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Canadian News

CBC News
Government concerned about public scrutiny in mandating workers back to office

CBC News
Researchers expect year-long fire seasons in northwestern Canada

CBC News
Pfizer's updated COVID-19 vaccine approved, Health Canada says

BBC News
DNA test helps identify sailor from doomed Franklin expedition

CBC News
Canadian man remembers parents killed in Lebanon

National Post
Erin O'Toole warns of 'flirtatious' woman who may have been a Chinese spy

Global News
Elections Canada to recommend tighter nomination rules after foreign influence probe

CBC News
Canada considering following U.S. in banning vehicle software and hardware from China, Russia

CBC News
Judge rejects Crown's attempt to have CSIS, RCMP testify behind closed doors in Abdelrazik lawsuit

CBC News
Poilievre makes case for taking down the government to restore 'promise of Canada'

CBC News
Liberals survive first confidence vote after the end of governance agreement with NDP

Global News
MPs set to vote on Conservative motion to topple Trudeau

Global News
An expressway under Ontario’s Highway 401? Ford touts idea with few details.

Radio-Canada
L’été 2024, le plus coûteux de l’histoire pour les assureurs canadiens

Radio-Canada
Retour au bureau des fonctionnaires : Ottawa a choisi l’option la plus « perturbatrice »

Radio-Canada
Deux Canadiens tués au Liban

Radio-Canada
Piqué au vif par Legault sur l’immigration, Ottawa riposte à Québec

Radio-Canada
C’est quoi, être un Franco-Ontarien, une Franco-Ontarienne ?

Radio-Canada
Que signifie le drapeau franco-ontarien pour les jeunes ?

Canadian Commentary

Bessma Momani | The Globe and Mail
Israel’s attacks in Lebanon could unleash a Pandora’s box for the region – and for the U.S.

Robyn Urback | The Globe and Mail
A spiralling Trump resorts to a tried-and-true tactic: Blaming the Jews

Ian Garner and Maria PopovaNational Post
Don't be misled. Russians at War is not an anti-war film

Terry Newman | National Post
Liberal embrace of lithium batteries is a toxic airborne event

Tasha Kheiriddin | National Post
Foreign interference hearings are the best spy show going

François Brousseau | Radio-Canada
Liban : vers la guerre totale?

Christian Latreille | Radio-Canada
Présidentielle américaine : de quel côté soufflera le vent du Wisconsin?

International News

CISA Alerts
CISA Warns of Hurricane-Related Scams

BBC News
Boeing strikers not interested in 30% pay rise

The Guardian
Johnny Cash statue to be unveiled at US Capitol

The Associated Press
The price of gold keeps climbing to unprecedented heights

The Guardian
Swing states in US election are biggest winners in Democrats’ landmark climate bill

BBC News
Trump warned by US intelligence of Iran assassination threats

Reuters News Agency
US charges suspected Trump gunman with attempted assassination - More

BBC News
Trump vows to 'take other countries' jobs' in economic speech

Deseret News
Mitt Romney’s Trump problem - More

Reuters News Agency
Washington state's abortion pill stockpile is insurance against Trump win, governor says

Agence France-Presse
World leaders at UN warn against 'full-scale war' in Lebanon

Reuters News Agency
Hurricane Helene may hit Florida as a 'catastrophic' Category 4 storm

Reuters News Agency
About 29% of crude production shut in Gulf of Mexico due to Hurricane Helene

BBC News
Flood warnings in parts of England

Reuters News Agency
Norway starts probe into reported links to exploding pagers in Lebanon

BBC News
Europe’s deadly floods are glimpse of future climate

Reuters News Agency
WikiLeaks' Assange to make first public appearance since release

The Guardian
Elon Musk to present Atlantic Council global citizen award to Giorgia Meloni

The Guardian
Meloni-themed restaurant opens near asylum-seeker camp in Albania

Reuters News Agency
NATO plans for large-scale transport of wounded troops in case of Russia war

BBC News
Zelensky looks to Biden to back Ukraine 'victory plan' - More

Reuters News Agency
Ukraine says it downed 28 drones, four missiles during Russian overnight attack

Reuters News Agency
Russian guided bombs wreaking havoc in Ukraine

Reuters News Agency
Kremlin says Zelenskiy is making "fatal mistake" by trying to force it to make peace

Reuters News Agency
Russia has secret war drones project in China, intel sources say

Reuters News Agency
Putin to speak on nuclear deterrence

Reuters News Agency
Tunisia coast guard recovers bodies of 13 African migrants

The Guardian
Firm disclosed phone data of shot Tanzanian politician, UK tribunal hears

BBC News
Acid attack and abductions: Tanzania's poisonous politics - More

Reuters News Agency
Greece and Turkey explore holding talks on maritime zones

Reuters News Agency
UK sends troops to Cyprus, anticipating mass Lebanon evacuation

BBC News
Leave Lebanon now, Starmer tells Britons

Foreign Policy
With Israel’s Airstrikes, Beirut Plunges Into Panic

Reuters News Agency
Displaced Lebanese recount their ordeal of Israeli strikes and escape

CBC News
Israel vows 'more fierce' attack against Hezbollah than Gaza campaign

BBC News
What is Hezbollah and why is Israel attacking Lebanon?

