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The Palestinian committee set to govern Gaza under U.S. supervision met for the first time Friday in Cairo, as its leader pledged to get to work quickly to improve conditions there.

Blue Jays homegrown star Bo Bichette is leaving Toronto for the New York Mets, according to media reports. The Associated Press and ESPN report the deal is for $126 million US over three years.

After more than 13 years at the helm of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down from the Star Wars factory founded by George Lucas.

In the wake of a backlash sparked by a viral video, WestJet has cancelled a new seat configuration that squeezed an extra row on board many of its planes and left passengers with less legroom.

Life is quieter in Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario. Some children can still be seen playing hockey on a snow-packed road, but that would have been more common three weeks earlier had the community's water-treatment plant not failed. Amid a state of emergency, about half of the 2,300 residents have already been evacuated to cities including Timmins, Kingston and Niagara Falls.

Hundreds gathered in Prince Albert to mourn social worker and advocate Trevor Dubois, remembered for his warmth, humor and community impact.

"It's almost like a biker gang convention. They just arrive out of nowhere, they cause havoc, they’re barking and belching,” said UBC fisheries professor Andrew Trites.

This coming weekend, Canada's bobsleigh team will compete in Altenberg, Germany for its last chance to qualify a sled at the Milano Cortina Olympics beginning Feb. 6. Kelsey Mitchell, an Olympic track cycling champion who made the switch to bobsleigh in recent months, is hoping it will be her ticket to Milano Cortina.

Federal government urged to prioritize the resettlement of displaced Sudanese amid competition from Ukrainians, Hong Kongers.

Canada reached a deal with Beijing earlier Friday to slash tariffs on a set number of Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for China cutting duties on agriculture products, including canola.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after it says a 33-year-old man was shot dead by police in Brantford early this morning.

In a series of frank and stunning statements, Carney laid out a new "pragmatic" approach to China and to global affairs that distanced Canada from the U.S.

“EV adoption accelerated in 2025, breaking records in almost every market — except here.”

Bichette had his ups and downs, including a miserable 2024 in which he hit just .225 and missed half the season with leg injuries, but the good far outweighed the bad.

Shuttle buses were running between Finch West and Humber College Stations, the TTC said.

Ford predicted Carney's move would further raise the ire of current President Donald Trump, who is already in a trade war with Canada.

Head of auto parts association says allowing cheap Chinese EVs into Canada concedes ground to a "hostile" players in the market.

WestJet reconfigured 21 of its narrow-body jets to densify seating and reduce legroom for some in economy. Now they're undoing the changes after passenger and employee pushback

President Donald Trump is threatening to punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland. 'I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland,' the President said, without providing details.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel says Cuba will ‘always be open to dialogue’ with the U.S. but only on equal terms following Trump’s aggression in the region

A bipartisan Congressional delegation met with Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers in Denmark to lower tensions as Trump made his threats

Donald Trump would not be the first president to invoke the Insurrection Act, as he has now threatened to do as a way to send U.S. military forces to Minnesota.

Tropical specimens won’t last long in Britain’s climate – but getting them out of a Victorian sanctuary is the first step in fixing it

White House says Trump still views the Venezuelan opposition leader as an unviable option to lead

During the campaign, security forces routinely blocked Robert Kyagulanyi’s travel, disrupted events and detained hundreds of supporters

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she presented U.S. President Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal on Thursday during a White House meeting that could affect how Trump seeks to shape the South American country's political future.

Huge protests in Iran have galvanized exiled foes of the authorities but despite their hatred of the ruling clerics, a bitter schism dating to before the 1979 Islamic Revolution still afflicts the leading opposition factions.

Trump's ceasefire plan faces great uncertainty as it moves into a new phase.

U.S. President Donald Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.

X, formerly Twitter, was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Trump confirmed on social media that Machado had left the Peace Prize medal for him to keep, and he said it was an honour to meet her.

The U.S. was joined by Iranian dissidents in rebuking the government’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests that activists say has killed at least 2,600 people.

David Eby was responding to a Global News report during his trade mission to India

Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodríguez, who has been under pressure from the U.S. to fall in line, said oil sales revenue would go to bolster domestic services.

Mexico's Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard insisted on Thursday that the CUSMA remains firmly intact and that the three countries will close a deal to extend it.

"They are looking strongly to LNG as one of their ways of reducing carbon intensity, as well as reducing smog in the country," B.C. Premier David Eby said.

Kristalina Georgieva told Reuters that central bank independence worked in the interest of businesses and households, and that she respected Powell's professionalism.

Canada's strained relationship with Iran goes back more than a decade, when a Conservative government under former prime minister Stephen Harper cut diplomatic ties with Tehran.

Demand from centers that power artificial intelligence has driven up electricity bills, frustrating consumers.

Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, this week tapped a groundswell of support that has been years in the making.

