European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has told Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that she wants Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen extended the offer of "associate membership" of the European Union to Canada in a landmark speech.

Canada is seeking closer ties with EU after a breakdown in relations with the US and its president Donald Trump.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Wednesday opening a path for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member, as Trump’s tariffs and repeated talk of making Canada the 51st state have pushed Ottawa to seek closer economic and security ties with Europe.

A building collapse in Gaza City overnight has killed sixteen people, including at least twelve women and children

Gaza rescuers on Wednesday ⁠combed ⁠through the wreckage of a bombed-out apartment building ⁠that collapsed overnight, killing at least 12 Palestinians, including five children, and trapping dozens of others beneath the ​rubble.

People carried bodies Wednesday as machines cleared rubble from a Gaza City building that collapsed after Israeli strikes left it unstable. Reconstruction

The collapse comes as rescuers try to unearth hundreds of bodies from buildings hit by strikes earlier in Israel’s campaign of destruction.

Their votes to back a Democrat resolution to end the fighting come as Iowa has become an unexpected battleground state due to tariffs and fuel costs.

The House voted for a third time to restrict President Trump's power to strike Iran. Meanwhile, GOP Rep. Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. CBS News' Eleanor Watson reports.

House lawmakers have again passed a Democrat-sponsored war powers resolution to curb President Donald Trump's ability to wage war against Iran.

It was the fifth time that a chamber of the Republican-controlled Congress has voted to rein in President Trump’s war powers as discontent with the conflict grows among voters.

A Russian drone strike on a passenger bus in southern Ukraine has killed five people and wounded at least seven

A Russian drone strike on a passenger bus in southern Ukraine has killed five people and wounded at least seven

A US think tank says NATO should consider intercepting Russian drones in Ukrainian airspace, after a drone struck a train near the Polish border. The strike happened soon after a train carrying senior European officials had passed through the same station.

Russian forces launched 80 drones at Ukraine overnight, including Shahed-type attack drones, jet-powered variants, Gerbera drones, and decoy drones, the Air Force said.

Russia believes there is ⁠still ⁠time to prevent an ⁠arms race in space by drawing up a legally-binding ​international treaty to outlaw the deployment of offensive weapons there and called on ‌the United States and other ‌nations to set aside their scepticism about the idea,

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the U.S. has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said ⁠on ⁠Tuesday the U.S. acknowledgement that ⁠Washington had deployed orbital weapons ignored the possible ​consequences of a conflict and threatened long-term stability in space-based activity.

The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air and Space Cyber Conference in Maryland on Monday that the U.S. has fielded “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.