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The lawyer for an American man who sought asylum in Canada says his client is withdrawing his claim and wants to go home.Antony Vo was convicted on four misdemeanour offences for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. He…

With both sides entrenched in their positions, Canada Post management is blaming its problems on delivery staff leaving early. At the same time, its union says the Crown corporation's problems stem from its own financial management.Canada…

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Monday fired more than a dozen Justice Department lawyers who brought two criminal cases against him,…

As It Happens6:32Ancient forest uncovered by melting ice in the Rocky MountainsA nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State…

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump stressed the importance of India buying more American-made security equipment and moving toward a fair bilateral trading…

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is closing entry to the country along the Pacific Crest Trail.The 4,265-kilometre trail stretches from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington state. The vast majority of the trail…

The Royal Canadian Navy has released the name of the sailor who died after a rigid-hull inflatable boat capsized in the Bedford Basin on Friday night.Commodore Jacob French, commander of Canadian Fleet Atlantic, told reporters in a news…

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Monday released a video of the Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud, whose delayed release had been at the center of one of the most significant disputes between Israel and Hamas since a cease-fire took effect a week…

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians trekked for hours toward their homes in northern Gaza on Monday, nearly 16 months after Israel launched an offensive there in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. The returnees confronted…

Six of the seven Liberal leadership candidates who submitted their nomination papers have now been approved by the party to run in the race to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Former central banker Mark Carney, former finance minister…

An insurgency led by M23 rebels in eastern Congo has escalated and reached the city of Goma, worsening a humanitarian crisis in a region that suffered two devastating wars between 1996 and 2003.A rebel alliance led by the ethnic Tutsi-led…

In the end it took only about 12 hours for President Trump’s first head-to-head confrontation with one of the United States’ closest allies in Latin America, a blowup over Columbia’s rejection of U.S. military flights to return illegal…

The Progressive Conservative government has announced $1.4 billion in new funding for an action plan to connect two million more people in Ontario with a primary care provider, just days before an early provincial election is set to be…

After a half-century of public silence, a freelance photographer from Vietnam has asserted he took one of the most renowned and powerful photos of the 20th century — the image of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack in South Vietnam that…

There's a new player in AI on the world stage: DeepSeek, a Chinese startup that's throwing tech valuations into chaos and challenging U.S. dominance in the field. DeepSeek has rolled out a free AI assistant that it says uses cheaper chips…

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors…

To mark the moment, some people distributed sweets. Some flashed victory signs at passing photographers. A group of small boys led a celebratory chant. “Right or left, north is best,” they sang. “To the north we go!”There were so many…

The Ford government's push to get beer, wine and ready-made cocktails into convenience stores ahead of schedule will cost taxpayers more than $600 million, the province's budget watchdog says.The finding was included in a new report Monday…

Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed along the main roads leading north in Gaza on Monday after Hamas agreed to hand over three Israeli hostages later this week and Israeli forces began to withdraw from a main corridor across the…

European Union foreign ministers are preparing to lift some sanctions on Syria, the bloc’s top diplomat told reporters on Monday, a move intended to give Syria’s new government some economic breathing room after more than a decade of stiff…

Israeli forces opened fire toward residents of southern Lebanon for a second straight day on Monday as people pressed on with attempts to return to their homes along the border, a day after at least two dozen people were killed and scores…

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on his former boss to uphold a law banning TikTok for national security reasons and to allow Japan’s Nippon Steel to purchase U.S. Steel in support of…

Nissan Motor plans to repair its flailing business without closing factories, according to people familiar with the matter, as it looks to streamline its finances before a capital tie-up with Honda…

When Justin Trudeau became Canada’s prime minister in 2015, his relentless promise to improve life for the middle class resonated so strongly with Shivaan Burke that she went to work for the local Liberal member of Parliament, who was…

Nippon Life Insurance will reorganize its overseas operations to better monitor risks from its recent spate of acquisitions abroad, according to people familiar with the matter. Japan’s biggest life…

The cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon will most likely hold for now, despite being tested to their limits over the weekend, because all sides want to avoid full-scale fighting at least for a few weeks, analysts said.In southern Lebanon,…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning a final wave of appointments to fill the 10 vacancies in the Senate before he retires in March, Radio-Canada has learned.The move would allow him to leave a mark on Parliament for years to come, as…

The two largest police forces in Quebec — the Montreal police and the Sûreté du Québec — have lost a total of four guns since 2020, according to an access to information request.CBC Montreal asked 12 police forces across Quebec, including …

Like many retirees, 70-year-old William Shim has embraced the sport of pickleball as a way to keep fit and to socialize. But getting court space can be tricky, and he often has to book about two weeks ahead of time."You've got to be quick…

The parliamentary questioning of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his Cabinet kicked off Monday, with the largest opposition party grilling the prime minister about the direction of Japan’s relations…