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Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa called for peace on Sunday after hundreds were killed in coastal areas in the worst communal violence since the fall of Bashar al Assad.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia's Queensland state were without power on Sunday after Alfred, a downgraded tropical cyclone, brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings.

Canadians may know U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as the face of Donald Trump's tariffs. But nearly 25 years ago, he became a national figure when more than 650 employees of his Wall Street firm located in the World Trade Center were killed on Sept. 11, 2001.

King Charles hasn’t made any official public statements on current high-level political matters that are critical for countries where he is head of state. But in his recent actions, there could be subtle signals and a reflection of the kind of soft power and diplomacy the monarchy can try to exert.

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, including nearly 750 civilians, a war monitoring group said Saturday.

South Korea's impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison on Saturday, a day after a Seoul court cancelled his arrest to allow him to stand trial for rebellion without being detained.

At least 14 people were killed and 37 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's eastern city of Dobropillia and a settlement in Kharkiv region overnight, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's freeze of foreign aid has caused turmoil and confusion, including in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh, where a million people live — mostly stateless Rohingya refugees who fled across the border to escape a brutal military crackdown in their home country, Myanmar. 

Canadian and American artists and human rights advocates are decrying changes made by U.S. President Donald Trump at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. One human rights lawyer warns that attempts to "capture culture" are typical of authoritarian governments.

"Our mutual respect and admiration of the falls is a reflection of how we should really be with one another," says Niagara Falls N.Y., Mayor Robert Restaino.

For 65 years, Antarctica — which is one and a half times the size of Canada — has been governed by a treaty of nations. But with rising geopolitical tensions and a shifting world order, that governance system is now under pressure.

Latvia's defense minister says there's room for an even bigger NATO presence in his country. The remarks come as Russia resupplies and rebuilds its military bases in the Baltic region and NATO struggles with the question of how to reinforce the tiny nation in a crisis.

China announced tariffs on some Canadian agricultural and food products on Saturday in response to Canada placing import levies on Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products.

What’s your dream job? For the outdoorsy couple Camille Rosenfeld and James Hayes, they say they've found theirs as the caretakers of a majestic island in Ireland.

An Israeli drone strike killed two people in Gaza on Friday, local Palestinian medical authorities said, underscoring the uncertainty surrounding a fragile ceasefire deal that has halted fighting in the enclave for weeks.

Clashes between Syrian security forces under the country's new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's western coastal region have killed more than 70 people and left an area outside government control, a war monitor said Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that depriving Ukraine of potential additional defensive support would test its willingness "to settle" an unprovoked invasion of its borders by Russia that has entered a fourth year.

Cuts to the U.S. agency responsible for weather forecasting and climate science have left scientists on this side of the border concerned about the reliability of data Canada needs to predict dangerous events, conduct accurate flood forecasts and understand broader changes to the climate.

The discovery of a huge unexploded Second World War-era bomb near the tracks severed Paris's high-speed rail links with London and Brussels on Friday, affecting weekend getaway plans and causing cascading travel disruptions.