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Canadian News

CBC News
Canada's F-35 review drags on

CBC News
Canada Post paints bleak financial picture, hints at big job cuts

CBC News
How the Conservatives helped pass Carney's budget, avoiding an election

Radio-Canada
Avions de chasse : les défenseurs du F-35 lancent une riposte

Radio-Canada
Deux présumés pilleurs de tombes arrêtés après plus de 300 vols

Canadian Commentary

Alexander Rudolph, et al | Canadian Global Affairs Institute
Overcoming Canada’s Disorganized and Ineffective Approach to Cyber Security Standards

David Perry | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s 2025 budget delivers on defence spending – but the devil will be in the details

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
Canadians’ lack of appetite for an election means smooth sailing for Carney’s first budget

Yvan Blondin and Justin Massi | The Globe and Mail
The idea of a mixed fleet of Canadian fighter jets should not take flighte

Ethan Lou | The Globe and Mail
What will you sacrifice for Carney and country?

Robert Rotberg | The Globe and Mail
The United States has no business meddling in Nigeria

Gus Carlson | The Globe and Mail
Warren Buffett’s words are a warm hug in a harsh world

Donald Savoie | The Globe and Mail
If Canada wants to recapture the national ambition of the 1960s, it must seriously cut the bloat

International News

The Associated Press
Trump to decide on Epstein files release

The Associated Press
Trump attacks ABC reporter after question about killing of Saudi journalist Khashoggi - More

NBC News
Stock market wobbles as tech sells off

NBC News
Many internet services disrupted after Cloudflare warns of service issues - More

The Associated Press
Trump administration sues California over law banning masked federal agents

The Associated Press
DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana

NBC News
Improperly placed wire label caused power outage on container ship before crash into Key Bridge

BBC News
When is the Epstein files vote - and why does Trump now say he wants them released?

NBC News
MTG says Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files is 'destructive' to the MAGA movement

CBS News
Trump says he's making Saudi Arabia a major non-NATO ally

NBC News
The Trump administration is racing to reframe his tariff rollbacks - More

NBC News
AI-generated evidence is showing up in court. Judges say they're not ready.

The Guardian
Stock market sell-off continues - More

The Guardian
Trump says US will sell F-35 stealth jets to Saudis - More - More

The New York Times
Trump Family’s Business Ties to Saudi Arabia Raise Ethics Worries

The Guardian
Prince Mohammed’s entourage for US visit includes official implicated in Twitter spy plot

NBC News
Bernie Sanders warns AI could deepen inequality and reshape war

Reuters News Agency
U.K.'s MI5 spy service warns lawmakers of Chinese spy risk

The Guardian
UK downplays reports it has stopped sharing intelligence with US regarding narco-traffickers

The Guardian
Slovenia accused of turning Roma neighbourhoods into ‘security zones’

The Washington Post
Russia, Europe fight for custody of operative linked to DHL bomb plot

The Associated Press
Ukrainians working for Russia are suspected of blowing up railway line, Poland says

Reuters News Agency
Ukraine hits targets in Russia with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles

Agence France-Presse
Eswatini confirms receiving over $5m from US to accept deportees

The New York Times
After Hundreds of Gazans Arrive on Mystery Flights, South Africa Asks How

NBC News
U.S. firm set to launch 200mph flying taxis in Dubai

The Guardian
Pakistani parliament votes to give Field Marshal Asim Munir new powers and legal immunity

The Guardian
Chinese travellers cancel hundreds of thousands of trips to Japan amid rising tensions

The Guardian
South Korea to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040

BBC News
Venezuela's Maduro 'ready to talk' as US ramps up pressure

France 24
Donald Trump reçoit le prince saoudien Mohammed ben Salmane avec tous les égards

France 24
À Nancy, un « contre-monument » convoque les fantômes de l’Algérie coloniale

France 24
Soudan : des milliers de déplacés, l’ONU demande un soutien accru

France 24
« Pas en notre nom » : des Afrikaners dénoncent les accusations de « génocide blanc » par Trump

Agence France-Presse
Israël salue le plan Trump pour Gaza, le Hamas s’oppose à une force internationale

France 24
Tensions États-Unis-Venezuela : Donald Trump et Nicolas Maduro se disent prêts à discuter

International Commentary

Editorial | Le Monde
Volodymyr Zelensky's two fronts

Jack Nicas | The New York Times
Trump and the ‘Donroe Doctrine’: A special U.S. sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere - More - More

Deepak Varuvel Dennison | The Guardian
What AI doesn’t know: We could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’

Siri Christiansen | The Guardian
Here in Sweden, the Vikings are back. And this time they’re searching for stability in a chaotic age.

Tam Patachako | The Guardian
The rainforest the world forgot: The Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected?

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
Trump has lost control of the House Republicans

Michelle Goldberg | The New York Times
The MAGA Crackup Might Finally Be Here

Éditorial | Le Monde
Les deux fronts de Volodymyr Zelensky

Jack Nicas | The New York Times
La « doctrine Donroe » : Comment Donald Trump veut contrôler l’hémisphère occidental

Books

Eva Corlett | The Guardian
Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs

Brad Wheeler | The Globe and Mail
Souvankham Thammavongsa wins 2025 Giller Prize for debut novel Pick a Colour - More - More