Les coûts associés à ce programme d'échanges avec l'Union européenne pourraient être un frein, note un expert.

Michigan senator-elect’s former peers recall his time at university in Britain – and his love of coronation chicken sandwiches

In the cold, twilight days of 2008, inside the University of Michigan’s fortress-like Fleming Administration Building, one student was given a particularly adulatory send-off.

Mary Sue Coleman, president of the university at the time, convened a ceremony for the latest Rhodes scholar heading off to the University of Oxford: Abdul El-Sayed. “There is no doubt among anyone who crosses his path that he will achieve all he sets out to accomplish and more,” she declared to a room full of the university’s leaders, calling the medical PhD student the “epitome of the engaged intellect”.

Les Polonais n'ont pas connu pareil massacre de civils depuis la fin du régime communiste (1944-1989).

Choosing a healthcare plan can be extremely complicated, but it’s necessary to attract and retain good workers

Again, healthcare costs are going up. According to a recent study from Mercer, total health benefit cost per employee in 2027 is expected to rise 8.2% – after employers’ planned cost-reduction measures (without action, employers told Mercer their existing plans would rise about 11%). This would be the highest increase since 2003.

And, again, we see the same reaction from employers. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that even as healthcare costs have gone up, the share of these costs coming out employees’ paychecks has “shot up” even faster.

From the military to healthcare, Trump systematically dismantled Obama-era protections for transgender rights

Shelby Chestnut remembers turning on the news in 2016 and hearing something he didn’t expect. Then- attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had just announced a federal lawsuit to block HB2 in North Carolina, otherwise known as the “bathroom bill”. Lynch said the law, which made it illegal for transgender people to use a public restroom that did not align with the sex listed on their birth certificate, was reminiscent of those passed during the Jim Crow era that restricted public facility use by race. Then, she addressed transgender Americans directly: “But no matter how isolated or scared you may feel today, the Department of Justice and the entire Obama administration wants you to know that we see you; we stand with you; and we will do everything we can to protect you going forward.”

HB 2 was repealed within the year. Chestnut said he thought at the time: “Oh this is the next phase of protections for trans people.”

Russia attacked Ukraine overnight on 8 November with three Kh-59/69 guided missiles and 164 Shahed-type drones, 112 of them jet-powered, Ukraine's Air Force said, recording hits at 23 locations. The strikes targeted power facilities across several oblasts and left more than 600,000 customers without electricity in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast alone. A drone killed one person in a Dnipro suburb, and Russian shelling killed one in Odesa.

Russia is waging its war on Ukraine's cities as a campaign against power and heat, with winter only weeks away. This week alone, Russia fired 115 missiles, nearly 1,900 guided bombs, and more than 3,000 attack drones at Ukrainian cities and communities, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. On 4 November, it carried out one of its largest attacks of the war on the energy system. Zelenskyy ties the escalation to diplomacy. Russia sees diplomacy "as a subtype of aggression" and is using the strikes to build pressure on Ukraine and its partners before a new push for talks, he said on 7 November. Ukraine is also short of interceptors for its Patriot systems, and the US can help most, he added.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast takes the hardest hit

More than 600,000 customers in five districts lost power, and hospitals switched to generators, oblast head Oleksandr Hanzha said. The Energy Ministry reported new outages in Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv oblasts. Emergency blackouts followed in Kharkiv, Poltava, and Sumy oblasts, and Kyiv Oblast switched to them by midday.

In a Dnipro suburb, a drone destroyed at least one private house, the oblast administration said. One person was killed and others were hurt, police said, and the number of injured rose to three, the oblast administration added. Strikes on Dnipro also set warehouses and trucks at a transport company on fire, it reported.

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Substations, heating, and a food warehouse

In Zhytomyr Oblast, strikes hit homes and heat and power facilities in four communities, including Ovruch. In the city of Zhytomyr, 140 apartment blocks were left without heating, and more than 312,000 customers in the oblast are on hourly outages, the oblast administration said. Drones destroyed the Ovruch substation, and residents should prepare for a long blackout, the Ovruch city council said.

In Kharkiv Oblast, a Shahed-type drone hit critical infrastructure and cut power to about 250,000 customers, Zlatopil Mayor Mykola Baksheiev said. In Odesa, Russian shelling killed one person and damaged an administrative building. In the morning, Russia hit a food warehouse it had attacked before, starting a large fire, the oblast administration said.

Four ballistic missiles on a Kyiv bridge

The overnight attack followed a ballistic strike on 7 November, when Russia fired 36 ballistic missiles and Ukraine shot down only four, Zelenskyy said. By preliminary data, North Korean KN-23 missiles hit one key energy facility, he added. Six ballistic missiles targeted Kyiv's Pivnichnyi (Northern) Bridge, and four hit it, Zelenskyy said in his evening address. A day earlier, he had warned, citing intelligence, that Russia was preparing a strike on the energy sector, bridges across the Dnipro, and civilian infrastructure.

