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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized Europe's response to the Greenland dispute with the U.S., saying the continent needed to show more courage and describing it as a "fragmented kaleidoscope" of small and middle powers.

Greenland's red lines regarding sovereignty must be respected in talks with the United States, Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen told reporters in Nuuk on Thursday.

A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down and he stopped breathing, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide.

Landslides hit a campground and a house in New Zealand and emergency crews were trying to rescue people buried in rubble, officials said Thursday.

Jack Smith, the former special counsel who filed indictments against U.S. President Donald Trump in two separate cases that never went to trial, condemned "false and misleading narratives" in his first public congressional testimony regarding his investigation.

The Iranian regime says just over 3,000 people were killed in recent protests over the country's failed economy, while human rights groups put the number of protesters confirmed dead at more than 4,000 and rising.

Netflix will pay for Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming and studio division entirely in cash to edge out its rival Paramount - the latest chapter in a months-long saga that, once concluded, could significantly change the global entertainment industry.

Former special counsel Jack Smith will make the case before a large American audience for the first time on Thursday as to why he believes that Donald Trump committed fraud in his actions and statements after his 2020 election loss. The details could serve as a cautionary tale of what the president is capable of doing during the midterms later this year.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, resonated in Mexico, a country which, much like Canada, has also been forced to grapple with the mercurial temperament of its much larger and powerful U.S. neighbour

A Texas jury has acquitted a former Uvalde school police officer on charges he failed in his duty to confront the gunman during the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting, which left 19 students and two adults dead.

Syria's government accused the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces of attacks it said killed 11 soldiers on Wednesday, but the SDF disputed key elements of the account, blaming at least one deadly blast on explosives being moved by Syrian troops.

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people's homes without a judge's warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, as the Trump administration prepares to ramp up immigration enforcement in Maine.

Iranian state TV issued the first official death toll from recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed. State television stated that 2,427 of the dead in the demonstrations that began Dec. 28 were civilians and security forces, but didn't elaborate on the rest. U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which relies on a network of activists inside the country to confirm reported fatalities, said the death toll was at least 4,560.

With only two weeks to go before the Olympics begin, work continues in Italy on the sliding centre and the main hockey arena.

In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, U.S. President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, mere hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic island.

A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday recommended former U.S. president BillClintonand former secretary of state HillaryClintonbe found incontemptof Congress for refusing to testify about ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which could lead to criminal charges.

Mexico sent 37 cartel members to the United States at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum saying Wednesday that it was a "sovereign decision" by her government.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had accepted his invitation to join Trump's Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, a statement that Putin quickly countered, saying that the invitation was only under consideration.

Trump vaunted his administration's economic and immigration policies, and took jabs at perceived opponents, former president Joe Biden, U.S. congress member Ilhan Omar - and addressed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney directly, calling him "Mark" and saying Canada "lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements."

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's cancelling his tariff threat on several European nations in his push for U.S. control of Greenland, after coming to terms with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on a "framework of a future deal" on Arctic security.

Prince Harry held back tears as he said the Daily Mail had made his wife Meghan's life "an absolute misery," during his appearance in the witness box on Wednesday at London's High Court in his privacy lawsuit against the paper's publisher.

Two Olympic cauldrons for the Milano-Cortina Winter Games will pay homage to Leonardo da Vinci.

Last fall, a beloved granite rock used by climbers in the area vanished. But now, the rock dubbed 'Portable' by locals, has been located.

Israeli fire killed 11 Palestinians, including two boys and three journalists, in separate incidents inGazaon Wednesday, local medics said, in the latest violence to undermine a three-month-old ceasefire in the war-shattered enclave.

An analysis from the U.S. non-profit Climate Central found that average temperatures in both Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo are up more than 3 C than 70 years ago when the Winter Games were last held in the Alpine town.

A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday.

As U.S. President Donald Trump's insistence on controlling Greenland becomes even more vehement despite polls showing most Americans don't support it, there's a growing sense of urgency around the globe to figure out if there is anything that could change his mind.

The people of Greenland are looking to Canada for support as they continue to face threats of annexation from the U.S., says Gov. Gen. Mary Simon. Simon, a former ambassador to Denmark and Canada's first ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs, says she has spoken with Greenlanders who feel uneasy" about U.S. President Donald Trump's stated desire to make their territory part of the U.S.

Commuter rail service in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region was suspended Wednesday after a Barcelona commuter train crashed the night before, Spanish authorities said.

Andrew Chang explains what $1 billion US buys members on Trump's new Board of Peace.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Witness testimony ended Tuesday in the trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack, setting up the case to go to the jury.

U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday as the Trump administration continues its efforts to take control of the oil in the South American country.

A heavy dust storm swept across Libya on Tuesday, reducing visibility, forcing the temporary suspension of flights at two airports and shrouding cities there with a thick orange haze.

On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of an act of great stupidity" for returning an island to Mauritius that houses an important military base. The episode shows how fast Trump can turn on international partners, and raises questions about Europe's strategy for dealing with the volatile U.S. president.

Australian band Midnight Oil announced on Tuesday that Rob Hirst, their powerhouse drummer and co-founding member, has died at age 70.

The Canadian tourist who was found dead on a beach in Australia Monday morning is being remembered as a strong and adventurous young woman who planned to earn her pilot's license once she returned from her trip.

Syriaon Tuesday announced a ceasefire with Kurdish forces it has seized swathes of territory from in the northeast and gave them four days to agree on integrating into the central state, which their main ally, the United States, urged them to accept.

It wasn't too long ago that Donald Trump's administration hailed the "growing influence of patriotic European parties," but many of those party leaders have taken exception to his aggressive bid to seize control of Greenland for the United States.

FrenchPresident Emmanuel Macron said Europe would not give in to bullies or be intimidated in a scathing criticism of U.S. PresidentDonald Trump'sthreat to imposesteep tariffsif Europe does not let him take over Greenland.

Stocks sank in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened to hit eight NATO members with new tariffs as tensions escalate over his attempts to assert American control over Greenland.

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and international pop star Katy Perry took their relationship to the next level, appearing together at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where Trudeau delivered a speech to the world's elite on the virtues of soft power.

Israel demolished structures inside the UN Palestinian refugee agency's East Jerusalem compound on Tuesday after seizing the site last year, in an act condemned by the agency as a violation of international law.

Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said on Tuesday that Ottawa does not plan to pay the $1-billion US price tag for a permanent seat on U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," that will oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday the EU shared concerns with the United States about Arctic security, but if President Donald Trump followed through with new tariffs based on a dispute over Greenland, the alliance's response would be "unflinching" and "united."

Tens of thousands of Instagram users appear to have been duped by an account purporting to belong to Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding. Instead, a CBC News analysis finds the page features content generated by AI, including images showing a helicopter, a statuette of Wedding and an autographed motorbike.

A trio of British hunger strikers is taking food again last week, after claiming victory in a standoff with the U.K. government over the group Palestine Action. The activist group, best known for vandalizing British companies associated with Israel, has been proscribed as a terrorist organization by the government.

Shovelling hit new extremes in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula after heavy snow buried cars and buildings, reaching a height of up to four metres in some areas, according to Russia's national weather service.

Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country's exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not "point your weapons at the people," online video showed early Monday, the latest disruption to follow nationwide protests in the country.

Wildfires in Chile have killed at least 19 people, officials said Monday, with tens of thousands forced from their homes and firefighters battling intense heat and high winds. Before and after satellite images from Jan. 17 and two days later show the scale of devastation from the fires in the coastal Biobio region.

"It's time to speak the language that President Trump understands," Swedish MEP Karin Karlsbro tells As It Happens host Nil Kksal.