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Government authorizes transfer of destroyed Russian military equipment to museums

14 août 2026 à 21:33
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a mechanism for the free transfer to museums in foreign countries of designated examples of destroyed Russian military equipment. In particular, museums in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark and the Netherlands will receive captured T-72 tanks for exhibition purposes.

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  • Picasso print stolen from Milwaukee art gallery in 2018 found by landlord while cleaning apartment
    Torero print, one of 30 known to exist signed by Picasso, was stolen from Bill DeLind’s gallery in 2018Bill DeLind thought the Picasso print that was stolen from his Milwaukee gallery in 2018 was gone forever. But then police called last week and asked him to look at an artwork that a local landlord found while cleaning out a vacant apartment.DeLind immediately recognized the stolen Torero print, one of 30 known to exist signed by Picasso. Continue reading...
     

Picasso print stolen from Milwaukee art gallery in 2018 found by landlord while cleaning apartment

14 août 2026 à 21:27

Torero print, one of 30 known to exist signed by Picasso, was stolen from Bill DeLind’s gallery in 2018

Bill DeLind thought the Picasso print that was stolen from his Milwaukee gallery in 2018 was gone forever. But then police called last week and asked him to look at an artwork that a local landlord found while cleaning out a vacant apartment.

DeLind immediately recognized the stolen Torero print, one of 30 known to exist signed by Picasso.

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  • Drone debris found on beach in Romania
    A heightened security alert was declared for the second consecutive day on Friday, August 14, at the beach of the Romanian resort of Costinești after fragments of a drone were discovered.
     

Justice Dept. Dismisses Threats Case in Minnesota Days Before Trial

14 août 2026 à 20:40
The government said it could not prove that a man accused of threatening federal agents had committed a crime, adding to the scores of cases in the administration’s deportation efforts that have unraveled.

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On Jan. 14, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a Venezuelan migrant following a high-speed chase in Minneapolis, protesters broke into a couple of vehicles that belonged to F.B.I. agents.

Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows

14 août 2026 à 20:38
The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”

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Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk and recorder, in court in Grand Junction, Colo., in 2024.
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  • Nouveau contretemps pour le Hilaire-Journault en Grèce
    Un nouveau contretemps retarde la mise à l’eau du futur traversier Hilaire-Journault en Grèce. Cette fois, un problème technique survenu pendant la manœuvre, jeudi matin, a empêché le navire d’atteindre l’eau et force la reprise du processus d’inspection et d’autorisation. Le navire avait obtenu le feu vert des autorités pour quitter le chantier maritime de Salamine, où il se trouve depuis le début du mois de juin. L’autorisation de mise à l’eau, valide pendant 24 heures, avait été accordée a
     

Nouveau contretemps pour le Hilaire-Journault en Grèce

14 août 2026 à 19:00

Un nouveau contretemps retarde la mise à l’eau du futur traversier Hilaire-Journault en Grèce. Cette fois, un problème technique survenu pendant la manœuvre, jeudi matin, a empêché le navire d’atteindre l’eau et force la reprise du processus d’inspection et d’autorisation.

Le navire avait obtenu le feu vert des autorités pour quitter le chantier maritime de Salamine, où il se trouve depuis le début du mois de juin. L’autorisation de mise à l’eau, valide pendant 24 heures, avait été accordée après les vérifications requises.

Un problème technique est toutefois survenu pendant la descente du navire vers l’eau. La manœuvre a dû être interrompue et le traversier doit maintenant être ramené à sa position initiale sur terre.

Cette procédure nécessite une nouvelle inspection. Comme la période de 24 heures prévue dans l’autorisation est maintenant écoulée, les démarches doivent également être reprises auprès des autorités avant qu’une nouvelle tentative puisse avoir lieu.

« Un voyage transatlantique constitue une étape majeure qui exige des vérifications rigoureuses de la part des autorités compétentes ainsi que le respect de nombreuses exigences en matière de sécurité. La priorité demeure la sécurité de l’équipage qui effectuera la traversée, ainsi que celle du navire », indique la direction de la Traverse Rimouski–Forestville dans une publication sur sa page Facebook.

Le double de l’échéancier initial

Ce contretemps s’ajoute aux délais déjà rencontrés dans la préparation du navire. La semaine dernière, sa mise à l’eau avait été repoussée en raison de la canicule qui frappait la Grèce, où le mercure avait dépassé les 42 °C.

Les travaux de remise à niveau ont aussi pris plus de temps que prévu. Commencés au début de juin, ils auront nécessité près de deux mois, soit environ le double de l’échéancier initial.

