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Canadian News

CTV News
Deaths of four officer cadets at RMC in 2022 not service-related, investigation rules

The Canadian Press
Desmond inquiry: 'Desperately needed' care absent in months before N.S. killings

The Hill Times
RCN won’t send ships in annual West Africa deployment amid readiness woes

CTV News
UFOs: Pilots describe 'bizarre' lights and 'triangle formation' over Canadian Prairies

CBC News
Who's who at the foreign interference inquiry

CBC News
Western Canada melts as weather swings from extreme cold to record highs, rain

The Guardian
Doukhobors in Canada to get historic apology

CBC News
His truck was stolen — twice. But it still took 17 days to get it back.

CTV News
93-year-old temperature records broken in B.C.

Radio-Canada
Ottawa dit envoyer des équipements militaires « non létaux » à Israël depuis le 7 octobre

La Presse canadienne
Le Canada versera 40 millions $ à d’autres ONG que l’UNRWA pour aider à Gaza - Plus

Radio-Canada
Le nucléaire pourrait « faire partie de la solution » après 2035, dit Hydro-Québec

Radio-Canada
Inondations en Colombie-Britannique : Pemberton déclare l’état d’urgence

Radio-Canada
Droit à la vie privée : qu’en est-il quand on utilise le téléphone du travail ?

Radio-Canada
Compte Facebook piraté ? Bonne chance pour le récupérer.

La Presse canadienne
Le ministre Champagne en contact avec des joueurs étrangers du secteur de l’épicerie

La Presse canadienne
Toyota relance un rappel de 7300 voitures en raison d’un coussin gonflable défectueux

Radio-Canada
Affichage au Québec : le chef bloquiste écrit à Antony Blinken

Canadian Commentary

Gary Mason | The Globe and Mail
The slow decline of the news industry is bad news for democracy

Tim Powers | The Hill Times
Apples to oranges

Ian Buruma | The Globe and Mail
The growing threat of messianic politics

John Ivison | National Post
Parliament’s carbon tax drama is ripped right out of Poilievre’s script

Tristin Hopper | National Post
Shocking internal report into ArriveCan finds shoddy bids, nonexistent contractors - More

Andrew Coyne | The Globe and Mail
The Federal Court’s Emergencies Act ruling isn’t what some Canadians think it is

Frank Stronach | National Post
Canada starting to look neo-feudal as rich-poor gulf widens

Marsha Lederman | The Globe and Mail
The alleged actions of some UNRWA workers are despicable. But aid must continue to flow to Gaza.

Jesse Kline | National Post
The UNRWA teachers who slaughtered Jews and the Canadian profs who admire them

Lawrence Herman | The Globe and Mail
This year, the West will fight China in the epic electric-vehicle trade war

Fannie Olivier | Radio-Canada
Les députés des Communes sont-ils encore capables de collaborer ?

International News

Aviation Week Network
U.S. Military 2023 Flight Safety Stats Show Engine Issue Costs

Reuters News Agency
James Webb telescope captures luminous images of 19 spiral galaxies

The Associated Press
Even before the revolution, America was a nation of conspiracy theorists

BBC News
Elmo responds to outpouring of angst on social media

The Associated Press
Groundhog Day’s biggest star is Phil, but the holiday’s deep roots extend well beyond Punxsutawney

The Guardian
US right-wing conspiracy theory touts Taylor Swift as ‘Pentagon asset’ - More

Salon
Trump says he's looking for new lawyers

BBC News
The 14th Amendment plan to disqualify Trump, explained

BBC News
Joe Biden versus Donald Trump: Where the contest will be won and lost

BBC News
US election 2024: Why the world is watching so closely

Reuters News Agency
Biden's job approval drops to 38% as border worries rise

The Associated Press
A grainy sonar image reignites excitement and skepticism over Earhart’s final flight - More

The Associated Press
Elon Musk cannot keep Tesla pay package worth more than $55 billion, judge rules

The New York Times
Nikki Haley Goes After Trump and Biden in ‘Grumpy Old Men’ Campaign

The Associated Press
The US hasn’t seen syphilis numbers this high since 1950

The New York Times
House Panel Approves Impeachment Charges Against Alejandro Mayorkas

The Associated Press
Federal Reserve is likely to show little urgency to cut interest rates

The Guardian
Sinn Féin says united Ireland ‘within touching distance’ as Stormont deal agreed

The Guardian
Finland strikes set to bring country to a standstill

BBC News
Police destroy ‘dangerous’ object outside Israeli embassy in Stockholm

The Associated Press
Norway's king, Harald V, is on sick leave

The Associated Press
France downsizes Paris 2024 opening ceremony crowd to around 300,000 spectators

The Associated Press
Belgian farmers choke off traffic arteries in fourth day of protests

The Associated Press
Protesting farmers have France’s government in a bind

The Guardian
EU proposes policy shift amid farmers’ protest

The Guardian
Giorgia Meloni to unveil plan to expand Italian influence in Africa

Foreign Policy
U.S. and Germany Push to Delay Ukraine NATO Membership Invite

The Guardian
Ukraine’s top general refuses request from Zelenskiy to step down

CNN News
Putin critic and anti-war candidate submits 105,000 signatures for Russian presidential election bid

