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Entertainment Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin, travelled far during her 42 years. She grew up on a remote Soviet military base and worked on documentary films in Eastern Europe before studying film in Los Angeles and embarking on a promising movie-making career. Cinematographer Halyna …

World A Florida businessman who helped Rudy Giuliani's effort to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine was convicted Friday of campaign finance crimes, including funnelling a Russian entrepreneur's money to U.S. politicians. Lev Parnas leaves federal court in New York on Friday. A New York jury convicted Parnas, …

World A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and starring in a Western movie, killed his director of photography and injured the director Thursday at the movie set outside Santa Fe, authorities said. A spokesperson for Alec Baldwin, shown above in 2019, said there was …

World Residents of Melbourne, Australia, flocked to the city's pubs, restaurants and hair salons in the early hours of Friday after the world's most locked-down city emerged from its latest spate of COVID-19 restrictions. A person has their hair cut at a barbershop in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday. Residents of …

World India has administered 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine, officials said Thursday, passing a milestone for the South Asian country where the delta variant fuelled its first crushing surge earlier this year. About 75 per cent of India's total eligible adult population have received at least one dose of …

World·CBC in Afghanistan Two months after the Taliban swept into Kandahar — part of its march toward the ultimate collapse of Afghanistan — CBC News went back to the southern region where Canadians had fought and died. Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi took over as the police chief of Kandahar in August, …

World Holdouts within the U.S. president's own party are pruning his plans for what's supposed to be a transformative agenda. Here's the latest on his massive budget bill. U.S. President Joe Biden wants his landmark spending bill passed by Congress soon. But it's going to be smaller than he hoped.(Jonathan …

World Investigators believe a 366-metre cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude. Workers rake up crude oil after about 95,000 litres leaked from a ruptured …

World A handful of billionaire-backed space ventures are trying to make out-of-this-world tourism a future reality, but some critics say their resources would be better directed toward solving the problems we face on Earth today. A handful of billionaire-backed ventures are proving that space tourism could be a part of …

World A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children were kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident. Policemen clean an avenue blocked by anti-kidnapping protesters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. …