SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Sunday, 15 June 2025 - Updated at 1640 hrs EDT

Canadian News

CBC News
Carney's first foreign policy test begins at G7 - More

The Canadian Press
Protests at G7 summit expected to be largely peaceful - More - More

The Canadian Press
Canadians urged to 'avoid all travel' to Israel - More

CBC News
Indigenous people fleeing wildfires face immense mental health burdens

CBC News
WestJet dealing with 'cybersecurity incident' impacting access to internal systems, app

The Canadian Press
Carney says he has no plans to tackle 24 Sussex question during his mandate

CBC News
What do you give the King? It could be cufflinks, a car or Indigenous beadwork.

Radio-Canada
Climat, guerre, Trump : Carney ouvre un sommet du G7 sous haute tension

Radio-Canada
L’escalade militaire entre Israël et l’Iran s’impose comme priorité au sommet du G7

Radio-Canada
Le changement climatique aide les tiques à s’étendre vers l’ouest

Radio-Canada
Les enfants des enfants du Canadien errant : une histoire tissée de larmes

Canadian Commentary

Conrad Black | National Post
Let's make a bonfire of Canada's ghastly wokeness

Antoine Trépanier | National Post
Why a 'love story' with Mark Carney is François Legault's only hope

Kelly McParland | National Post
Is the United States worth saving — and how?

Jesse Kline | National Post
Did Anita Anand get ChatGPT to write her Israel-Iran tweet?

Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Canadians reject that they live on 'stolen' Indigenous land

Arsen Ostrovsky | National Post
Israel did the West a favour by attacking Iran's nuclear program

Murray Brewster | CBC News
Where the G7 came from — and where it might go

International News

CBS News
How the U.S. Army was born - and a free nation realized

NBC News
Poll: Americans disapprove of Trump's performance

BBC News
Hiding in the fields - farm workers fearing deportation stay in California's shadows

BBC News
Trump addresses huge military parade - More - More - More

USA Today
'Not a big fan': Rand Paul criticizes Trump military parade, says it 'glorified weapons' - More

The Guardian
Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump - More

The Daily Beast
Trump Turns Presidency Into His Cash Cow With $600M Haul

The Associated Press
Authorities still searching for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers - More

CNN News
Manhunt underway after Minnesota Democratic House leader killed in ‘politically motivated’ attack

Agence France-Presse
Tourist reportedly suspected of murdering her family in Iceland is arrested - More

BBC News
ST Leukos: 'Wreckage could allow me to bury uncle killed by Hitler's navy' - More - More

The Guardian
UK moves jets to Middle East as Starmer refuses to rule out defending Israel

BBC News
UK advises against all travel to Israel

Defense One
Paris Air Show opens amid uncertainty

The Associated Press
Ukraine says Russia’s military losses have topped 1 million in three years of war

BBC News
Missiles hit central Israel as military claims fresh strikes on Iran nuclear infrastructure sites - More

Deutsche Welle
How Israel's Iron Dome and Iron Beam defense systems work

CNN News
Israeli death toll rises as conflict rages with Iran - More

NBC News
Israeli airstrikes rock Tehran; Trump said there will be peace soon

Defense One
Four scenarios for the Middle East, from a former IDF intel chief

The Daily Beast
Pentagon Pizza Tracker Betrayed Israeli Strike Plans Against Iran - More

The Guardian
Israel claims it has gained control of airspace over Tehran

The Guardian
Tehran accuses Israel of seeking to expand conflict after attack on gas facility

Deutsche Welle
Gulf states anxious about being drawn into Israel-Iran fight

The New York Times
India Plane Crash: What Investigators Might Examine

The Guardian
‘Miraculous’: How did passenger in seat 11A survive Air India crash?

National Post
A student is alive after missing doomed Air India flight by 10 minutes

The Associated Press
Today in History: 15 June - More

This Day in Aviation
15 June

Agence France-Presse
Donald Trump s'offre une parade militaire à Washington pendant que le reste du pays manifeste

Agence France-Presse
Trump ravi de sa parade militaire malgré une journée de manifestations à travers les É.-U.

Agence France-Presse
Macron se rend au Groenland apporter son soutien face aux visées de Trump

Reporters
Les tirailleurs de Poutine : enquête sur ces Africains dans les rangs de l’armée russe en Ukraine

Journal de l'Afrique
Mali, l'armée malienne assure avoir pris le dessus sur les rebelles du FLA

Agence France-Presse
En Ethiopie, confronté à un pompage massif, le lac Dembel meurt à petit feu

France 24
Des villes israéliennes touchées, les installations militaires iraniennes ciblées - Plus

France 24
Crash du Boeing 787 d'Air India : le bilan provisoire grimpe à 279 morts

International Commentary

Jacob Ware | Defense One
Is gun violence depressing military recruiting?

Kim Darroch | The Observer
A world on fire makes compelling case for G7 leaders to sit round table

Andrew Roth | The Guardian
Gathering stormclouds can’t wipe smile from Trump’s face as long-held dream of military parade is realised

David Reynolds | The Guardian
Trump is deeply obsessed with US history – but he has learned all the wrong lessons from it

Jason Burke | The Guardian
How the dismantling of Iran’s regional proxies paved way for Israel’s attack

Jack Straw | The Observer
Iran’s nuclear brinkmanship can’t mask a regime in decline

Steve Bloomfield | The Observer
No ordinary war: We have entered the age of impunity

Rana Rahimpour | The Observer
After panic and anger, Tehran dares to imagine life without the regime

Marina Hyde | The Guardian
So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun?

Tortoise Investigates | The Observer
Elon’s Spies: How the world’s richest man targets his enemies

Evan Moffitt | The Observer
Trump’s private prison donors to gain from jailing migrants

Michael Scherer | The Atlantic
Trump Says He Decides What ‘America First’ Means

Jon Ungoed-Thomas | The Observer
Flight 171: ‘They only had a few seconds. There were no good options’.

Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic
Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life

Bahar MAKOOI | France 24
Présidentielle 2028 : Gavin Newsom, pourfendeur de Trump, peut-il incarner l'espoir démocrate ?

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