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![Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate on July 26, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. Men in suits sit around an ornate dining table.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7276843.1722019437!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/election-2024-trump-netanyahu.jpg)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his home in Florida on Friday, meeting face-to-face for the first time in years as they each try to boost their political fortunes.
![Phishing scams are emerging in the wake of Friday's global tech outage, which was linked to a faulty software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The outage threw travel, hospital, banking and other services into chaos. Air travellers are seen in the background of a computer showing the blue screen of death.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7270528.1721528076!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/2162019174.jpg)
More than 97 per cent of Windows sensors are back online, CrowdStrike's CEO George Kurtz said on Thursday, nearly a week after a software update by the cybersecurity firm triggered a global outage.
![Former President Barack Obama talks with Vice President Kamala Harris during an event about the Affordable Care Act, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) A man and a woman, both darkskinned, smile while standing next to each other wearing blazers.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7276180.1721986103!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/barack-obama-kamala-harris.jpg)
Former U.S. president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice-president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation's two most popular Democrats.
![Travellers wait as police officers patrol inside the Gare du Nord train station at the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday in Paris, France. Hours away from the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics, high-speed rail traffic to the French capital was severely disrupted on Friday by what officials described as sabotage. Several people in police uniforms and dozens of other people are shown inside what appears to be a station with tracks for trains.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7276179.1721985691!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/paris-olympics-security-trains.jpg)
Arsonists attacked France's high-speed rail network early Friday, setting fires that paralyzed train travel to Paris for some 800,000 people across Europe, including athletes heading to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
![Former U.S. president Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talk prior to a NATO round table meeting in December 2019. Former U.S. president Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talk prior to a NATO round table meeting in December 2019.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7275620.1721938912!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/britain-nato.jpg)
Two-thirds of Canadians say a second Donald Trump term would be either '"bad news" or "terrible news" for Canada, according to a poll of 1,435 adults conducted by the Angus Reid Institute.
![U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear before a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, July 25, 2024. A woman and a man wearing suits stand in front of Israeli and U.S. flags.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7275891.1721947590!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/us-harris-netanyahu.jpg)
U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris's Thursday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was her first chance to distinguish herself from the Biden administration. But political scientists say she must tread carefully to balance a Democratic base fractured by one of the most divisive foreign policy issues of the campaign.
![Sounkamba Sylla, left, who will compete in the women's and mixed relay for France, posted a message on her Instagram account to announce that an arrangement had been made. A sprinter is seen reaching for a baton in a relay race.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7275367.1721929810!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/sounkamba-sylla-26082023.jpg)
French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla will be allowed to participate in the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics wearing a cap to cover her hair, an agreement reached with the French Olympic Committee after Sylla said she was barred because of her hijab.
![Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado attend a campaign a rally in Maracaibo, Zulia state, Venezuela on July 23, 2024. Venezuela will hold presidential elections on July 28, 2024. An older cleanshaven man holds a banner that says 'Venezuela Libre' as a woman with her hair pulled back looks on to his left.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7274905.1721914058!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/2162583800.jpg)
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in power since 2013 and running for a third term on July 28, is confident he is still the right man to lead the OPEC country, but Sunday's presidential election has attracted a level of voter enthusiasm for the opposition that could topple his regime.
A Philippine oil tanker sank in Manila Bay early Thursday after encountering huge waves, leaving a crewman dead and 16 others rescued in a late-night operation by the coast guard. The force was also assessing whether the vessel was leaking oil — in what could be a major spill — that could reach the bustling capital.
![A French sailor uses binoculars to scan the area as others stand on the bow of the French navy frigate Normandie during a docking manoeuvre in a Norwegian fjord, north of the Arctic circle, Friday March 8, 2024. The French frigate is part of a NATO force conducting exercises in the seas, north of Norway, codenamed Steadfast Defender, which are the largest conducted by the 31 nation military alliance since the cold war. A French sailor uses binoculars to scan the area as others stand on the bow of the French navy frigate Normandie during a docking manoeuvre in a Norwegian fjord, north of the Arctic circle.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7274217.1721851757!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/aptopix-norway-france-nato.jpg)
The Pentagon has released an updated Arctic strategy that warns of low-level Russian 'destabilizing' activities in the Far North aimed at the United States, Canada and its allies.