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The U.S. government's decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be 'wholly lawless,' a federal judge wrote Sunday, as questions are also increasing over the criminality of Venezuelan men deported to the same prison.

A new report from Breaking the Silence, an Israel-based NGO, includes interviews with Israeli soldiers who detail how they completely razed homes and infrastructure on a swath of land between Israel and Gaza to expand a buffer zone at least one kilometre further into the strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent has released video clearly showing emergency vehicles with lights flashing before the Israeli military opened fire on them last month, killing 15 paramedics and aid workers later found in a mass grave. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) originally said the vehicles approached them unmarked and in darkness.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said foreign governments would have to pay "a lot of money" to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterized as "medicine," as financial markets indicated another week of steep losses could be in store.

A Texas county is the epicentre of a measles outbreak that started in late January and continues to swell, with nearly 500 cases in the state alone.

The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last month but said investigators were still examining the evidence.

Should Canada build a spy service to gather foreign intelligence via human sources? It's a question worth asking as the country deals with a less reliable neighbour next-door, which also helps keep Canada informed about what is happening abroad.

Whether Prince William is sitting in a tank while visiting British troops in Estonia or his private estate is drawing attention to its efforts to expand one of the last remaining examples of temperate rainforest in southwestern England, signals are being sent about how the heir to the throne is settling into his role as Prince of Wales.

A Palestinian paramedic who was present at an incident in which 15 of his colleagues were killed in southern Gaza last month said he witnessed Israeli troops firing at emergency vehicles that he later saw stained with blood.

More than 1,200 demonstrations were planned across the U.S. and around the globe on Saturday to protest the Trump administration's actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues.

The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has risen to 18, including nine children, regional governor Serhii Lysak said Saturday.

What would it take to bring American scientists north? Increasing research funding — as well as costs for things that make research possible — would be a good start, say experts. 

To many observers, the most puzzling aspect of Donald Trump's tariffs was that his list included some of the most remote and smallest territories and islands in the world. Places that, in some cases, have more penguins than people.

U.S. President Donald Trump extended a deadline by 75 days for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of popular short video app TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024 law.

The worldwide sell-off for financial markets slammed into an even higher, scarier gear on Friday after China matched U.S. President Donald Trump's big raise in tariffs in an escalating trade war, with markets facing their worst crisis since the COVID crash. 

Sean (Diddy) Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts, including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed. Combs, 55, had previously faced three criminal counts. He has pleaded not guilty.

Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in what could be a death blow to its economy.

British police charged actor-comedian Russell Brand with rape and multiple counts of assault connected to a number of allegations between 1999 and 2005, a police statement on Friday said.