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Canadian News

CBC News
Jasper residents prepare for return to wildfire-ravaged mountain town

CBC News
Just a handful of Canadian cities will be subject to the Costco membership crackdown

CBC News
Decades after being forced to leave, these Labrador Inuit got to return home

Global News
Beechcraft King Air heavily damaged in crash at LSG airport - More - More

CBC News
Danielle Smith to make gun ownership (and more) an Alberta right

CBC News
MPs vote to probe how a father and son linked to a terror plot got to Canada

CBC News
RCMP union calls for Mounties to police Parliament Hill again

Reuters News Agency
Sikh activists in US, Canada face threats a year after leader's killing linked to India

The Canadian Press
TS Debby: Quebec mayors predict months of cleanup

The Canadian Press
Canadians should be prepared for more wildfires and hurricanes: Environment Canada

CBC News
Trial of key convoy figures Lich, Barber nears end - More

TVA Nouvelles
Tempête « Debby » : une cinquantaine de municipalités encore touchées, mais la situation « sous contrôle »

TVA Nouvelles
Commission des droits de la personne : le président démissionne avant d’entrer en poste

Canadian Commentary

Eugene Lang | The Globe and Mail
Our federal leaders won’t trust Canadians with the hard truth about defence spending

Ian Buruma | The Globe and Mail
Can sports nationalism truly be considered a good thing?

Stéphane Baillargeon | Le Devoir
La casquette comme symbole

Marie-Andrée Chouinard | Le Devoir
Bâtir notre résilience climatique

International News

The Associated Press
The US Navy’s warship production is in its worst state in 25 years

Axios
Trump's alternative reality campaign

The Guardian
Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with Musk - More

Axios
UAW files labor charges against Trump and Musk over strike remarks

CNN News
Elon Musk gave a new reason why X had another meltdown

Reuters News Agency
Dispossessor ransomware group shut down by US, European authorities

The New York Times
Should You Get Another Covid Shot Now?

Reuters News Agency
Martian subsurface harbours oceans of life-giving liquid water - More

The Guardian
Temperature reaches 34.8°C on UK’s hottest day of year

The Guardian
Heat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year

Reuters News Agency
Greek wildfire has torched homes, vehicles and swathes of bone-dry forest

Reuters News Agency
Ukraine restricts civilian movements in border area of Sumy region

Deutsche Welle
Kyiv says no interest in occupying Kursk

The Guardian
Russian authorities scramble to quell Ukraine’s week-long Kursk incursion

Reuters News Agency
Russia strikes back at Ukrainian forces in Kursk region

Reuters News Agency
Russia steps up assaults on Pokrovsk front in Ukraine's east

Reuters News Agency
Turkish police arrest masked man after five people stabbed - More

Reuters News Agency
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank raids

Reuters News Agency
Gaza ceasefire: Hamas says again it wants implementation, not more talks

Reuters News Agency
British maritime agencies report blast incidents near Yemen's Hodeidah

The Guardian
Iran rejects western plea not to launch retaliatory attack against Israel

Reuters News Agency
More Indian hospitals hit by doctors' protest against alleged rape and murder

Reuters News Agency
Bangladesh court orders probe into former PM Hasina's role in grocer's death

Reuters News Agency
Philippines, China 'provisional agreement' over Second Thomas Shoal subject to future review

Reuters News Agency
China pledges billions more in funds to aid disaster-stricken farm regions

Global News
Pilot steals helicopter, crashes into hotel after attending party in Australia

Global News
Oropouche fever virus is spreading at ‘unprecedented scale’

Reuters News Agency
Not fast or furious: Nations take measured reaction to Venezuela election

Reuters News Agency
Tropical Storm Ernesto could reach hurricane strength by Thursday, NHC says - Map

Agence QMI
Détecteurs de métal : une heure d’attente devant l’école lors de la rentrée scolaire en Floride

TVA Nouvelles
Des photos de JD Vance déguisé en femme font réagir

Agence QMI
AA2905 : Quatre hôtesses de l’air blessées à cause de fortes turbulences

Agence France-Presse
Perquisition à Mar-a-Lago : Donald Trump réclame 100 M$ pour « persécution politique »

Agence de presse Reuters
La conversation Musk-Trump sur le réseau social X minée par des problèmes techniques - Plus

Agence de presse Reuters
L'AIE réduit ses prévisions de croissance de la demande de pétrole pour 2025

Agence de presse Reuters
L'incendie dans la banlieue d'Athènes sous contrôle, mais le vent va reprendre

Agence de presse Reuters
L'Ukraine poursuit sa percée en Russie

Agence France-Presse
Justin Trudeau demande aux Canadiens de quitter le Liban « immédiatement »

Agence France-Presse
Un Palestinien tué par l’armée israélienne en Cisjordanie occupée

Agence de presse Reuters
Israël poursuit ses frappes dans la bande de Gaza

TVA Nouvelles
Conflit au Moyen-Orient : des vols annulés partout dans le monde

Agence France-Presse
Explosions près de deux navires au large du Yémen

Agence de presse Reuters
Washington se prépare à d'éventuelles attaques iraniennes au Moyen-Orient

Agence France-Presse
L'Iran rejette l'appel de pays occidentaux à renoncer à ses menaces contre Israël

Agence France-Presse
« Ça rend les vitrines assez moches » : des mannequins sans visage en Afghanistan

Agence France-Presse
Trois morts dans des tirs à la frontière avec le Pakistan, selon l’État afghan

Agence France-Presse
La mousson a fait des centaines de morts depuis juin en Inde et au Népal

Agence France-Presse
Bangladesh : l’ex-première ministre déchue visée par une enquête pour meurtre

Agence France-Presse
« Escalade » des atrocités commises par l'armée en Birmanie

Agence France-Presse
Une piste de l’aéroport de Narita fermée après l’atterrissage d’urgence d’un avion-cargo d’Atlas Air

International Commentary

Jon Lee Anderson | The New Yorker
Elon Musk’s Surging Political Activism

Jamelle Bouie | The New York Times
What the Republican Party Might Look Like if Trump Loses

Anastasia Edel | The New York Times
Putin Has Victory in His Grasp

Sergey Radchenko | The Guardian
Putin must explain how his war allowed Russia to be invaded

Harrison Mann | The Guardian
Why should US troops pay the price for Biden’s failure to rein in Netanyahu?

David Ignatius | The Washington Post
Israel is not the only target of Iranian assassination threats

Marina Hyde | The Guardian
Donald chatted with Elon, and here’s the future as they see it: Losers win, incompetence rules

David Axe | The Telegraph
After months of work, a damaged Russian submarine was repaired. So the Ukrainians hit it again

David Axe | The Telegraph
F-15EX Eagle II: The USAF should deploy the apex predator of the skies - More

Isabela Dias | Mother Jones
Trump May Demonize Migration From Venezuela, But He Helped Fuel It