SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Friday, 21 November 2025 - Updated at 0915 hrs EST

Canadian News

CBC News
Two in critical condition after grizzly bear attack involving students in Bella Coola

CBC News
Why Canada is winning the travel trade war with the U.S.

CBC News
Trump's G20 boycott could make room for Canada to advance other trade talks

CBC News
Donation of Second World War grenade prompts Ontario thrift store evacuation

CBC News
Roughly 500,000 Canadians left ERs before seeing a doctor last year, data shows

CBC News
Who is the Canadian blogger who accepted ‘significant' amount of money from fugitive Ryan Wedding?

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

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

Natalie Stechyson | CBC News
As Trump berates female reporters, what's the breaking point? - More

International News

NBC News
Nearly 800 air traffic controllers and techs with perfect attendance during shutdown to receive $10K bonuses

The Associated Press
Coast Guard releases new policy on display of swastikas and nooses

The New York Times
Senate Democrats Investigate Kennedy Center Deals With Trump Allies

The Guardian
Karoline Leavitt defends Trump’s ‘piggy’ insult - Video

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

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

ABC News
Karoline Leavitt defends Trump calling Democrats 'traitors'

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

ABC News
What the military oath of enlistment says about legal and illegal orders

NBC News
Larry Summers' years of emails with Jeffrey Epstein roil Harvard

ABC News
In reversal, DOJ says Comey indictment was reviewed by full grand jury

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

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

NPR News
After calling him a 'communist,' Trump will meet Mamdani in the Oval Office Friday

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

NPR News
How could Trump interfere in the midterms?

Agence France-Presse
CDS warns France should be 'prepared to lose children' in face of Russian threat

CBC News
Poland rail explosion shows Europe still struggling to respond to Russia’s shadow war

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

NBC News
Ukraine working with U.S. to study new peace plan - More

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

The Associated Press
White House says South African president was ‘running his mouth’ about US participation in G20 - More

NPR News
Who are Afrikaners, the group at the center of Trump's dispute with South Africa?

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

The Associated Press
Pilot killed when Indian fighter jet crashes at Dubai Air Show - More

Reuters News Agency
Death toll rises to 41 in central Vietnam flooding, more heavy rain forecast

NPR News
Rare earths: Federal backing and tech advances aim to help the U.S. catch up to China

Agence France-Presse
Fire forces evacuation at COP30 climate talks in Brazil

Agence France-Presse
30-plus nations oppose COP30 draft over fossil fuel omission

NBC News
Drug boats from Venezuela are mainly moving cocaine to Europe

The Associated Press
Today in History: 21 November - More

This Day in Aviation
21 November

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

Editorial | Le Monde
Ukraine: The danger to Europe of a Trump-Putin axis

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
Don’t Give Up the Ship!

David Frum | The Atlantic
The End of the American Empire

Editorial | The Guardian
Gaza: The world wants to move on, but Palestinians can’t

Michal Ruprecht | Goats and Soda
Are there lessons for the U.S. in Romania's struggle with measles?

Books

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

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