Le président-directeur général des Industries Rilec, Louis-Olivier Carré (Photo courtoisie)

La Traverse Rimouski–Forestville ne précise pas, pour le moment, à quel moment une nouvelle tentative de mise à l’eau pourra avoir lieu. Elle indique vouloir effectuer toutes les vérifications nécessaires avant le départ du navire pour sa traversée de l’Atlantique.

« Tout projet d’envergure comporte son lot d’imprévus. Bien que cette situation soit évidemment décevante pour l’équipe, qui travaille sans relâche à la concrétisation de ce projet au bénéfice de la population, celle-ci demeure pleinement mobilisée et met tout en œuvre afin de minimiser les répercussions sur l’échéancier prévu pour le départ du navire », explique sa direction.

Trois semaines pour traverser l’Atlantique

Une fois à l’eau et les autorisations obtenues, le traversier devra entreprendre un voyage d’environ trois semaines vers le Canada. Il naviguera sous le nom de Perséas et sous pavillon panaméen, avec des escales prévues à Malte et aux Açores avant son arrivée à Halifax.

Le navire doit ensuite rejoindre Rimouski, où il prendra officiellement le nom de Hilaire-Journault et passera sous pavillon canadien.

Des traversées de rodage sont prévues cet automne avant le lancement de la première saison complète de la nouvelle liaison maritime Rimouski–Forestville au printemps 2027.

Series of Michigan Shootings Leave 6 Dead, Including Gunman

14 août 2026 à 20:00
The gunman, Chad Hickman, was found dead in a wooded area near Whitlock Lake in Caldwell Township, the authorities said. A motive for the shootings was not immediately known.

Man, 18, Pleads Guilty to Repeatedly Kicking Sea Lion in California

14 août 2026 à 21:22
The man bobbed and wove before lobbing a kick at a sea lion in San Diego last month, a video of the episode shows.

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Sea lions at La Jolla cove in San Diego. An 18-year-old man pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges of assaulting a sea lion last month.

South Florida Venue Cancels Rally With a Pro-Palestinian Congresswoman

Par : Tim Balk
14 août 2026 à 19:34
Representative Rashida Tlaib was supposed to headline an event called “Chomp the Oligarchy” for three candidates for Congress who face Jewish Democrats in Tuesday’s primary.

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Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, has drawn criticism, and a 2023 censure in Congress, for embracing a pro-Palestinian slogan that many Jews consider a call for the eradication of Israel.
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  • At least six people dead and one wounded in mass shooting in rural Michigan
    Suspected gunman fled the scene, prompting a manhunt, before he and another individual were found deceased A mass shooting on Friday has left six people dead, including the suspected gunman, in Missaukee county, a rural area of northern Michigan, according to state police. Another person is in critical condition at a local hospital.Michigan state police identified the suspected gunman as 39-year-old Chad Hickman in a statement posted on social media. Continue reading...
     

At least six people dead and one wounded in mass shooting in rural Michigan

14 août 2026 à 19:32

Suspected gunman fled the scene, prompting a manhunt, before he and another individual were found deceased

A mass shooting on Friday has left six people dead, including the suspected gunman, in Missaukee county, a rural area of northern Michigan, according to state police. Another person is in critical condition at a local hospital.

Michigan state police identified the suspected gunman as 39-year-old Chad Hickman in a statement posted on social media.

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Two Billy Goats Boarded a Bus in Portland. They Did Not Have Passes.

14 août 2026 à 19:29
Security camera footage showed the goats entering the TriMet bus in Portland, Ore., through the middle doors before some passengers shooed them off. They have since been reunited with their owner.

Ukraine's military intelligence identifies 26 vessels Russia uses to transport oil, LNG and stolen Ukrainian grain

14 août 2026 à 18:25
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has published information on 26 vessels Russia uses to transport grain from temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, Russian oil and petroleum products, as well as liquefied natural gas from the sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project.

Russia hunted civilians by drone in Kherson. Victims are suing the US firm they say helped connect the attackers

14 août 2026 à 18:31

Russia hunts kills protest targets civilians with drones stop human safari save kherson

A New York networking company sold radios that let signals travel 100 kilometers. Ukrainian civilians say Russian drone crews used them to hunt people in Kherson, and they are asking a Manhattan jury to hold the company responsible.

Ukrainian civilians and relatives of people killed by Russian drones sued Ubiquiti Inc. in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on 11 August, alleging the company's wireless equipment became the backbone of the command network behind Russia's "human safari" against civilians.

