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Canadian News

CBC News
Canada’s instructions to submarine contract bidders highlight sustainment, economic benefits

The Globe and Mail
Canada’s space companies make national-security pitch for chunk of defence dollars

CBC News
Government seeks to retroactively change law, potentially avoiding paying veterans over federal error

CBC News
Mystery man caught on camera leaving Canadian flag, saluting outside Kitchener home on Remembrance Day

CBC News
Hoekstra accuses Canada of meddling in U.S. politics, says restarting trade talks 'not going to be easy'

CBC News
Investigating Indigenous activists was a CSIS priority for at least a decade

CBC News
Provinces sign agreement to drop interprovincial trade barriers on goods except food, alcohol

CBC News
Border guard used service weapon to gun down ex-fiancée in Prince Rupert

CBC News
U.S. law enforcement calls Wedding 'a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar'

Radio-Canada
Un projet de radar du NORAD sème l’inquiétude

Radio-Canada
Toujours pas de portrait de la productivité dans la fonction publique fédérale

Radio-Canada
Le « Pablo Escobar » canadien à la tête d’un réseau international de tueurs à gages

Radio-Canada
Comment traquer un délateur : des documents détaillent les méthodes de Ryan Wedding

Canadian Commentary

The Editorial Board | The Globe and Mail
A cornered Donald Trump is dangerous

Brian Lilley | Toronto Sun
Will the F-35 program ever get off the ground?

Louis Blouin | Radio-Canada
Affaire Epstein : une faille dans l’armure du président

Rania Massoud | Radio-Canada
Carney va-t-il évoquer à Abou Dhabi la question des armes détournées vers le Soudan?

International News

CBC News
Democratic vets in Congress warn about following unlawful military orders

NBC News
Trump accuses Democrats of sedition for urging military to ignore illegal orders - Video

Politico News
Mike Johnson defends Trump’s ‘sedition’ attacks on Democrats

CBS News
Trump condemned by Democrats after he accuses 6 lawmakers of "seditious behavior" - More

NBC News
Without evidence, CDC changes messaging on vaccines and autism

The Associated Press
NTSB investigators say doomed UPS plane had cracks in engine mount - More

The Guardian
‘Golden crime scene’: Elizabeth Warren calls for inquiry into Trump’s ballroom funding

CBS News
Judge rules Trump's National Guard deployment to D.C. is illegal

CBS News
Dick Cheney remembered at funeral as having "devotion to America" over party - More

The Guardian
Donald Trump and JD Vance snubbed for Dick Cheney’s funeral

CBC News
Why the U.S. Justice Department and Congress may battle over redaction of Epstein files

Agence France-Presse
Khashoggi widow 'upset' over Trump meeting with Saudi prince

CBS News
Trump to host NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at White House - More

NBC News
Marjorie Taylor Greene voters say they're sticking with her, despite the Trump feud

CBS News
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida charged with stealing FEMA money, using it for her campaign, DOJ says

CBS News
Federal judge to resume contempt inquiry into Trump officials for deportations to El Salvador

CBS News
Coast Guard admiral, DEA administrator defend strikes on alleged drug boats

The Associated Press
Accused fentanyl kingpin dubbed "Brother Wang" appears in U.S. court after being captured in Cuba

CBS News
ICE official to testify on steps taken to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia

NBC News
Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say

Agence France-Presse
French authorities charges X over Holocaust-denial comments by AI chatbot Grok

NBC News
Princess Kate's comeback boosts royals rattled by Andrew scandal

France 24
French scientists probe mRNA's potential to take on cancer

Agence France-Presse
NGO warns explosive weapons killed record number of children in 2024

France 24
France's CDS under fire after saying country must be 'prepared to lose children'

France 24
Spain's far-right resurgence raises spectre of Franco 50 years after his death

The Guardian
Zelenskyy to negotiate with Trump over US-Russia peace deal requiring painful concessions

France 24
Europe sidelined in US-Russia peace plan for Ukraine

The Globe and Mail
U.S. peace plan calls on Ukraine to give up land, receives negative reaction from Kyiv

Reuters News Agency
Israeli airstrikes kill 25 Palestinians in Gaza

CBC News
She lost five children during the war in Gaza — now she’s raising 36 grandkids in a tent

NBC News
U.S. retiree freed after years jailed in Saudi Arabia for critical tweets

The Associated Press
Iran urged to provide full information about its nuclear stockpile by U.N. atomic agency board

The Associated Press
Russian hacking suspect wanted by the FBI arrested on Thai resort island

Reuters News Agency
Philippine mayor accused of spying for China is sentenced to life in prison

France 24
Brazil struggles to secure COP30 climate deal as fossil fuel divide persists

The Guardian
US in talks to attend G20 summit after initial boycott, South Africa says

Agence France-Presse
Trump annonce qu’il a signé la loi pour rendre public le dossier Epstein

Radio-Canada
Courriels compromettants dans l’affaire Epstein : Larry Summers quitte OpenAI

Le Parisien
« Pas d’endroit pour s’entraîner » : le fiasco des chasseurs belges F-35

France 24
80ème anniversaire du procès de Nuremberg : les maîtres du Reich sur le banc des accusés

Le Monde
Pourquoi la mort de Franco divise-t-elle toujours les Espagnols ?

Agence France-Presse
Une ONG alerte sur le lourd bilan des armes explosives sur les enfants en zone de guerre

Agence France-Presse
Ukraine : un plan de paix américain comprend la cession de territoires à la Russie - Plus

Le Monde
La paix en Ukraine ne doit pas passer par une « capitulation » de Kiev, déclare Jean-Noël Barrot

Le Monde
Gaza : nouveaux bombardements israéliens dans l’enclave, les autorités locales annoncent quatre morts

Radio-Canada
L’abandon du nucléaire alimente les craintes d’une crise énergétique à Taïwan

Agence France-Presse
Lula au chevet de la COP30 en Amazonie

Radio-Canada
COP30 : les vies menacées des gardiens de la forêt amazonienne

International Commentary

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
Trump attempts to distance himself from the horrors around Epstein

David Frum | The Atlantic
The End of the American Empire

Laetitia Limmois et Mélody Da Fonseca | Le Monde
En quoi le procès de Nuremberg est-il historique ?

Books

Mattea Roach | CBC Books
Final Orbit: Back on earth, astronaut Chris Hadfield writes about space

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