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For Palestinians in Gaza, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt is their gateway to the world. But since Israel seized it in May 2024, it has been largely shut. Now Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the crossing will reopen soon, as the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan moves into its second phase.

A small plane crashed Wednesday in a rural area of Norte de Santander province in northeast Colombia, killing all 15 people on board including a member of congress, authorities said.

The U.S. government has said, without providing evidence, that the men killed on the boats were narco-terrorists." But Chad Joseph's and Rishi Samroo's families say they were just regular workers catching a ride home to the fishing village of Las Cuevas.

Iranian officials reached out to the wider Middle East on Wednesday over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike on the country, while the value of Iran's currency reached a new low a month since the start of protests that soon spread nationwide and sparked a bloody crackdown.

Bruce Springsteen is dedicating his new song to the people of Minneapolis, criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the city.

Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Italy for the Milano-Cortina Olympics amid outrage over ICE operations in Minnesota.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Two federal agents who were involved in Saturday's fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Venezuela's new leaders were moving toward closer ties with Washington without the immediate need for further U.S. military action, as he publicly faced questions from many of his former colleagues for the first time.

A court has ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the devastating effects of climate change - a sweeping victory for the islanders.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will engage in a security role protecting the American delegation at the Milano-Cortina Olympics in February, according to the U.S. embassy in Italy. Agents will not carry out immigration enforcement duties while abroad, a source at the embassy said.

The fatal shootings of two Minnesota residents by federal government agents have put the focus on the immigration blitz on the streets of Minneapolis, but on Monday a judge raised a skeptical eye toward the Trump administration's overall pressure campaign on the state.

A formerFrenchsenatorwas found guilty by a Paris court late on Tuesday of having spiked a lawmaker'sdrink with ecstasywith the intention of sexually assaulting her.

The Kremlin is denying a report that Russia suffered the largest number of casualties recorded for any major power in any conflict since the Second World War.

Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the e-commerce company in three months.

A South Korean court sentenced former first ladyKimKeonHeeon Wednesdayto one year and eight months in jail after finding her guilty of acceptingChanel bags and a diamond pendant fromUnification Church officials in return for political favours.

Justin Ho is a Canadian studying dentistry in Minneapolis. He was taught to treat a patient regardless of who they are. After recent events in the U.S., he's realized that health care cannot be disentangled from the politics of the day.

David Rauser spoke to CBC News from western Ukraine after being accidentally shot in the head by a member of his team in Donetsk.

A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mother of three this month.

Two federal officers fired shots during the encounter that killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official told Congress in a notice sent Tuesday.

For days, the people of Minneapolis have been expressing outrage over the shooting death of Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents. Here's how some of them are reacting to the shooting, as well as what they say about U.S. President Donald Trump's move to send more than 2,000 Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers to Minnesota.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday blamed Meta, the parent company of Instagram, for failing to add an AI label to a fake image of Canadian Ryan Wedding that she used during a news conference about the alleged drug kingpin. Sheinbaum is under increasing pressure at home to explain the details of Wedding's arrest after conflicting statements from her government and U.S. authorities.

After a deal was reached to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., some users accused the app of censoring their posts. CBC's fact-check team breaks down the facts about the deal.

A federal judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting removal of a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota quickly become another lightning rod for America's divisions on immigration under the Trump administration.

Neil Young announced Tuesday on his blog that he is providing free access to his entire music catalogue to residents of Denmark's semiautonomous territory, whose futures have lately become a point of tension between the U.S. and NATO.

The Trump administration has deployed federal troops to several U.S. cities in the past year - mostly Democrat-led, mostly under the guise of unsubstantiated claims that illegal immigrants are terrorizing those cities with crime. But Minneapolis has seen the largest troop deployment and the worst violence.

French lawmakers approved a bill to ban social media for children under the age of 15. France is the first European country to undergo such a move.

Three freelance photojournalists in Gaza were killed in an Israeli airstrike last week, the latest in a long list of Palestinian reporters who have died in the war in Gaza. Some fear it's a sign that Israel views them as a legitimate target despite the recent ceasefire it reached with Hamas.

At least 35 deaths have been reported in states afflicted with severe cold across the U.S., according to local officials.

TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff's attorneys confirmed.

Advances in technology and a shift in sports consumption offers challenges and opportunities for rights-holders.

Leaders of the European Union and India announced a wide-ranging trade agreement on Tuesday, which came after nearly two decades of on-and-off negotiations that became increasingly urgent in the last six months after stiff tariffs were imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Russian drones hammered the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa overnight, officials said on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding 25 as Moscow intensifies its strikes aimed at pushing Kyiv to give up fighting.

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.