SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Friday, 20 September 2024 - Updated at 0830 hrs EDT

Canadian News

CBC News
Stolen portrait of Winston Churchill returning to Canada

CBC News
Ontario eyes barring new bike lanes where car lanes would be cut

CBC News
New limits on international students are causing turmoil among colleges, universities

The Canadian Press
Senior civil servants at provincial, territorial level invited to seek top secret clearance

CBC News
Singh, Poilievre have tense exchange during question period

CBC News
Poilievre’s push to bring down Trudeau

CBC News
Oil and gas to remain Manitoba energy sources in short term, NDP government concedes

The Ottawa Citizen
Defence Watch

The Maple Leaf
Defence Team News

Directorate of History and Heritage
Significant Dates in Canadian Military History

La Feuille d’érable
Nouvelles de l’Équipe de la Défense

Direction - Histoire et patrimoine
Dates significatives dans l’histoire militaire canadienne

International News

CISA Alert
Apple Releases Security Updates for Many Products

Reuters News Agency
Donald Trump says Jews will be partly to blame if he loses election

The New York Times
Harris, With an Online Avalanche, Outspends Trump by Tens of Millions

The New York Times
The New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi has been put on leave over a relationship

CBC News
Canadians among women accusing ex-Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed of sexual abuse

Reuters News Agency
Social media mobilises Poles to battle floods in historic Wroclaw

Reuters News Agency
Polish army helicopters join flood defence effort

Reuters News Agency
EU's 5 bln euro aid for Poland may not cover all flood losses

Reuters News Agency
Poland arrests former lawyer of late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky

Reuters News Agency
EU to announce 35 bln euro loan for Ukraine

Reuters News Agency
Ursula von der Leyen says she has arrived in Kyiv to discuss support for Ukraine

Reuters News Agency
Russia dismisses Zelenskiy's 'victory plan' as gambit to keep West onside

CBC News
Russia wants a baby boom, but some women resist becoming a mother for the motherland

Reuters News Agency
Morocco arrests 152 people for allegedly inciting illegal migration to Ceuta

Reuters News Agency
Hezbollah handed out pagers hours before blasts - even after checks

CBC News
Can phones be rigged to explode like the pagers in Lebanon?

Reuters News Agency
Taiwan and Bulgaria deny links to exploding pagers in Lebanon

Reuters News Agency
Israel unleashes heavy strikes on Lebanon

Reuters News Agency
United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon urge de-escalation after heavy airstrikes

Reuters News Agency
Israeli forces deepen raid in Rafah, kill 14 people across Gaza

Reuters News Agency
Striking Indian doctors set to resume essential services

Reuters News Agency
Sajith Premadasa, son of slain Sri Lanka president, now in contest for same post

Reuters News Agency
For Sri Lanka's minority Tamils, election does not offer hope

Reuters News Agency
Philippines eyes future missile launchers purchase, to retain US Typhon system

Reuters News Agency
Biden, 'Quad' leaders to talk maritime security as China tensions grow

Reuters News Agency
Russia accuses West of blatant pressure on China over Taiwan, expresses support to Beijing

The New York Times
A North Korean Trash Balloon Hits a Seoul Government Compound, Again

Reuters News Agency
China, Japan agree Fukushima discharge plan, paving way to restart seafood trade

The New York Times
On This Day: September 20 - BBC - This Day in Aviation

Agence QMI
Tympans déchirés, nez qui saignent: des problèmes de pression d’un vol Delta blessent dix passagers

Agence QMI
« Prédateur sexuel » en série : un ex-agent de la CIA écope de 30 ans de prison

Agence QMI
Un juge du Kentucky abattu par un shérif au palais de justice

Agence France-Presse
Soutenu par Trump, un candidat rattrapé par des publications controversées dans un site porno

Agence France-Presse
Les États-Unis accusent les géants des réseaux sociaux de « surveillance de masse »

Agence QMI
Le submersible « Titan » aurait connu une défaillance quelques jours avant la tragédie

Agence QMI
Un avion fait demi-tour à cause d’une souris surgie du repas d’une passagère

Agence France-Presse
L’UE annonce un prêt de 35 milliards d’euros à Kyïv financé par les avoirs gelés russes

Agence France-Presse
Ursula von der Leyen à Kyïv pour parler du « soutien » européen à l'approche de l'hiver

TVA Nouvelles
Attaque ukrainienne : l’explosion d’un dépôt de munitions en Russie cause un tremblement de terre

Agence France-Presse
Des médias affirment avoir identifié quelque 70 000 soldats russes tués en Ukraine

Agence France-Presse
Shanghai frappée par son deuxième typhon en moins d'une semaine

Agence France-Presse
Bipeurs du Hezbollah : le parquet de Taïwan confirme deux auditions

International Commentary

Thomas Chatterton Williams | The Atlantic
The Racism Is Elon Musk’s Fault - More

Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev | The Atlantic
America’s First True Dictator

Marina Koren | The Atlantic
How to Cool the World Without Blocking the Sun