The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), jointly with the National Police, has exposed a criminal group whose members are suspected of demanding $1 million from a businessman over a fictitious debt.
Sur le point de conclure une entente avec sa voisine de Saint-Simon-de-Rimouski, Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux se tourne maintenant vers Trois-Pistoles pour assurer la couverture incendie de la municipalité.
Cette entente n’a pas eu lieu, en raison de la démission du directeur du service incendie de Saint-Simon.
« Nous avons demandé à la Ville de Trois-Pistoles, comme Saint-Simon, pour obtenir la couverture de risque incendie. Nous sommes en démarche, et nous devrions arriver très rapidement à obtenir cette couverture incendie. L’entente sera conclue sous peu. Entre-temps, Trois-Pistoles offre le service », commente le maire de Saint-Mathieu, Marc Brunelle.
Séance extraordinaire à Trois-Pistoles
Une séance extraordinaire du conseil municipal de Trois-Pistoles aura lieu ce lundi 16 novembre à 19 h 30 à la salle du conseil de l’hôtel de ville.
Elle portera sur deux ententes intermunicipales avec la Municipalité de Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux concernant les services de sécurité incendie.
Les élus discuteront d’une entente relative à la direction et à la gestion des services incendie et une entente visant l’établissement d’un plan d’aide mutuelle pour la protection contre les incendies.
Le maire de Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux, Marc Brunelle (Photo courtoisie)
La couverture incendie entre les municipalités permet d’assurer d’assurer le partage de ressources pour assurer la protection en cas de feu majeur.
Hall, 18, scores again as Pochettino prepares for exit
Pulisic goes into fourth on all-time US scoring list
When Mauricio Pochettino named his US roster for the November window, few could have expected that the games would double as his brief lame-duck era. A week of camp instead brought constant media coverage, efficient negotiations and questions about the future of the national team. Come Wednesday, his day job will take him far from the federation’s headquarters in Fayetteville, Georgia, as he hopes to make sense of Manchester United.
Saturday finally allowed Pochettino and his players to get on with the intended purpose of this window, and they took to the Concacaf Nations League quarter-finals with aplomb. The US opened their two-leg series against Haiti with a dominant 6-0 victory in front of a considerably pro-Haitian crowd in Miami. Auston Trusty provided the first half’s only goal before Julian Hall, Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie and Folarin Balogun contributed to the eventual rout.
Le Cégep de Jonquière est l'hôte de La Traversée, un tournoi intercollégial d'improvisation présenté au sein l’établissement pour une 1ere fois depuis 7 ans.
Since the beginning of the year, units of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) Main Directorate D have exposed 109 criminal organizations and groups involved in undermining domestic stability and notified 3,920 individuals of suspicion.
L'Afrique peut-elle former ses propres élites sans les envoyer étudier à l'étranger ? Au Maroc, l'Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P) s'impose parmi les établissements africains les mieux classés à l'international. Recherche, intelligence artificielle, robotique, agriculture : l'université mise sur des formations de pointe pour répondre aux défis du continent. Mais cette excellence est-elle accessible à tous ? Et ce modèle peut-il être reproduit ailleurs en Afrique ? Sa Benjamin Traoré, professeur de droit public et directeur du programme Droit et Gouvernance à l'UM6P, est l'invité de Fatimata Wane dans le Journal de l'Afrique sur France 24.
A year after first deploying them, the Russians may still be tinkering with up-armored turtle tanks carrying bridge spans
These bridgelayers could help Russian troops cross narrow rivers and other obstacles
They may be especially useful along the southern approaches to Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast
Struggling to cross a small river north of the ruins of Myrnohrad in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast last year, the Russian 40th Naval Infantry Brigade deployed a new kind of bridgelayer: an up-armored T-80 turtle tank with a short metal span attached to its front. The kind of span that, hastily dropped over the narrowest stretch of a small river or some other gap, could help trailing vehicles and infantry quickly cross and continue their attack.
The improvised bridgelayer, first identified by open-source analyst Moklasen in late December, is crude and unwieldy. Sure, a T-80 can haul a front-mounted bridge span weighing a few tons. But how can a tank crew precisely lay down and adjust the span without first climbing out of their tank and exposing themselves to artillery and drones? Moreover, the turtle bridge is bulky, surely suffers a speed and mobility penalty from the extra weight, and is even more vulnerable to drone attack than the typical tank.
