Ukrainian attack in southern Russia killed three people and damaged homes, authorities said. Meanwhile talks aimed at putting a halt to the hostilities were taking place in Europe and Abu Dhabi.

In the first six weeks since Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas reached a truce deal aimed at ending their two-year war, Israeli attacks in Gaza have been reported almost daily.

The G20 summit is supposed to be the pinnacle of multilateralism: the idea that nations can co-operate, compromise and co-ordinate for the greater good. But a lot has changed in the past two decades.

The Toronto Blue Jays logo was on display during a major boxing match in Japan on Monday, leaving some sharp-eyed viewers intrigued and Major League Baseball (MLB) possibly miffed.

The BBC's chairman acknowledged Monday that it was too slow in responding to allegations of bias over a misleading edit of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump, but rejected claims that the broadcaster's impartiality was being undermined from within its own board.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations - but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food - said Monday it would shutter operations.

Video captured by the U.S. Geological Survey on Nov. 23 shows the formation of a dome fountain of lava in a crater on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano.

A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at U.S. President Donald Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. troops to refuse unlawful orders.

The United States and Ukraine sought on Monday to narrow the gaps in a peace plan to end the war with Russia after agreeing to modify a U.S. proposal that Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list.

Three suicide bombers targeted the headquarters of aPakistani paramilitary force on Monday, killing three personnel and wounding at least five, authorities said.

On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before while under house arrest because of a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication.

Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria's Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, bringing relief to some distraught families after one of the largest school abductions in Nigeria's history.

Israel carried out an airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb on Sunday, saying it killedHezbollah'schief of staff Haytham Tabtabai and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild a year after their latest war.

The U.S. and Ukraine said they had created an "updated and refined peace framework" to end the war with Russia that apparently modified an earlier plan drafted by the Trump administration which Kyiv and its allies saw as too sympathetic to Moscow.

As Canada starts to diversify its ties with other countries amidst an increasingly unpredictable and unreliable relationship with the U.S., its pivot toward China, in particular, will need to be strategic: the work must be done while balancing the risks and strengthening the country internally.

Brazil's COP30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.

A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary's School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria's Niger state, the Christian Association of Nigeria said Saturday, updating an earlier tally of 215 schoolchildren.

A lawmaker with Mexico's governing political party says local reporting around a tweaked Canadian travel advisory on Mexico was used to politically attack Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters' vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as he appealed a Supreme Court conviction for plotting a coup.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to South Africa for the G20, which will include a meeting with the country's president, comes as Canada prioritizes boosting trade with other continents and plans to scale back foreign aid.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of Donald Trump who has become a critic of the president, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January.

The tiny Caribbean country of Curacao, with a population of slightly less than 160,000, has become the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup. Kenji Gorre, one of their players, says making it to soccer's most watched tournament is 'life-changing.'

Louise Penny's new novel explores a sinister plot to make Canada the 51st state - but she's keen to point out that she wrote it before Donald Trump was re-elected as U.S. president. She spoke with Matt Galloway live on stage at the Haskell Free Library, right on the U.S.-Canada border.