A sudden exodus of migrants from Morocco startled Spanish officials and drew heavy criticism from right-wing parties across the continent.

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Les athlètes canadiens ont aussi grimpé sur le podium au 400 m haies et à la marche.

Un incendie s’est déclaré au campement Notre-Dame, une zone à forte population itinérante dans Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi. Les pompiers ont dû intervenir, mais personne n’a été blessé.

L'actrice demandait depuis plus de 10 ans le de retrait de cette scène tournée quand elle n'avait que 13 ans.

La journée passe vite. Voici les trois nouvelles qui ont marqué l’actualité jusqu’ici.

Donald Trump a déclaré, vendredi, que les États-Unis n'avaient finalement ​pas accepté que l'Ukraine construise des missiles Patriot, alors qu'il avait annoncé avoir donné cette autorisation en marge du sommet de l'Otan, le 8 juillet. Le président américain a déclaré que des discussions étaient en cours et a ajouté que Washington devait faire "très attention avant de laisser quiconque en fabriquer".

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

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He was widely suspected of being an F.B.I. informant and of playing a role in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm, the charismatic Black activist.

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Son départ pour le Sénat fait fondre encore davantage le caucus conservateur à Ottawa.

Son départ pour le Sénat fait fondre encore davantage le caucus conservateur à Ottawa.

Fruit de rumeurs sur les réseaux sociaux? Nouveau chapitre de tensions politiques? «Le Devoir» fait le point.

Quatre livres pour voyager autrement cet été, du Ghana à la Tanzanie, en passant par le Congo-Brazzaville et l’île Maurice. Tirthankar Chanda, journaliste culturel à RFI et spécialiste des littératures du monde, partage ses recommandations dans le Journal de l’Afrique. Au programme : La Vie sexuelle des femmes africaines de Nana Darkoa, Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve d’Emmanuel Dongala, Les Vies d’après du prix Nobel Abdulrazak Gurnah et les Nouvelles de l’écrivain mauricien Vinod Rughoonundun. Quatre univers pour explorer le désir, la solidarité, la mémoire coloniale et la diversité des littératures africaines et de l’océan Indien.

Selon les autorités espagnoles, 60 000 migrants ont rejoint l'enclave espagnole de Ceuta, au Maroc, en quelques jours. Vendredi, elles ont affirmé que plus de la moitié d'entre eux seraient déjà rentrés au pays. De leur côté, les autorités marocaines disent coopérer avec leurs homologues espagnoles afin de rapatrier les migrants. Un afflux massif et spectaculaire, alimenté par des rumeurs virales sur les réseaux sociaux, qui aurait fait 60 morts, selon un dernier bilan de Madrid.

La compagnie conseille aux passagers de vérifier le statut de leur vol avant de se rendre à l’aéroport.

La frontière de Ceuta submergée, désarmement du Hamas et Ottawa surtaxe des meubles en bois: ce qu’il faut retenir.

Des images peuvent désormais être générées à partir des données satellites, y compris de fausses zones de guerre.

ExxonMobil et Chevron ont vu leur bénéfice net doubler et quadrupler au 2e trimestre. Mais l’effet n’est pas si net au Canada.

Ce tarif sera en vigueur pour un maximum de 200 jours, le temps d’une enquête sur la hausse des importations de ces produits.

La plateforme permet de miser sur les événements économiques, financiers et météorologiques.

Les autorités continuent d’évaluer les dégâts matériels après la recrudescence du feu il y a une semaine.

Democrats are demanding that the Kentucky Republican resign. Others who were sidelined for far longer faced no such calls, but times are changing.

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« On se dit qu’on est le département des miracles », s’exclame en entrevue une infirmière du service Info-Santé 811. La dame, qui ne souhaite pas que son identité soit révélée puisqu’elle est toujours employée de Santé Québec, sonne l’alarme sur la situation qui règne à la ligne d’appel.

A sudden exodus of migrants from Morocco startled Spanish officials and drew heavy criticism from right-wing parties across the continent.

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The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, the television news anchor, has been missing for nearly six months.

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Ihor Obolensky, commander of the “Khartiia” Rapid Deployment Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard, considers today’s assassination attempt against him to be proof of the effective elimination of Russian invaders on the battlefield.

