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The military in Gabon has seized power and the country’s president, Ali Bongo, has been detained after the authenticity of the election on Aug. 26 was called into question. Now, the sub-Saharan country is experiencing a shift in power.

The 35-year-old man found guilty in the April 2022 hit-and-run death of renowned conductor Boris Brott, 78, will serve nearly eight years in prison after getting credit for time served, a judge told a sentencing hearing on Thursday in Hamilton.

The man found guilty in the April 2022 hit-and-run death of 78-year-old conductor Boris Brott will serve nearly eight years in prison after getting two years' credit for time served, a judge told a sentencing hearing in Hamilton on Thursday.

Opposition parties want to hold parliamentary committee hearings to probe Health Canada’s new natural health product regulations when the House of Commons gets back to work after its summer break, CBC News has learned.

Here's where you'll find the latest from a territorial news conference on the wildfires and evacuations in the N.W.T. It is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. MT.

Here's where you'll find the latest from a territorial news conference on the wildfires and evacuations in the N.W.T. It is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. MT.

The federal government says it's still considering whether the Emergencies Act needs to be updated to sharpen the definition of what constitutes a threat to national security. 

Paul Keller first thought he was hearing water splashing upon a rock. Turns out it was a great white shark splashing about as it tore into a whale carcass. 

A civil society delegation that returned from northeastern Syria earlier this week says the federal government needs to immediately start providing full consular support to all Canadian citizens detained in the area.

The Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action has plans to quadruple the number of Level 3 chargers by the end of 2024 as the demand soars and infrastructure struggles to keep pace during Prince Edward Island's tourism season.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at On2Ottawa's campaign of climate-related disruption in the nation's capital and high-tech efforts to monitor blue-green algae in Alberta.

A man who fatally stabbed a woman and injured six other people outside a library in North Vancouver, B.C., two years ago was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. Yannick Bandaogo will not be eligible for parole for 15 years.

Former Proud Boys member Joseph Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the last presidential election, part one of the most significant prosecutions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison for spearheading an attack on the U.S. Capitol to try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.

Former president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia, waiving his right to appear at an arraignment next week.

Former president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia, waiving his right to appear at an arraignment next week.

Statistics Canada says it will publish new data tables next month estimating the number of non-permanent residents in the country after a major bank issued a report that said the agency may be undercounting them by more than one million.

The new sci-fi exploration game offers a near-unimaginable scope of content that will take hundreds of hours to uncover — if they grab the player's interest for that long.

Despite being listed at seven-foot-four, Toronto's Zach Edey has flown under the radar for much of his life. Now, though, the hulking centre has a chance to make a big impact for Canada at the men's basketball World Cup.

Despite being listed at seven-foot-four, Toronto's Zach Edey has flown under the radar for much of his life. Now, though, the hulking centre has a chance to make a big impact for Canada at the men's basketball World Cup.

The woman accusing former New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash of sexual assault is going public, saying she wants to support others. Carmen Roy, who works for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, is alleging that she was sexually assaulted on May 1 in Winnipeg. Police say they arrested the former MP on June 27.

As wildfire conditions in southern parts of B.C. generally improve, firefighters in the northeast say they are expecting wind to exacerbate fires burning near municipalities like Fort Nelson, Fort St. John, Chetwynd and Dawson Creek.

Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says British Columbia is extending a state of emergency over the ongoing wildfires that have devastated parts of the province.

Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says British Columbia is extending a state of emergency over the ongoing wildfires that have devastated parts of the province.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has developed a weapon that hit a target 700 kilometres away, in an apparent reference to the previous day's strike on an airport in western Russia.

CBC News video producer Michael Evans set up a camera in Windsor, Ont., to catch the rare super blue moon Wednesday night. The video shows planes and geese fly in front of the moon. It was the second full moon in August and also the closest full moon of the year — making it appear bigger and brighter. The next super blue moon won't be until Jan. 2037.

