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Canadian News
CBC News
N.B.: More than 20 active wildfires, three of which were out of control on Sunday afternoon
CBC News
N.S.: Evacuation order expanded twice as strong winds fan Long Lake wildfire
CBC News
Toronto's pole-mounted speed cameras vandalized again and again
CBC News
Ottawa: Pride parade cancelled after being halted by pro-Palestinian protesters
CBC News
Trump says imports of wood products may pose national security threat to U.S.
La Presse
Crney : « Le Canada se tiendra toujours aux côtés de l’Ukraine »
Canadian Commentary
Kyle Duggan | The Globe and Mail
Canada missing UN target for number of female soldiers on peacekeeping missions
Stephen Axworthy | The Globe and Mail
Civic education is the answer to extremism, including within our military
Dylan Robertson | The Canadian Press
Contributing to war and peace: Canada’s role in Ukraine explained
John Turley-Ewart | The Globe and Mail
Where is the clear economic direction that Mark Carney promised?
Murray Brewster | CBC News
The Russia-Ukraine war: Where it stands and where it might be going
Richard Hétu | La Presse
Gavin Newsom, le bagarreur de Californie
International News
The Guardian
Burner phones, wiped socials: The extreme precautions for visitors to Trump’s America
The Guardian
Trump says he wants a 'Department of War' not a 'Department of Defense'
The Guardian
Trump ‘manufactured crisis’ to justify plan to send national guard to Chicago, Hakeem Jeffries says
The Associated Press
Some National Guard units in Washington are now carrying firearms
MSNBC News
Trump floats radical new threats against those who say what he doesn’t want to hear
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The Guardian
Bruise on Trump's hand won't go away, and neither will questions about his health
Salon
With Bolton raid, MAGA media confronts Trump’s war of retribution
The Guardian
Alarming levels of PFAs in blood of those living near Cannon AFB
The Guardian
Wildfires in California and Oregon grow, prompting evacuations and warnings
MSNBC News
JD Vance flunks the basics on World War II
The Guardian
‘Near-perfect landing’: Hot air balloon guided down on to Bedford street
The Guardian
More than 200,000 UK workers switch to four-day week since 2019
The Guardian
Americans on the sorrow – and relief – of leaving Trump’s US for Europe
The Guardian
Farmers across Europe struggle to adapt to the climate crisis
CBC News
Poland's Donald Tusk won't send peacekeepers to Ukraine
The Guardian
The Orient Express is back – but what is it like to ride?
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The Guardian
Malawians repeatedly displaced by drought
The Associated Press
Ukrainian war veterans swim the Bosphorus strait in a triumph over their war injuries
The Guardian
Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza
The Guardian
Families flee Gaza City as Israel vows to press on with offensive
The Associated Press
Israeli strikes hit Yemen’s capital in retaliation for earlier Houthi attacks
The Guardian
Piracy and armed robbery surge in the straits of Malacca and Singapore
The Guardian
Historic Myanmar bridge destroyed in fighting
CNN News
Thousands evacuated, flights canceled as Vietnam braces for Typhoon Kajiki
to make landfall
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The Guardian
Trump says he hopes to meet Kim Jong-un and raises prospect of US taking over some South Korean land
The Guardian
Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
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The Associated Press
Tropical Storm Juliette forms in the Pacific
The Guardian
Residents fight back as Mexico builds big for 2026 World Cup
Agence France-Presse
Trump contesté par l’opposition pour l’envoi de troupes dans des villes démocrates
Agence France-Presse
Le chef du renseignement militaire américain limogé après un rapport sur l’Iran
Agence France-Presse
Chikungunya : les États-Unis suspendent le vaccin de Valneva
Agence France-Presse
Suppression des jours fériés : 84% des Français y sont opposés, d’après un sondage
Agence France-Presse
Sécheresse record pour un début août en Europe et sur le pourtour méditerranéen
Agence France-Presse
Portugal : les pompiers restent mobilisés après un feu ayant ravagé une surface record de 64.000 hectares de forêts
Agence France-Presse
L’armée russe revendique la prise d’une localité dans la région de Dnipropetrovsk
France 24
Cinq journalistes tués dans des frappes israéliennes sur l’hôpital Nasser à Gaza
Le Figaro
Guerre à Gaza : l’armée israélienne annonce une «enquête» après une frappe meurtrière sur un hôpital
Agence France-Presse
Le typhon Kajiki s'approche du Vietnam, plus de 325.000 personnes évacuées
Agence France-Presse
Japon : le premier ministre remonte dans les sondages après plusieurs débâcles électorales
International Commentary
Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
The Home Rule Act
James B. Greenberg | Substack
From Friedman to Trump: Neoliberalism’s Authoritarian Afterlife
Norman Eisen and Andrew Warren | MSNBC News
The John Bolton search should be a wake-up call to every American
Austin Sarat | The Guardian
Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it
Shaun Walker | The Guardian
Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s London waiting game
Adam Gabbatt | The Guardian
Trump casts home-town shadow as he weighs role in New York City mayor’s race
Ofer Cassif | The Guardian
Protests in Tel Aviv, army reservists refusing to serve
Alexander Abnos | The Guardian
Infantino’s latest Oval Office show reminds us Trump will be inescapable at the 2026 World Cup
Amanda Marcotte | Salon
MAGA knows DC takeover isn’t about crime — which is why they love it
Mike Lofgren | Salon
We need a new theory of democracy — because this version has failed
Books
Donna Ferguson | The Guardian
Nobody’s Girl: Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously
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Lives Lived
Jon Guttman | Navy Times
Donald M. McPherson has died aged 103
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