The bridge was closed in both directions, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said. Zelenskyy ordered the Interior Ministry and the city to prepare backup transport schemes, saying none exist at city level. In October, Russia struck Kyiv's Southern Bridge, and the city began preparing backup river crossings.

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Russia was widening this bridge to four lanes for its Crimea road. Drones have now closed it

Zaporizhzhia: a nuclear plant on diesel and a strike on rescuers

The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost its last external power line at 02:36 on 8 November and now runs on diesel generators alone, Ukraine's nuclear operator Energoatom said. It is the plant's 16th full blackout this year. If the generators fail or run out, the cooling of nuclear fuel is at risk, which could lead to a radiation accident, Energoatom warned.

In Komyshuvakha, also in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, a Russian drone hit rescuers on the morning of 8 November. They have been searching the site of the 2 November guided-bomb strike for a week. Rescue equipment was damaged and no one was hurt, the State Emergency Service said. So far, 55 bodies have been recovered and 45 people are still listed missing, some of whom are probably among the dead already found, the oblast administration said.

Russia’s state statistics agency, Rosstat, recorded 393,881 to 450,100 dead on Russia’s side in the war through late August, two hacker groups that broke into its systems, Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow, claim. Their figures cannot be independently verified. They sit well above the number of dead soldiers journalists have named from public sources, and below expert estimates of the real toll.

Russia does not publish its war dead, so every count has been pieced together from outside, from obituaries and graves or from Ukraine’s battlefield estimates. Records kept inside the Russian state offer a rare check on those numbers. The check comes as Russia’s losses keep climbing: October was its costliest month of the full-scale war by Ukraine’s count, while each square kilometer it takes costs it more soldiers than before.

Ukraine’s General Staff puts Russia’s killed and wounded at about 1.6 million, and it counted 16,130 in the first week of November alone, its highest weekly figure of the war.

Two hacker groups, two counts from the same records

Rosstat’s website went down on the night of 1 November. Belarusian hacker group Cyber Partisans says it took about 10 terabytes of data in what its spokesperson Zmitser Shchyhelski called a strategic cyber operation, Radio Liberty’s Belarusian service Svaboda reported. Silent Crow, another hacker group, published its own count from the same records.

The Cyber Partisans’ count, at least 393,881 dead on Russia’s side from 2022 to 27 August 2026, includes only records whose cause of death names war. These are the international disease codes for operations of war and their consequences, or a cause written out as combat.

Silent Crow arrives at 450,100 through 28 August, its own site shows. It casts a wider net, adding 14,160 non-combat deaths of servicemen and 13,671 people registered in Russia who died in occupied territory with no cause given. More than half of the dead whose place of death is recorded died in Russian-occupied parts of Donetsk Oblast.

Both counts cover only deaths that entered Russia’s civil registries. The wounded, the missing, and foreign mercenaries are not in them. The war code does not separate soldiers from civilians, Silent Crow notes, so a share of the dead are residents of shelled towns, though 99.4% of those it counted are men.

How the hackers’ counts compare with other tallies

Working with volunteers and Russian outlet Mediazona, the BBC Russian Service has named 285,023 Russian soldiers killed in the full-scale invasion as of 30 October. Experts estimate its list captures 45% to 55% of the dead, putting the real toll at 518,224 to 633,384, the BBC said.

Cyber Partisans argue their figure fits Ukraine’s far larger count of Russian losses. Total losses, which include the wounded, disabled, and missing, usually run three to five times the number of dead, the group noted.

Le Canada a pourtant précisé que les joueurs russes ne se verraient pas accorder de visa pour la compétition.

Tuesday’s winners offered a new politics at a time when ‘there is something broken in America’

As the US election returns came in throughout the night on Tuesday, there was ebullience at the size of the margin. It was comparable to the significant thumpings over the years. Yet bigger.

In 2006, Americans were exhausted by the war in Iraq (by simply changing the last letter to “n”, we have a similar situation today). But even that big win paled in comparison.

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Germany can no longer hand Ukraine more Patriot air defense systems for now without leaving gaps in its own defense, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the Berliner Morgenpost, Focus Online reported. His words come as Russia pounds Ukraine’s power grid with ballistic missiles, the hardest target for its air defenses, and Kyiv says it is badly short of interceptors. Pistorius wants other allies to step up when Ukraine’s backers meet in mid-November.

Russia’s war on Ukraine has become a race between ballistic missiles and the few interceptors that can stop them, with winter weeks away. In October, Ukraine stopped only about 7% of Russia’s ballistic missiles. Washington has held up the newest PAC-3 missiles, and European countries can pass on their own only with US approval. That leaves Europe’s stocks as the quickest source of help, and one of the biggest suppliers among them is now saying no.

Germany says it has given what it can spare

Germany has already sent Ukraine several Patriot systems and missiles for them, Pistorius said. Sending more would cost Germany’s own defense. “Everything we give now, we would not get replaced for the time being. That would tear gaps in our defense that we cannot answer for,” he said. “We cannot do more right now.”

Other countries now have to contribute more, Pistorius said. The issue will come up at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the Ramstein-format meeting of Ukraine’s backers, in mid-November. On 4 November, Pistorius met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin to discuss speeding up a two-year contract for German-made PAC-2 missiles.

Four of 36 ballistic missiles shot down

Russia’s strike on Ukraine overnight on 7 November included 36 missiles on ballistic paths, and Ukraine downed only four, Zelenskyy wrote. He described a “significant shortage of interceptors” for Patriots and said the United States is best placed to help. Preliminary findings point to North Korean-made KN-23 missiles at one key energy site, he added. The Defense Ministry’s news agency ArmyInform relayed his post.

Over the past week, Russia launched 115 missiles of different types, nearly 1,900 guided aerial bombs, and more than 3,000 attack drones, Zelenskyy said on 8 November. A significant share of the missiles were built this year, he added. “If the world does not have enough anti-ballistic defense to protect Ukrainian skies, the missiles must be stopped on the assembly lines,” he wrote, adding that Kyiv is counting on a strong 22nd EU sanctions package.

New supplies will not come fast. The US has approved selling Ukraine 500 PAC-3 missiles, with deliveries only after 2030. That deal will not solve Ukraine’s ballistic problem, aviation expert Kostiantyn Kryvolap said. By his estimate, Russia fires 100 to 120 ballistic missiles a month.

Kyiv asks Europe for a tenth of its interceptors

Ukraine has already proposed a swap. On 26 October, Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara asked the E5 group, made up of Germany, the UK, France, Poland, and Italy, to consider giving Ukraine 10% of their current Patriot and IRIS-T interceptors, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said. Ukraine would repay them from deliveries it has already contracted.

Ukraine gets only about 12 Patriot missiles a month on average this year, Zelenskyy has said, European Pravda noted. Other help comes without detail. Spain’s new €437 million (about $490 million) package came with no list of weapons attached.

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Drones damaged the bridge over the Mius River on the R-280, Russia's highway from Rostov to occupied Mariupol and Crimea, on the morning of 8 November, Rostov Oblast Governor Yuri Slyusar said. The road leading to the crossing was closed by midday. A day earlier, occupation officials said drone strikes on the grid had cut power to much of occupied Luhansk Oblast.

Russia's army in occupied southern Ukraine runs on roads, and for months Ukraine has been hitting the trucks that use them. The R-280 has been at the heart of that campaign, with drones hitting Russian vehicles on its occupied stretches. Ukraine's defense minister has said the strikes are turning occupied Crimea into an island. The Mius crossing lies on the Russian side of the same road, about 155 km from the front line.

A closed bridge on the road to Crimea

Slyusar said the drone attack and “falling debris” damaged the bridge deck at the 97th kilometer of the R-280 in Neklinovsky district, along with two crawler cranes. He reported no casualties. Traffic first crossed in alternating directions, but the governor later said the stretch of road leading to the bridge had been closed.

The R-280, which Russia calls the Novorossiya highway, links Rostov with occupied Mariupol, Melitopol, and Crimea and forms part of Russia's land route to the peninsula. Russia began widening the Mius bridge to four lanes in 2025. Ukraine has not commented on the attack. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed it downed 142 drones overnight, including over Rostov Oblast and Crimea.

The bridge went out of service a day after Russia hit one in Kyiv. Russian strikes on 7 November damaged the capital's Northern Bridge, closing it in both directions, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said. The attack damaged the road surface, a trolleybus line, and a power line, and the blast wave hit five trucks parked nearby, he added. In October, Russia struck Kyiv's Southern Bridge, and the city began preparing backup river crossings.

Occupied Luhansk Oblast loses power

Drone strikes on energy facilities left more than 300,000 customers in the south and center of occupied Luhansk Oblast without electricity on 7 November, the Russian-installed “government” said, Russian Telegram channel Astra reported. It said no one was hurt.

The night before: a missile-parts plant, a refinery, and Iskanders

Overnight on 7 November, Ukraine's missile forces hit the Proton-Electrotex plant in Oryol with Neptune coastal missiles, Ukraine's General Staff said, recording a hit, explosions, and a fire. The plant makes optoelectronic equipment, including modules for Kover cruise missiles and parts for Iskander-M ballistic missiles. Oryol, about 165 km from the Ukrainian border, had already been hit on 23 October. Ukrainian Telegram channel Exilenova+ posted footage of the strike.

Oryol Governor Andrei Klychkov acknowledged that the production premises of an enterprise in the city were partly damaged, Meduza reported. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the crew of a Neptune mobile missile system for hitting Russian military production in Oryol and Rostov Oblast.

The same night, drones set the Rosneft oil refinery in Saratov, about 600 km from the front line near Kupiansk, on fire, Astra found, citing footage from residents. A drone also exploded outside a car-parts shop about 2 km away, Astra added. Saratov Governor Roman Busargin preliminarily reported injured people and damage to civilian infrastructure, and later said several houses were damaged.

On 6 November and overnight, Ukrainian forces also hit two Iskander launchers and a Pantsir-S1 air defense system in Russia's Bryansk Oblast, as well as supply depots in occupied Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine's General Staff said, adding that the damage was still being assessed.