The case rests on a comparison that the plaintiffs draw themselves. In February 2026, Starlink terminals that Russian forces had mounted on reconnaissance and strike drones were shut off after Ukraine and SpaceX built a whitelist of authorized terminals. Ubiquiti, the complaint alleges, had the same technical and contractual power over its own devices and did not use it.

That precedent cuts both ways. SpaceX had denied for years that Russian forces were using Starlink systematically, and the whitelist came together only after Ukraine's newly appointed defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, approached the company directly. The fix was technically possible—and it took a government to force it.

During this interview with a lovely Khersonian lady, Russian drones made several appearances.

To anyone who has not been to Kherson in the last two years, this might seem impossible or insane.

Nothing about flying machines with explosives attached to them is sane or normal. pic.twitter.com/M0MYorF2FR

— Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@ZarinaZabrisky) August 11, 2026

What the lawsuit claims

The law firm DiCello Levitt LLP filed the case, Kovalenko et al. v. Ubiquiti, Inc., No. 1:26-cv-06838. The plaintiffs are Ukrainian civilians who were maimed, displaced, or forced to live under drone surveillance, along with family members of civilians killed in drone attacks. They are seeking a jury trial.

Ubiquiti, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as UI, makes long-range wireless "bridges" widely used for internet access in areas without cable. Its radio bridge antennas and airMAX technology are subject to US export restrictions on Russia. The complaint alleges the devices kept reaching Russian forces through intermediary supply chains, and that they now link reconnaissance units, drone operators, attack units, and commanders across roughly 100 kilometers of encrypted battlefield network.

"Battlefield communications are the central nervous system of the Russian occupation forces: without them, they could not coordinate the human safari or maintain the occupation," Scott Gilmore, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs and a partner at DiCello Levitt, said in an interview with Euromaidan Press.

The complaint cites US export-control restrictions, Russian import data, public reporting, Russian military statements, battlefield images and video, and Ubiquiti's own device telemetry. It alleges the company held location data showing where its devices were operating, including inside Russia and occupied Ukrainian territory, and that it was repeatedly warned its products were being smuggled across the border.

It further alleges Ubiquiti continued issuing firmware updates and technical support that kept those devices running, and that it could have cut the pipeline off—by geofencing, by terminating distributors tied to sanctions-evasion routes, or by building a remote-disable feature into its firmware.

This case is not about standard warfare: it's about murdering civilians.

Scott Gilmore, lead attorney for the plaintiffs

"Companies cannot willfully blind themselves when sanctions and export controls are being breached, and their devices are being foreseeably used in dangerous ways," Gilmore said. "US law is clear that companies bear legal responsibility when they entrust dangerous devices to end users who they know or should know are hurting people. This case is not about standard warfare: it's about murdering civilians."

The plaintiffs bring eight causes of action, including negligent entrustment, public nuisance, strict products liability for design defect, negligent product design, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and aiding and abetting assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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How the radios got to the front

The lawsuit follows an investigation published in January 2026 by Hunterbrook Media, which documented widespread use of Ubiquiti products by Russian forces. One Ukrainian communications officer told the outlet that an estimated 80% of the Russian bridges he had observed near the front line were Ubiquiti devices.

Analysis of trade records found the value of Ubiquiti shipments crossing into Russia rose by 66% after the full-scale invasion, despite US and EU export controls, and that the shipments included models released after the bans took effect. The goods moved mainly through distributors in third countries such as Kazakhstan and Türkiye. Russian units often received the bridges from volunteers who bought them with crowdfunded money.

Ubiquiti has been here before. In 2014, the company paid a $504,225 settlement to the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control after its products were delivered to Iran in violation of US sanctions between 2008 and 2011.

🔴Human safari: the first video of a drone chasing a civilian. CCTV camera footage I obtained in Aug 2024.

This systematic drone terror campaign has been going on for two years.

Today, in Kherson, as of 9 pm,

11 drone attacks reported;
6 civilians injured

Dozens unreported https://t.co/OU9i97Geyu

— Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@ZarinaZabrisky) August 11, 2026

The campaign at the center of the case

Russia's "human safari" is a campaign in which small drones hunt and attack civilians, concentrated in Kherson and other front-line areas. Operators use drone cameras to track people, vehicles, and rescuers, and sometimes strike the same target twice.

UN investigators concluded in September 2025 that Russian short-range drone attacks on civilians along the west bank of the Dnipro River amount to the crimes against humanity of murder and forcible transfer of population. The finding covers more than 300 kilometers across Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolaiv oblasts. The complaint cites it as evidence.

