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Canadian News

BBC News
9/11: The generosity of Gander

VOCM News
Former Gander Mayor Remembers ‘Best and Worst of Humanity’ During 9/11 Terrorist Attacks - More

National Post
Retired Canadian man falsely named as suspect who assassinated Charlie Kirk

CBC News
Canada 'evaluating' relationship with Israel after Qatar attack: Anita Anand

CBC News
No oil pipeline on the list of projects of national interest

CBC News
More than 10,000 college support workers go on strike across Ontario

CBC News
With a drop in international students, campuses are seeing class waitlists, course cuts

Agence France-Presse
Après une polémique et des excuses, un film sur le 7-Octobre diffusé au festival de Toronto

La Presse canadienne
Les bouteilles d’eau, source importante de nanoplastiques

Canadian Commentary

David M. Shribman | The Globe and Mail
Charlie Kirk’s name joins the litany of those associated with an American history of violence

The Editorial Board | The Globe and Mail
Doug Ford threatens to put the Ontario economy on the rocks

Doug Saunders | The Globe and Mail
Qatar’s lesson: You don’t eliminate an enemy by bombing their path to retreat

International News

The Associated Press
US marks anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks - More

NPR News
Bound by loss, split on justice: 9/11 families reflect 24 years later

CBS News
Firefighter works to preserve the legacy of 9/11 for those too young to remember

NPR News
Inside the lab working to identify the remains of 9/11 victims

CBS News
How teachers are keeping the lessons of 9/11 alive for a new generation of students

Defense One
Fight AI-powered cyber attacks with AI tools, intelligence leaders say

NPR News
Government shutdown looms as Congress must agree on a spending bill by Oct. 1

NPR News
33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check

Reuters News Agency
Americans uneasy at Trump's moves to expand presidential power, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

NBC News
Photo of POI in Charlie Kirk assassination released, rifle recovered - More

Reuters News Agency
FBI Director Kash Patel faces scrutiny for inaccurately saying Kirk killer had been caught - More

CNN News
Trump makes Oval Office statement on Charlie Kirk’s death

The Guardian
Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’

NBC News
Sen. Mark Kelly calls on lawmakers to de-escalate political tensions

CBS News
House votes to repeal Iraq war authorizations

CBS News
Politics, retribution behind FBI purge, agents allege in new lawsuit against Patel, Bondi

CBS News
More than 300 Koreans detained by ICE at Georgia Hyundai plant heading home

CBC News
Hyundai CEO says immigration raid will delay Georgia battery plant's construction

Reuters News Agency
Trump offered to let detained Korean workers stay in US, but almost all heading home

BBC News
NATO strengthens defences after Russian drones shot down over Poland

NBC News
Former top FBI officials sue, say Kash Patel fired them to stay in Trump's good graces

NPR News
After 10 years of black hole science, Stephen Hawking proven right

Agence France-Presse
Starmer sacks Mandelson as UK ambassador to US over Epstein links

NBC News
Baltic states ask U.S. congress to uphold military support

The Associated Press
Clashes between police and protesters near Paris’ Gare du Nord

RFI News
Who is 'political animal' Sébastien Lecornu, France's latest prime minister?

Reuters News Agency
Russian drones in Poland's airspace stir worries for Europe's civil aviation

The Associated Press
Polish PM Donald Tusk vows to press ahead with military modernization

The Associated Press
Russian glide bomb attack in eastern Ukraine kills 24 people collecting their pensions

RFI News
Ghana becomes fifth African nation to take in US deportees

BBC News
How Syria's dictatorship used a global child welfare charity to 'disappear' children

Reuters News Agency
Palestinians face new dilemma as Israeli forces advance

Reuters News Agency
Overcrowded camps force Palestinians back to Gaza City danger

The Associated Press
Netanyahu warns Israel may strike Hamas in Qatar again

The Associated Press
Strike on Qatar shows limits of Israel’s elusive quest to vanquish Hamas

The Associated Press
Qatar official says Netanyahu ‘killed any hope’ of hostage release

The Associated Press
Hundreds seek to leave Nepal as the army tries to restore order after violent protests

Agence France-Presse
China-US talks mark a 'small step' towards Xi meeting Trump

CNN News
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro convicted of plotting coup

Agence France-Presse
Affaire Epstein : l'ambassadeur britannique aux États-Unis limogé

Agence France-Presse
Les États-Unis approuvent la vente pour un milliard de dollars de missiles à la Finlande

Agence France-Presse
Drones abattus en Pologne : Varsovie limite le trafic aérien à sa frontière orientale

RFI
Avec le Flamingo, Kiev frappe à 3 000 km et vise l’économie russe

Le Figaro
Le Ghana s’engage à accueillir des Africains de l'Ouest expulsés des États-Unis

Agence France-Presse
L'armée israélienne dit avoir intercepté un missile tiré depuis le Yémen

Agence France-Presse
Cuba : pour la cinquième fois en un an, l’île touchée par une coupure totale d'électricité

International Commentary

Michael Duffin | MSNBC News
For years, I helped keep America safe from terrorist attacks. Then Trump fired me.

Amie Parnes | The Hill
Democrats, discombobulated, say they lack agenda beyond ‘Trump is bad’

Jessica Winter | The New Yorker
The Epstein Birthday Book Is Even Worse Than You Might Realize

Ed Kilgore | Intelligencer
The Epstein Files Will Turn the Shutdown Fight Into a Problem for Republicans

Anthony Zurcher | BBC News
Killing of Charlie Kirk lays bare America's bloody and broken politics

Jonathan Chait | The Atlantic
Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination

Adam Wren and Holly Otterbein | Politico
America searches for a way back from the edge

Eli Stokols and Elena Schneider | Politico
Harris goes there on the Biden question — and Biden world isn’t having it

Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth | The Hill
Putin’s bid to destroy NATO

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
The drone incursions into Poland

Abu Bakr Bashir and Itay Stern | NPR News
Israel has hunted its top enemies around the Middle East. What has it achieved?

Books

Kamala Harris | The Atlantic
The Constant Battle: The first excerpt from 107 Days - More