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Canadian News

CBC News
Lac du Bonnet wildfire forces out nearly 1,000 people

CBC News
Dozens of Filipino migrant workers are caught in an alleged pyramid scheme

CBC News
Carney defends moving Joly from foreign affairs portfolio

CBC News
Canada's multibillion-dollar bets on the EV industry aren't all working out

CBC News
Honda to postpone plans for EV plant in Canada for at least 2 years

CBC News
Battery plant in Port Colborne, Ont., to see 'minimal' impact from Honda investment withdrawal

CBC News
B.C ostrich farm 'devastated' after federal judge rules cull of nearly 400 birds can proceed

Radio-Canada
Les ministres du second Cabinet Carney sont assermentés

Radio-Canada
Honda suspend pendant « environ deux ans » ses investissements dans les VE au Canada

Radio-Canada
Le rabais sur l’essence en Ontario sera « permanent », annonce Doug Ford

Radio-Canada
Moins d’Américains attendus cet été à Montréal, mais plus de touristes internationaux

Canadian Commentary

Alexander Panetta | CBC News
The 'New Deal' of grift: Trump sets standard for presidential self-enrichment

Pascal Lupien | The Conversation
How Donald Trump could remain president of the United States

International News

The Huffington Post
After Layoffs, Social Security Asks Remaining Employees To Work 10% Harder

The Huffington Post
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Goads 'Disrespectful' Republicans During Heated Medicaid Exchange

The Associated Press
Microsoft lays off about 3% of its workforce

NBC News
Birthright citizenship dispute at the Supreme Court has broad implications for Trump's agenda

The Associated Press
Episcopal church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status

CBC News
Where in the world is the U.S. trying to deport third-country migrants?

The Guardian
Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests

The Guardian
Germany arrests three Ukrainians over alleged Russian parcel bomb plot

CBC News
Zelenskyy says he is ready to meet Putin in Turkey

The Guardian
Trump says there’s a ‘possibility’ he will attend Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Turkey

The Guardian
Six killed in Tripoli clashes after killing of militia leader

Reuters News Agency
Trump meets Syria’s president after lifting US sanctions on country - More

Reuters News Agency
Israeli military airstrikes kill at least 70 in Gaza - More

The Guardian
Western countries gave Mossad information used to track and kill Palestinian terrorists in 1970s

The Guardian
US and Qatar sign defense and aviation deal - More

The Associated Press
Trump tells Gulf leaders Iran must cease support of proxy groups as part of any nuclear deal

NBC News
The Trump administration says Afghan refugees can safely return to Afghanistan

NBC News
India disputes Trump’s claim that trade incentives led to the India-Pakistan ceasefire

CBC News
Hong Kong businesses are caught in U.S.-China trade scrap

NBC News
Trump's trade war wins so far: More talk, uncertainty and deadlines

The Associated Press
Today in History: 15 May

This Day in Aviation
15 May

Agence France-Presse
Semaine cruciale au Congrès américain pour Trump et son programme

Radio-Canada
La baisse des tarifs de Pékin et Washington fait rebondir les marchés boursiers

Agence France-Presse
Détente sur le front de l’inflation aux États-Unis, avec des bémols

Agence France-Presse
Les villes sont « l'épicentre » de la lutte contre la chaleur, dit une consultante de l'ONU

Agence France-Presse
Le Groenland prend la présidence du Conseil de l’Arctique

Agence France-Presse
Kim Kardashian à la barre au procès de ses braqueurs à Paris

Agence France-Presse
Léon XIV plaide pour les journalistes emprisonnés dans le monde

Agence France-Presse
Naples frappée par un séisme de magnitude 4,4

Agence France-Presse
Ukraine : Zelensky espère Trump jeudi en Turquie pour convaincre Poutine de venir

Agence France-Presse
La Russie responsable de l’écrasement du vol MH17 en Ukraine, tranche l’OACI - Plus

Agence France-Presse
L’Amérique de Trump accueille ses premiers Afrikaners

Agence France-Presse
En Afrique du Sud, un radiotélescope géant attire des jeunes vers le cosmos

Agence France-Presse
Donald Trump annonce la levée des sanctions américaines contre la Syrie

Agence France-Presse
Arabie saoudite : Donald Trump reçu en grande pompe par Mohammed ben Salmane

Agence France-Presse
Le Hamas libère l’otage israélo-américain Edan Alexander

Agence France-Presse
Nétanyahou annonce une intensification de la guerre à Gaza pour « vaincre le Hamas »

Agence France-Presse
Reçu royalement à Riyad, Trump annonce des investissements saoudiens pharaoniques

France 24
Golfe Persique ou Arabique ? Donald Trump ravive une querelle qui excède l’Iran.

Agence France-Presse
Conflit au Cachemire : l’Inde promet une « réponse ferme » en cas de nouvelle attaque

Agence France-Presse
États-Unis et Chine mettent leur guerre commerciale en pause pour 90 jours

Agence France-Presse
La Chine dénonce « le harcèlement » des États-Unis et courtise l'Amérique latine

International Commentary

Ahmad Ibsais | The Guardian
Israel is annihilating Palestinian children. Amer Rabea was one of them.

Marina Hyde | The Guardian
Poor Trump: You can’t even accept a luxury jet from Qatar without being called corrupt these days

Jack Ohman | The San Fransisco Chronicle
Trump’s Qatari plane should be christened ‘Air Farce One’

Julia Ornedo | The Daily Beast
Size Matters: Trump Admits the Insecure Reason He Wants Free Flying Palace

Andrew Lawrence | The Guardian
The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?

Gideon Lichfield | Foreign Policy
Elon Musk Was Donald Trump’s Useful Idiot

Nathalie Tocci | The Guardian
The good news from Kyiv: With or without a ceasefire, Ukraine has a newfound confidence

Annie Kelly | The Guardian
Is Zelenskyy playing political poker – or Russian roulette?

Farah N. Jan | The Conversation
India-Pakistan: Norms have changed in South Asia, making future de-escalation much harder

Orville Schell | The Guardian
Trump risks driving Europe into China’s embrace. Xi Jinping will be delighted.

Yasmine Ahmed | The Guardian
Is Britain breaking international law over Israel to avoid offending Trump?

Lives Lived

The Guardian
José ‘Pepe’ Mujica has died aged 89

Robert D. McFadden | The New York Times
Richard L. Garwin has died aged 97

Joe Mathews | The San Francisco Chronicle
The American democratic republic has died aged 236

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