A powerful rainstorm that wreaked havoc on the desert nation of the United Arab Emirates last week was likely made more intense because of climate change, a team of international scientists has f...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/dubai-uae-rain-wwa-1.7185054?cmp=rss
A United Nations team in the Gaza Strip visiting the site for a pier and the staging area for maritime aid operations had to seek shelter in a bunker "for some time" on Wednesday after the area c...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-un-airstrike-pier-1.7185025?cmp=rss
Tourism officials in the popular Italian city of Venice are introducing a new €5 fee that will apply to day trippers on busy summer days as the city tries to balance the desires of tourists wit...
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, his office said on Thursday, as a transitional council took power with the aim of returning stability to a country where gang violence has caused ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-ariel-henry-resigns-transitional-council-1.7184794?cmp=rss
A lawyer representing the special counsel was beginning his presentation on whether a former U.S. president can be prosecuted for acts while he was in office. Earlier, Donald Trump's lawyer argue...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/supreme-court-immunity-oral-arguments-1.7184474?cmp=rss
The under-fire World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Thursday it would launch an independent review over its handling of a case that allowed 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned...
Venice became the world's first city to introduce a payment system for tourists on Thursday in an effort to thin the crowds that throng its canals, but the fee drew protests from some residents s...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venice-tourism-fee-protest-1.7184472?cmp=rss
Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza as the territory with the largest number of people facing famine, according to the Global Report o...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-food-crises-report-1.7184477?cmp=rss
New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with improper rulings, including a de...
La Niña is on its way, but global temperatures are so high already that some climate scientists say it may not have as much of a a cooling effect this year as in the past.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/el-nino-end-2024-temperatures-1.7183316?cmp=rss
Ukraine's ambassador to Canada has called out the Trudeau government over a decision to grant Airbus Defence and Space a waiver that will allow the European aerospace giant to continue to use Rus...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/russia-ukraine-canada-sanctions-airbus-titanium-1.7184373?cmp=rss
After days of unrest on campus, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson denounced pro-Palestinian protesters camped out at Columbia University, accusing them of antisemitism and calling on the school's p...
Morning rush hour in central London turned chaotic Wednesday as five escaped military horses galloped at full speed through busy city streets, injuring at least four people. All five horses were ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/runaway-horses-cause-rush-hour-chaos-in-london-1.7184395?cmp=rss
Video shot for CBC News shows bodies being unearthed beneath Nasser Hospital, in the Gaza city of Khan Younis. The hospital was recently abandoned by Israeli troops who said they’d finished sea...
An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump 's chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their efforts to use so-called fake electors to try to over...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/arizona-trump-fake-electors-indictment-1.7184276?cmp=rss
Sarah Shoop Neumann doesn't like the idea of sending her six-year-old son to school, knowing that his teacher might have a gun.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/tennessee-armed-teachers-1.7183588?cmp=rss
A baby girl delivered from a Palestinian woman who was killed alongside her husband and daughter in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah is stabilizing in hospital after her critical first days, accordi...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/newborn-baby-saved-gaza-rafah-1.7183885?cmp=rss
Former hostage Aviva Siegel is imploring the government of Israel and others to get the remaining captives home from Gaza, including her husband, Keith.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/former-hostage-gaza-1.7183098?cmp=rss
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will hear arguments over a question that could affect whether former president Donald Trump can be prosecuted over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/supreme-court-immunity-hearing-1.7183089?cmp=rss