SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Thursday, 11 September 2025 - Updated at 0635 hrs EDT

Canadian News

CBC News
Canada 'evaluating' relationship with Israel after Qatar attack: Anita Anand

La Presse canadienne
Ottawa veut suivre le recours à l’intelligence artificielle dans la fonction publique

La Presse canadienne
Ottawa dit avoir trouvé près de 500 façons de réduire les formalités administratives

Le Devoir
Le Québec s’en va chasser des contrats en défense à Londres

La Presse canadienne
Mark Carney se dit « confiant » pour l’avenir du Canada

La Presse canadienne
Le fédéral reste évasif quant à l’atteinte des objectifs climatiques pour 2030

Canadian Commentary

Briar Stewart | CBC News
Poland says it found 14 Russian drones on its territory. Just how will NATO respond?

David M. Shribman | The Globe and Mail
Charlie Kirk’s name joins the litany of those associated with an American history of violence

The Editorial Board | The Globe and Mail
Doug Ford threatens to put the Ontario economy on the rocks

Doug Saunders | The Globe and Mail
Qatar’s lesson: You don’t eliminate an enemy by bombing their path to retreat

International News

The Associated Press
US marks anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

NPR News
Bound by loss, split on justice: 9/11 families reflect 24 years later

NPR News
Inside the lab working to identify the remains of 9/11 victims

CBS News
How teachers are keeping the lessons of 9/11 alive for a new generation of students

NPR News
33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check

CNN News
Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative activist, dies after shooting at Utah Valley University - More

The Guardian
Search for Charlie Kirk's killer under way

Defense One
Today’s ICBMs may operate until 2050, GAO says

MSNBC News
Pressed on weak U.S. job growth, the White House line comes up far short

CBS News
House votes to repeal Iraq war authorizations

The Guardian
Larry Ellison briefly overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person

CBS News
Politics, retribution behind FBI purge, agents allege in new lawsuit against Patel, Bondi

CBS News
More than 300 Koreans detained by ICE at Georgia Hyundai plant heading home

The Guardian
Poland ‘closer to military conflict than at any time since WW2’

The Associated Press
NATO allies held Article 4 consultations after Russian drone incursion

The Hill
Schumer: Trump is ‘Neville Chamberlain of our time’

NBC News
Former top FBI officials sue, say Kash Patel fired them to stay in Trump's good graces

NBC News
Baltic states ask U.S. congress to uphold military support

The Associated Press
Clashes between police and protesters near Paris’ Gare du Nord train station

The Associated Press
Polish PM Donald Tusk vows to press ahead with military modernization

The Associated Press
Russian glide bomb attack in eastern Ukraine kills 24 people collecting their pensions

The Associated Press
Strike on Qatar shows limits of Israel’s elusive quest to vanquish Hamas

The Associated Press
Qatar official says Netanyahu ‘killed any hope’ of hostage release

The Associated Press
Hundreds seek to leave Nepal as the army tries to restore order after violent protests

Defense One
China is working to weaken Palau, the island nation’s president says

MSNBC News
Karoline Leavitt floats threats of ‘military might’ over Bolsonaro coup trial

The Associated Press
Today in History: 11 September - More

This Day in Aviation
11 September

France 24
France : Lecornu prend ses marques à Matignon - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Allemagne : l'auteur syrien de l'attaque au couteau de Solingen condamné à perpétuité - Plus

France 24
La Pologne dénonce "19 violations" de son espace aérien, trois drones russes abattus

Agence France-Presse
Serbie : deux étrangers soupçonnés de vouloir transmettre des secrets militaires américains à la Chine en fuite

France 24
Soudan : les rescapés d'El-Fasher, assiégée par les Forces de soutien rapide, témoignent

France 24
L'atrocité des crimes reprochés à Joseph Kony exposée devant la CPI

Agence France-Presse
Frappes au Qatar : les ennemis d'Israël n'ont « nulle part où se cacher », soutient Israël Katz

Agence France-Presse
Corée du Sud : au moins dix blessés dans une explosion sur une base militaire

International Commentary

David Frum | The Atlantic
Trump’s Military Rule

Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
What do you call Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay deal? Obscene.

Anthony L. Fisher | MSNBC News
Trump is taking America down a slippery slope where the military can kill anyone

Jarvis DeBerry | MSNBC News
Mike Johnson tries to sell Americans on the benefits of being occupied

Jules Darmanin | The Guardian
Macron played with fire by razing the middle ground. Now France is burning.

Paul Taylor | The Guardian
Russia is brazenly provoking the west. Putin must be left in no doubt of the consequences.

John DeVore | MSNBC News
Trump recasts Tom Hanks from war film icon to ‘woke’ MAGA avatar

Tom Nichols | The Atlantic
Russia’s Reckless Provocation

Phillips Payson O’Brien | The Atlantic
Russia Tested NATO in Poland. NATO Flunked.

Robert Kagan | The Atlantic
The Beginning of the End of NATO

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
The drone incursions into Poland

Abu Bakr Bashir and Itay Stern | NPR News
Israel has hunted its top enemies around the Middle East. What has it achieved?

Books

Kamala Harris | The Atlantic
The Constant Battle: The first excerpt from 107 Days - More

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