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
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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
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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
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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
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NBC News
Migrants and Democrats are skeptical of Noem's $200 million 'self-deportation' TV ad campaign
The Associated Press
Navy reverses demotion of Rep. Ronny Jackson, ex-White House doctor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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