SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Wednesday, 30 April 2025 - Updated at 1350 hrs EDT

Canadian News

CBC News
Is it R.I.P. for the federal NDP? Not quite, experts say

CBC News
These MPs won't be returning to Parliament

CBC News
Trump's plans to mine the deep ocean are untested and could cause environmental harm, say mining experts

CBC News
High levels of DDT found in N.B. brook trout decades after spraying

Canadian Commentary

Peter Armstrong | CBC News
Now comes the hard part for Mark Carney

Konrad Yakabuski | The Globe and Mail
Liberal gains in Quebec have upended the PQ’s sovereigntist game plan

Andrew Coyne | The Globe and Mail
A tale of two elections: Trump vs. change made for an uncertain mandate

Jamie Sarkonak | National Post
Trump's belligerence left Poilievre's campaign no room for error

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
The good and unnecessarily bad of Pierre Poilievre

Robyn Urback | The Globe and Mail
Pierre Poilievre was the right man for the moment. Then the moment changed.

Gérald Fillion | Radio-Canada
Face aux attentes élevées, Mark Carney doit opter pour l’humilité

Christian Noël | Radio-Canada
L’avenir politique de Pierre Poilievre, chef sans siège

Laurianne Croteau | Radio-Canada
Donald Trump : 100 jours de décrets présidentiels

International News

Defense One
Pentagon warns it’s not prepared for homeland drone attack

Defense One
The U.S. Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use

Defense One
After NGAD loss, Lockheed says it will ‘supercharge’ F-35

CBC News
Trump announces F-15EXs to replace A-10s at Selfridge AFB

The Associated Press
Black female WWII unit, ‘Six Triple Eight,’ receives congressional medal

NBC News
Trump's economy at 100 days: Unprecedented uncertainty reigns

NBC News
Stocks slide after report shows economy shrank ahead of Trump's tariffs

NBC News
Trump, who promised Day 1 relief and lower prices, talks of a 'transition period'

CBS News
Fired public television officials sue Trump administration to block terminations

CBS News
How Trump's policies and Project 2025 proposals match up

NBC News
The man who led Project 2025 gives his assessment of Trump's first 100 days

NBC News
After her defeat, Kamala Harris re-emerges to weigh in on Trump - More

Reuters News Agency
Trump says order to soften auto tariffs' impact will give a 'little relief' to industry

The Associated Press
UPS to cut 20,000 jobs, close some facilities

The Associated Press
Storm leaves three dead in Pennsylvania and about 500K customers without power

NBC News
Hundreds of North Korean troops killed while fighting Ukraine, Seoul says

CBS News
Man accused of trying to kill Russian army pilots with poisoned liquor

BBC News
Pakistan claims India is planning an imminent military strike - More

Reuters News Agency
Celebrations in Ho Chi Minh City mark 50 years since end of Vietnam war - More

BBC News
Fifty years after the war, Vietnam faces a new US threat - tariffs

The Associated Press
Kim Jong-un watches missile test-firings from country’s first destroyer

BBC News
Xi's real test is not Trump's trade war

The Associated Press
Three astronauts return to Earth after six months on China’s space station

The Associated Press
Today in History: 30 April

This Day in Aviation
30 April

France 24
100 jours de Trump : le bras de fer avec Pékin

International Commentary

Jon Duffy | Defense One
I went to the Naval Academy to defend freedom, not to dismantle it

Dana Milbank | The Washington Post
Give ‘Sleepy Joe’ a rest. Trump has nobody to blame but himself.

Jamelle Bouie | The New York Times
Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt

Julia Angwin | The New York Times
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State

Catherine Rampell | The Washington Post
No, thank you. I don’t want to appear on one of Trump’s ‘lists.’

Andriy Yermak | The Guardian
Russia has offered a short ceasefire in Ukraine – but here’s what Putin really wants

Mirza Waheed | The Guardian
A massacre has reignited the forever war between India and Pakistan

Sébastian SEIBT | France 24
100 jours de Donald Trump : DOGE, un outil aussi inefficace que dangereux

Book Reviews

Jill Lepore | The New Yorker
“In case of emergency, break open a book.”

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