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Canadian News

CBC News
Carney says Canada is looking to join major European military buildup by July 1

The Canadian Press
Canada faces ‘massive challenge’ as NATO eyes new 5% spending target

CBC News
Donald Trump says Golden Dome would cost Canada $61 billion US

CBC News
Frustrated Air Canada pilot slams air traffic controller shortage to passengers on flight

CBC News
King says 'strong and free' Canada is a force for good in historic throne speech - More

BBC News
King's Canadian speech doesn't mention you-know-who

CBC News
Harper and Trudeau share laughs

CBC News
Former PM Jean Chrétien recovering after stent insertion

The Canadian Press
Canada Post reviewing union's offer responses as OT ban remains in effect

CBC News
Hudson's Bay to lay off more than 8,300 employees by June 1

CBC News
Organizers pitch G7 summit as opportunity to showcase best of Banff to the world

CBC News
Wildfires force thousands from homes, destroy Sask. Public Safety Agency compound

Radio-Canada
Le vent et la chaleur pourraient aggraver la situation des feux de forêt au Manitoba

Radio-Canada
Feux de forêt : des milliers d’évacués dans des communautés autochtones en Saskatchewan

Radio-Canada
Postes Canada victime d’une industrie en pleine mutation

Radio-Canada
Le roi Charles III livre les priorités de Carney et salue un Canada « fort et libre »

Agence France-Presse
Charles III au Canada : « L'autodétermination est une valeur chère aux Canadiens »

La Presse canadienne
Roi Charles III : Québec veut couper tous les liens avec la monarchie

La Presse canadienne
Trump dit que l’adhésion du Canada au « Dôme d’or » coûtera 61 milliards de dollars

Radio-Canada
Un 2^e membre de l’administration Trump à la rescousse des autruches de la C.-B.

Canadian Commentary

Carson Jerema | National Post
The Governor General's office doesn't understand that King Charles III is Canada's head of state

Shannon Proudfoot | The Globe and Mail
King Charles visited an Ottawa market and Canada put on a play about itself

Jen Gerson | The Guardian
Canadians are happy to cling to King Charles – as long as he keeps us safe from Trump

Perry Bellegarde | The Globe and Mail
Treaties with the Crown are the foundation of Canada’s sovereignty

Jesse Kline | National Post
The young Jews who will never dance again

Robyn Urback | The Globe and Mail
The shooting of Israeli embassy workers didn’t happen in a vacuum. And it could happen in Canada next.

Terry Newman | National Post
Canada's terrorist threat too great — for Jews and Canadians

Michael Higgins | National Post
Liberal caucus submits to Carney as it did to Trudeau

Ben Woodfinden | National Post
King Charles III and the glorious weirdness of Canada's monarchy

International News

Defense One
Missile Defense Agency preps $151B contract vehicle for Golden Dome

Defense One
Pentagon orders civilian employees to submit money-saving ideas

Army Times
Soldiers suspended on allegations they fired blanks at Florida beach

Navy Times
Starlink, Oura Rings to help monitor sailor fatigue

USNI News
Navy Program Officer in Charge of Frigate, Unmanned Programs Removed from Command

NBC News
Marine says he tackled 'unruly' man accused of trying to open exit door on international flight

NBC News
SpaceX Starship: Smooth launch but spacecraft makes uncontrolled re-entry - More - More

The Associated Press
SpaceX launches another Starship rocket after back-to-back explosions

NBC News
Stocks close out winning day after Trump resets E.U. tariff deadline

BBC News
Second suspect arrested in alleged crypto torture scheme

NBC News
Trump administration seeks to end all federal contracts with Harvard - More

The Guardian
U.S. State Dept.’s crackdown on foreign students at US universities widens - More

CBC News
The dispute between the Trump administration and Harvard University, explained

The Guardian
Former Harvard president urges people to ‘speak out’ against threats to US democracy

CNBC News
NPR sues Trump over executive order cutting federal funding

BBC News
Chinese-owned Volvo Cars to cut 3,000 jobs

Agence France-Presse
Tesla Europe sales plummeted by 52% in April - More

The Guardian
No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: The curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

The Guardian
Zelenskyy bound for Berlin with Merz boxed in by German coalition

The Associated Press
Russia seizes Ukrainian border villages as its bombing campaign slows

The Guardian
Drones target Moscow forcing suspension of some flights

The Guardian
Trump warns Putin he is ‘playing with fire’

The Guardian
Top Russian security official dismisses Trump’s ‘playing with fire’ warning to Putin

The Guardian
Journalists tell how they survive working in war zones

BBC News
New US-backed group says it has begun aid distribution in Gaza

The Associated Press
Droves of Palestinians overwhelm new Gaza aid centre in Rafah

CBC News
How will Gaza aid distribution work under controversial U.S.-backed group?

Reuters News Agency
Far-right Israelis confront Palestinians, other Israelis in violent Jerusalem march - More

BBC News
After decades of bloodshed, is India winning its war against Maoists?

BBC News
North Korea says US 'Golden Dome' risks 'space nuclear war' - More

CBS News
1944: The crash of B-24 bomber "Heaven Can Wait" killed 11 U.S. airmen

The Guardian
France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests

Agence de presse Reuters
Fusillade meurtrière à Philadelphie : deux morts et neuf blessés, les tireurs toujours en fuite

Agence France-Presse
Les États-Unis suspendent le traitement des demandes de visas étudiants afin d’examiner leurs réseaux sociaux

Agence France-Presse
Le gouvernement américain annonce mettre fin à tous ses contrats avec Harvard

Agence France-Presse
Trump Media va investir 2,5 milliards de dollars dans les cryptomonnaies

Agence France-Presse
Irlande : le gouvernement souhaite interdire l'importation de marchandises issues des colonies israéliennes

Agence France-Presse
Voiture-bélier à Liverpool : l’automobiliste conduisait sous l’emprise de stupéfiants

Le Figaro
Grêle en Île-de-France : deux heures d’orage, 334 millions d’euros de dégâts

Agence France-Presse
Un été « plus chaud que la normale » est le scénario le « plus probable », selon Météo-France

Agence France-Presse
Donald Trump accuse Vladimir Poutine de « jouer avec le feu »

Agence France-Presse
La fête musulmane du hajj commencera le 4 juin, annonce l'Arabie saoudite

Agence France-Presse
Mexique : 17 corps découverts dans une maison abandonnée

International Commentary

Rajan Menon | The Guardian
Trump’s flattery and bullying of Putin have been equally ineffective – and it’s obvious why

Natasha Korecki, Jonathan Allen and Allan Smith | NBC News
Obama world loses its shine in a changing, hurting Democratic Party

Zoe Williams | The Guardian
Are millennials really substituting dogs for children? Obviously not – as any dog owner would know

The Guardian
The turning point that wasn’t: the way the world talks about Israel’s war has changed. Nothing else has.

Max Bergmann | Foreign Policy
How America Blew Its Unipolar Moment

Commander Chuck Ridgway | U.S. Naval Institute
What Imperial Germany Teaches About China’s Naval Basing Ambitions