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Canadian News

CBC News
Evacuation order issued as wildfire threatening Fort McMurray draws closer

CBC News
More evacuations ordered as wildfire closes in on Fort Nelson

CBC News
Water in N.W.T.'s Great Slave Lake is now so low, some houseboats won't float

CBC News
Why this solar storm was so monumental, and other things to know about the lightshow

CBC News
Canada's new cancer figures reflect a mixed message: study

CBC News
Some blame outsiders for spread of pro-Palestinian encampments. The idea isn't new.

National Post
Some illegal border crossers receive $224 in food and accommodation per day while awaiting processing

National Post
Canada Post loses $750M and taxpayers could be on the hook as Crown corp. hits 'critical juncture'

Postmedia News
British Columbians will soon be able to get up to $16,000 off the cost of installing a heat pump

The Globe and Mail
Team Canada campaign aims to build U.S. relationships in preparation for possible Trump victory

CBC News
Ontario to suspend driving licences of convicted auto thieves

CBC News
Crown lays out arguments as Pat King goes to trial on conduct during 2022 convoy protest

Radio-Canada
Feu de Fort McMurray : un ordre d’évacuation est en vigueur

Radio-Canada
La MRC projette le déploiement de navires de guerre sans équipage

Radio-Canada
La « renaissance » du nucléaire ontarien

La Presse canadienne
Mélanie Joly commence une visite au Moyen-Orient et en Europe

Radio-Canada
L’Ontario a besoin de 33 000 infirmières de plus d’ici 2032

La Presse canadienne
Sept experts en médias ont été sélectionnés pour aider à moderniser CBC/Radio-Canada

Canadian Commentary

Scott Taylor | Esprit de Corps
The Canadian Armed Forces’ bloated head

Jesse Kline | National Post
Trudeau's bloated public service monster turns on him

The Editorial Board | The Globe and Mail
A summer of discontent from Ottawa’s unions is worth the heat

Rahim Mohamed | National Post
Mélanie Joly pretending a Palestinian state exists won't make it so

Barbara Kay | National Post
Rex Murphy was the people's intellectual

Conrad Black | National Post
Political correctness and faddish zealotry had no more effective opponent than Rex Murphy

Peter Mansbridge | National Post
No one could outsmart or outword Rex Murphy

Raymond J. de Souza | National Post
Rex Murphy was the true guardian of Canadian identity — not the pretenders on the left

Kelly McParland | National Post
Pierre Poilievre's small-government revolution should start with cabinet

Colby Cosh | National Post
Javier Milei's careful game of Diplomacy 101 (Falklands edition)

International News

The Associated Press
OpenAI previews chatbot with real-time voice capabilities

BBC News
How good is the latest version of ChatGPT? - More

BBC News
Google's new AI can find lost eyeglasses

Reuters News Agency
Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira faces US military justice hearing

Reuters News Agency
Lidar maker Hesai sues US government, denies alleged link to China's military

Reuters News Agency
Major airlines sue USDOT over fee disclosure rule

Reuters News Agency
US opens probe into Alphabet's Waymo over 'unexpected behavior' of self-driving vehicles

BBC News
Inside the giant 'sky rivers' swelling with climate change

Reuters News Agency
US overhauls electric grid to make way for more renewables

Reuters News Agency
Missouri man pleads guilty to crashing truck into White House security barriers

CBC News
Destroying Michael Cohen: Trump team sets off on mission at trial - More - More

Reuters News Agency
West, Russia manage limited cooperation in Arctic despite chill in ties

Reuters News Agency
China poses genuine and increasing cyber risk, GCHQ's Anne Keast-Butler says

The Guardian
MPs urged to change law so frozen Russian assets can help aid Ukraine

Reuters News Agency
Julian Assange: Who is WikiLeaks founder and what did he do?

BBC News
Rouen prison van attack: Huge manhunt after prison officers killed in ambush - More - More

BBC News
Who is escaped prisoner Mohamed Amra?