Seeking to calm tensions, Republicans and Democrats affirmed that they supported Denmark’s control of Greenland as President Trump vowed to buy it or take it over.

The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, said that poor budgeting practices by the previous mayor, Eric Adams, had left the city with looming deficits.

Voters will now get a say over whether the current maps can be redrawn ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in past winters, but this year intensified its attacks as temperatures in Ukraine plunged well below freezing.

“There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.

Officials denounced the Trump crackdown at an unofficial congressional hearing in Minneapolis. Administration officials have accused local leaders of promoting violence against ICE agents.

From Iraq to ICE, Jonathan Ross’s career reflects a 20-year government effort to reshape immigration enforcement with a military mind-set.

The blowback set off by the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, has shaken up the race to replace him.

The comments show Trump considering applying his aggressive tariff strategies to his efforts to acquire Greenland.

The early data is a boost to the Danish drugmaker's hopes of winning back more market share from Eli Lilly this year in the obesity drug space.

One fund manager described stocks' continued moves higher, despite escalating tensions, as "equity market 'meh.'"

Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML became just the third European company to his a valuation of over $500 billion on Thursday.

The Kremlin called Trump's threats to take over Greenland "extraordinary" on Friday, adding that Moscow will continue to closely monitor the situation.

"This is incredibly embarrassing," Raymond Johansen, a Norwegian lawmaker for the center-left Labour Party, said in a Facebook post.

The Taiwan Weighted Index climbed 1.94% and closed at a record high of 31,408.7.

In a filing with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Mitsubishi said that the investment will strengthen the earnings base of the company's natural gas and LNG businesses.

TSMC is set to accelerate its multibillion-dollar expansion in Arizona, coming off the back of a U.S.-Taiwan trade agreement and strong earnings.

Exports to China surged 67% in December to $2 billion, in contrast to goods shipped to the U.S. — New Delhi's biggest export market — that dropped 1.8% to $6.8 billion.

Canada has been seeking a thaw as part of an effort to diversify trade amid Trump’s tariffs and threats to use “economic force” to make it the 51st state.

See how President Donald Trump’s capture of Maduro and control of Venezuela’s oil sales could affect China, Cuba and the United States.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with interim Venezuelan president Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, a U.S. official said.

President Donald Trump said it was a “wonderful gesture of mutual respect.” The Nobel Committee said the medal can change hands, but “the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.”

China is trying to position itself as a stabilizing force amid U.S. actions on Venezuela and Iran — but its commitment to allies is largely pragmatic, analysts say.

The company said it had stopped Grok from undressing people on the X platform. Grok’s stand-alone app still does it.

Iran said that Erfan Soltani, a man said to be facing execution, would be spared. The Trump administration is weighing strikes and imposed new sanctions Thursday.

A government-imposed nationwide communications blackout has left Iranians outside the country scrambling to reach family and friends.

Denmark’s leader warned that any use of force by Washington to seize Greenland, as Trump officials have suggested, would render the postwar NATO alliance defunct.

In Kyiv, a frigid lottery of sorts is playing out in which residents may have power, heat or water but almost never all three depending on where they live.

The president said several air defence systems were without missiles until a shipment on Friday morning.

Reza Pahlavi, a US-based opposition figure, called on the world to target Iran's Revolutionary Guards leadership.

Manchester City have upped the ante in the Premier League title race by flexing their muscles in the January transfer window.

The opposition leader says she has a mandate to lead the country after the US seized its president.

Despite the bloodbath of recent weeks, Ayatollah Khamenei might think he must plough on with an iron fist

World champion Luke Littler is knocked out of the Bahrain Masters quarter-finals by Gerwyn Price for the second year in a row.

Craig Guildford blames the "political and media frenzy" as he confirms his decision to step down.

The nurses' partial victory adds pressure on the government to publish guidance for businesses that have single-sex spaces.

Abiraterone will be available in a matter of weeks and will be offered to 7,000 men a year.

OpenAI is also expanding its cheaper subscription tier, ChatGPT Go, to all countries where it operates.

An avalanche has swept through a ski resort on Europe’s tallest mountain, sending tourists fleeing in panic.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen celebrate the expected signing of a free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur

A musician has reacted to a song streamed millions of times that has been banned from Sweden’s music charts for being created by Artificial Intelligence.

An Ohio grand jury indicted a man in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her husband who were killed in their home last month

A 24-year-old man has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of an elderly Thai man in San Francisco

Colman Domingo, Liam Hemsworth, and Noah Schnapp pack the Ralph Lauren front row to launch a Milan-centric season

The DOJ has failed to meet a December 19 statutory deadline to release the full Epstein files, but Bondi insists progress is being made

OpenAI plans to introduce ads for ChatGPT users who aren't paying for the premium version

A federal judge has ruled that work on a Virginia offshore wind project could resume

The White House and a bipartisan group of governors are taking aim at power shortages and price spikes from data centers for artificial intelligence