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In an unexpected move Wednesday, the Gaza Health Ministry said it received 54 unidentified bodies from Israel along with 66 boxes containing the remains of Palestinians believed to have been killed during the two-year war with Hamas. Health officials in Gaza say they are beginning the work of identifying the remains.
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As the U.K.'s ambassador, Peter Mandelson lasted eight months until Prime Minister Keir Starmer sacked him over his resurfaced connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, the prime minister's judgment is under close scrutiny, after the U.S. Department of Justice released three million more files related to the convicted sex offender on Friday. The latest...
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A doctor describes treating patients in Iran during the regime's violent crackdown on nationwide protests, telling CBC's Margaret Evans the scenes were 'extremely horrifying' — details that have largely been masked by a government-imposed internet blackout in the country.
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Lawyers for dozens of alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein immediately noted that, despite the U.S. Department of Justice's promises, some of its published records contained the names or other identifying information of many women who accused Epstein of sex trafficking, abuse and other crimes.
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French prosecutors raided the Paris offices of social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations that include spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes. They have also summoned X's billionaire owner Elon Musk for questioning.
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A U.S. navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday, threatening to ramp up tensions as the Trump administration warns of possible military action to get Iran to the negotiating table.
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If the marching resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump's first term had a colour, it was probably pussy-hat pink. But knitted protest headwear has a new look in 2026, thanks to the popularity of a red "melt the ICE" hat pattern shared online by a yarn shop in the suburbs of Minneapolis.
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Iran's president said Tuesday he instructed the country's foreign minister to "pursue fair and equitable negotiations" with the United States, the first clear sign from Tehran it wants to try to negotiate as tensions remain high with Washington after the Mideast country's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests last month.
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Here is a look at some of the notable names in the latest release of files from the U.S. Justice Department pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein. The list includes politicians, entertainment figures, business leaders and Royal Family members, with some releasing statements this past weekend about their interactions with the late accused child sex...
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Iran's supreme leader warned Sunday that any attack by the United States would spark a "regional war" in the Middle East, further escalating tensions as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to militarily strike the Islamic Republic over its crackdown on recent nationwide protests.
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Israel reopened the Rafah border crossing on Sunday for people to travel between Gaza and Egypt, the first opening of effectively the sole route in or out of the Palestinian territory since May 2024. Israel seized the border crossing in May 2024, nine months after it launched attacks on the region.
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Emergency power cuts swept across several Ukrainian cities as well as neighbouring Moldova on Saturday, officials said, amid a commitment from the Kremlin to U.S. President Donald Trump to pause strikes on Kyiv as Ukraine battles one of its bleakest winters in years.
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A Canadian entrepreneur in Rome is building Magisterium AI, a Catholic platform trained on church documents and Vatican-linked collections. The project aims to make doctrine searchable at scale, while raising questions about accuracy, authority and how it will be used.
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In some classrooms in the Twin Cities, more than half of the desks sit empty. The children of immigrants are increasingly absent from school, sports teams and even front yards, fearful that immigration and customs agents will detain them, or their parents, because of the colour of their skin.
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China's highest-ranked military general's purge leaves President Xi Jinping almost alone at the helm of the military. Despite no one knowing for sure what led to this latest crackdown, there's a lot of speculation about what it means for the biggest army in the world.
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Federal prosecutors can't seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge ruled Friday, foiling the Trump administration's bid to see him executed for what it called a "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
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Longtime fugitive Ryan Wedding sought a court order to prevent his arrest in Mexico's Sinaloa state nearly a year before he was finally taken into U.S. custody last week, according to Mexican legal records obtained by CBC News. The documents suggest the Canadian, who is accused of leading a cocaine-smuggling network linked to the Sinaloa cartel,...
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The FBI on Wednesday searched the election office of a Georgia county that has been central to right-wing conspiracy theories over U.S. President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, acting just one week after the Republican leader predicted prosecutions over a contest he has baselessly insisted was tainted by widespread fraud.
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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.
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Two U.S. Democratic Representatives visited a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas federal detention centre Wednesday, in a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and given fuel to Democrats and others pushing back against the actions of ICE.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Former U.S. president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama released a searing statement on Sunday, in response to the second shooting death by immigration law enforcement officers in Minneapolis, saying federal officers appear to be using tactics "designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger" Minnesota residents.
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Thousands of demonstrators braved bitter cold to march through the streets of Minneapolis on Friday and demand an end to U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in their city, part of a wider show of defiance that organizers billed as a general strike.
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