Reuters News Agency
US and allies call for 21-day ceasefire along Israel-Lebanon border after UN talks

BBC News
UNHCR says staff among those killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon

BBC News
Israel carrying out 'extensive' strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires missile at Tel Aviv - More

Reuters News Agency
Hezbollah's tunnels and flexible command weather Israel's deadly blows

Reuters News Agency
Killing Hezbollah commanders will not defeat group, Iran says

The Guardian
Meryl Streep: ‘A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan’

Reuters News Agency
Sri Lanka: Why did new president call a snap general election?

The Guardian
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Who is Sri Lanka’s new leftist president?

Reuters News Agency
Indonesia formally requests to join Trans-Pacific trade pact

Reuters News Agency
Philippines says its aircraft shadowed by Chinese navy helicopter during patrol

Reuters News Agency
China's cabinet issues guidelines to promote employment - More

BBC News
China test-fires ICBM for first time in decades - More

Reuters News Agency
Police quotas, surveillance trap North Koreans in China

Reuters News Agency
Wildfire rages in Ecuador's drought-stricken capital

BBC News
Crime grips Cuba's streets

Reuters News Agency
Mexico snubs Spanish king as spat over colonial past flares up

Agence France-Presse
Boeing : l’avionneur laisse plus de temps aux grévistes pour examiner sa proposition

Agence France-Presse
Kamala Harris peut-elle faire la différence avec Donald Trump ?

Agence France-Presse
« L’Iran menace ma vie », Donald Trump fait état de menaces « concrètes » d'assassinat sur sa personne

Agence France-Presse
L'homme suspecté d'avoir voulu tuer Trump inculpé de tentative d'assassinat

Le Figaro
Paris : un vigile poignardé à six reprises dans un parking souterrain

Le Figaro
Des décrocheurs du portrait d’Emmanuel Macron rejugés au tribunal d’appel de Rennes

Agence France-Presse
Lady Gaga redessine le sourire de La Joconde avec du rouge à lèvres

Agence France-Presse
Julian Assange va s’adresser au Conseil de l'Europe à Strasbourg

Agence France-Presse
Concurrence : Google Cloud porte plainte contre Microsoft auprès de Bruxelles

Agence France-Presse
Allemagne : crise chez les Verts avec la démission des deux présidents

Le Figaro
Situation « critique » dans la forteresse de Vouhledar, menacée d'encerclement par les Russe

Agence France-Presse
Moscou estime que « forcer la Russie à faire la paix » serait une « erreur fatale »

Agence France-Presse
Moscou veut une loi pour inciter les Russes à faire des enfants

Le Figaro
Liban : pour atteindre son objectif, « tout est envisageable » pour Israël, affirme le Tsahal

Agence France-Presse
Inondations en Thaïlande : 125 crocodiles abattus pour éviter leur évasion

Agence France-Presse
La Chine dit avoir testé un missile balistique intercontinental au-dessus du Pacifique

Agence France-Presse
Pékin s'oppose « fermement » aux interdictions américaines de technologies chinoises

Agence France-Presse
La Floride se prépare à l’arrivée d’un ouragan de catégorie 3

International Commentary

David Frum | The Atlantic
Nice Little Jewish Community You Have Here

McKay Coppins | The Atlantic
Mitt Romney Braces for Trump’s Retribution

Jeremy Bowen | BBC News
Israel is gambling Hezbollah will crumple, but it faces a well-armed, angry enemy

Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
Netanyahu’s lethal bombs will turn Lebanon into another Gaza

Editorial | The Guardian
Israel and Hezbollah: The war is already here

Franklin Foer | The Atlantic
The War That Would Not End

Bret Stephens | The New York Times
Hezbollah Is Everyone’s Problem

Steven Erlanger | The New York Times
Iran’s Dilemma: How to Preserve Its Proxies and Avoid Full-Scale War

Joshua Yaffa | The New Yorker
Volodymyr Zelensky Has a Plan for Ukraine’s Victory

Eva von Redecker | The Guardian
East Germany’s social fabric is torn after decades of neglect

Paolo Gerbaudo | The Guardian
Elon Musk’s Twitter coup has harmed the right. They are now simply ‘too online’.

Maurice J Casey | The Guardian
Who are ‘the Irish’? History shows we’ve been a mixed bunch for centuries.

Marina Hyde | The Guardian
Behind every Al Fayed or Diddy, there is a small army of enablers

Simon Jenkins | The Guardian
Working from home is the great social experiment of our age

Anatol Lieven | The Guardian
Climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia

Evan G. Greenberg | Foreign Policy
Washington’s Playbook for China Must Change

Shazia Majid | The Guardian
Norway is shying away from tourism – and other countries could learn from it

Molly Olmstead | Slate
Donald Trump: ‘Sent by God’

David A. Graham | The Atlantic
Trump Was President Once

Thomas B. Edsall | The New York Times
Trump Is an Open Book for Closed Minds

Chris Hughes | The New York Times
Why Does Elon Musk Love Donald Trump? It’s Not Just About Money.

Russell Berman | The Atlantic
Republicans Are Finally Tired of Shutting Down the Government

Kyle Chayka | The New Yorker
The End of the iPhone Upgrade?