SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

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Canadian News

CBC News
What's behind a historic, unusual U.S. military cash transfer to Canadian mines

CBC Radio
Stressed at work? Anxious about the wider world? You might be part of 'The Great Exhaustion'.

Global News
CSIS warns some LGBTQ2 events, venues may face threats from ‘lone actors

The Canadian Press
$900M project to create hydrogen plants, refuelling stops in B.C.

CBC News
Key figure in Freedom Convoy Pat King argues police, city failed residents at trial

Radio-Canada
Le soldat inconnu de retour à T.-N.-L. après plus d’un siècle

La Presse canadienne
Propriété privée ou espace public? Les campements suscitent un débat juridique.

Radio-Canada
La Sûreté du Québec met en garde contre des fraudes téléphoniques

Radio-Canada
Les disparitions d’enfants sont de plus en plus fréquentes au Québec

La Presse canadienne
Les libéraux estiment que leur crédibilité est «au plafond» en matière de finances

Radio-Canada
Québec solidaire adopte la Déclaration de Saguenay

Canadian Commentary

Jesse Kline | National Post
The wrath of Khan, and the failure of Trudeau

Tristin Hopper | National Post
Federal report warns of nightmare scenarios (that are already happening) - More

Conrad Black | National Post
The demonization of John A. Macdonald is tiresome

Marc Levinson | The Globe and Mail
The decline of stuff: Why manufactured goods are becoming less important to the global economy

Michael Bociurkiw | The Globe and Mail
Visiting Ottawa, it was sad to see what has become of my hometown

Darcy Keith | The Globe and Mail
A retired CAF member built up an $883,500 TFSA that generates $11,000 a month in tax-free income

International News

CNN News
Scientists locate origin of the sun’s magnetic field - More

The Associated Press
12 people injured after Qatar Airways plane hits turbulence on way to Dublin - More - Photo

BBC News
Pilot dies after Spitfire crash in Lincolnshire field - More

The Guardian
RAF pilot killed in Spitfire crash named as Mark Long - More

Reuters News Agency
UK Conservatives pitch national service at 18

The Guardian
Rishi Sunak’s national service pledge is ‘bonkers’, says Adm. Alan West

CBC Radio
'I am not a typo' campaign wants tech companies to change their autocorrection dictionaries

Reuters News Agency
Lithuanians vote in presidential election overshadowed by Russia

The Guardian
Thousands of Parisians take part in free picnic on the Champs-Élysées

BBC News
Some Parisians save 'le pipi' to help the Seine

Reuters News Agency
Macron heads to Germany in first French presidential state visit in 24 years

The Observer
‘They call us Nazis’: Inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise

The Associated Press
A new global pandemic agreement is near. But why can’t countries agree on a plan?

Reuters News Agency
Zelenskiy, from Kharkiv, urges Biden, Xi to join peace summit

BBC News
Russian strike on Kharkiv supermarket kills 12 - More

BBC News
Meet the Peaky Blinders - Ukraine's drone squad defending Kharkiv

BBC News
The ANC hopes to conquer but will it struggle in South Africa poll?

CNN News
Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv - More

Reuters News Agency
Aid trucks expected to start entering Gaza through Kerem Shalom crossing

Reuters News Agency
Aircraft hit by severe turbulence returns to Singapore - More

Reuters News Agency
After PLA exercises, Taiwan president again extends goodwill

Reuters News Agency
Taiwan bar on frontline with China blends history into cocktails

Reuters News Agency
South Korea, China agree to launch diplomatic and security dialogue

Reuters News Agency
Papua New Guinea landslide death toll at 670 - More

BBC News
What's it like to camp in Antarctica?

BBC News
Waterborne disease outbreak after Brazil floods kills four

Agence France-Presse
États-Unis : de nombreuses tornades font au moins 14 morts dans le sud du pays

Agence France-Presse
Procès de Donald Trump : quels scénarios pour un verdict historique ?

France 24
En Lituanie, le président Nauseda proclame sa victoire pour un second mandat

France 24
Les Wrens, ces héroïnes méconnues des opérations du Débarquement en Normandie

Agence France-Presse
Dévasté par un incendie en 2003, le Château de Lunéville renaît de ses cendres - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Emmanuel Macron se pose en défenseur de la démocratie et de l'Europe

Agence France-Presse
Volodymyr Zelensky se rend en Espagne lundi

Agence France-Presse
Le bilan continue de grimper au lendemain de la frappe russe sur un hypermarché de Kharkiv

France 24
Transition prolongée et possibilité d'une candidature du chef de la Junte au Burkina-Faso

France 24
Le Hamas dit avoir visé Tel-Aviv avec un « important barrage de roquettes »

France 24
Les Palestiniens accusent Israël d'un « massacre » contre des déplacés à Rafah

Le Figaro
L’épave de l’USS Harder retrouvée au nord des Philippines - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Le président taïwanais se dit prêt à travailler avec la Chine pour œuvrer à la « réconciliation »

Agence France-Presse
Séisme de magnitude 6,6 près de l'archipel des Tonga dans le Pacifique Sud

Agence France-Presse
En Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, un glissement de terrain massif fait plus de 670 morts

Agence France-Presse
Nouvelle-Calédonie : l'état d'urgence sera levé mardi matin à Nouméa

International Commentary

Andrew Anthony | The Observer
What the last veterans can teach us all as D-Day fades from memory - More

Adm. William H. McRaven | The Atlantic
Departing Afghanistan: A poem for Memorial Day weekend - More

Editorial | The Guardian
The Netherlands: A radical-right reset will challenge European unity

Simon Tisdall | The Observer
Call to prosecute Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes exposes the west’s moral doublethink

James Landale | BBC News
How plans for ‘the day after’ could help end war in Gaza

Martha Gill | The Observer
Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans

Andrew Rawnsley | The Observer
Rishi Sunak’s summer election gamble is already backfiring on the Tory leader

Tom Baldwin | The Observer
Reassuring, serious, a sense of duty: Who is Keir Starmer really?

A.L. Kennedy | The Observer
In a world derailed, do we dare to have hope?

Books

Tim Adams | The Observer
The Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad on returning to Afghanistan

Hephzibah Anderson | The Observer
One Ukrainian Summer: Young love in the birthplace of Zelenskiy

Nicole Hemmer | CNN News
The evolution of Bill Maher - More - More