CBC - World (15 hours ago)
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed with President Xi Jinping to trim existing tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, resuming U.S. soybean purchases and keeping rare earths exports flowing.
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India is pitching Ahmedabad as the host city for the 2036 Olympic Games, but there are significant hurdles to India's longstanding ambitions, including persistent questions over mismanagement and governance issues within the country's Olympic Association, as well as low medal counts at previous Games.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney were seated across the table and even acknowledged each other during a toast at a dinner ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, but the two appeared to have virtually nothing to say to one another amid the U.S.-Canada trade war.
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The NBA, in reaction to the arrests of Miami guard Terry Rozier and Portland coach Chauncey Billups last week for their alleged role in gambling schemes, has started a review of how the league can protect not just the integrity of the game but its players and coaches as well.
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CBC News visited Taiwan's Kinmen islands, which are just a few kilometres across the bay from the Chinese city of Xiamen. The islands have been on the frontline of hostilities between China and Taiwan for more than seven decades. Many Kinmen locals say they don't believe war with China is near — despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin resumed scheduling abortions on Monday after a nearly monthlong pause due to federal Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill that took effect at the beginning of October.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said in a late-night social media post that he is terminating all trade negotiations with Canada over an advertisement by the Ontario government that uses the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan's words to send an anti-tariff message to American audiences.
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The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs.
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As Americans have posted "RIP East Wing 1902-2025" on social media platforms, the Democrats are promising to investigate how Donald Trump and his administration moved ahead with a White House demolition that has proceeded at a rapid pace. We now know more about who's donating to Trump's treasured ballroom project.
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The buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela and a series of deadly attacks on alleged drug-trafficking boats in waters off its coast has raised the spectre of an invasion of the South American country. Yet that still appears unlikely, some experts say, as any military action launched by the Trump administration would face significant...
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In Singapore, protesting without permission from police is illegal, but that didn't stop three women from organizing a watermelon umbrella march in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Andrew Chang explains the charges against the organizers by breaking down Singapore's strict rules on public assembly — and why these three women were ultimately...
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Donald Trump will not deploy federal agents to San Francisco, the U.S. president and the California city's mayor said in separate social media posts on Thursday, a surprising stand-down as Trump pressures Democratic-led cities around the country to step up enforcement against crime and illegal immigration.
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Japan's governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the country's first female prime minister. In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the 64-year-old Takaichi makes history as the first...
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