CBC News video producer Michael Evans set up a camera in Windsor, Ont., to catch the rare super blue moon Wednesday night. The video shows planes and geese fly in front of the moon. It was the second full moon in August and also the closest full moon of the year — making it appear bigger and brighter. The next super blue moon won't be until Jan. 2037.

Taylor Swift's concerts have generated hundreds of millions of dollars for cities they appear in, a phenomenon that some call "Swiftonomics." Now she's releasing a concert film of the show.

Cineplex confirmed the concert film Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour will play in more than 150 Cineplex theatres around the country.

MP Michael Chong will appear in a unique locale for a Canadian opposition politician: a hearing before U.S. Congress. American lawmakers studying Chinese foreign interference have taken an interest in Chong's case and invited him to testify.

North Korea said Thursday its latest missile launches simulated "scorched earth" nuclear strikes on South Korea and that it's also been rehearsing an occupation of its rival's territory in the event of conflict.

Saskatchewan-based weapons and assault charges against the leader of the controversial Diagolon movement have been stayed.

Jessica Dieter was taught that a pregnant mother should wait until the child enters the physical world to celebrate the new life.

Local dog trainers are sounding the alarm about the Dog Daddy, who uses what some call ‘aversive conditioning’ to train aggressive dogs. The controversial trainer is scheduled to hold classes in Toronto over the long weekend.

There are more options to stream TV shows, movies and music these days. But with more options comes higher monthly costs, and media industry watchers say the days of the cheap, one-stop streaming shop are gone — and won't be coming back.

The RCMP is on the cusp of a major shift in how it recruits officers into federal policing — a move that would allow some Mounties to skip the training depot in Regina and the usual tour of duty in frontline policing.

Kicha Estimé says the shelter she operates in Montréal-Nord is forced to turn down five to 10 people every day. As the housing crisis worsens and demands for help rise, she says she wishes she could get more money from authorities to run the shelter.

When Vaidehee Lanke moved from Saskatoon to Montreal for graduate school, she feared the city would never feel like home. But a year later, she found her own little community in the big city.

A Scarborough homeowner is left footing the bill for damage to his appliances from a Toronto Hydro cable overload because the utility provider only has to accept liability for its equipment if there's "willful misconduct or negligence."

For four months, Canada's elite track and field athletes have competed for a chance to become its first Diamond League champion since 2011. A late push to qualify for the Sept. 16-17 Final begins this week for Marco Arop, Aaron Brown and Andre De Grasse and Sept. 8 for Sarah Mitton.

Nigeria and Uganda — among 32 of the 54 African nations with laws criminalizing same-sex relations — have some of the strictest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world. Human rights advocates say such laws also have a chilling effect on the day-to-day lives of members of the LGBTQ community.

A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg early Thursday, leaving at least 74 dead, officials said. Some people threw babies out of third-storey windows to others waiting below in the desperate scramble to evacuate, witnesses said.

A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown five-storey building in Johannesburg that was occupied by homeless people and squatters early Thursday, killing at least 73 people, said emergency services in South Africa's biggest city.

At least 63 people were killed and 43 injured on Thursday in a fire in the central business district of South Africa's biggest city of Johannesburg, the municipal government said.

The B.C. Conservation Officer Service is investigating the illegal killing of a grizzly bear near Squamish, saying somebody shot the bear, before dragging it into the river with rope.

A Kelowna RCMP officer who dragged a nursing student down a hallway, pulled her hair and stepped on her head during a wellness check was handed a two-year conditional discharge in B.C. provincial court this week.

Const. Alexander Doduk was investigated by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) for an incident on the morning of Nov. 26, 2019 in downtown Edmonton. He's now charged with assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm.

A teacher at Western Canada High School initiated a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old he’d taught months earlier, a Calgary judge was told Wednesday.

A gold medal win for Six Nations U9 lacrosse team in the provincial championships was tarnished by a series of altercations during the game leading to two travesty of game penalties to the opposing team.

A CBC viewer from Arbutus Ridge filmed this lively pod of orcas splashing in the shallow waters of the Saanich Inlet from his backyard on Monday evening.