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Canadian News

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La Presse canadienne
Ottawa veut suivre le recours à l’intelligence artificielle dans la fonction publique

La Presse canadienne
Ottawa dit avoir trouvé près de 500 façons de réduire les formalités administratives

Le Devoir
Le Québec s’en va chasser des contrats en défense à Londres

La Presse canadienne
Mark Carney se dit « confiant » pour l’avenir du Canada

La Presse canadienne
Le fédéral reste évasif quant à l’atteinte des objectifs climatiques pour 2030

Canadian Commentary

Peter Armstrong | CBC News
It's not the tariffs, it's the chaos

David Michael Lamb | CBC News
Is this legal? The facts about Trump's use of National Guard troops.

Evan Dyer | CBC News
Qatar did what the U.S. and Israel asked. The missiles came anyway.

International News

CNN News
Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative activist, dies after shooting at Utah Valley University - More

Defense One
Today’s ICBMs may operate until 2050, GAO says

MSNBC News
Pressed on weak U.S. job growth, the White House line comes up far short

The Guardian
Larry Ellison briefly overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person

NBC News
Judge temporarily blocks Trump's firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook - More - More

The Associated Press
Frightening new details emerge about turbulence that threw passengers into ceiling on Delta flight

BBC Veriify
South Korean workers detained in US may see return home delayed

NBC News
Grove of giant sequoia trees burns in California's Sierra National Forest

Agence France-Presse
Viking ships embark on a final, high-risk voyage to a home in Norway

BBC News
Children feared among three dead in Channel crossing attempt

BBC News
Trump lobbies EU for 100% tariffs on China and India

NBC News
'Block Everything' protests sweep France, intensifying pressure on Macron - More

Reuters News Agency
Poland shoots down at least 3 Russian drones in its airspace - More

The Guardian
Poland ‘closer to military conflict than at any time since WW2’

The Associated Press
NATO allies held Article 4 consultations after Russian drone incursion

BBC News
Who is in NATO and what are Article 4 and Article 5?

The Hill
Schumer: Trump is ‘Neville Chamberlain of our time’

BBC News
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites

France 24
Israel warns enemies 'no place they can hide' after Qatar strikes on Hamas

Agence France-Presse
Iran resumes cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog under new framework

BBC News
India eyes quick EU trade deal

Defense One
China is working to weaken Palau, the island nation’s president says

Agence France-Presse
1.4 tons of cocaine found floating in Pacific Ocean 1,000 miles off coast of El Salvador

MSNBC News
Karoline Leavitt floats threats of ‘military might’ over Bolsonaro coup trial

France 24
France : Lecornu prend ses marques à Matignon - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Allemagne : l'auteur syrien de l'attaque au couteau de Solingen condamné à perpétuité - Plus

France 24
La Pologne dénonce "19 violations" de son espace aérien, trois drones russes abattus

Agence France-Presse
Serbie : deux étrangers soupçonnés de vouloir transmettre des secrets militaires américains à la Chine en fuite

France 24
Soudan : les rescapés d'El-Fasher, assiégée par les Forces de soutien rapide, témoignent

France 24
L'atrocité des crimes reprochés à Joseph Kony exposée devant la CPI

Agence France-Presse
Frappes au Qatar : les ennemis d'Israël n'ont « nulle part où se cacher », soutient Israël Katz

Agence France-Presse
Corée du Sud : au moins dix blessés dans une explosion sur une base militaire

International Commentary

David Frum | The Atlantic
Trump’s Military Rule

Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
What do you call Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay deal? Obscene.

Anthony L. Fisher | MSNBC News
Trump is taking America down a slippery slope where the military can kill anyone

Anthony Zurcher | BBC News
Trump is used to shaking off criticism - but the Epstein story is different

Mona Charen | The Bulwark
The Epstein Scandal Reveals MAGA’s True Face

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
A world in which a few rich men run the federal government for their own benefit

Jarvis DeBerry | MSNBC News
Mike Johnson tries to sell Americans on the benefits of being occupied

Philip Allen Lacovara | The Bulwark
Why the Supreme Court Keeps Writing Trump Blank Checks

Jules Darmanin | The Guardian
Macron played with fire by razing the middle ground. Now France is burning.

Paul Taylor | The Guardian
Russia is brazenly provoking the west. Putin must be left in no doubt of the consequences.

John DeVore | MSNBC News
Trump recasts Tom Hanks from war film icon to ‘woke’ MAGA avatar

Tom Nichols | The Atlantic
Russia’s Reckless Provocation

Phillips Payson O’Brien | The Atlantic
Russia Tested NATO in Poland. NATO Flunked.

Robert Kagan | The Atlantic
The Beginning of the End of NATO

Romain BRUNET | France 24
Lecornu promet des "ruptures", "Bloquons tout" se poursuit avec des centaines d'actions