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Italian rescue crews pulled Ottavia Piana to safety Wednesday, 75 hours after she was injured while exploring a cave near the city of Bergamo. The 32-year-old caver had been rescued from the same cave complex once before, when she broke her leg while exploring.

The running gag about Canada as a 51st state is clearly generating a torrent of yuk-yuks on Fox News, and indignation from Trump's critics. However, new statements from his transition team, press secretary and Capitol Hill Republicans could ultimately point to a more hopeful development for Canada.

The United States, joined by Arab mediators, sought on Wednesday to conclude an agreement between Israel and Hamas to halt the 14-month-old war in the Gaza Strip, where medics said Israeli strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians overnight.

Russia's security service said Wednesday that it detained a citizen from Uzbekistan in the bombing that killed a senior general as he left his southeastern Moscow apartment — a bold assassination that was claimed by Ukraine's security service.

A wave of misinformation about Canadian institutions is being amplified by suspected bot accounts on social media and by pro-Modi news outlets in India, raising concerns it could imperil relations between Sikhs and Hindus in Canada.

In Europe, Christmas tree prices have been falling for the better part of the last decade — in stark contrast to Canada. Why?

A judge has granted permission to Derek Chauvin's lawyers to have tissue samples from George Floyd's body examined. It's part of the former Minneapolis police officer's efforts to challenge his federal conviction of violating Floyd's civil rights after he was also convicted in Floyd's 2020 killing. 

The Israeli military will remain inside Syrian territory — in what is supposed to be a demilitarized zone — indefinitely, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, as part of what he described as an effort to shore up security amid the turmoil in Syria.

Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said his mother was in hospital in Berlin on Tuesday, while German police said they were investigating a case of attempted homicide.

At least 34 people have been killed by Cyclone Chido in Mozambique since it made landfall. Nearby, hundreds or even thousands could be dead in the French overseas territory of Mayotte.

A London-based lawyer accused of trying to interfere in British politics on behalf of the Chinese government lost a legal appeal Tuesday, hours after British authorities named Chinese national Yang Tengbo as an alleged spy who cultivated close ties with Prince Andrew.

Denmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade, a Danish lawyer representing Watson said on Tuesday.

A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine's security agency levelled criminal charges against him.

A judge on Monday rejected U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's bid to have his hush money conviction dismissed because of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity. But the case's overall future remains unclear.

TikTok on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.

Switzerland is spending 354 million to make sure its network of public and private nuclear shelters are in tip-top shape and ready to accommodate all nine million Swiss residents, should the need arise. 

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at his side, announced on Monday that Tokyo-based SoftBank would invest $100 billion US in the country over the next four years in what they said would be a boost to its economy.

A 15-year-old girl opened fire at a Wisconsin school on Monday, fatally shooting a fellow student and a teacher and wounding six other people before taking her own life with the handgun, police said.

The Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz School in Khan Younis was struck without warning by Israel while displaced Palestinians slept on Sunday. At least 20 were killed by the strike, mostly women and children, survivors say.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that he would travel to Mayotte, France's poorest overseas territory, where rescuers are still searching for the hundreds feared dead from the worst cyclone to hit the Indian Ocean islands in nearly a century.