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The International Swimming League plans to relaunch as soon as 2026 after a three-year hiatus, betting a reshaped commercial model, stable backing and momentum from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics can sustain a global, team-based competition in one of the Games' marquee sports.
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia is back in the headlines after European Union naval forces seized an Iranian fishing vessel last month that Somali pirates used to briefly hijack a Malta-flagged tanker carrying gasoline from India to South Africa. Fishermen insist the bigger problem in the region is that foreign vessels are fishing in waters...
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A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, in southern Ukraine, killed eight people and wounded 27, Ukraine's emergency service said Saturday, as a Kremlin envoy was set to travel to Florida for talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war.
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Luigi Mangione's lawyers contend Attorney General Pam Bondi's decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer's parent company.
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Canada's growing profile in Antarctic research may get another boost in early 2026, as the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy confirms a possible second expedition is in the works, in collaboration with the Chilean navy. Climate scientists from the first all-Canadian expedition in March hope it offers the chance to collect more samples, as...
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Tensions between the United States and Venezuela are escalating as the U.S. continues to strike alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boats and signals the possibility of a ground invasion. Andrew Chang breaks down the geographical, logistical and political challenges involved in ratcheting up the conflict to this level.Images provided by The...
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Finland's government is facing heavy pressure and accusations of racism from several Asian countries after its representative to the 2025 Miss Universe pageant was seen pulling the corners of her eyes in a photo — and some Finnish politicians posted their own photos repeating the gesture.
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While any debate over imposing the death penalty is bound to be emotional and contentious, Israel's proposal to impose lethal punishment only on Palestinians makes new legislation before the Knesset especially egregious, say rights groups. One called it a "celebration of death and revenge."
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European Union leaders have decided to borrow cash to loan 90 billion euros ($145 billion Cdn) to Ukraine to fund its defence against Russia for the next two years rather than use frozen Russian assets, sidestepping divisions over an unprecedented plan to finance Kyiv with Russian sovereign cash.
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A weekslong ICE operation in Minnesota is getting a chilly reception from activists in the Twin Cities who are organizing to thwart detainments. Operation Metro Surge began the U.S. president called the state's large Somali community "garbage” and said he didn't want them in the country.
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A man suspected in the fatal shootings at Brown University and of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after a five-day search that spanned several New England states, authorities said Thursday.
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In an interview with CBC News, an operative with the Sinaloa cartel says he only recently heard the name of Ryan Wedding from news reports and social media posts about the alleged Canadian drug kingpin U.S. authorities say is likely living under the cartel's protection in Mexico.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that was quickly denounced as a "disgrace" by the Democratic leader of the House, who is on the board.
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Over 1,000 civilians were killed when a Sudanese paramilitary group took over a famine-stricken displacement camp in Sudan's Darfur in April, including about a third who were summarily executed, according to a report released by the UN's Human Rights Office on Thursday.
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President Donald Trump has affixed partisan plaques to the portraits of all U.S. commanders in chief, himself included, on his Presidential Walk of Fame at the White House, describing Joe Biden as "sleepy," Barack Obama as "divisive" and Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump.
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The U.S. military said Wednesday that it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people, on the same day the House rejected efforts to limit U.S. President Donald Trump's power to use military force against drug cartels.
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Ice, ice, baby! A group of marathon runners awaiting a flight out of Antarctica staged a backward mile run on Dec. 15. While some competitors slipped and stumbled on their way to the finish line, the eventual victor hailing from Montreal called the sub-zero conditions 'perfect.'
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Susie Wiles, U.S. President Donald Trump's understated but influential chief of staff, criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defended the president's aggressive second administration in a series of interviews published Tuesday in Vanity Fair.
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Families in Gaza face an agonizing choice following last week's winter storm: endure exposure in tents after floods destroyed encampment shelters along with their possessions, killing one baby due to exposure — or shelter in buildings damaged in Israeli strikes earlier in the war that could collapse without warning.
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Today, an in-depth look at puberty blockers and their use on minors with gender dysphoria. These drugs have come under an enormous amount of scrutiny in recent years, with some questioning their benefits, safety and long-term impact.After banning the use of puberty blockers for gender treatment of people under 18, a new clinical trial in the U.K....
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U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, a move that dramatically expands the U.S. government's authority to fight the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of American overdose deaths each year.
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The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia's nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, U.S. officials said Monday following the latest discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.
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Two U.S. army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead. The Syrian Interior Ministry has described the attacker as a member of the Syrian security forces suspected of sympathizing with ISIS.
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American babies born during U.S. President Donald Trump's second term are set to receive $1,000: a gift of seed money that the government says — if contributed to maximally — will yield a return of more than $1 million by the time those children turn 28. Andrew Chang does the math to calculate the extent to which this could actually be possible...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country's bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, but rejected the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia as he held talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war.
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In the annals of Royal Family history, 2025 will be remembered as the year the monarch took the virtually unprecedented step of stripping his younger brother of his titles and honours. But as much as the scandal surrounding the former prince now known only as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor garnered headlines, there were other notable moments this year...
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At least two people were killed in a drone attack in Russia's southwestern Saratov region, and parts of Ukraine went without power following targeted assaults on energy infrastructure, local authorities said Saturday, as U.S.-led peace talks on ending the war press on.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after two days of talks with an envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump, an American statement said.
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The favourite in Chile's election on Sunday is the right-wing José Antonio Kast. A Kast victory would be the latest rightward political shift in South America, as U.S. President Donald Trump and the White House try to coax or force the socialist leader of Venezuela from office.
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Indiana's Republican-led Senate has decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map desired by the White House that would have favoured their party. Two Republicans who received bomb threats amid the highly charged battle were among those voting against the measure.
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A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García, whose wrongful deportation became a flashpoint in U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. The judge ruled that the federal government never secured a formal order for Ábrego García's removal from the United States.
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After more than a year mostly spent in hiding and in defiance of a decade-long travel ban, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado arrived in Norway on Thursday, hours after a ceremony to award her the Nobel Peace Prize. Machado dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to the political prisoners and human rights activists fighting for...
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday Ukraine had agreed on key points of a post-war reconstruction plan in talks with U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and other top officials amid moves to clinch an overall settlement of the nearly four-year-old war.
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Aid deliveries into Gaza are falling far short of the amount called for under the U.S.-brokered ceasefire, according to an Associated Press analysis of the Israeli military's figures as humanitarian groups say the shortfall is severely impacting the strip's two million people.
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Deadly cyclones with torrential rains are supercharged by warming temperatures, says a new report by the World Weather Attribution group. At least 1,600 people were killed after Cyclones Senyar and Ditwah tore through Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka in late November.
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