Ukraine's Security Service has since charged 10 operators from Russia's 404th Motorized Rifle Regiment with war crimes in absentia, in a case that included explosives dropped on ambulances at a city hospital and a double strike on rescuers.

The incidents in the complaint include a married couple attacked in their car, a firefighter hunted and wounded by a drone while responding to a colleague, and an energy worker killed in a double-tap strike as colleagues tried to reach him.

"The human safari is one of the most horrific crimes against humanity of the 21st Century," Gilmore said. "We intend to present evidence of the widespread and systematic nature of this campaign in court, including international documentation. These coordinated attacks do not happen randomly: they require communications systems and a chain of command. That is precisely why the United States banned the export of Ubiquiti's radio bridge antennas to Russia—because they are necessary for Russia's war machine."

The human safari is one of the most horrific crimes against humanity of the 21st Century.

Scott Gilmore, lead attorney for the plaintiffs

Russian state media has shown the equipment in use.

Zvezda, the television channel run by Russia's Defense Ministry, aired footage on 3 July 2025 of a Ubiquiti UISP Litebeam 5AC device; a TASS report in October 2025 showed a serviceman logging into Ubiquiti's airOS operating system, and a Rossiya-1 segment that month showed one climbing a tower to mount an antenna carrying the company's logo.

A Russian seller supplied Hunterbrook with letters she said came from Russian military units, thanking her for wireless bridges they described as necessary for connections over long distances.

Ubiquiti has said nothing

Ubiquiti did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.

Neither the company nor its chief executive, Robert Pera, has publicly commented on the January investigation, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. No US or EU authority has announced an enforcement action against Ubiquiti over Russia, and the company has not been formally accused of sanctions violations tied to Ukraine. The allegations in the complaint are untested, and Ubiquiti has not yet filed a response.

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What the case would establish

If it survives, the suit would test whether ordinary US product-liability law reaches a manufacturer whose equipment ends up in a documented atrocity—a theory that does not require proving the company intended any of it, only that it knew or should have known and failed to act.

"The question is this: what would a reasonable company do if it learned its devices were being used to coordinate murder?" Gilmore said. "If it fails to follow reasonable safety measures, shouldn't it be held liable to the civilians who get hurt? Those are the questions we intend to put before a New York jury."

Gilmore, who has investigated war crimes for two decades, said the legal framework needed already exists at national and international levels, and that in mass-atrocity cases from Syria to Sudan, investigations, jurisdiction, and remedies take years. He said he expects accountability for Ukrainian victims to come through criminal prosecutions, civil litigation, and regulatory enforcement together.

"Our clients want to shine a light on the atrocities being committed against civilians in Ukraine and to remind companies that compliance with sanctions and export controls is not a mere technicality: it's a matter of life or death," he said.

"We are at the tip of the spear."

Editor's note: Euromaidan Press correspondent Zarina Zabrisky, who conducted this interview and reports from Kherson, co-developed draft US legislation on the drone campaign—the Liability for Operators and Responsible Authorities (LORA) Act—which would impose targeted sanctions on identified drone operators, restrict exports of drone components, and require public attribution of perpetrators. She has no connection to this lawsuit or to the firm that filed it. Her documentary Kherson: Human Safari is available free at khersonhumansafari.com.

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  • Trump downplays concerns about sailors onboard USS Abraham Lincoln amid record deployment
    President said nine months at sea ‘not nearly long enough’ even as families call for attention to mental health crisisUS navy veterans and military health experts express concern over USS Abraham Lincoln sailorsDonald Trump has downplayed concerns about US sailors enduring a record-setting deployment of nearly nine months onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Friday, saying the deployment was “not nearly long enough” as concerns mount over mental health and supply issues onboard the aircraft carrie
     

Trump downplays concerns about sailors onboard USS Abraham Lincoln amid record deployment

14 août 2026 à 18:12

President said nine months at sea ‘not nearly long enough’ even as families call for attention to mental health crisis

Donald Trump has downplayed concerns about US sailors enduring a record-setting deployment of nearly nine months onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Friday, saying the deployment was “not nearly long enough” as concerns mount over mental health and supply issues onboard the aircraft carrier.

The US president made the comments during a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event highlighting falling violent crime rates across the US.

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President Trump Takes Credit for Steep Crime Rate Declines

14 août 2026 à 18:02
Violent crime rates, including murder, have dropped precipitously. The trend began before the president’s current term.

