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Canadian News

CBC News
Major accused of smuggling firearms is award-winning marksman

The Canadian Press
EV battery deals to cost $5.8B more than government projected

CBC Radio
B.C. father reunites with his children from war-torn Gaza

Bloomberg News
Canada is so expensive that some Ukrainian immigrants are leaving

CBC News
Trudeau and Xi exchange hellos at APEC summit but don't formally meet

CBC News
Canada probing reports that B.C.-based company's drone tech ended up in Russia

CBC News
Six senior executives out as new board shakes up Alberta Health Services

La Presse canadienne
Trudeau a parlé à Benny Gantz, membre du cabinet de guerre israélien

Agence QMI
Météo au Québec : retour du froid et des précipitations pour la fin de semaine

Canadian Commentary

John Ivison | National Post
Ottawa's latest major IT project, ballooning by billions, presages another Phoenix debacle

Nicole Mortillaro | CBC News
Tired of hearing how every month or year is one for the record books?

Joe Clark | The Globe and Mail
To restore unity in Canada, we need to build national understanding

urel Braun and Avi Benlolo | National Post
Hamas massacres funded by western aid money

Andrew Coyne | The Globe and Mail
Hold Israel to fighting within the rules, but blame Hamas for the war, and its casualties

Konrad Yakabuski | The Globe and Mail
Time is running out to avert Donald Trump’s ‘revenge’ presidency

International News

Stars and Stripes
Suicide rate for female veterans rose 24% during COVID pandemic

Business Insider
Friendly fire: Trump gets beaten up by his own fraud-trial expert - More

The Associated Press
Colorado judge keeps Trump on ballot, rejecting challenge under Constitution’s insurrection clause

The Associated Press
Judge rejects Trump’s request for a mistrial in his New York civil fraud case

Axios
Schwarzenegger on Trump, Biden: "They're both flawed"

Axios
New York's hospital cybersecurity rules could spur similar mandates

Bloomberg News
TikTok removes videos promoting Osama bin Laden's 'Letter to America' about 9/11

The Guardian
Apple, Disney and IBM to pause ads on X after antisemitic Elon Musk tweet

The Guardian
OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board

The Guardian
Grindavík residents unsure whether they’ll ever return to volcano-threatened town

Global News
Earth facing dire sea level rise even if climate goals met

Agence France-Presse
French senator held in custody on suspicion of spiking MP’s drink - More

Agence France-Presse
Erdogan on 'challenging' visit to Germany despite differences on war in Gaza

The Guardian
Ukraine says it has carried out ‘successful actions’ on Dnipro east bank

VOA News
Thousands of Ukrainian Children Forcibly Taken to Belarus

Business Insider
Russia keeps building ineffective jets for its aircraft carriers

VOA News
Russia Using New Technology to Spot Adversary Aircraft

Agence France-Presse
Sudan armed conflict spreading to new regions, warns UN

The Guardian
Solar energy could power all health facilities in poorer countries and save lives, experts say

CBC News
Why is a ceasefire in Gaza so contentious?

CBC News
Can Israel defeat Hamas with fewer civilian casualties?

The Guardian
IDF says it has retrieved body of soldier taken hostage by Hamas

NPR News
Israel says it will allow limited deliveries of fuel to Gaza for aid needs - More

PBS NewsHour
Israeli airstrike leaves at least 40 dead in southern city once a refuge for Gazans

The Guardian
IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ

France 24
Communications down across Gaza as Israel continues to search Al Shifa hospital - More

Stars and Stripes
USS Thomas Hudner that shot down drone launched from Yemen was not the intended target

Aviation Week Network
UAE Orders Domestically Developed Reach-S UAS

Stars and Stripes
US and Philippine Marines practice defending island as defense chiefs meet

The Guardian
Australian military whistleblower pleads guilty over Afghan Files leak

The Guardian
Milei fraud-claims echo Trump ahead of Argentinian presidential runoff

The Associated Press
Biden and López Obrador talk fentanyl, migration during San Francisco meeting

Agence France-Presse
Le décollage de la fusée Starship conçue par SpaceX repoussé à samedi

Le Figaro
Xi Jinping « dictateur » : la détresse dans le regard d’Antony Blinken

Agence France-Presse
L'agresseur du mari de Nancy Pelosi reconnu coupable

Agence France-Presse
Le fondateur de ChatGPT précise sa vision de l’intelligence artificielle

Agence France-Presse
Royaume-Uni : le ministère de la Défense visé par des accusations de sexisme et harcèlement

Agence France-Presse
Selon Joaquin Phoenix, Napoléon était un « petit tyran irritable »

Le Figaro
Calais : une quinzaine de migrants percutés par un poids lourd

Agence France-Presse
Alertes à la bombe dans un collège du Mans : une enfant de 11 ans convoquée par le parquet

Agence France-Presse
Tempêtes : un fonds d'urgence de 50 millions d'euros pour les sinistrés en Bretagne et dans la Manche

Le Figaro
Menacé par des militants écologistes, l’aéroport de Caen évacué et le trafic interrompu

Agence France-Presse
La SNCF va installer des centres de télémédecine dans environ 300 gares

Agence France-Presse
Olaf Scholz reçoit Recep Tayyip Erdoğan à Berlin - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Grèce : un mort et 18 rescapés dans le naufrage d’un bateau de migrants - Plus

Agence France-Presse
L'armée ukrainienne revendique des opérations « réussies » sur la rive occupée du Dniepr

France 24
Regain de violences au Darfour, le Liberia en attente, Kidal reprise par le Mali

Agence France-Presse
Sept Palestiniens tués par l'armée israélienne en Cisjordanie

Agence France-Presse
L'armée israélienne annonce avoir retrouvé la dépouille d'une soldate otage à Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Israël fouille le principal hôpital de Gaza, où les communications sont hors service - Plus

France 24
Les réfugiés palestiniens de Jordanie inquiets pour leurs proches à Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Inde : le sauvetage des ouvriers bloqués dans un tunnel peut encore prendre 48 heures

Agence France-Presse
Philippines : séisme de magnitude 6,7 dans le Sud, aucune victime signalée

Agence France-Presse
La Chine avertit le Japon que le rejet des eaux affecte « la santé de toute l'humanité » - Plus

France 24
Peuples autochtones face au changement climatique : être Guna au Panama, quand l’océan monte

France 24
Système ou antisystème, le choix cornélien des Argentins à la veille du second tour

International Commentary

Oliver Haynes | The Guardian
The world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate

Margaret Sullivan | The Guardian
By affirming an antisemitic trope, Elon Musk sinks to a dangerous new low

Adam Rogers | Business Insider
If we want to keep America from collapsing, we have to do the unthinkable

Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
Too many taking sides in this conflict miss the true nature of Hamas – and Netanyahu

Books

Hillel Italie | The Associated Press
Salman Rushdie receives first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award