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Canadian News

Agence France-Presse
Iran allegedly planned to assassinate human-rights crusader Irwin Cotler - More - More

The Canadian Press
Forecasters issue 'bomb cyclone' warning for B.C., with 120 km/h winds - More - More

CityNews
Nine injured in fiery crash involving TTC bus, stolen vehicle in North York - More

The Guardian
Backlash after Doug Ford threatens to tear up cycling lanes in Toronto

Global News
ISIS arrests are spiking in Canada and youths are driving the resurgence

CBC News
Highway 7 west of Hope, B.C., remains closed due to rock slide damage

TVA Nouvelles
Irwin Cotler visé par une tentative d’assassinat

TVA Nouvelles
Ça veut dire quoi, être woke ?

Radio-Canada
Neuf blessés, dont deux grièvement, après la collision d’un autobus et d’une voiture volée

Radio-Canada
Rumeurs d’élections en Ontario : une précampagne en publicités ?

Radio-Canada
Le nouveau conseil de l’énergie de Trump représente des occasions pour le Canada

Canadian Commentary

Scott Taylor | The Hill Times
Appeasing Donald Trump with defence dollars

Vladyslav Golovin | The Globe and Mail
In Ukraine, fatigue and fear are rising

Karina Roman | CBC News
Trump’s plans for the war in Ukraine loom large over G20

Rick Smith | The Globe and Mail
With Trump in the White House, expect the states to take charge on climate progress

Frédéric Arnould | Radio-Canada
Retour en force des mensonges et de la désinformation à la Maison-Blanche ?

International News

NBC News
Almost 80 million expected to travel over Thanksgiving - More

The Associated Press
Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy as financial losses pile up

The Guardian
Federal workers brace for Trump with morale ‘as low as it’s ever been’

The Associated Press
Should women serve in combat?

The Guardian
Fox News is riding high after election night blowout

The Associated Press
Some Arab Americans are concerned about Trump’s nominations

The Associated Press
Veteran sentenced to prison for Jan. 6 Capitol riot - More

BBC News
Trump vows to use US military for mass deportations - More - More

The New York Times
Trump’s Signature Dance Move Finds Its Way to the Sports World

The New York Times
Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged.

BBC News
Organic carrots recalled in US after deadly E. coli outbreak

NBC News
Burglars broke into the grounds of Britain's royal Windsor Castle in October and stole two vehicles

Sky News
King Charles has celebrated his 76th birthday

The Guardian
UK braces for up to 20cm of snow as weather warnings cover swaths of country - More

The Guardian
Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams

Deutsche Welle
French farmers protest EU-Mercosur trade deal

The Associated Press
Denmark will plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest

BBC News
Flatulence tax: Denmark agrees deal for livestock emissions levy

Deutsche Welle
Undersea data cable between Germany and Finland broken

Army Times
Last American soldier to leave Afghanistan to command US Army Europe

Deutsche Welle
Ukraine updates: Germany still a 'no' on long-range missiles

Deutsche Welle
Why Germany isn't sending Taurus CM to Ukraine - More

The Guardian
UK expected to give Ukraine Storm Shadow missiles to strike inside Russia

The Associated Press
A makeshift memorial grows in Kyiv after 1,000 days of war

The Associated Press
Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied ATACMS missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia - More

BBC News
Biden's move on missiles for Ukraine angers Trump allies

The Associated Press
Moscow warns US over long-range weapons - More

The Mirror
Top Russian ballet star who slammed Putin's war 'plunged 60ft to death' - More

The Guardian
Migrant rights advocate held in Tunisia under anti-terrorist investigation

The Guardian
X-rays show shrapnel and bullets buried in children caught in Sudan war

The Guardian
Australian goldmining company to pay Mali $160m to free detained CEO and executives

Agence France-Presse
Gabon backs new constitution a year after military seized power

The Guardian
Lebanon’s civil defence reels after deadly strike

BBC News
Almost 100 Gaza food aid lorries violently looted, UN agency says

The Guardian
Gaza ministry says 20 killed in anti-‘gang’ operation after looting of aid convoy

The Warzone
Turkish Air Force Marks 50 Years of F-4 Phantoms in Service

The Guardian
Thousands left homeless in Taliban’s brutal Kabul ‘regeneration’ programme

The Guardian
World’s 1.5°C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say

The Guardian
How do we know that the climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather?

The Guardian
Weather tracker: Tropical Storm Sara and Super Typhoon Man-yi wreak havoc

The Associated Press
New Delhi chokes as air pollution levels hit 50 times the safe limit

The Associated Press
Bangladeshi judge gives police one month to wrap up probe against ousted PM Hasina

The Guardian
HK47: dozens of pro-democracy activists jailed in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial

Reuters News Agency
Kim Jong-un urges improved military capabilities for war

The Guardian
35,000 arrive at New Zealand parliament to protest against controversial Māori treaty bill

Reuters News Agency
G20 leaders wrestle with wars, climate, and poverty

Politico
Emmanuel Macron lambasts G20 failures, makes veiled digs at Trump - More

Agence France-Presse
No-show Joe: G20 leaders take group photo without Biden

Agence France-Presse
Trump devrait assister mardi à un vol test de la fusée Starship de Musk

Agence France-Presse
Boeing démarre son plan de réduction des effectifs avec 2200 licenciements

France 24
Les États-Unis autorisent l'Ukraine à frapper la Russie avec des missiles longue portée américains

France 24
L'autorisation américaine de tirs à longue portée met de l'huile sur le feu selon Moscou

Agence France-Presse
L'Unesco place sous « protection renforcée provisoire » 34 sites libanais menacés par la guerre

Agence France-Presse
Soudan : le Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU va voter sur un appel à un cessez-le-feu

Agence France-Presse
Nigeria : une infirmière de l'Unicef kidnappée par des djihadistes s'échappe après six ans de captivité

Agence France-Presse
Législatives au Sénégal : le parti au pouvoir revendique une « large victoire »

Agence France-Presse
Nouvelles frappes israéliennes meurtrières dans la bande de Gaza et à Beyrouth

Agence France-Presse
L'Inde face à nouveau pic de pollution de l'air, les écoles fermées à New Delhi

Agence France-Presse
Au Bangladesh, des ministres de l'ancien régime devant la justice pour « massacres »

Agence France-Presse
Pas d'avancée majeure sur le climat au sommet du G20 à Rio

Agence France-Presse
Au G20, Emmanuel Macron critique une gouvernance mondiale qui «ne fonctionne pas»

International Commentary

Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
Joe Biden’s last-gasp missile decision is momentous for Ukraine

Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
A cold reality: Liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis

Kenneth Roth | The Guardian
How to mitigate some of Trump’s most dangerous foreign policy instincts

Alex Bronzini-Vender | The Guardian
Who does the Democratic party actually represent?

David Remnick | The New Yorker
Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Wonders

Andrew Rice | Intelligencer
Steve Bannon’s Second Term

Alberto Alemanno | The Guardian
For the first time in its history, we could be looking at a genuinely rightwing European Union

Nick Cater | Sky News
Climate: Major recalibration of the Paris agreement now 'unavoidable'

Sébastian Seibt | France 24
Missiles ATACMS : un feu vert américain trop tardif pour faire la différence en Ukraine ?