The Guardian
German court fines senior AfD politician €13,000 for using banned Nazi phrase

CBC News
Stepped-up Russian attacks on Kharkiv a problem that Kyiv cannot ignore

Reuters News Agency
Zelenskiy lauds U.S. aid package, asks Blinken for air defences

BBC News
Blinken visits during moment of peril for Ukraine - More

Reuters News Agency
Houses damaged in Ukraine attack on Russia's Belgorod, governor says

Reuters News Agency
Putin appoints Nikolai Patrushev and Alexei Dyumin as Kremlin aides - More

Stratfor
Putin Taps an Economist to Head Russia's Defense Ministry - More

Reuters News Agency
Putin to visit China on to deepen partnership with Xi Jinping

Reuters News Agency
Israeli tanks push into Gaza's Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again

Reuters News Agency
Israeli forces back in old Gaza battlegrounds as doubts over war aims grow

CBC News
Why the UN changed its death tolls of Palestinian women and children killed in Gaza

The Associated Press
Israel risks 'insurgency with many armed Hamas left,' Antony Blinken says

BBC News
Almost 450,000 people have fled Rafah in a week, UN says

Reuters News Agency
Red Cross sets up Rafah emergency field hospital

BBC News
UN says Indian staff member killed in Gaza

BBC News
Riot police move in on Georgia parliament protesters

The Guardian
US warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west

Reuters News Agency
PM says no evidence of ship-to-ship transfer of Iranian oil off Malaysia

Reuters News Agency
Death toll from floods in Indonesia's West Sumatra rises to over 50

Reuters News Agency
Thai activist charged with royal insult dies in pre-trail detention

Radio-Canada
Témoignage de Michael Cohen : la défense au procès de Donald Trump passe à l’attaque

Radio-Canada
Affaire Stormy Daniels : « Tu dois t’en occuper », a ordonné Trump, selon Michael Cohen

The Associated Press
Un accident d’autocar fait au moins huit morts et 40 blessés en Floride

Agence France-Presse
La justice nord-irlandaise retoque la loi britannique pour expulser des migrants au Rwanda

Agence France-Presse
Royaume-Uni : les députés arrêtés pour infractions sexuelles risquent d'être interdits de Parlement

Le Figaro
Plusieurs centaines de kilomètres d’embouteillages en Île-de-France ce mardi matin

Le Figaro
Paris : le mur des Justes du Mémorial de la Shoah recouvert de «mains rouges», symbole pro-palestinien

Agence France-Presse
Une cinquantaine d’étudiants propalestiniens évacués de l'université de Genève

Agence France-Presse
Un record de près de 76 millions de déplacés internes dans le monde, selon une ONG

Agence France-Presse
Visite surprise de Blinken en Ukraine en pleine offensive russe

Agence France-Presse
« Pas de menace » contre Kharkiv malgré l’offensive des forces russes, selon l’Ukraine

Agence France-Presse
Russie : arrestation d'un haut responsable du ministère de la Défense

Agence France-Presse
L'ex-chef du conseil de sécurité russe devient conseiller de Poutine

Agence France-Presse
Vladimir Poutine se rendra en Chine jeudi et vendredi

Le Figaro
La drôle de méthode canine de l’aéroport d’Istanbul pour apaiser les passagers

Radio-Canada
L’armée israélienne lance de nouvelles opérations dans l'est de Rafah

Agence France-Presse
« Près de 450.000 » Gazaouis ont été déplacés de Rafah depuis le 6 mai, selon l'ONU

Agence France-Presse
Prisonniers français en Iran : Téhéran dénigre la position de Paris

Agence France-Presse
La Géorgie adopte la loi sur l’« influence étrangère » en dépit des manifestations

Agence France-Presse
La junte birmane poursuit le déploiement du service militaire

Le Figaro
Nouvelle-Calédonie : les émeutes relancent le débat politique sur la réforme du corps électoral

Le Figaro
En Australie, Elon Musk et X remportent une importante bataille judiciaire

International Commentary

Margaret Sullivan | The Guardian
Trump’s hush-money case has proved he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?

Editorial | The Guardian
Russia’s new offensive: Ukraine’s allies must renew their focus

Amy Mackinnon | Foreign Policy
Who Is Russia’s New Defense Minister?

Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy
The Day After Iran Gets the Bomb

Chris Stokel-Walker | The Guardian
Laughing, chatting, singing, GPT-4o is AI close to human, but watch out: It’s really not human

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