It should come as no surprise that the turtle bridge failed in one of its earliest deployments along the Kazennyi Toretsk River as 2025 wore into 2026.
Short Footage of Two Russian T-80BVM Tanks of the 40th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade in the Rear - 2025/26 pic.twitter.com/4QkPaNWWsE
But it's apparent the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade hasn't given up on the type. Observer Will Knowler recently noted footage of the T-80 bridge turtle in training in the Russian rear in warmer weather than the snowy conditions in which the bridge turtle first appeared. It's not clear exactly when the footage was shot, but it may have been this fall or the preceding spring. After the failed bridging attempts 11 months ago in December.
The Russians aren't foolish for continuing to tinker with their turtle bridge. Many of Russia’s improvised assault vehicles—welded together in front-line workshops in response to changing battlefield conditions—don’t work until they abruptly do work ... and help Russian troops advance deeper into Ukraine. So as awkward as the turtle bridge may appear to be, it may also eventually accomplish its mission: placing short bridges over narrow obstacles preventing Russian forces from advancing.
The improvised bridgelayer signaled a tactical shift as the Russian Center Group of Forces pivoted from urban fighting in Myrnohrad to open terrain back north of the city's ruins back in December. The Center Group of Forces' aim, then as now, was to force one of the main southern routes toward Kramatorsk and neighboring Sloviansk, the last two big free cities in Donetsk Oblast.
The southern routes were important a year ago. They're even more important now that the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has, by way of its robot-led Operation Vivaldi counteroffensive, forced the Russian 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies away from the northern approach to the free twin cities.
Map: Euromaidan Press
If the Russians can finally solve their river-crossing problem, the 25-km path to Kramatorsk may open wider for a faster advance. That doesn't mean Kramatorsk is in imminent danger. Quite the contrary. There are other obstacles besides rivers. Those 25 km between the current disputed gray zone and the outskirts of Kramatorsk are some of the deadliest in the world, especially for an attacker. Mines, drones, and artillery can exact thousands of casualties for every kilometer an attacker advances.
It's not for no reason the Russians are struggling to open a southern route toward Kramatorsk, either from the ruins of Kostiantynivka through Druzhkivka and then onward to Kramatorsk or from Toretske through Druzhkivka farther to the west. In a year of hard fighting, the Russians have pushed the gray zone around 10 km toward Kramatorsk along the westernmost approach. But the easternmost approach, through Kostiantynivka, has proved even tougher for the Russians.
The first Russian infiltrators slipped into Kostiantynivka more than a year ago. Flash forward at least 13 months, and the city is still contested, with at least a few stubborn Ukrainian defenders clinging to positions across the destroyed city. No bridge-hauling turtle tank is going to help much when many Russians can't even advance past the ruins of Kostiantynivka.
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The rise of Mirra Andreeva has seemed inevitable ever since she burst on to the tour as a precocious 15-year-old more than three years ago, but this week, six months after her maiden grand slam triumph at Roland Garros, she has taken another massive step forward in her career. The 19-year-old will attempt to close out the most impressive week of her career by winning one of her most significant titles after thoroughly outplaying Jessica Pegula, the fifth seed, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the championship match of the WTA Finals at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
A year ago, Andreeva surprisingly failed to qualify for the WTA Finals, missing out by a paltry six points after bizarrely deciding not to compete in the final tournament week before the event. The world No 3 has been utterly supreme in her long-awaited debut appearance, bulldozing through elite opposition to reach the final without dropping a set. She has conceded just 18 games in four matches this week, including a 6-4, 6-0 demolition of the No 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka, winning 11 games in succession from 1-4 down.
The show celebrated 50 years of the British monarch's charity, now known as the King's Trust, and its benefit concerts featuring some of the world's top artists.
Après avoir littéralement dominé leurs adversaires en saison régulière, les deux équipes de football du Mistral de Mont-Joli en catégorie benjamin et juvénile ont concrétisé leur automne avec les conquêtes des championnats du Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec- Est-du-Québec, samedi, devant leurs partisans au Stade Ma Financière Prêts et Placements.
Chez les benjamins, Mont-Joli a vaincu les Guerriers de l’École secondaire de Rivière-du-Loup par la marque de 45-8.