Russia's rarest armored fighting vehicle (AFV) just broke cover for the first time this year. The heavily armed BMP-T Terminator is back! Just don't expect it to make much, or any, difference on the ground in Ukraine.

The BMP-T exists to escort tanks and shoot up the infantry ambushers who hunt them. The problem for the 90th Tank Division, the sole confirmed user of the 48-ton, five-person vehicle, is that infantry ambushes are rare these days. The main threats to Russian tanks are mines and drones. And to mines and drones, the BMP-T is just another target.

A photo circulated online recently depicting a BMP-T with add-on anti-drone protection. It's one of just 20 or so the Russian vehicle-maker Uralvagonzavod has ever produced for the Russian army. That makes it one of the rarest fighting vehicles in an army with tens of thousands of tanks, BMP-2s and BMP-3s and other AFVs.

The BMP-T is special. It's not as well-armed or well-protected as a tank, but it's better-armed and better-protected than a standard BMP infantry carrier. With its small turret cradling twin 2A42 30-mm cannons firing 300-g shells at a rate of around 200 rounds a minute, the BMP-T can lay down a lot of firepower.

"The most important thing is to support the tanks," a BMP-T commander told the Russian state newspaper Izvestia. That emphasis on tank support is why the BMP-T doesn't carry infantry passengers, unlike other BMP models that are primarily infantry carriers.

Ohhhh a BMPT sighting out in the wild.
Gotta be the first one in this year. https://t.co/UdWmWAQ61k pic.twitter.com/i3sL1GJxkF

— T-90K (@T_90AK) July 23, 2026

Ukrainian forces have destroyed or damaged several BMP-Ts since the type first rolled into action no later than early 2023. Late last year, Uralvagonzavod produced a small batch of new BMP-Ts to complement the initial batch of 12 vehicles.

Don't expect many more BMP-Ts to roll off the factory floor. It's not that Uralvagonzavod isn't hard at work. The factory is churning out hundreds of new T-90M and T-72B3M tanks every year, complementing the thousands of older tanks that Russian forces have pulled out of long-term storage for refurbishment, upgrade and further use.

The ongoing production and restoration, combined with a sharp reduction in Russian vehicular attacks in Ukraine, have allowed the Kremlin to make good heavy losses in Ukraine, and then some. Russian forces have lost no fewer than 14,000 AFVs in 53 months of wider war. But Russian industry has built or restored ... at least 14,000 replacement AFVs.

De-mechanization

All that is to say, Russia's war on Ukraine de-mechanized the Russian army. But then the army re-mechanized by redoubling production and mostly pausing mechanized attacks in favor of infantry-led assaults across the drone-patrolled, mine-infested gray zone.

Exactly what the Russians are saving all those vehicles for is unclear. Maybe they're preserving them for some future conflict. Or maybe they're just waiting for more favorable conditions along the 1,200-km gray zone threading across eastern and southern Ukraine.

Those conditions may never come as Ukraine deploys more drones and lays more mines. The same unit that operates the BMP-Ts, the 90th Tank Division, learned this the hard way on 22 July. Perhaps sensing that the terrain around Shakhove in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast was too rough for infantry traveling on foot, the 90th Tank Division and elements of the 8th and 41st Combined Arms Armies attacked with armored vehicles for the first time in months.

Russia took the cages off its newest tanks. The new Arena-M shield bought them a few minutes.

A clutch of upgraded T-72B3A tanks with Arena-M anti-drone defenses led the attack. The Arena-M uses radar to detect incoming enemy munitions and then fires tiny projectiles at the munitions from an array of 12 launchers. The Arena-M works against small drones, but it's useless once it fires all 12 projectiles. To knock out the T-72B3As near Shakhove on 22 July, all the Ukrainians had to do was launch more than 12 drones per tank.

The BMP-T doesn't have active protections in the class of the Arena-M. It would've been even more vulnerable to drones, and even more useless in the doomed assault near Shakhove. The Russians have settled on two vehicle types as they rebuild their mechanized forces: tanks for leading assaults and BMPs for carrying infantry behind the tanks.

Where does the BMP-T fit in this construct? The infrequency with which BMP-Ts have appeared anywhere near the gray zone in the past year is the strongest sign that the fast-firing vehicles don't fit anywhere. They're vanishingly rare because they're increasingly useless.

Ukraine’s newest mine-clearing vehicle is a 1960s-design APC with nobody inside

World Boxing has lifted the last restrictions on Russian athletes, clearing them to compete under their own flag and anthem as they chase qualification for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Days earlier, in a frontline Kherson gym that Russian artillery had wrecked, the teenage boxers who trained there had recorded their own message to the Olympic movement: keep Russia out.

World Boxing approved the change on 30 July, the latest sports federation to roll back its wartime restrictions as the Olympic movement eases Russia back toward the Games, even as its attacks keep destroying Ukraine's sports infrastructure and the lives of athletes in frontline oblasts such as Kherson.

The 11-year-old martial-arts champion who trains between drone strikes

Timur, 11, steps out into his yard and listens to the sky. No buzzing. This means no “human safari” drones nearby. Timur has just given himself his morning insulin shot, had his breakfast, and he now heads for his punching bag, hanging from the old walnut tree. He warms up with pull-ups, the branch being his pull-up bar, as his dog runs around, and then works the punching bag, pierced by Russian shrapnel.

Training in the yard is not enough, so Timur rides his bicycle under Russian FPV drone attacks to his practice session. Along the way, he stops to hide under a tree. In summer, Kherson poplars and sycamore trees offer many good hiding places, and the anti-drone nets cover many streets, but the Russian drones are flying low now. When they spot a car, a pedestrian, or a child on a bicycle, they dive even lower. The pilots on the other side of the river see their targets but carry on with their hunt. Lately, some drones fly without making any noise. Hearing loud buzzing, Timur jumps off the bike and throws himself in the grass. Lawns are often littered with mines, but there is no choice. After a few stops, he arrives at the practice, held in a basement. For a while, Timur can focus on the training—until he starts on his way back home.

Timur, the Kherson city champion in hand-to-hand combat and the Mykolaiv Oblast champion in MMA, takes his training seriously, even after he was diagnosed with insulin-dependent Type 1 diabetes right after the occupation. He dreams of becoming the champion of Ukraine, Europe, and the world. His role model is Muhammad "D.K." Ali, a British professional boxer who, like Timur, lives with insulin-dependent Type 1 diabetes. He is also inspired by Yulian Pozdniakov, a Ukrainian professional kickboxer, a European professional kickboxing champion, a Ukrainian IFMA Muay Thai and WAKO K-1 champion, and Timur has recently started training in kickboxing and Muay Thai.

Chess retreats to a basement after Russia jails the grandfather who taught it

Like Timur, Sasha started boxing before the occupation. Eight at the time, he also practiced chess with his grandfather, an avid player, who was kidnapped by the Russian military during the occupation and sentenced to 20 years of strict regime on fabricated charges. Sasha stopped boxing, but he still plays chess.

His grandmother Tanya, who also plays chess, said in an interview that Kherson is “a sports city.” Tanya trains at home, doing yoga and general fitness routines.

“Everything here—our rivers and fields—is made for an active lifestyle,” said Tanya. “And so our people are fit, morally and physically. The enemy is trying to destroy our places of strength, but our children stand firm and train. They do not give up in spirit.”

Her daughter, Sasha’s aunt, also practices with him over the phone as she had to move to Mykolaiv due to intense attacks on her district of Kherson. She used to go to the Children’s and Youth Sports School, also known as Chess Club. Sasha practices online with a coach during the week, but on the weekend he follows the family tradition and joins about 20 other young Kherson chess players for in-person training at the same school. Tanya often walks her grandson to the basement practices, and fondly remembers the chess club and its beautiful home.

Since the 1980s, the Children's and Youth Sports School, funded by the city, held training and national and international tournaments at a historic building, a snow-white villa with arched windows and ornate wrought-iron balconies downtown Kherson. Vitaly Bogdanov, the President of the Kherson Oblast Chess Federation for over 20 years, told Euromaidan Press that generations of young Khersonians studied chess and checkers in a former residence of the Italian embassy.

In 2023, the school had to move classes and tournaments to a safe underground facility due to constant shelling, and the building stood vacant. On 25 July 2026, the Russian military destroyed the architectural monument. The building burned out, and its roof collapsed after artillery and drone attacks, during which drones dropped incendiary napalm-like mixture.

Russia levels the last boxing gym as its teenagers film a plea to the IOC

Kherson: a Russian shell destroyed the last boxing gym in Kherson, where children and teens trained.

Standing in the ruins, the coach urged the @iocmedia @Olympics IOC to ban Russian athletes. Young boxers spoke of shock, grief, and traveling to practice under drones. pic.twitter.com/iKnsnRGCVP

— Zarina Zabrisky (@ZarinaZabrisky) July 25, 2026

The morning after the chess club was destroyed, Russian artillery hit Kherson's only surviving boxing gym. After the city's liberation, the gym hosted regular training sessions and competitions.

The youth team just returned from a tournament and, instead of practicing, helped to clean the premises. Four young athletes recorded an address to the International Olympic Committee, pleading to ban Russian athletes from international competitions. Tymofey, 15, said that he trained in this boxing ring for seven years and could not find the words.

Standing amid bricks and fallen ceiling beams, Dmytro Obolentsev, Director of the Kherson Regional Children and Youth Sports School for Boxing and Other Sports and coach of the youth team, said that training will continue.

“These walls witnessed it all: the nerve-breaking moments before stepping onto the floor, the smiles after victory, the tears of defeat, the embraces of coaches, the applause of families, and the unforgettable moment when a young athlete stepped onto the podium to receive a well-earned medal and trophy,” wrote Zakhar Zhizhko, a Kherson resident. “Years will pass, but the memory of those competitions will remain. We want to believe that this gym will once again be filled with children's laughter, genuine emotion, and the joy of victory.”

The Olympic medalist who can no longer reach his river, and trains anyway

Serhii Kirsanov, Ukrainian sprint canoeist (Olympic silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics, multiple World Championships winner) and his wife Luiza survived a Russian Shahid drone attack in Kherson.

A residential block next to them was destroyed. pic.twitter.com/D2XhazIkOu

— Zarina Zabrisky (@ZarinaZabrisky) July 31, 2026

Serhiy Kyrsanov, a fit man in his sixties, cleaned the destruction site on 29 July, after several Shahid drones devastated his neighborhood in the residential area of Kherson. Serhiy and his wife Luiza mopped broken glass and considered themselves lucky: their neighbors’ homes were destroyed and burned. Their spacious house featured Olympic posters and impressive memorabilia: Serhiy, a prominent Ukrainian rower, is a silver medalist of the 1988 Olympics in kayaking at 1000 m in the four, a silver medalist of the European championship in kayaking, and a world and national champion. As Luiza wiped dust off the medal display in the living room, she said that both she and her husband are still involved in youth training in the city.

“I can’t row as we can’t reach the river,” said Serhiy. “But we do all sorts of other training, and we are not going to stop.”

The chess world condemns as the boxers' video circles the globe

The Italian Embassy in Ukraine condemned the attack on the chess school building, which was built for the Italian Ambassador in 1905 and hosted the Italian Embassy from 1906 to 1918. Lithuanian grandmaster and politician Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen expressed her indignation. Peter Heine Nielsen, a Danish chess grandmaster and five-time Danish champion, also condemned the attack. Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion and one of the greatest chess players in history, wrote that he was looking forward to helping to rebuild the chess club.

The boxing team’s video address to the International Olympic Committee went viral and was shared globally. Vladyslav Heraskevych, the first Ukrainian ever to compete in skeleton at the Winter Olympics, and an advocate for excluding Russian and Belarusian athletes from international sport, shared the address, adding that “Russian sports is an accomplice to Russia’s crimes.” The Boxing Federation of Ukraine issued a statement about the attack and looked into fundraising options.

"A sports city": 221 venues destroyed, its athletes still on the podium

Timur, Sasha and the young boxers are not an exception. The girls’ soccer team used to train outdoors until a Russian shell destroyed the soccer field. Russian shelling heavily damaged Kherson's only indoor ice rink, once home to youth hockey and figure skating. The war has devastated Kherson Oblast's sporting infrastructure as 221 sports facilities have been damaged or destroyed, forcing many clubs and sports schools to relocate, operate in basements, or train in mixed and remote formats.

Yet, sports go a long way in the city nicknamed “invincible.” Mothers and grandmothers frequent various training sessions, from fly yoga to belly dance and karate. Fathers and grandfathers run under drones and used to play basketball and soccer in the red zone until the point when being outside became impossible due to the massive FPV drone attacks. Swimming pools and gyms operate in half-ruined buildings and, in winter, in freezing temperatures.

Despite daily Russian attacks, Kherson's sports community continues to compete. According to the official regional statistics, provided by the Department of Physical Culture, Youth and Sports of the Kherson Regional State Administration, in 2025 more than 50 athletes from Kherson Oblast were winners or medalists at international and Ukrainian competitions across more than 20 sports, including rowing, wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, athletics, archery, volleyball, swimming, karate, sambo, draughts, sumo and canoeing. The list included Olympic, Paralympic and Deaflympic athletes, as well as world, European and national champions and medalists. Kherson athletes competed at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Deaflympics, and World and European Championships, while more than a dozen regional coaches were recognized for training international-level competitors.

During the first six months of 2026, 396 athletes from Kherson Oblast took part in Ukrainian and international competitions, winning 74 medals in Olympic sports, 93 in non-Olympic disciplines, and 10 in Paralympic and Deaflympic events.

Nearly 200 displaced children from Kherson Oblast participated in regional sports competitions, while another 198 children from frontline communities attended a two-week sports and rehabilitation camp in the Carpathians.

The boxers whose gym Russia destroyed had asked the Olympic movement to keep Russia out. On 30 July, World Boxing gave its answer: Russian athletes will compete under their own flag, like everyone else. Their ring is still rubble. Training, their coach said, continues—in the basement, under the nets.

C’est une annonce à prendre avec précaution, mais qui suscite un timide espoir au Proche-Orient. Le Hamas affirme qu’un accord sur son désarmement a été trouvé. Donald Trump parle d’une "étape cruciale" dans son plan de paix. Que penser de ces déclarations ? Peut-on y voir une réelle avancée ?

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Defense lawyers say Clancy was ill with postpartum psychosis when she killed three children in January 2023

Jurors walked through the Massachusetts home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, a rare visit on Friday that let them see first-hand the place where an outwardly ordinary family life unraveled into tragedy.

After being driven past two businesses relevant to the narrative of the January 2023 killings, jurors were escorted in groups of six to view the inside of the house, including the basement where the children died.

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Le secrétaire général de l'ONU s'est alarmé, vendredi, du renforcement d'El Nino dans un discours martelant les dangers de la crise climatique. Ce phénomène climatique "attise une planète déjà en feu" et entraine le monde en "territoire inconnu", a notamment déclaré Antonio Guterres.

President Trump claimed without evidence that Minnesota’s Democratic government was “behind” a cyberattack on the state’s own water systems. Investigators believe Iran is likely responsible.

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La région, qui abrite le plus grand cratère volcanique d'Europe, subit une activité sismique régulière.

Russian forces have once again struck Kharkiv with a drone. A hit was recorded in the Nemyshlianskyi district.

Plusieurs milliers de personnes ont dû être évacuées à la suite d'incendies dans plusieurs endroits en Grèce.

Au Cap-Vert, la chanteuse Ceuzany Pires s'impose comme l'une des grandes voix de sa génération, dans les pas de Cesária Évora. Avec son quatrième album, elle porte aussi un combat personnel contre les violences conjugales, qu'elle transforme en message de sensibilisation.

Widely circulated video showed thousands of Moroccans storming into a Spanish outpost in North Africa. The White House condemned Spain as weak on immigration.

A man was injured in the Brovary District of Kyiv region as a result of a drone attack by the Russian Federation.

Une option aurait pu faciliter la désinformation et permettre à des gouvernements de nier des atrocités.

It was the latest sign that the president was doubling down on his fight for aspects of a deal that brings him vast benefits, even though they have jeopardized the confirmation of his pick for attorney general.

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The president’s comments threw the confirmation of Todd Blanche, his pick to be attorney general, further into doubt.

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Ils sont arrivés par la terre, par la mer, à la nage ou sur de simples bouées. En quelques jours, plus de 60.000 migrants ont franchi la frontière entre le Maroc et l’enclave espagnole de Ceuta, faisant au moins 57 morts. Comment un tel afflux a-t-il été possible ? L’Espagne dénonce une « attaque » contre son territoire.

Speculation has focused on lax Moroccan policing, attractive Spanish immigration policies and misinformation from human traffickers. In reality, experts said, it’s too early to know.

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