SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Thursday, 4 September 2025 - Updated at 0900 hrs EDT

Canadian News

CBC News
Unions preparing to 'fight' as Canada sees the most strike action in decades

CBC News
Wildfires close major B.C. routes including Coquihalla Highway

CBC News
Air quality warnings spread across B.C. as wildfire smoke lingers, heat records topple

CBC News
PHAC cutting hundreds of jobs as part of 'post-pandemic recalibration'

CBC News
Sask. RCMP raid 'Queen of Canada' cult compound, arrest 16 adults

CBC Radio
The Alberta book ban saga

CBC News
B.C. Ferries passenger goes overboard on Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay route

CBC News
Carney doesn't expect immediate tariff relief after 'good conversation' with Trump

CBC News
Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting - More

CBC News
Storing carbon underground? There's less room than we thought, new study suggests

Canadian Commentary

Kevin Lynch and Jim Mitchell | The Globe and Mail
Implementing Canada’s new defence priorities will take more work than just finding the money

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
There is no flood of newcomers anymore, Mr. Poilievre

David M. Shribman | The Globe and Mail
Is there no end to Trump extending the prerogatives of presidential power?

André Picard | The Globe and Mail
Doug Ford is barking up the wrong tree with his ban on animal research

Trevor Neiman | National Post
Canada must treat fighting espionage as a national priority

International News

The Associated Press
Trump administration takes tariffs fight to U.S. Supreme Court - More

NBC News
Federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases

CNN News
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser aiming to ‘get out of’ Trump’s takeover

NBC News
The U.S. is headed toward two very different vaccination realities - More

CBS News
Americans say vaccines should be made more available

CBS News
Judge rules Trump administration's funding freeze against Harvard was unlawful

CNN News
Epstein abuse survivors speak on Capitol Hill

BBC News
Epstein accusers say they are compiling list of his associates

CNN News
Epstein files push hits a ‘boiling point’ in Congress as Trump dismisses it as a hoax - More

NBC News
Migrants and Democrats are skeptical of Noem's $200 million 'self-deportation' TV ad campaign

CBS News
Trump administration to end temporary status of another 268,000 Venezuelan migrants, urging them to self-deport

The Associated Press
Navy reverses demotion of Rep. Ronny Jackson, ex-White House doctor - More

CBS News
The government's next jobs report lands Friday

CNN News
Trump is primed to cash in on the crypto gold rush he’s helping create

The Associated Press
Google can keep Chrome but needs to give up some data, judge rules in antitrust case - More

BBC News
Tesco trials avocado ripeness scanners

CBC Radio
The threat next door: How Finns prepare for a Russian attack

The Associated Press
At least 17 dead, more than 20 injured, in funicular accident in Lisbon - More

CBS News
Trump commits to pursuing Russia-Ukraine peace

BBC News
Putin says Russia will achieve all aims militarily if Ukraine does not agree deal

BBC News
Vladivostok : It's 4,000 miles from Ukraine - but even this Asian city is part of Russia's war

BBC News
Israel intensifies Gaza City attacks

CBC News
Why starving Gaza is never going to defeat Hamas

The Associated Press
Death toll from Afghan earthquake jumps to 2,205

BBC News
Bomb blast kills 15 near political rally in Pakistan

BBC News
What new weapons on show at huge parade say about China's military strength

CBC News
China's lavish military parade could signal an attempted shift in world order

BBC News
What do we know about Kim Jong-un's daughter - and potential successor?

BBC News
China spectacle shows dangers of Trump's high-risk trade policy

BBC News
Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality - More - More

BBC News
Top Australian soldier loses final bid to overturn defamation ruling

CNN News
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has broken up

NBC News
Long-lost painting looted by Nazis recovered after it was spotted in a real estate listing - More

BBC Verify
US strike on 'Venezuela drug boat': What do we know, and was it legal?

BBC News
What is Trump's goal as US bombs 'Venezuela drugs boat' and deploys warships?

NBC News
'Venezuela has been a very bad actor,' Trump says

Agence France-Presse
Soldiers doused with gasoline, set on fire during mission to destroy cocaine lab, Colombian army says

The Associated Press
Hurricane Lorena weakens as risk of flash floods and mudslides for Mexico's west coast remain

The Associated Press
Today in History: 4 September - More

This Day in Aviation
4 September

Agence France-Presse
Droits de douane jugés illégaux : l’administration Trump saisit la Cour suprême

Radio-Canada
ICE : gros plan sur la police de l’immigration de Donald Trump

Agence France-Presse
Une juge annule le gel du financement d’Harvard commandé par Trump

Agence France-Presse
Une ville datant de l’époque de la ruée vers l’or en Californie était en ruines mercredi

Agence France-Presse
Dans une Bulgarie dépeuplée, l'afflux de travailleurs ouzbeks

Agence France-Presse
Portugal : Deuil national après le déraillement meurtrier d’un funiculaire - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Cause de l'accident, bilan humain : ce que l'on sait du déraillement d'un funiculaire à Lisbonne

France 24
Guerre en Ukraine : immersion au cœur des combats dans le Donbass

Agence France-Presse
Israël dit s’attendre à la fuite d’un million d’habitants de la ville de Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Yémen : Des employés de l’ONU détenus et soupçonnés d’espionnage

Agence France-Presse
Séisme en Afghanistan : Le bilan passe à 2200 morts, l’aide tarde malgré des besoins considérables

Agence France-Presse
Kim Jong-un s’est entretenu avec Xi Jinping

Agence France-Presse
Xi et Poutine échangent sur la possibilité de vivre éternellement

Agence France-Presse
Le Venezuela accuse les États-Unis d’exécutions extrajudiciaires

Agence France-Presse
L’iceberg A23a fond au large de l’Antarctique

International Commentary

David Frum | The Atlantic
The Fight for Truth

Thomas B. Edsall | The New York Times
Trump’s Most Fateful Teardown Is Happening Now

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
Trump continues to insist that he must have the powers of a dictator

Lawrence O'Donnell | MSNBC News
The most perverse thing during Blanche/Maxwell interview was their laughter

Sébastian SEIBT | France 24
Flamingo, le missile à très longue portée "made in Ukraine" entre en action

Books

Nil Köksal | CBC Radio
Linden MacIntyre pulls 'lawless' British general out of historical shadows in new book - More - More

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