SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Wednesday, 28 May 2025  - Some links might have expired.

Canadian News

CBC News
David McGuinty says Canada hoping to join ReArm Europe

National Post
Justin Trudeau attends King Charles' throne speech wearing colourful shoes

CBC News
It takes more than a pandemic to make good handwashing habits stick

Radio-Canada
L’industrie de la défense veut profiter de la hausse des dépenses militaires

La Presse canadienne
Interdiction de faire des feux à ciel ouvert dans plusieurs régions

Canadian Commentary

Alexander Panetta | CBC News
Trump's ambassador predicts Canada trade deal — with a catch

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

Andrew Coyne | The Globe and Mail
This was the moment Charles became King of Canada, and Canada his kingdom

Shannon Proudfoot | The Globe and Mail
King Charles delivers soaring poetry and gristly prose in Throne Speech to giddy Senate

Adrian Humphreys | National Post
King Charles's throne speech, deconstructed: 'Not a single word was accidental' - More

Andrew Cohen | The Globe and Mail
King Charles’s visit to Canada was a show of weakness, not strength

Colby Cosh | National Post
Charles III is the King of Canada. Deal with it, England

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
Throne Speech from King Charles becomes a rallying cry for Carney’s Liberals

Allan Gregg | Toronto Star
King Charles’ throne speech delivery was lauded as inspired

Allan Woods | Toronto Star
Why Donald Trump’s response to the King’s speech should focus Canadian minds

Tanya Talaga | The Globe and Mail
Carney and Ford show two different paths for ‘unleashing’ Canada’s economy

Émilie Dubreuil | Radio-Canada
Les bleus de Camilla

Fannie Olivier | Radio-Canada
Carney s’attaque aux crises de notre époque… mais en oublie une

Radio-Canada
« Le Moyen-Orient n’acceptera jamais d’être sous contrôle israélien »

Philippe Leblanc | Radio-Canada
L’agressivité chinoise teste les limites en Indo-Pacifique

International News

NBC News
Delta flight erupts into chaos as pigeons fly around main cabin

The Guardian
UN warns 1.5°C global warming threshold likely to be breached by 2029 - More

CBC News
'No MAGA left behind': Trump turning pardons into partisan exercise

MSNBC News
Trump weighs pardons of people convicted for Whitmer’s 2020 kidnapping plot - More

BBC News
US trade court rules Trump overstepped his authority with global tariffs

The Associated Press
Trump rejects claim he’s ‘chickening out’ on tariffs just because he keeps changing rates

MSNBC News
Judges reportedly eye new security measures as Trump’s rhetorical attacks get worse

The Associated Press
Marco Rubio says the US will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students

BBC News
Students say they 'regret' applying to US schools after visa changes

BBC News
Trump's battle on international students explained... in 70 seconds

NBC News
Elon Musk says he's 'disappointed' with domestic policy bill

USNI News
Navy Details New Separation Policy for Sailors with Gender Dysphoria

BBC News
Musk 'disappointed' by Trump's tax and spending bill

Le Monde
Musk returns to business after DOGE's relative failure

The Guardian
SpaceX Starship breaks up over Indian Ocean in latest bumpy test - More

NBC News
Trump administration has ramped up deportations but is still far below pace it wants

CNBC News
Trump says he's not 'chickening out' on trade: 'It's called negotiation'

The Associated Press
Zelenskyy visits Berlin as he seeks more support for Ukraine

BBC News
German chancellor promises to help Ukraine produce long-range missiles

Reuters News Agency
Glacier collapse partly destroys Swiss village, one person missing - More

The Guardian
‘Most dangerous moment since 1995’: Renegade Dodik leaves Bosnia in limbo

Agence France-Presse
Zelensky proposes a trilateral 'Trump-Putin-me' meeting

Politico
Zelenskyy: Putin irritates Trump more than I do

BBC News
Glide bombs: The terrifying new weapon changing the war in Ukraine

NBC News
Hamas' Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar has been killed, Netanyahu says

France 24
At least one killed, 48 wounded by Israeli gunfire at US aid hub in south Gaza

The Guardian
Chased, beaten and robbed: Survivors describe Israeli settler violence in West Bank

The Guardian
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says his country is committing war crimes

The Guardian
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women

BBC News
'Wedding bomb' murderer gets life sentence in India

USNI News
Report to Congress on North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons and Missile Programs

Agence France-Presse
Les États-Unis suspendent le traitement des demandes de visas étudiants

Le Figaro
Rubio dit qu'il va révoquer « activement » des visas d'étudiants chinois

Agence France-Presse
Giorgia Meloni va recevoir Emmanuel Macron à Rome mardi

Agence France-Presse
Berlin va aider Kiev à produire des missiles sans restriction de portée

Agence France-Presse
Suisse : un petit village dévasté par l’éboulement d’un glacier, une personne portée disparue

Agence France-Presse
Au Portugal, l'extrême droite devient la deuxième force politique

Agence France-Presse
L'Ukraine prête à des pourparlers avec la Russie mais exige de connaître ses conditions à l'avance

Agence France-Presse
Syrie : l'UE sanctionne des groupes pro-turcs responsables de massacres de civils en mars

Agence France-Presse
Benjamin Netanyahu affirme qu'Israël a tué Mohammed Sinouar, chef présumé du Hamas à Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Gaza : un entrepôt d’un programme alimentaire de l'ONU pillé par des milliers de Palestiniens

Agence France-Presse
La Réunion : trois nouveaux décès imputés au chikungunya

Agence France-Presse
Nvidia : résultats supérieurs aux attentes, l’impact des restrictions à l’export moindre que prévu

International Commentary

David Frum | The Atlantic
J.D. Vance’s Bargain With the Devil

Nicholas Kristof | The New York Times
Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable

Katty Kay | BBC News
Zbigniew Brzezinski: The foreign policy titan who saw this moment coming

Frank Figliuzzi | MSNBC News
Trump's pardons show he is becoming more brazenly corrupt

Jessica Levinson | MSNBC News
The two strongest points in NPR’s lawsuit against the Trump administration

Hayes Brown | MSNBC News
Elon Musk is sad that DOGE didn't get more respect

Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC News
'Trump always chickens out': U.S. delays E.U. tariffs, reinforcing 'TACO' trade theory

David A. Graham | The Atlantic
The President’s Pattern of Impatience

Kelsey D. Atherton | MSNBC News
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ system is an expensive way to make America less safe

Thomas E. Ricks | Politico
What Pete Hegseth Gets Wrong About ‘Warfighting’

John Dramani Mahama | The Guardian
Trump’s unfounded attack on Cyril Ramaphosa was an insult to all Africans

Evan Osnos | The New YorkER
Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder

Date modified: