Canada says Russia and China are ramping up spy efforts in Arctic region

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Canada’s spy agency says it has observed intelligence threats targeting country’s government and private sector

Canada’s domestic spy agency says Russia and China have a “significant intelligence interest” in Canada’s Arctic, and are targeting both the country’s government and its private sector.

In his annual speech on threats facing Canada, Dan Rogers, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), flagged mounting concerns over hostile nations growing increasingly emboldened in the Arctic.

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A decade after the Bataclan attacks, France is still grappling with how to remember – NPR

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  1. A decade after the Bataclan attacks, France is still grappling with how to remember  NPR
  2. 10 years after Bataclan massacre, Paris is still scarred by Islamic State attacks  abcnews.go.com
  3. ‘The pain remains’: France remembers victims of 2015 Paris attacks  The Guardian
  4. Paris attacks commemorations: French nation has ‘held firm’, Macron says  France 24
  5. How France Remembers the November 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris  The New York Times
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‘The pain remains’: France remembers victims of 2015 Paris attacks

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Bells ring out across French capital marking 10th anniversary of country’s deadliest peacetime attack

France has paid tribute to the 130 people killed 10 years ago by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who targeted a stadium, bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.

“The pain remains,” Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media on Thursday as he visited each of the sites that were attacked. Bells rang out across the city as a remembrance ceremony began at a memorial garden in central Paris attended by relatives and survivors.

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Serbia secretly agreed deal with Jared Kushner firm to develop protected Belgrade site

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Government established joint venture with Trump’s son-in-law in February 2024 to build hotel, apartments and museum complex

The Serbian government has established a joint venture with a property development company owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to develop a hotel complex in Belgrade, giving Serbia until next May to demolish the existing buildings, according to leaked documents.

An independent Serbian news magazine, Radar, published what appears to be a 2024 investment agreement giving Kushner’s firm Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC a 77.5% stake in the joint venture, and the Serbian government a 22.5% stake.

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Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes – The Conversation

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  1. Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes  The Conversation
  2. The Dogs of 8,000 B.C. Were Amazingly Diverse  The New York Times
  3. Doggie diversity in size and shape began at least 11,000 years ago  Reuters
  4. Dog Skull Analysis Rewrites Evolution of Humanity's Best Friend  Scientific American
  5. Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age  BBC
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Tenured professor sues University of Kentucky for banning him from law school over comments on Israel

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Exclusive: Ramsi Woodcock, who calls for an ‘end’ to Israel and military intervention against it, says the university violated his first amendment rights

A tenured law professor sued the University of Kentucky on Thursday after he was banned from teaching and from the law school for comments he made about Israel, including characterizations of the state as a “colonization project” and calls for the world to wage war against it.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Ramsi Woodcock, an antitrust law scholar, argued that the public university violated his first amendment and due process rights when it abruptly placed him under investigation in July, just days after he was promoted to full professor, over allegations that he violated university policy – including anti-discrimination rules that incorporate a widely disputed definition of antisemitism.

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Irish government announces plan to build 300,000 homes within five years

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Proposal includes 72,000 social homes to tackle housing crisis, but critics call it ‘old wine in a new bottle’

The Irish government has announced a long-awaited plan to tackle the country’s severe housing shortage by building 300,000 new homes within five years.

It plans to boost supply by increasing construction capacity and the amount of zoned and serviced land, and to increase support for vulnerable groups, according to proposals published on Thursday.

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Starmer’s chief of staff McSweeney not leaving role over briefing war, BBC told – BBC

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  1. Starmer's chief of staff McSweeney not leaving role over briefing war, BBC told  BBC
  2. The Guardian view on 10 Downing Street: not up to the job | Editorial  The Guardian
  3. Labour Party’s Internal Fight Goes Public, as Starmer’s Trouble Grows  The New York Times
  4. Sir Keir Starmer is a prisoner of the politics he pledged to end  The Economist
  5. The sharks are circling UK PM Keir Starmer as crunch points loom  CNBC
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U.S. issues unusual warning to Americans in Japan: Beware of bear attacks – CBS News

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  1. U.S. issues unusual warning to Americans in Japan: Beware of bear attacks  CBS News
  2. Wildlife Alert: U.S. Embassy Tokyo  U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Japan (.gov)
  3. Amid Japan’s surge in bear attacks, a torrent of AI-generated videos is adding to anxiety  The Guardian
  4. US State Department warns Americans in Japan: Watch out for bears  CNN
  5. Japan deploys troops to combat deadly wave of bear attacks  Reuters
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