Invaincu en six parties en saison, après avoir marqué 239 points contre seulement 26, le Mistral avait profité du forfait de l’école C.-E.-Pouliot de Gaspé pour accéder à la finale. Rivière-du-Loup l’avait emporté 23-16 sur le Bleu & Blanc de l’École secondaire de Matane en demi-finale.
Dans la catégorie juvénile, Mont-Joli a blanchi Gaspé par 45-0.
En plus d’avoir remporté ses six matchs, le Mistral n’a accordé qu’un seul point à leurs adversaires lors de la saison régulière. La formation de La Mitis a remporté la demi-finale, 34-0, sur Rivière-du-Loup.
A UN conference on restricting AI-powered autonomous weapons systems capable of independently identifying and attacking targets without human involvement will begin in Geneva on November 16.
Le nouveau Gym Mont-Actif ouvrira le samedi 28 novembre à Mont-Joli. Sa direction invite toute la population à venir découvrir ses installations du boulevard Jacques-Cartier.
« On a tellement hâte de vous accueillir et de vous faire découvrir le Gym Mont-Actif », a indiqué sa direction dans une publication sur sa page Facebook.
La veille, le Gym Mont-Actif tiendra une soirée VIP, sur invitation seulement, aux contributeurs majeurs de sa campagne de sociofinancement tenue à la fin de l’été. En tout, elle a permis d’amasser 110 345 $ sur la plateforme La Ruche.
La Ville de Mont-Joli s’est aussi impliqué financièrement en versant 10 000 $ au projet mené par Catherine Roussel, David-Gilles Lévesque, Jackie Castonguay et Kim Chenel.
Les quatre copropriétaires du Gym Mont-Actif, soit Jackie Castonguay, Kim Chenel, Catherine Roussel et David-Gilles Lévesque. (Photo courtoisie)
L’établissement proposera une salle de conditionnement physique, des entraînements de CrossFit et des cours de groupe et sera accessible 24 heures sur 24.
Le Gym Mont-Actif souhaiten rejoindre les débutants et les expérimentés de l’entraînement, de même que les familles et les retraités actifs.
Si la Chine s'est éveillée au capitalisme et aux marques occidentales, elle maîtrise toujours avec fermeté son récit national. Pas question de heurter l'autorité et l'histoire du pays, c'est le prix à payer pour accéder au marché intérieur. Dernier exemple en date : la vidéo de Kylian Mbappé qui avait utilisé le terme "dictateur chinois" sur le ton de la plaisanterie. L'effet papillon de ses propos a été redoutable.
Russia wants Britain to stop extending its nuclear protection to the rest of Europe. The demand, one of the conditions Russian negotiators reportedly set out for talks to end the war, would require Britain to end its submarine-based nuclear deterrent's commitment to NATO’s wider defense, the Telegraph reports.
The document, dated 10 November, is Russian ruler Vladimir Putin’s position for talks mediated by US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, and it revives the sweeping demands he made in late 2021 before invading. In response, European leaders say the continent’s security is not Moscow’s to decide.
What Moscow is demanding
The paper proposes that NATO withdraw from Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, expel Finland, and promise no troops for Ukraine before Putin will consider a ceasefire.
It also demands an end to all Western arms for Ukraine, a block on the country joining NATO, and a pullback of alliance forces to their 1997 borders.
What Russia offers in return
After any settlement, Russia would keep the Ukrainian territory it occupies, a large share of the country. In exchange, Moscow could let Kyiv join the EU, provided Ukraine is shut out of the bloc’s common defense and agrees to remove nuclear weapons from Belarus.
Europe’s security is not Russia’s to decide
After meeting European leaders in Dublin, the UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, pushed back, calling the continent’s security, not Russia’s, the issue to bargain over.
“That’s not up for negotiation. It’s for Europe to decide its own arrangements, Europe and Europe alone,” the prime minister said.
Finland, which abandoned decades of neutrality to join NATO after the invasion, has ruled out any talks on its membership.
“Such matters are in no way a matter for negotiation. Russia knows that. This is absolutely outrageous to even suggest such a thing,” Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen said.
Who will sit at the table
On 13 November, EU leaders agreed that Europe would be represented in any Russia-Ukraine talks by the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland. Putin is believed to have agreed to let them join the peace talks, which the American mediators see as key to ending the war.
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