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Canadian News

CBC News
From Yorkville to Kyiv: How a war brought a Canadian cook overseas to help Ukrainian troops

CBC News
Demand for cheap, clean hydropower is soaring. Can Quebec keep up?

CBC News
How do you teach a Newfoundland accent? Come From Away's dialect coach figured it out

CBC News
33,000 mussels were carefully moved by hand from site of Montreal's new Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge

Radio-Canada
Un séisme de magnitude 4 secoue le Québec

Radio-Canada
Vente d’alcool : plus de 4000 dépanneurs en Ontario ont obtenu un permis

TVA Nouvelles
Pierre Poilievre rêve d'être premier ministre depuis 25 ans - Plus

TVA Nouvelles
Québec ne peut pas imposer le télétravail à ses fonctionnaires

Radio-Canada
Retour au bureau trois jours : le Conseil du Trésor devra s’expliquer à la Cour fédérale

Agence QMI
Ottawa rend la fabrication d’armes à feu plus difficile

Canadian Commentary

Aaron Wherry | CBC News
How much longer can the Liberal-NDP deal last?

Aïda Semlali | Radio-Canada
Radio et intelligence artificielle : un terrain de jeu sans arbitres ?

Normand Baillargeon | Le Devoir
Rentrée IA

Konrad Yakabuski | Le Devoir
Réparer ses dégâts

Philippe de Montigny \ Radio-Canada
L’ensachage dans les épiceries, un service voué à disparaître?

Marco Bélair-Cirino | Le Devoir
L’Arkansas, de l’ère des Clinton à un laboratoire du mouvement MAGA

Hugo Duchaine | TVA Nouvelles
Pierre Poilievre l'« antiwoke » : qu’attend sa base de lui ? - Plus

International News

The Guardian
50 years on, the transatlantic flight speed record remains unbroken

The Associated Press
Pilot declared emergency, loss of autopilot before crash that killed members of The Nelons

Agence France-Presse
Harris calls Trump’s appearance at Arlington a ‘political stunt’ that ‘disrespected sacred ground’

The Guardian
Trump shares posts of Gold Star families praising cemetery visit and criticizing Harris

The Associated Press
RFK Jr. sues North Carolina elections board

The Guardian
Beluga whale alleged to be Russian ‘spy’ found dead in Norway

The Observer
Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds

Reuters News Agency
Germany's far-right AfD could win first state in eastern regional elections - More - More

The Guardian
Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart

Reuters News Agency
Zelenskiy presses US to greenlight deeper strikes into Russia

Reuters News Agency
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi says situation 'difficult' around main Russian attack

Deutsche Welle
Can Ukraine save Pokrovsk?

Deutsche Welle
Moscow refinery hit in massive drone attack - More

The Associated Press
Russia says it downed over 150 drones in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks of the war

The Guardian
Russia says it will change nuclear doctrine because of western ‘escalation’ in Ukraine

Reuters News Agency
Israel recovers six hostage bodies in Gaza - More

CNN News
Israeli protests across Israel demand Gaza deal

Reuters News Agency
Netanyahu: "Whoever murders hostages does not want a deal"

Deutsche Welle
Polio vaccines arrive in Gaza after first case in 25 years

Reuters News Agency
U.N. begins polio vaccination in Gaza - More

Reuters News Agency
Three Israelis killed in West Bank shooting attack

Deutsche Welle
No singing, no reading: Women protest Taliban ban online

The Guardian
How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers

CNN News
Wreckage of Russian helicopter found on the Kamchatka peninsula; none of those on board survived

Reuters News Agency
TC Shanshan, downgraded from typhoon, leaves 7 dead, damage in Japan

The Guardian
Vast ‘doughnut’ discovered in molten metal of Earth’s core

Le Figaro
Présidentielle américaine : Don Jr, la vraie tête pensante de Trump ?

Agence France-Presse
Harris accuse Trump d’avoir « manqué de respect » au cimetière militaire d’Arlington

The Associated Press
Un homme arrêté après avoir envahi la zone média d’un rassemblement de Donald Trump

Agence QMI
De fortes turbulences causent sept blessés dans un Boeing 737

Agence QMI
L'ancien chef d'un cartel de drogue est renvoyé au Mexique

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Une attaque « massive » de drones dans l'ouest russe déjouée par Moscou - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Mpox : l'Unicef lance un appel d'offres pour obtenir des vaccins

Agence France-Presse
Trois policiers tués dans une « attaque armée » dans le sud de la Cisjordanie

Agence QMI
Cisjordanie : des attaques « contre les civils », déplore un médecin

Agence France-Presse
Les corps de six otages du Hamas retrouvés dans la bande de Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Benjamin Netanyahu promet de « régler son compte » au Hamas après la mort d'otages

Le Figaro
Qui sont les otages retrouvés morts à Gaza ?

Agence France-Presse
Gaza : vaccination antipolio à grande échelle à la faveur de « pauses humanitaires »

Agence France-Presse
Indonésie : un adolescent français disparu à Bali, recherches en cours

Agence France-Presse
Venezuela : plus de 700 manifestants détenus dans des prisons de haute sécurité

International Commentary

Editorial | The Observer
Putin’s retaliation against Ukraine must persuade Biden to relent over arms

Simon Tisdall | The Observer
In an unheroic age, Putin, Trump and Netanyahu are sick parodies of great men

Michelle Cottle | The New York Times
Trump Tried to Humanize Himself. Better Luck Next Time.

Andrew Rawnsley | The Observer
Is Sir Keir Starmer’s cautious ‘reset’ with Europe enough to undo the damage done by Brexit?

Carole Cadwalladr | The Observer
Don’t rejoice yet, Elon Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truth

Marina Hyde | The Guardian
The Iron Lady consigned to the ironing cupboard? Keir Starmer did pledge to do things differently.

Catherine Bennett | The Observer
Is Imran Khan really the best choice as Oxford’s next chancellor?

Martha Gill | The Observer
I love the nanny state, but let’s leave outdoor smokers to puff away in peace

Max Boot | The Washington Post
Ronald Reagan was more ideological — and more pragmatic — than you think

Books

Andrew Rawnsley | The Observer
Tony Blair: ‘I would have stayed if I could, is the truth’

Serhii Plokhy | The Washington Post
When a 12-hour shift turned into three weeks at Chernobyl