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The American military has ordered 2,500 marines and an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Friday, whileIran continued to launch widespread missile and drone attacks on Israel and neighbouring Gulf states.

The United States issued a 30-day licence for countries to buy Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said was a step to stabilize global energy markets roiled by the Iran war.

Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, is trying to manage U.S. demands as she looks to hang on to the support of the Trump administration more than two months after it toppled Nicolas Maduro. It's a prospect that's being made more difficult because the U.S. is now at war with Iran.

Conservative defence critic James Bezan says it's "really shameful" the federal government did not tell the public that the airbase in Kuwait, where the Canadian Armed Forces have a camp, was hit by an Iranian missile attack on March 1.

Israel's military on Thursday said it was dropping charges against five soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee in an incident partially caught on camera. The decision closed a case that has bitterly divided the country since the soldiers were arrested in 2024 at the notorious Sde Teiman military prison.

A political party created just four years ago and led by an ex-rapper has swept Nepal's parliamentary poll, results published by the electoral commission on Thursday showed.

The armed man who rammed his vehicle into one of the largest Reform synagogues in the U.S. Thursday has been identified as a 41-year-old naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, according to federal officials.

After several delays to the mission that will take four astronauts around the moon, NASA held a press conference today announcing that Artemis II is on track to launch as early as April 1.

High school senior hockey player Colin Dorgan, wearing a patch on his jersey honouring the three family members he lost in a Rhode Island ice rink shooting last month, scored a game-winning goal in double overtime Wednesday that advanced the Blackstone Valley Co-op team out of the semifinals in Providence, R.I.

The PWHL announced that its neutral-site game at Detroit on March 28 between the New York Sirens and Montreal Victoire willbe the first accessible to a national U.S. television audience.

The Strait of Hormuz is only 60 metres at its shallowest and 33 kilometres at its narrowest, with shipping lanes no more than two kilometres wide. Naval experts like Mark Norman, a retired vice-admiral of the Canadian navy, are skeptical the U.S. can re-establish shipping through the area.

At least 50 people have died and 125 others are missing after landslides hit three districts in southern Ethiopia following a week of heavy rains, a local official said Thursday.

A court in Moscow on Thursday convicted 19 people of involvement in the 2024 shooting rampage at a Moscow concert hall that killed 149 people and wounded over 600 in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years.

As the Mideast conflict escalates near the Strait of Hormuz, merchant ships and their workers have been caught in the crosshairs.

The Kremlin wants to exert its influence in the Middle East and has publicly said its support for Iran, a strategic ally, is unwavering. But experts say there are limits to how far Moscow will go: It does not want to antagonize Washington, and it also stands to gain economically from a global energy crisis.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday launched a trade investigation into excess industrial capacity in 16 major trading partners in a move to rebuild tariff pressure after the U.S. Supreme Court tore down the centerpiece of Trump's trade policy last month.

A video posted to social media Wednesday shows a drone strike on an oil storage facility at Oman's Port of Salalah. CBC News verified the footage by matching the facility shown to maps and other pictures of the port, by comparing the explosion to other videos showing the facility burning and by confirming the uniform worn by a worker in the video is from a company that owns one of the ships present in the port on Wednesday.

A Republican senator says the U.S. must not pretend Iran school strike didn't happen, and admit to the mistake if in fact the U.S. military was responsible for the attack.

Air Transat is charging more for flights to Europe and Air Canada is adjusting prices as the soaring cost of jet fuel - triggered by an oil crisis that has emerged from the war in the Middle East - weighs on Canadian and international carriers.

Andrew Chang explains how the war in the Middle East is threatening critical freshwater infrastructure in the region.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health-care centre in southern Sudan Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.

The Kremlin on Wednesday accused British specialists of involvement in a deadly Ukrainian strike on the Russian city of Bryansk that used British Storm Shadow missiles and said it would take Britain's role "into account."