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President Trump at an event in Garden City, N.Y., on Long Island on Friday.
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  • Traverses : besoin d’une meilleure reconnaissance de Québec
    La mairesse de Forestville et préfète de la MRC de la Haute-Côte-Nord, Micheline Anctil, estime que les traverses intermédiaires reliant Trois-Pistoles aux Escoumins et Rimouski à Forestville ont besoin d’obtenir une meilleure reconnaissance de la part du gouvernement du Québec en raison de leur caractère essentiel. « Il y a un enjeu important au niveau de nos traverses, celle de Les Escoumins, mais aussi celle de Forestville. Ces traverses intermédiaires ont de la misère à faire reconnaître
     

Traverses : besoin d’une meilleure reconnaissance de Québec

14 août 2026 à 18:00

La mairesse de Forestville et préfète de la MRC de la Haute-Côte-Nord, Micheline Anctil, estime que les traverses intermédiaires reliant Trois-Pistoles aux Escoumins et Rimouski à Forestville ont besoin d’obtenir une meilleure reconnaissance de la part du gouvernement du Québec en raison de leur caractère essentiel.

« Il y a un enjeu important au niveau de nos traverses, celle de Les Escoumins, mais aussi celle de Forestville. Ces traverses intermédiaires ont de la misère à faire reconnaître leur place auprès du gouvernement du Québec. Ces traverses privées sont très importantes pour le lien interrives. Elles sont complémentaires aux autres traverses de la Société des traversiers du Québec (STQ). Elles ont de la difficulté à obtenir un soutien financier. Je souhaite vivement que cette situation s’améliore au cours des prochaines années », expose-t-elle.

La préfète espère que Québec puisse reconnaître le rôle joué par ces deux liens dans le développement des communautés, et que cette reconnaissance ouvre la porte à un soutien financier.

« Nous allons continuer la bataille pour obtenir cette reconnaissance. C’est important pour l’Est-du-Québec. Les gens qui ont accès à la traverse de Escoumins se dirigent vers le Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean ou vers Charlevoix. C’est la même chose sur la rive-sud Les gens vont à Rimouski, en Gaspésie, aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine ou dans les Maritimes. Ce sont des accès fluides qui permettent la circulation des gens. C’est un apport tellement important pour l’économie de l’Est-du-Québec que le gouvernement devrait faire en sorte de le soutenir un peu plus financièrement ».

Lien essentiel

Micheline Anctil estime que la Traverse Trois-Pistoles-Les Escoumins est un lien interrives essentiel pour trois volets.

La mairesse de Forestville, Micheline Anctil (Photo courtoisie)

« Pour la qualité de vie de nos citoyens, parce qu’elle permet une belle mobilité des personnes et des biens. C’est certain que c’est aussi un lien économique de grande importance, qui nous amène des travailleurs qui peuvent voyager aisément à l’intérieur d’une même journée. Le troisième volet essentiel, c’est l’aspect touristique. D’année en année, le bateau amène une cinquantaine de véhicules et beaucoup de personnes qui viennent passer quelques jours dans notre MRC, et qui se servent du lien pour faire une boucle au plan touristique. C’est fort important au plan économique », mentionne-t-elle.

Horaire facilitant

La mairesse de Forestville estime qu’une des principales forces de la Traverse Trois-Pistoles-Les Escoumins, c’est son horaire facilitant. « La traversée n’est pas très longue. C’est un service qui se démarque. »

Madame Anctil de voir le service Rimouski-Forestville reprendre cet été.

« Le dossier est entre les mains du gouvernement, mais il évolue bien. On reste confiants. Les deux traverses ne sont pas en compétition. Elles sont complémentaires. Elles nous permettraient de développer un circuit touristique en boucle. Les gens pourraient traverser par l’une, et retourner par l’autre. »

Can Senator Ed Markey’s Progressive Politics Help Him Overcome the Age Issue?

14 août 2026 à 19:08
Ed Markey is hoping that his progressive politics will save him in Massachusetts.

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Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, right, with Representative Jim McGovern and Mayor Joseph Petty of Worcester.

Adaptation climatique | Les progrès d’Ottawa jugés insuffisants

14 août 2026 à 17:43
Trois ans après le lancement officiel de sa stratégie nationale d’adaptation aux changements climatiques, le gouvernement fédéral affirme que les Canadiens sont davantage conscients des risques et mieux préparés à faire face aux inondations, aux incendies de forêt et aux tempêtes majeures causées par les changements climatiques.

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