SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs
Tuesday, 28 October 2025 - Updated at 0855 hrs EDT
Canadian News
CTV News
Canadian defence companies cautiously optimistic about Budget 2025
CTV News
Carney says trade talks with U.S. ‘had been making progress’ until Ontario anti-tariff ad
The Canadian Press
David Eby says British Columbia’s anti-tariff ads, aimed at Americans, will go ahead
CTV News
‘Canada burned the bridges’: U.S. ambassador doubts tariff deal feasible before new year
CBC News
Trump’s outrage toward Canada ‘super childish behaviour,’ says U.S. Democratic senator
Business Insider
Doug Ford: The Reagan ad that blew up trade talks with Trump is the 'best ad that ever ran'
The Canadian Press
Prime Minister Carney’s visit to Singapore focuses on attracting investment in Canada
CBC News
RBC and CIBC allow 89-year-old to drain life savings, lose $1.7M to scammers
CBC News
Leaked files reveal CRA refunded millions by mistake
Agence France-Presse
One dead after plane from Canada crashes in Greenland
The Canadian Press
Canadians ditch once-popular Trump Halloween costumes this year
The Epic Times
Trump Says He Won’t Be Meeting With Carney ‘For a While’
The Guardian
Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea
Radio-Canada
États-Unis : les Canadiens bientôt tous photographiés à la frontière
Radio-Canada
Boeing, Calgary et Ottawa investissent dans l’aérospatial albertain
Radio-Canada
En Malaisie, Mark Carney présente le Canada comme un partenaire « fiable »
Canadian Commentary
Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer | The Hub
‘The president is clearly frustrated’: What’s really behind Trump’s latest tariff tirade?
Shannon Proudfoot | The Globe and Mail
What really enrages Donald Trump in that Ronald Reagan ad he doesn’t want anyone to see
Toby A.A. Heaps | The Globe and Mail
Fighting wildfires should be counted as defence spending, too
Peter Jones | The Globe and Mail
This isn’t just a hissy fit from Trump – it’s his ‘Art of the Deal’ playbook
Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
Yet another emergency for Trump to use to shake Canada down
Stephen Nagy | The Hub
Canada returns to Asia with pragmatism, not platitudes?
International News
NBC News
Gregory Bovino to face questioning after accusations of continued tear gas use in Chicago
NBC News
Minnesota man arrested after allegedly offering $45,000 for the killing of Pam Bondi
NBC News
How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans
NBC News
Elon Musk launches Grokipedia as an alternative to 'woke' Wikipedia
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CNN News
How the shutdown threatens to halt Trump’s aggressive nuclear security goals
The Daily Beast
Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design
NBC News
Amazon to lay off 14,000 corporate employees
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The Guardian
Trump told Pence ‘you’ll go down as a wimp’ in January 6 phone call, book says
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The Guardian
‘Change course now’: Humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says António Guterres
BBC News
Prince Andrew hosted Epstein, Maxwell and Weinstein at Royal Lodge
The Guardian
Von der Leyen says EU ‘cannot tolerate’ disruption of airspace
The Guardian
UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
BBC News
Sudan's army loses key city of el-Fasher to paramilitary RSF after 18-month siege
Agence France-Presse
Kenya Plane Crash Kills 10 Foreigners Heading To Maasai Mara National Park
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The Associated Press
Netanyahu says remains returned by Hamas are body parts of a hostage previously retrieved in Gaza
The Korea Herald
Protests against China, Trump spur tighter APEC security
NBC News
Trump addresses U.S. troops on aircraft carrier in Japan
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BBC News
Rare earths, Nobel nomination and cheers: Trump ends Japan leg of Asia tour
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Reuters News Agency
Man accused of killing former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to go on trial Tuesday
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The Guardian
Hurricane Melissa: Three dead in Jamaica
The Associated Press
Today in History: 28 October
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This Day in Aviation
28 October
Agence France-Presse
Israël affirme son droit de veto sur la force internationale à Gaza
Agence France-Presse
Argentine : Milei remporte largement les législatives de mi-mandat
Agence France-Presse
Un destroyer américain s’amarre à une trentaine de kilomètres du Venezuela
International Commentary
John Sparks | Sky News
Into the 'kill zone': How Ukraine fights a war of the future
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Michael Clarke | Sky News
'It will go down as a drone war'
Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles | The Daily Beast
'Weird' Stephen Miller Is Trump's Biggest Suck-Up
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Robert Reich | The Guardian
Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party
Aaron Blake | CNN News
Why Trump needs to keep the third-term talk going
Editorial | Le Monde
France's government has abandoned its climate plans
Peter Rothpletz | Zeteo
The US Fourth Estate is writing its own obituary in real time
Mark Hertling | The Bulwark
The Mixed Messages of Sending USS Gerald Ford to the Caribbean
Dalibor Rohac | The Bulwark
The ‘Transactional’ Trap
William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift | The Bulwark
Totally Brazen. Comically Corrupt. Painfully Dumb.
Anne Applebaum | The Atlantic
The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
Paul Taylor | The Guardian
Forget diplomatic niceties: It’s beyond time Europe denounced Trump’s trashing of democracy in the US
Jordana Timerman | The Guardian
Milei’s win in Argentina had Trump’s fingerprints all over it. But just how long will their friendship last?
Timothy Noah | The New Rebublic
Trump’s Ballroom Defenders Have Adopted the “Abundance” Argument
Ewan Palmer | The Daily Beast
Trump Violating Constitution ‘Not Hyperbole Anymore’
Éditorial | Le Monde
En France, une transition climatique laissée pour compte
Books
Kevin Power | The Guardian
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career
Peter Bradshaw | The Guardian
Film Palestine 36: An empassioned epic set during the Arab revolt against British colonial rule
Lives Lived
Trevor Pritchard | CBC News
Tim Cook has died aged 54
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