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Canadian News

CBC News
Food prices in Canada keep climbing, but these grocery items will give you sticker shock

CBC News
Carney's budget calls for billions in new spending to prop up tariff-hit economy

CBC News
Federal budget expected to chart a course to meet NATO's 5% spending target

CBC News
Canada returned to approved list for Chinese group travellers

CBC News
Government dialling back number of temporary residents it allows into Canada

Radio-Canada
Budget Carney : le milieu des affaires « prudemment optimiste »

Radio-Canada
Des fonctionnaires fédéraux craignent des compressions à la « Stephen Harper »

Canadian Commentary

CBC News
What’s fueling the war in Sudan?

International News

The Guardian
Democrats fight to rebuild in key state races on election day

The Associated Press
U.S. government begins prosecuting case against man who threw sandwich at federal agent

The Associated Press
Laura Loomer says she has a new Pentagon press pass

NBC News
Government shutdown has now tied the record for longest in history - More

CBS News
U.S. may be forced to close some airspace next week if government shutdown continues

BBC News
How Trump is remaking the White House in his own image

The New Republic
Did Kash Patel Make Up Halloween Terrorist Attack He Claimed to Stop?

The New Republic
Hakeem Jeffries Says Trump Is Running “Pedophile Protection Program”

The New York Times
Gun Blasts From Indoor Shooting May Cause Brain Injuries

BBC News
The number one sign you're watching an AI video

The Guardian
EU says Ukraine must accelerate reforms on rule of law and other ‘fundamentals’

The Telegraph
Foreign troops to disarm Hamas from January under US plans

NBC News
How the arrest of the IDF's top lawyer over a leaked abuse video has rocked Israel

The Associated Press
Iranians commemorate anniversary of 1979 US embassy takeover

Agence France-Presse
Indian Sikh pilgrims enter Pakistan, first major crossing since May conflict

BBC News
Typhoon Kalmaegi has flooded large areas, including entire towns on the island of Cebu

The Guardian
Nexperia: China accuses Dutch of prolonging chip war that threatens to halt car factories

The Associated Press
G2: Trump’s new favorite term for US-China relations carries a lot of history’s baggage

NBC News
Trump and Kim Jong-un will likely hold a summit next year

NBC News
Trump wants to 'make America shipbuilding great again'

The Associated Press
This is how much the Earth will warm with countries' new climate plans, UN says

The Guardian
Chile to end Pinochet henchmen’s pampered prison life of tennis and barbecues

Agence France-Presse
Le président finlandais affirme qu’une « nouvelle ère des armes nucléaires » a commencé

Radio-Canada
Les tests d’armes nucléaires ont-ils repris à travers le monde ?

Agence France-Presse
Attaque au couteau en Angleterre : le suspect inculpé de tentative de meurtre, annonce la police

La Presse canadienne
Deux suspects du vol au Louvre ont déjà été condamnés ensemble en 2015

Agence France-Presse
Gilets jaunes : des peines de prison pour 10 personnes ayant mis le feu à neuf pylônes

Agence France-Presse
La menace terroriste « reste vive » en France, avec un « très fort rajeunissement » des mis en cause

Agence France-Presse
Inondations meurtrières en Espagne: le président de la région de Valence démissionne

Agence France-Presse
Tanzanie : malgré les violences électorales ayant fait des centaines de morts, la nouvelle présidente a été investie

Agence France-Presse
Gaza : le Hamas annonce que 45 corps de Palestiniens ont été rendus par Israël

Agence France-Presse
Israël : l’ex-procureure générale de l’armée arrêtée

Agence France-Presse
Un séisme dans le nord de l’Afghanistan fait plus de vingt morts et des centaines de blessés

La Presse canadienne
Le Canada et les Philippines concluent un accord de défense

Agence France-Presse
Le chef du Pentagone s'est rendu à la frontière entre les deux Corées

Agence France-Presse
Mexique : manifestations après le meurtre du maire d’une grande ville

International Commentary

Heather Cox Richardson | Substack
Letters from an American

Jeff Merkley | The New Republic
Ring the Alarm Bells: Authoritarianism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here Now.

Melody Gutierrez | Los Angeles Times
Gavin Newsom’s gamble on Prop. 50 may be his most calculated yet

Danny Cohen | The Telegraph
Now we have the evidence. The BBC knowingly helped spread Hamas lies and hate.

Books

Margaret Atwood with Lisa Allardice | The Guardian
‘It is the scariest of times’: On defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir

Lives Lived

Agence France-Presse
Dick Cheney est mort à l'âge de 84 ans