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Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fuelled countless tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and was one-half of the influential reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie, has died. He was 73.

Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests has killed at least 6,159 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Middle East to lead any American military response to the crisis.

The chief federal judge in Minnesota says the Trump administration has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear before him Friday to explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt.

Canada is a party to an agreement to work with U.S. and Finnish counterparts to produce icebreakers for the U.S. Coast Guard. Those ships will give the U.S. greater ability to operate in the Arctic. Will they also be used to threaten Canada's sovereignty in the North?

U.S. President Donald Trump has called for credit card interest rates to be capped at 10 per cent - a move that could bring short-term relief to some consumers but is likely to cause a broader credit crisis in the long run, according to experts.

Canadian Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, pleaded not guilty in Santa Ana, Calif., court Monday to multiple charges related to murder and drug trafficking.Here is what we know about the next steps in the criminal case.

A massive winter storm has buried millions under a historic blanket of snow and ice, locking much of North America in a dangerous Arctic air mass. CBC's Johanna Wagstaffe breaks down the rare atmospheric collision of a polar vortex and an atmospheric river - two extreme weather phenomena that combined to create this record-breaking, high-impact event.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in talks to buy a Virginia warehouse owned by British Columbia billionaire Jim Pattison and plans to turn it into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility. One business ethics expert says companies need to be clear about where they draw the line on who they do business with.

Ye, the musician formerly known as Kanye West, on Monday took out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal to again apologize for his past antisemitic statements.

Mexican President Claudia Shienbaum on Monday presented reporters with a picture that purported to show Ryan Wedding, a longtime Canadian fugitive and accused drug kingpin, at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, suggesting it amounted to evidence that he had voluntarily turned himself in. CBC News has determined the image was, in fact, generated using AI and posted to a debunked Instagram account.

Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled on Monday that former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarian's health.

Former mayor of Minneapolis R. T. Rybak says people in his city are coming together against what he sees as an attack from the U.S. federal government.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump about the immigration crackdown in his city and some federal officers will begin leaving.

Jannik Sinner wasn't shaky or lucky to survive this time and the only thing hot on Monday was his streak, which now stands at 18 straight wins at the Australian Open.

Gold charged past $5,000 US an ounce for the first time on Monday - while silver jumped to $110 an ounce - as an array of geopolitical tensions pounded the U.S. dollar.

Israel has recovered the remains of the last remaining hostage held inGaza, the military said on Monday, fulfilling a key condition of the initial phase of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to endthe warin the Palestinian territory.

A ferry with more than 350 people on board sank early Monday near an island in the southern Philippines, killing at least 18 people, officials said. Rescuers saved hundreds more, while a fleet of coast guard and naval ships searched for those still missing.

The business jet that crashed Sunday evening while trying to take off in a snowstorm in Maine and killed at least a half dozen people is a plane model that has a history of problems with crashes caused by ice buildup on the wings.

Top White House advisor Stephen Miller has been called the driving force behind Donald Trump's domestic agenda - including the aggressive ICE escalation in Minneapolis. We've got a deep look at his life and beliefs.

The National Basketball Players Association voiced support on Sunday for protesters in Minneapolis, rallying against the deadly presence of U.S. federal immigration authorities.

Minnesota has a robust history of protest going back to the 1890s, and the pivotal moments the twin cities played in labour and civil rights movements.

Former U.S. president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama released a searing statement on Sunday, in response to the second shooting death by immigration law enforcement officers in Minneapolis, saying federal officers appear to be using tactics "designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger" Minnesota residents.

Figure skater Laurence Fournier Beaudry broke down in tears in a new Netflix documentary as she described being caught up in the fallout after Nikolaj Sorensen, her boyfriend and former ice dance partner, was accused of sexual assault.

Forecasters said snow, sleet, freezing rain and dangerously frigid temperatures would sweep the eastern two-thirds of the United States on Sunday and into the week.

Kyiv, a city of about three million people, is dominated by tower blocks, many from the Soviet era, now left without power for most of the day. In this fourth winter of war, electricity is a rationed commodity.

Nournews, a news outlet close to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, reported on its Telegram channel that the commander, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, warned the United States and Israel "to avoid any miscalculation."

In an online statement, a spokesperson from the government's Ministry of Environment and Tourism said it was aware of initial autopsy findings suggesting dingo bites were likely not James's immediate cause of death.

In its efforts to rapidly boost its ranks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been making appeals on social media in language familiar to right-wing extremists.

Visitors take in the dazzling lanterns at night, with more than 200 handmade lanterns featuring animals, mythological beings and scenes from Chinese culture, at the 32nd Zigong International Lantern Festival on Friday.

Rescuers were searching for 82 residents feared buried under heaps of mud and debris, while 24 people managed to escape the disaster.

Rescue efforts have ceased and a recovery operation is under way, police said, adding that it was unlikely any of those missing are still alive.

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least one person and wounded 31 overnight into Saturday as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States were to meet in the United Arab Emirates for a second day of talks to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale invasion.

Australia averages 20 shark attacks a year, fewer than three of them fatal, according to data from conservation groups.

Thousands of flights across the U.S. set to take off over the weekend were cancelled as a monster storm started to wreak havoc Saturday across much of the country and threatened to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways with dangerous ice.

More than a month after a deadline passed for the U.S. Justice Department to release all files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, most are still not available. It's not clear when they will be released as required by law.

Canadian veterans of the war in Afghanistan were outraged over comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, who minimized the contributions of NATO forces, claiming they stayed away from the front lines.

The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.

Thousands of demonstrators braved bitter cold to march through the streets of Minneapolis on Friday and demand an end to U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in their city, part of a wider show of defiance that organizers billed as a general strike.

Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's latest comments about America's allies in Afghanistan as an attempt to rewrite the history books.

Delegations from the U.S., Ukraine and Russia are meeting in Abu Dhabi for trilateral talks on ending the war.

Global fashion celebrities joined the public on Friday morning to say goodbye to iconic designer Valentino at his funeral service in Rome, at the Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri.

Iran's top prosecutor on Friday called U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated claims that he halted the hangings of 800 detained protesters there "completely false." Meanwhile, the overall death toll from a bloody crackdown on nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 5,002, activists said.

TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, finalized a deal on Thursday to set up a majority American-owned joint venture company that will avoid a U.S. ban on the popular video-sharing app used by more than 200 million Americans.

The Trump administration on Thursday misrepresented the arrest of a prominent civil rights attorney for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his newly formed "Board of Peace" on an international stage Thursday as more countries responded to his invitation for a seat at the table that will initially aim to rebuild Gaza.

A five-year-old boy, wearing a blue toque with droopy ears, carrying a Spider-Man backpack, was reportedly apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in his Columbia Heights driveway on Tuesday.