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A man who sent a Facebook message that said, "So I raped you," to a woman he had sexually assaulted years earlier in college was sentenced on Monday to two to four years in prison.

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was electedJapan's first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering the nation's glass ceiling and setting it up for a forceful turn to the right.

After dangling the prospect of supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles, Trump has backed away from a deal and said repeatedly that he believes Putin wants peace.

The failure of a steel cable and maintenance flaws contributed to the crash of a streetcar in the Portuguese capital Lisbon last month that killed 16 people - including three from Canada - and injured 21 others, according to an official preliminary report published Monday.

AdividedU.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that Donald Trumpcan send National Guard troops intoPortland, Ore., despite objections by the leaders of the city and state, giving the Republican president an important legal victory as he dispatches military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led locales.

Millions of people are celebrating Diwali with gatherings, fireworks displays, feasts and prayer to mark the Hindu festival symbolizing the victory of light over darkness.

A bomb exploded outside the home of Italian investigative reporter Sigfrido Ranucci, damaging two cars belonging to his family and drawing widespread condemnation from advocates of the free press.

Colombia's foreign ministry said on Monday the country has recalled its ambassador from the United States after President Donald Trump said he would raise tariffs on the South American nation and stop all payments to it, in a feud stemming from U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly transporting drugs.

U.S. envoys met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday aiming to corral Israel and Hamas to get theGazaceasefire plan back on track after an explosion of violence over the weekend that threatened to derail theweek-old truce.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is ending aid to Colombia after the country's president, Gustavo Petro, accused the U.S. of murder' when it struck a small boat within Colombian territorial waters in September. The U.S. alleges the boat was a drug vessel, but Petro said the fisherman killed onboard had no ties to the drug trade.

The Orenburg gas processing plant,the largest facility of its kind in the world, has been forced to suspend its intake of gas from Kazakhstan after a Ukrainian drone attack, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Energy said on Sunday.

The Israeli military said on Sunday that a ceasefire in Gaza had resumed after an attack that killed two of its soldiers and prompted a wave of airstrikes that killed 26 people, in the most serious test yet of this month's U.S.-brokered truce.

Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris's Louvre museum on Sunday, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless objects from an area that houses the French crown jewels before escaping on motorbikes, officials said.

Canada's postal service has encountered major mail volume decreases - a situation that has prompted the government to propose significant changes, including ending home delivery. But could Canada go even further, and follow Denmark's path of eliminating letter delivery entirely?

Several Canadian snowbirds reported they were fingerprinted and photographed at the U.S. border this month when registering for their winter stay, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told CBC News is standard procedure.

Across Europe and North America, the picture is bleak: wool is often burned or discarded because processing costs outweigh returns. That's why Ilaria Venturini Fendi was hosting the first in-person World Hope Forum, a network committed to proving that wool production can be local, ethical and circular.

Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, Qatar's Foreign Ministry said Sunday. It follows more than a week of fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds.

The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday.

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will reopen Monday for people returning to Gaza, the Palestinian Embassy in Egypt said Saturday, but the territory's sole gateway to the outside world will remain closed to people trying to leave.

Protesting the direction of the U.S. under President Donald Trump, people have begun gathering in the nation's capital and communities across the country for "No Kings" demonstrations - what the president's Republican Party is calling "Hate America" rallies.

The Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which was listed as a terrorist organization in Canada in September, appears to have adopted a new public relations strategy designed to present it to the South Asian community as a group with principles that only extorts from those who deserve it, while leaving decent, hard-working people alone.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the more than seven-year prison sentence of former representative George Santos for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release.

Buckingham Palace says Prince Andrew will stop using titles and honours, including the Duke of York.

U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed a U.S. military strike on an alleged "drug-carrying submarine" in the Caribbean Friday amid reports the military is holding two survivors aboard a navy ship after its strike killed two others.

The U.S. has succeeded in blocking a global fee on shipping emissions as an international maritime meeting adjourned Friday without adopting regulations.

Adelita Grijalva from Arizona won a special congressional election more than three weeks ago, but has yet to take the oath of office. Democrats say the Republican House Speaker is trying to delay this, because it could lead to an uncomfortable request for the Trump administration.

An army colonel who seized power in a military coup was sworn in as Madagascar's new leader Friday in a lightning-fast power grab that ousted the president and sent him fleeing from the country into hiding.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo entered Thursday evening's first New York mayoral debate trying to blunt Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani's momentum. Instead he spent much of the contentious faceoff on defence, batting away criticisms over his long tenure in office from Mamdani and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

Riding high on acclaim for his role in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of Israeli hostages, U.S. President Donald Trump is turning his attention to the conflict he long boasted he would end on his first day back in office: Russia's war with Ukraine.

The United Nations humanitarian relief chief is urging Israel to open up all entrances to Gaza to allow a surge of aid into the territory. Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief spoke to CBC News from El-Arish, Egypt after visiting the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza.

Tax deductible donations made by Canadians to groups that financially support West Bank settlements that are illegal under international law are continuing in the face of escalating attacks on Palestinian civilians, an investigation by CBC's the fifth estate has found.

Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton was charged Thursday with storing top secret records at home and sharing with relatives diary-like notes about his time in government that contained classified information.

Nestle is cutting 16,000 jobs globally as part of efforts to revive its financial performance.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will meet again with Russian President Vladimir Putin in person, in an effort to end the war in Ukraine. A date has not been set, but Trump wrote on social media that the meeting would take place in Budapest, Hungary. The call came ahead of Trump's meeting on Friday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The killing has stopped. Surviving Israeli hostages have been released to their families, while hundreds of Palestinians held by Israel have been returned to theirs. But to call an end to the Gaza war, as Trump did, the historic dawn of a new Middle East" wildly overstates what the deal delivers.

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activistCharlie Kirklast month.

Israel said Thursday it was preparing for the reopening of Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt to allow Palestinians in and out, but set no date for its completion as it traded blame with Hamas over violations of the U.S.-mediated ceasefire.

The Vatican's child protection commission criticized senior Catholic leaders in an annual report Thursday for not moving quickly enough to help victims of sexual abuse by clergy and to implement new safeguarding efforts worldwide.

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy.

U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in U.S. efforts to pressure President Nicolas Maduro's government.

Rain and wind were forecast Wednesday along the Alaska coast where two villages were devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong and officials were scrambling to find shelter for more than 1,500 people driven from their homes.

Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The U.S. government has called the new rules "common sense."

Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered on Wednesday.

Alberta beef is now stocked in the meat section of Costco Mexico's 41 locations, joining a host of other Canadian products on the shelves of the retail giant in the country. Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald was on hand for a ribbon cutting in front of a Costco cooler filled with prime Alberta cuts during a weeklong visit to the country.

U.S. President Donald Trump's late arrival at the summit he convened in Egypt this week gave his fellow leaders, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, a chance to talk among themselves about the future of Gaza and the prospects for wider peace in the Middle East, according to a senior Canadian government official with knowledge of the talks.