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Recovery and aid efforts are underway in parts of Southeast Asia and South Asia where the full number of dead and missing are not yet known after heavy rains and flooding left a devastating toll in the past week.

U.S. President Donald Trump's recent remarks towards female journalists, including calling one 'piggy,' is renewing discussion about how much journalists are expected to tolerate as they do their jobs. Industry experts suggest these incidents are 'an unmistakable pattern of hostility - often directed at women - that undermines the essential role of a free and independent press.'

Authorities in California asked the public for tips on Sunday in finding the person responsible for a shooting a day earlier that left four people dead, three of them children, at a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton and wounded many more.

The temporary Village that will house up to 1,400 athletes and other team members during the Feb. 6-22 Milan-Cortina Olympics consists of 377 rented mobile homes arranged close to one another on a humid valley floor.

Christmas markets are open in Germany with increased security this year. In 2024, a man drove an SUV into crowds at the Christmas market in the central city of Magdeburg, killing six. Freelance journalist Natalie Carney spoke to visitors at the Christmas market in Munich.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country's president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges - seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.

Some residents of theflood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatrahave resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday, while Sri Lankan officials said deaths from floods and mudslides in that island nation have risen to 193.

The death toll inHong Kong's apartment complexblaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed bouquets of flowers at an ever-growing makeshift memorial at the scene of the disaster, among the worst in the city's history.

With the top kidfluencers in the world earning millions a year, leaders in the EU are worried the lure of lucrative sponsorship deals may tempt some parents to expliot their children in sponsored posts online. So this week, the EU announced plans to ban social media platforms from providing financial or material incentives for kidfluencing. Experts says Canada needs to come up with its own law.

After the death of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk, U.S. President Donald Trump promised "to save Chicago" from crime and migrants. But in the wake of violent immigration raids, Chicagoans themselves are divided over who the criminals are - and who is ultimately responsible for keeping their city safe.

A 70-year-old American ALS patient came to Saskatchewan chasing the promise of healing offered by the Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center in Moose Jaw, Sask. But former Goodenowe employees say that as her condition worsened, Goodenowe centre management left Susie to fight for her life on her own.

As Catherine continues her measured and gradual return to public life, there have been signals of her priorities as she defines her role as Princess of Wales.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace "above and surrounding" Venezuela should be considered as "closed in its entirety," an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. His government accused Trump of making a "colonial threat" and seeking to undermine the South American country's sovereignty.

The death toll from Cyclone Ditwah is expected to rise. Social media posts on Saturday showed several areas affected by overnight mudslides that authorities have yet to reach.

Ukraine says it used sea drones to strike two oil tankers that are part of Russia's sanctioned shadow fleet and were a few dozen kilometres off the coast of Turkey.

Airlines around the world reported short-term disruptions heading into the weekend as they fixed software on a widely used commercial aircraft, after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month.

Does the apparent rapprochement between India and Canada actually signal an intention by India to desist from tactics it has allegedly used against Canadian Sikh activists - including assassination?

Why wasn't Olympian-turned-fugitive Ryan Wedding arrested when he was spotted in Mexico? The question has been swirling on social media since U.S. authorities announced new charges against Wedding and his alleged associates earlier this month and increased the bounty for his capture to $15 million.

After Texas sparked controversy for securing five additional House seats by redistricting its congressional maps, California responded with some gerrymandering of its own. Andrew Chang breaks down how gerrymandering works and how it could affect the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Israeli forces in southern Syria raided a village and opened fire when they were confronted by residents on Friday, killing at least 13, Syrian officials said, as Israel fights on a number of fronts while the shaky ceasefire in Gaza moves forward.

Iran has decided to boycott the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington next week because the U.S. denied visas to members of its delegation, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Friday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has submitted his resignation amid a corruption scandal. The departure comes at a perilous time for Kyiv as it faces U.S. pressure to make concessions to Moscow to end its war on Ukraine and lacks the soldiers or weapons to push Russian forces back.

Human rights groups are condemning the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bankby Israeli security forces, saying video capturing the incident showed the men appearing to surrender while unarmed before being shot dead.

U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to "permanently pause migration" from several countries, with his Department of Homeland Security prepared to carry out his policies.

The death toll from floods across large swaths of Southeast Asia rose to at least 321 on Friday, with authorities working to rescue stranded citizens, restore power and communications and co-ordinate recovery efforts as the waters began to recede.

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.