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Footage published by local news outlets shows police officers wearing black balaclavas dragging protesters into unmarked black vans and beating them with their batons at a rally that drew thousands in the streets of the Belarus capital.

Elections Canada says it has identified roughly 3,500 cases of people who voted in 2019's federal election where there was conflicting evidence about their citizenship, CBC News has learned.

Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong says Canada's recent virtual consular visits to Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor should have happened much sooner.

Matthew Dolloff, a private security guard working for local television station KUSA TV, was jailed for investigation of first-degree murder in connection with Saturday afternoon's shooting, Denver police said in a social media post.

U.S. president said, without producing evidence, that he was now immune, a claim that drew a flag from Twitter for violating the social media platform's rules about misleading information related to COVID-19.

CBC News Network's Sunday Scrum panel is your destination for frank discussion and analysis of the week's big political stories. This week: Our panellists discuss Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor's virtual consular access — their first such access for the detained Canadians since January.

Around one-in-five mortgages in Alberta remains in deferral.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will tell senators that courts "should not try" to make policy, leaving those decisions to the political branches of government, according to opening remarks for her confirmation hearing.

A 30-year-old man is in custody after two young boys were found dead in Wendake, Que., a Huron-Wendat First Nation just outside Quebec City. Police say it is unclear whether the suspect and the victims are related.

The NFL has postponed the Denver-New England game indefinitely due to another positive coronavirus test with the Patriots.

The NFL has juggled its regular-season schedule due to coronavirus outbreaks with the Tennessee Titans and New England Patriots.

Canada's chief public health officer called the sharp uptick in cases in the past week "troubling" and is urging Canadians to stay vigilant.

CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.

A bus heading to a Buddhist temple collided with a train in central Thailand on Sunday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 30 others, authorities said.

A 30-year-old man is in custody after two children were found dead in Wendake, Que., a Huron-Wendat First Nation just outside Quebec City. Police say it is unclear whether the suspect and the victims are related.

A 30-year-old man is in custody after two children were found dead in Wendake, Que., a Huron-Wendat First Nation just outside Quebec City. Police say it is unclear whether the suspect and the victims are related.

Azerbaijan on Sunday accused Armenia of attacking its cities and villages in violation of the ceasefire deal brokered by Russia that seeks to end an outbreak of hostilities in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Democrats and Republicans are trying to recruit the 620,000 Americans living in Canada who are eligible to vote in the U.S. election.

A growing number of investors want to avoid Facebook and Amazon, despite those companies' outstanding performance on the stock exchange. 'Big Tech' firms are now in the company of tobacco, weapons and polluting companies as stocks that conscientious consumers aim to avoid.

While members of the Royal Family are expected to remain above the fray of day-to-day politics, that doesn't stop speculation or efforts to determine where they fall on the political spectrum.

The team at the Diefenbunker in Debert, N.S., has been taking suggestions from viewers of its live stream to crack a mysterious safe. There's a $1,000 prize for the correct guess.

There are typically three planets visible in the night sky, but Mars is stealing the show this week as it outshines even Jupiter, typically the second-brightest planet.

When French President Emmanuel Macron spoke recently about Islamist extremism, the timing was no accident, coming as it did during the first major terrorism trial in Paris after multiple attacks in the past few years that left more than 230 dead, Don Murray writes.

With some regions now in the grips of a second pandemic shutdown, some scientists are saying the deployment of rapid tests is the best way to support sectors of the economy that have been crushed by public health measures meant to slow the spread of COVID-19.

With some regions now in the grips of a second pandemic shutdown, some scientists are saying the deployment of rapid tests is the best way to support sectors of the economy that have been crushed by public health measures meant to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The Canadian government said Saturday that China granted consular access to two detained Canadians in China for the first time since January.