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Croatian police arrested a Ukrainian diver in Pula on 19 August 2026 over his alleged role in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, Croatian broadcaster HRT reported. German prosecutors confirmed to AP that the suspect was Volodymyr Zhuravlov (Zhuravliov in Ukrainian official transliteration). Legal Tribune Online reported that he was detained on the set of Zmiinyi (Snake) Island.
The arrest gives German prosecutors a third chance to secure Zhuravliov after two attempts in Poland failed. If Croatia extradites him, he would become the second suspected member of the alleged team to face proceedings in Germany. Berlin has pursued other suspects in the Nord Stream case across Europe, but the identity of the person who ordered the sabotage remains unknown.
Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said Zhuravliov was a trained scuba diver who took part in the dives needed to place explosives on Nord Stream 1 and 2 near Denmark’s Bornholm island. Prosecutors say the group sailed from Rostock aboard a yacht that middlemen rented from a German company using forged identity documents.
The 2024 European arrest warrant accuses Zhuravliov of jointly causing an explosion, anti-constitutional sabotage, and destroying structures. He would appear before an investigating judge at Germany’s Federal Court of Justice following extradition, prosecutors said. A Croatian court must first approve his surrender.
LTO reported that investigators first sought Zhuravliov’s arrest in Poland in the summer of 2024, but he crossed into Ukraine before police detained him. Polish police arrested him near Warsaw in autumn 2025. However, a court rejected Germany’s extradition request after finding that the pipelines could be treated as a legitimate military target during an armed conflict. Zhuravliov has denied involvement.

His lawyer, Tymoteusz Paprocki, told AP that Zhuravliov understood the Polish ruling applied only within Poland.
Another Ukrainian suspect, Serhii K., was arrested near Rimini in August 2025 and extradited to Germany that November after unsuccessful appeals. Prosecutors allege he coordinated the operation rather than joining the dives. They charged him in Hamburg in June 2026.

Nord Stream 1 and 2 ran beneath the Baltic Sea, carrying—or designed to carry—Russian gas directly to Germany while bypassing Ukraine. Explosions on 26 September 2022 damaged three of their four lines at a depth of about 80 meters.
No court has established who ordered the attack. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office says no facts demonstrate Ukrainian state involvement and is examining whether Russia staged a false-flag operation using Ukrainians. LTO reported that Germany’s Federal Court of Justice found strong grounds in December 2025 to believe that a state had initiated and directed the sabotage, but did not identify which state.
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Les ventes de littérature québécoise ont notamment surpassé de 20,9 fois leur moyenne habituelle.


L'arrivée imminente d'un Dollarama à Saint-Pascal, dans le Kamouraska, fait grand bruit depuis plusieurs mois.


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As yields are dragged higher in the UK, Europe and Japan, the impact for consumers and businesses will be far-reaching
Government borrowing costs around the world have surged to the highest levels in decades amid growing fears over US bond market turmoil.
Anxiety about Donald Trump’s handling of the US economy, and concern that the US president’s war with Iran is driving up inflation, are causing a sell-off in the US bond market.
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Le service des communications de la Ville de Rimouski indique qu’il n’y a aucun élément nouveau concernant le site de l’ancienne Grande Place, plus de quatre ans après sa démolition, et que le maire de Rimouski, Guy Caron n’accordera pas d’entrevue à ce sujet pour le moment.
Le Soir.ca tente de faire le point sur ce dossier qui traîne en longueur. Rappelons qu’en octobre 2025, la Ville a mandaté ses avocats pour envoyer une mise en demeure à l’entreprise Corev afin de forcer ses dirigeants à s’activer ou du moins à faire connaître leurs plans pour le terrain de l’ancienne Grande Place.
À ce moment, le maire rappelait que le Groupe Sélection avait un projet de construction d’un immeuble à logements pour aînés, à cet endroit, avant de faire faillite.
« Les actifs ont été repris par Corev, y compris le bail emphytéotique cédé par la Ville pour le terrain, mais à la condition qu’il y ait une construction. Nous avons été patients. Nous avons compris que la faillite et l’implication d’un syndic avaient retardé les choses, mais là nous avons besoin de connaître les plans de Corev. S’ils ne vont pas de l’avant, la Ville va reprendre le terrain et trouver un autre promoteur », expliquait alors monsieur Caron.
Le bail à long terme du terrain exigeait que des travaux de construction débutent avant le 30 juin 2024.
« Nous n’avons aucune indication qu’il y a un projet en développement. La communication avec Corev est difficile, c’est pourquoi nous nous tournons vers nos avocats. On désire avoir des réponses avec la mise en demeure. Si ces réponses ne sont pas satisfaisantes, on va enclencher le processus pour reprendre le terrain et trouver un autre promoteur », mentionnait Guy Caron en 2025.

L’entreprise prévoyait initialement amorcer la construction de plus de 300 logements avant la fin de 2025. La Grande Place a été démolie en 2022. Le terrain est vacant depuis ce temps.
Par ailleurs, rappelons que la firme Pierre Martin & Associés (PMA) Architectes a entamé des procédures judiciaires contre Corev afion d’être payé pour le travail qu’elle a effectué pour le Groupe Sélection, dont le projet a été racheté par Corev à la suite de la faillite de Groupe Sélection.
Le dossier doit revenir devant la Cour en novembre prochain.
Kyle Spitze of Tennessee faced federal charges for targeting girls online as part of ‘764 network’ investigated by FBI
A 27-year-old Tennessee man described by the US justice department as a “nihilistic violent extremist” was sentenced to 77 years in prison on Wednesday for his targeting of girls online as part of the 764 network, an online group the FBI calls a form of “modern-day terrorism”.
Kyle Spitze of Friendsville received the federal sentence on Wednesday for “production of child sexual abuse material, abetting the distribution of animal crushing videos, and possessing and accessing with the intent to view”, the justice department said in a statement.
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Putin’s posturing is a poor attempt to scare off broader Western support for Kyiv, say experts. Suha Kidwai reports
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La cérémonie débutera à 13 h à l'Union United Church, où le pianiste a commencé à jouer à l'âge de cinq ans.

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Kyiv residents surveyed damage and sheltered in subway stations after an overnight Russian missile and drone attack, carrying pets past bodies and damaged buildings. An injured parking security guard stood by his booth, his pants torn from the blast.

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