BBC News
Vladimir Putin: Many Russians see no alternative candidate in election

The Guardian
South Sudan flooding hampers efforts to contain hepatitis E outbreak

The Associated Press
Heavy rains bring more hardship for displaced people in Gaza

BBC News
Injured, hungry and alone: The Gazan children orphaned by war

The Guardian
Hamas reportedly studying new ceasefire proposal

CBC News
In the absence of an official Israeli postwar plan, settlers push their goal of a Jewish Gaza

The Guardian
Iran on high alert as Biden mulls response to killing of US servicemen - More

BBC News
Kataib Hezbollah: Iran-backed group suspends attacks against US after drone strike - More

The Guardian
Iran not seeking war with US but ‘not afraid of it’, says military chief - More

The Guardian
Imran Khan, Pakistan former PM, sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption - More

The Guardian
Sultan Ibrahim becomes Malaysia’s king under a unique rotating monarch system - More

The Guardian
Japan’s former PM, 83-year-old Aso, piles insults on female foreign minister

BBC News
Red Sea attacks: Sheep and cattle left stranded off Australia's coast

Agence France-Presse
Tesla : un juge annule le plan de rémunération de Musk, estimé à 56 milliards de dollars

Agence France-Presse
États-Unis : la Federal Reserve maintient ses taux, ne voit pas encore de baisse

Agence France-Presse
Le Royaume-Uni alerte sur la « flotte fantôme » russe pour contourner les sanctions occidentales

Agence de presse Reuters
France et Grande-Bretagne vont renforcer leur coopération face aux migrants clandestins

Agence France-Presse
L'inflation en France ralentit nettement en janvier, à 3,1% sur un an - Plus

Le Figaro
Comment les agriculteurs mobilisés continuent à faire tourner leurs fermes

Agence France-Presse
JO Paris 2024 : places à 2700 euros ou gratuites, comment assister à la cérémonie d'ouverture ?

Agence de presse Reuters
L'UE propose un débat annuel sur l'aide à l'Ukraine face au veto hongrois

Agence France-Presse
Cinq dirigeants européens appellent à « redoubler d'efforts » pour soutenir Kiev

Agence de presse Reuters
La Russie attentive au sort du chef de l'armée ukrainienne, dit Kremlin

Agence France-Presse
Russie : le seul opposant à Poutine en lice pour la présidentielle a déposé ses signatures de soutien

Agence France-Presse
Soudan : la guerre entre l’armée et les paramilitaires a fait « près de 8 millions » de déplacés, selon l'ONU

Agence France-Presse
Conflit Israël-Hamas : combats intenses à Gaza où Tsahal inonde les tunnels du Hamas

Agence de presse Reuters
Les Houthis défient les marines américaine et britannique

Agence France-Presse
Mer Rouge : nouveaux tirs Houthis contre un navire de guerre américain

Agence France-Presse
L'armée américaine détruit un missile des Houthis qui menaçait des avions américains

Agence de presse Reuters
L'UE espère lancer sa mission en mer Rouge d'ici la mi-février

Agence France-Presse
Irak : qui sont ces factions armées pro-Iran engagées contre Washington ?

Agence France-Presse
Soldats américains tués en Jordanie: le mouvement « Résistance islamique en Irak » responsable

Agence France-Presse
Pakistan : 15 morts au total dans des affrontements avec des rebelles

Agence France-Presse
Pakistan : Imran Khan condamné à 14 ans de prison pour corruption - Plus

Agence France-Presse
La Malaisie investit son nouveau roi, le sultan milliardaire Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar

Radio-Canada
Un ancien général sous la dictature Suharto s’approche du pouvoir en Indonésie

Agence France-Presse
Un groupe de rock russe dissident menacé d'expulsion en Thaïlande

Agence France-Presse
Automobile : la Chine a dépassé le Japon comme premier exportateur mondial en 2023

Agence France-Presse
Un F-16 américain s'écrase au large de la Corée du Sud, son pilote secouru

Agence France-Presse
Soupçonné d'espionnage, le numéro deux du renseignement brésilien limogé par Lula - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Mexique : 19 morts et 22 blessés dans un accident de la route

International Commentary

Ross Douthat | The New York Times
Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and the Right’s Abnormality Problem

Eric Klinenberg | The New York Times
Why America Can’t Recover From That First Awful Covid Year

Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy
America Is Suffering From a Resolve Gap

Lakshya Jain and Armin Thomas | The New York Times
Trump Is the Republican Establishment Now

Fernanda Santos | The Atlantic
America’s Immigration Reckoning Has Arrived

Caroline de Gruyter | Foreign Policy
The Habsburg Solution for Viktor Orbán

Keith Johnson and Amy Mackinnon | Foreign Policy
The U.S. Is Considering Giving Russia’s Frozen Assets to Ukraine

Etan Nechin | The Guardian
It’s right to probe UNRWA’s problems – yet what would replace it? Its critics have no answer

Bret Stephens | The New York Times
Abolish the U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Paul Krugman | The New York Times
What’s the Matter With Europe?

Sarah Creighton | The Guardian
The DUP is celebrating this breakthrough – it should be apologising for the lives it has ruined