SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Tuesday, 22 July 2025 - Updated at 1125 hrs EDT

Canadian News

CBC News
A Chinese research vessel returns to Arctic waters

CBC News
Many Canadian exports can avoid Trump tariffs if CUSMA-compliant

CBC News
Carney to brief premiers on U.S. trade talks at Muskoka summit

CBC News
Montreal woman who joined ISIS as a teen convicted of aiding a terrorist group

CBC News
Wildfire evacuees from northern Saskatchewan seek refuge in Alberta

Canadian Commentary

Eugene Lang |The Globe and Mail
Great defence spending plan, Carney. It’d be a shame if Ottawa bureaucracy got in the way.

The Editorial Board | The Globe and Mail
Smoke is the new reality in summertime

John Turley-Ewart | The Globe and Mail
Poilievre’s cheap shots at Carney’s business ties are unfounded and unhinged

Donald J. Savoie | The Globe and Mail
Shaving department budgets won’t be enough to rein in federal spending

International News

NBC News
Musk's xAI was a late addition to the Pentagon’s set of $200 million AI contracts

NBC News
Deputy attorney general to meet with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell - More

The Washington Post
China-backed hackers used Microsoft flaw in attacks, defenders say

Reuters News Agency
Pentagon ends weeks-long deployment of U.S. Marines to Los Angeles

CBC News
Are Trump’s social posts an Epstein distraction tactic? - More

The Washington Post
Trump Intervenes to Boost Hegseth Aide Who Left Military for Politics

The Washington Post
Stephen Colbert mocks CBS’s reasoning for canceling ‘The Late Show’

CBS News
Trump Media buys $2 billion in bitcoin as it pursues crypto treasury strategy

The Guardian
Britain told US that invading Iraq could cost Blair his premiership, papers reveal

The Guardian
Man found guilty over sharing Grant Shapps’s details with ‘Russian spies’

The Guardian
Man rescued trying to reach Spain from Morocco in rubber ring and flippers

The Guardian
In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown

The Guardian
Russia launches 42 drone strikes on Ukraine overnight

The Guardian
Russia using children to design and test its military drones, investigation finds

The Guardian
Putin appears unfazed by ‘emotional’ Trump’s threats over Ukraine

The Guardian
The go-between: How Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy

BBC News
The voices in the cockpit fuelling controversy over Air India crash

NBC News
The tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu turns to the world court as climate disasters mount

The Associated Press
Today in History: 22 July - More

This Day in Aviation
22 July

Reuters News Agency
Pentagon ends weeks-long deployment of U.S. Marines to Los Angeles

CBC News
Are Trump’s social posts an Epstein distraction tactic?

The Washington Post
Trump Intervenes to Boost Hegseth Aide Who Left Military for Politics

The Washington Post
Stephen Colbert mocks CBS’s reasoning for canceling ‘The Late Show’

CBS News
Trump Media buys $2 billion in bitcoin as it pursues crypto treasury strategy

The Associated Press
Today in History: 22 July - More

This Day in Aviation
22 July

International Commentary

The New York Times
Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

Stephen Wertheim | The New York Times
Trump Is a Situational Man in a Structural Bind

Rajan Menon | The Guardian
Trump’s shift on Ukraine has been dramatic – but will it change the war?

James Carville | The New York Times
My Fix for the Confused and Leaderless Democrats

Frank Kendall | The New York Times
Fear Comes to America

Barry Svrluga | The Washington Post
Trump has nothing better to do than debate an NFL team’s name?

Lives Lived

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