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A B.C. man is in custody in Washington state, accused of acting as a middleman in a years-long conspiracy to smuggle U.S. technology through Canada in a bid to bypass laws meant to limit Pakistan's military ambitions.

Youth activist Enes Hocaoğulları is preparing for the possibility of arrest upon his return to Turkey, following his speech about the anti-government protests at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg, France.

After returning home earlier this month, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke to the media about their extended nine-month stay on the International Space Station.

Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said on Monday, as the military issued new evacuation orders and said "intense operations" were planned in the south of the enclave.

Worshippers are marking the end of Ramadan with Eid al-Fitr celebrations around the world.

A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty on Monday in an embezzlement case, with a sentence that barred her from public office for five years with "immediate effect."

Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defence and the United Nations have been recovered from a grave in the sand, though a ninth worker is still unaccounted for, the Red Cross said.

The 22nd Amendment, added to the U.S. Constitution in 1951 after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president four times in a row, says "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice."

Russian drones hit a military hospital, shopping centre and apartment blocks in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, killing two people and wounding dozens, while U.S. President Donald Trump voiced anger at Russian President Vladimir Putin for comments he made about the leader of Ukraine.

The explosive mass rape trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other French men may have come to an end Dec. 19, but for his daughter, Caroline Darian, the story was nowhere near over. She shares what the ordeal has been like for her mother and herself in a new memoir, I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again.

Over the last few months, academics and scientists in the U.S. have been scrambling to keep their footing on swiftly eroding ground, amid massive Donald Trump-ordered funding cuts and new restrictions. But although a weakening of the American scientific community has far-reaching impacts on the global academic landscape, experts say one side effect could be top talent from the U.S. making the move to Canada — something we're already seeing.

European winemakers are losing business even before U.S. President Donald Trump unveils new tariffs. His threat of a 200 per cent markup has scared away U.S. importers.

South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like "luggage" for decades, labelling some as orphans when they had parents, and sending alternative babies when infants had died before heading overseas, a truth commission has said.

As Muslims in Gaza prepare to mark Eid this weekend and the end of the holy month of Ramadan, families say they're barely making ends meet with no food entering the territory for nearly a month. 

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance slammed Denmark during a visit to Greenland on Friday, saying it has not done a good job in keeping the semi-autonomous Danish territory and its people safe from incursions by China and Russia, while pledging respect for Greenland's sovereignty and asking its people 'to partner' with the United States.

The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez has been denied parole and will continue serving a life sentence for fatally shooting the rising young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board announced Thursday.

After applying for a new passport in January, Ash Lazarus Orr, a transgender man from West Virginia, has yet to receive it and is now suing the Trump administration over its discriminatory policy.

​​​​​​​Bayern Munich is considering legal action against the Canadian soccer federation following Alphonso Davies's serious knee injury in a match of little importance.