There are unconfirmed reports that secret talks have begun between the CIA and Alejandro Castro Espín, the son of Raúl Castro. U.S. President Trump has said talks are on, and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has said the Communist Party is open t...

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the c...

Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supporters said Sunday, as Tehran cracks down on all dissent following nationwide protests and the deaths of thousands at t...

Just over one month after the United States captured then-President Nicolas Maduro, some Venezuelans opposed to the government have become increasingly bold in challenging the new authorities.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that it is hard to cheer for American Olympians who are speaking out against administration policies, calling one such critic "a real Loser" who perhaps should have stayed home.

The Czech Republic earned their first Group A win by defeating Finland 2-0 in the Olympic women's ice hockey tournament on Sunday, while Sweden secured a quarter-final place with a 4-0 win over France in Group B at Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena.

The governing party of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a two-thirds supermajority in a key parliamentary election Sunday, Japanese media reported citing preliminary results, earning a landslide victory thanks to her popularity.

For Radio-Canada/Rad, journalist Julia Pagé and director Frédéric Lacelle traveled to Philadelphia to meet with members of a group that called itself the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Armed with AK-47s, party members patrol their neighbour...

While the United States has intensified its immigration crackdown and deportation efforts and European countries are closing their borders one after the other, Spain's left-wing government last month approved a royal decree to regularize several hun...

Russia’s Federal Security Service said Sunday that the man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia.

Satellite images that have shown some recent activity around two Iranian nuclear sites bombed last year by Israel and the U.S. suggest Iran may be trying to recover materials from the area.

Savannah Guthrie told the potential kidnappers of her mother Nancy Guthrie on Saturday that the family is prepared to pay for her safe return.

Saboteurs damaged rail infrastructure near the northern Italian city of Bologna on Saturday morning, disrupting train journeys on the first full day of the Winter Olympic Games, the Transport Ministry said.

Thousands of creators are deleting TikTok and flocking elsewhere just days after a change in ownership and mounting claims of widespread censorship and shadowbanning, or reduced reach, on the app.

Mexican authorities said Friday that federal forces had found a body that appeared to belong to one of 10 employees of a Canadian mining company who were kidnapped three weeks ago from a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

Since the federal government's new travel warning for Cuba, CBC News has heard from dozens of travellers who say they've either cancelled their trips, are trying to without success, or are still going with the understanding that this year's trip cou...

When firefighter John Maggio first saw the swan trapped on the frozen Connecticut river, completely still with its head buried in its wings, he figured they were too late to save it. Still, he said, they had to try.