SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Sunday, 7 September 2025 - Updated at 1815 hrs EDT

Canadian News

CBC News
Missing Canadian soldier found dead in Latvia

CBC News
Igor Gouzenko defected 80 years ago. His Cold War-era bravery hasn't been forgotten.

Radio-Canada
Une saison exceptionnelle des feux de forêt en Atlantique

Radio-Canada
Alberta : La ministre Adriana LaGrange défend le plan vaccinal contre la COVID-19

Radio-Canada
T.N.-O. : Un feu de forêt poursuit sa lente progression vers la route 1

Canadian Commentary

Aaron Wherry | CBC News
Is the zero-emission vehicle mandate dead or merely sleeping?

International News

NBC News
'Chipocalypse Now': Trump threatens Chicago with deportations and Department of War

The Associated Press
Trump's threats loom over Chicago's Mexican Independence Day celebrations

The Guardian
West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’

BBC News
Pilot who tried to cut off engine midair after taking mushrooms pleads guilty

CBS News
Experts work to ID remains of Revolutionary War soldiers found in woods of South Carolina

NBC News
Evacuation orders issued in Southern California as wildfire rages

CNN News
Trump’s former surgeon general calls for RFK Jr. to be fired

NBC News
Space travel may accelerate the aging of stem cells by as much as 10 fold

NBC News
South Korea vows 'all-out efforts' to help hundreds detained in raid at Hyundai facility in Georgia

NBC News
What's next for Trump's tariffs?

The Observer
Big Tech woos Trumps to fend off the big stick

The Observer
Why the world’s navies are queuing for sub-hunters built on the Clyde

France 24
Ukraine’s main government building ablaze in massive Russian air attack - More

The Guardian
Zelenskyy says nearly 60% of weapons are domestically made

BBC News
Inflatable tanks and flat-pack guns - inside Ukraine's decoy war

NBC News
Fate of thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia hangs in the balance of talks

BBC News
Boko Haram kills at least 60 in overnight attack on Nigerian village

The Associated Press
Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Middle East

Reuters News Agency
OPEC+ will likely raise oil output further from October

Reuters News Agency
China’s military follows Australian and Canadian warships in Taiwan Strait accusing them of ‘provocation’

The Guardian
Xi, Putin, Kim and the optics of a new world order

NBC News
Cleansed, toned, tariffed: How the end of the de minimis exemption is impacting Korean beauty

NBC News
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to step down

The Associated Press
American pilot and influencer Ethan Guo released from Antarctic air base

The Associated Press
Today in History: 7 September - More

This Day in Aviation
7 September

Radio-Canada
Menacés, des juges américains témoignent

Radio-Canada
Le moustique tigre – et les virus qu’il propage – envahit l’Europe

France 24
Ukraine : le siège du gouvernement en feu après une attaque aérienne russe

Le Figaro
La Turquie va construire le plus gros navire de guerre d’un pays méditerranéen

Agence France-Presse
Thaïlande : le nouveau premier ministre prend ses fonctions

International Commentary

Zeeshan Aleem | MSNBC News
Trump's 'Department of War' launch is more than just a shallow rebrand

Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
One by one, leaders learn that grovelling to Trump leads to disaster. When will it dawn on Starmer?

Heather Cox Richardson | Global News
Trump demands Republicans’ loyalty

Scott Lincicome | The Atlantic
America’s Perón

Will Gottsegen | The Atlantic
Trump’s Crypto Dealings Now Have the Perfect Cover

Sir Richard Lambert | The Observer
The six warning signs as crypto is welcomed into the US mainstream

Rogé Karma | The Atlantic
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

Dhruv Khullar | The New Yorker
R.F.K., Jr., Brings More Chaos to COVID Policy and the C.D.C.

Zeeshan Aleem | MSNBC News
Trump's tariffs were supposed to revive U.S. manufacturing. They're wrecking it.

Patricia Clarke | The Observer
The millionaire guinea pigs risking death to live for ever

Kate Maltby | The Observer
Putin’s fear of death is his weak spot

Kim Willsher | The Observer
Revolution 2.0: France’s political future could be won or lost by bots and memes

Kenan Malik | The Observer
British identity isn’t neatly tied in red, white and blue

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