Bam Adebayo had a night for all time on Tuesday, with a point total second to only Wilt Chamberlain in the NBA record books. Adebayo scored 83 points, setting league marks for free throws made and attempted in a game for the Miami Heat in a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards.

The affordability problem is a risk to American carmakers as Chinese brands expand globally. Many lower and middle-income car shoppers have been relegated to the used-car lot.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his secretary of war have given multiple and often contradictory descriptions of how long they expect the military operation against Iran to continue.

The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano shot 400 metres high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of an important highway because of falling volcanic fragments, including ash.

A Florida woman accused of firing gunshots at Rihanna's home in Los Angeles was charged Tuesday with one count of attempted murder and other felony offences, including 10 counts of assault on a person with a semi-automatic firearm.

Oil and gas prices are rapidly rising around the world amid the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. Andrew Chang explains what's driving the surge and why predicting the next moves in the oil market is so difficult.CORRECTION (March 11, 2026): At 2:36 in this video, the graphic incorrectly states Iran holds 298 billion barrels of oil reserves. The correct number is 209 billion.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Two more members of the Iranian women's soccer team were granted asylum in Australia before their teammates departed, the country's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Wednesday.

The Canadian government said Tuesday it is alarmed by the escalation of violence and attacks in Lebanon, as the war in the Middle East expands. It called on all sides to uphold humanitarian law.

The WNBA and players union met for nearly 12 hours trying to get a new collective bargaining agreement deal done to start the upcoming season on time.

Drones operated by Haitian security forces and private contractors have killed at least 1,243 people and injured 738 others in less than a year, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

The search follows New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez's decision last month to reopen the investigation into the late sex offender's alleged criminal activities at the ranch 48 kilometres south of the state's capital of Santa Fe.

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to downplay the effect of the Iran war on the domestic economy even as American drivers are already feeling the impact on their wallets every time they fill up their cars and trucks.

U.S. President Donald Trump hinted on Monday that the war in the Middle East could be over soon - though not this week, he specified - even as hardliners pledged loyalty to their new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

FIFA's World Cup chief operating officer says the tournament is "too big" to be postponed because of global turmoil caused by the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran.

Andrew Chang explains how burning oil from depots hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes is falling as black rain over parts of Iran, and the danger it poses.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Teemu Touvinen sprinted over the hillside with his girlfriend Jatta Leinonen flung over his shoulder on Sunday, winning first place at the 2026 U.K. Wife Carrying Race in Dorking, England.

CBC's fact check team geolocated this video to Tehran, but Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is telling X users it's a manipulated video of Los Angeles.

Two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City's mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group, a court complaint said.

Satellite images show the damage to naval bases, airports and other key facilities inside Iran since the U.S.-Israel attacks began Feb. 28, as well as damage from Iran's retaliatory strikes on Persian Gulf neighbours.

No one was injured in the shooting. A 35-year-old woman was later taken into custody and the suspect has been booked on suspicion of attempted murder.

New footage shows what an expert investigative group says is likely an American Tomahawk missile hitting a compound in southern Iran, metres from the school where a deadly unclaimed blast killed more than 165 people at the start of the war raging in the Middle East.

Athletes might be the stars of the show, but the Arctic Winter Games can't escape politics. The games kicked off on Sunday with the flyover of a CF-18 fighter jet at the opening ceremony in Whitehorse. Military aircraft flying over sporting events is nothing new in much of the world, of course, but in the Canadian North, it's practically unheard of.

Iran marked the naming of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father as its supreme leader with a new barrage of missiles against Israel and Persian Gulf nations on Monday, as the Mideast war sent oil prices soaring.

The trial in the case began last week after a judge in February rejected Live Nation's bid to dismiss the lawsuit.

A major fire in the heart of Glasgow crippled Scottish train services Monday as firefighters worked to douse the blaze that destroyed a four-storey building near Scotland's busiest railway station.

Oil prices spiked to near $120 US a barrel before falling back on Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East and pummelling financial markets.

The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and elsewhere has nearly doubled to 42, the government said in a statement issued late on Sunday.