Despite an internet blackout, some Iranians have managed to use VPNs and Starlink satellite internet to share photos and videos. But how do we know these visuals really show what they claim? CBC's fact-check team breaks down our verification process.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we see the blooming changes that hikers have noticed in the U.K., get a look at EV models with built-in solar panels and check out an award-winning forest grown from memorial trees.

Israel will reopen the Rafah border crossing on Sunday for people to travel betweenGazaand Egypt, a government agency said, the first opening of effectively the sole route in or out of the Palestinian territory since May 2024.

Journalist Don Lemon was arrested in connection with an anti-immigration protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church, his lawyer said Friday.

Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill race before the Winter Olympics on Friday and was airlifted from the course for medical checks, a troubling turn for the 41-year-old U.S. ski star just a week before the Milano-Cortina Games.

Canada or the U.S. have won every world championship and Olympic title. But these European teams are looking to shake up the podium at Milano Cortina 2026.

Documents from extradition proceedings at the Belgrade Higher Court obtained by the fifth estate and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network provide an extraordinary glimpse into the lifestyle and whereabouts of a young Canadian man with an alleged $65 million US in cryptocurrency burning a hole in his pocket and multiple countries seeking his arrest.

A unit of ICE will be in Italy to work during the upcoming Winter Games. Yes, that ICE. Who exactly will be there and what will they be doing?

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony remains defiant after being criminally charged for his role in organizing his citys Pride parade last summer in defiance of Hungarys anti-2SLBGTQ+ laws.

The bodies of 15 more unidentified Palestinians were handed over by Israel Thursday, in the final exchange of prisoners and detainees between Israel and Hamas.

India has confirmed two cases of the deadly Nipah virus. Here are answers on what the virus is and what happened in previous outbreaks in Asian countries.

A Vancouver-based mining company says 10 of its employees were taken at one of its project sites near the city of Concordia in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, which has been gripped by cartel civil war since 2024.

The top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka overpowered Elina Svitolina 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday to move within one victory of a third Australian Open title in four years.

Longtime fugitive Ryan Wedding sought a court order to prevent his arrest in Mexicos Sinaloa state nearly a year before he was finally taken into U.S. custody last week, according to Mexican legal records obtained by CBC News. The documents suggest the Canadian, who is accused of leading a cocaine-smuggling network linked to the Sinaloa cartel, believed ...

A small plane crashed Wednesday in a rural area of Norte de Santander province in northeast Colombia, killing all 15 people on board including a member of congress, authorities said.

For Palestinians in Gaza, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt is their gateway to the world. But since Israel seized it in May 2024, it has been largely shut. Now Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the crossing will reopen soon, as the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan moves into its second phase.

The U.S. government has said, without providing evidence, that the men killed on the boats were narco-terrorists. But Chad Josephs and Rishi Samroos families say they were just regular workers catching a ride home to the fishing village of Las Cuevas.

Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Italy for the Milano-Cortina Olympics amid outrage over ICE operations in Minnesota. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will engage in a security role protecting the American delegation at the Milano-Cortina Olympics in February, according to the U.S. embassy in Italy. Agents will not carry out immigration enforcement duties while abroad, a source at the embassy said.

Two federal agents who were involved in Saturday's fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Venezuela's new leaders were moving toward closer ties with Washington without the immediate need for further U.S. military action, as he publicly faced questions from many of his former colleagues for the first time.

A court has ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the devastating effects of climate change a sweeping victory for the islanders.

The Kremlin is denying a report that Russia suffered the largest number of casualties recorded for any major power in any conflict since the Second World War.

Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the e-commerce company in three months.