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Two days after the Urda train disaster, the deadliest in Spain since 2013, the families of the victims express their pain and despair over the loss of their loved ones, while calling for changes to prevent such tragedies from happening again. #AccidentFerroviaire #Urda #SolidaritéVictimes (translated)

Cerfia reported, citing Le Figaro, that bitcoin had sharply dropped following reports of a cyberattack targeting Binance. According to Cerfia, the platform estimated the impact of the incident at $6.3 billion, of which approximately $3 billion had been frozen. Binance was investigating possible unauthorized withdrawals after the compromise of an engineer's computer. It assured that clients' funds were safe and that it would cover all losses. #Bitcoin #Cyberattaque #Binance (translated)

Pascal Bérubé accused Éric Duhaime of misleading the public for several weeks regarding partisan appointments. He argued that hiring political staff in the government apparatus was necessarily political and that Duhaime had chosen conservatives for his riding office rather than Péquistes or people he did not know. Bérubé defined a partisan appointment as the allocation of state management positions unrelated to political decisions to individuals associated with the ruling party, rather than to the most capable candidates. He claimed that the Parti Québécois had committed not to proceed in this manner and accused Duhaime of spreading misinformation in order to gain a political advantage, which, according to him, undermined trust in institutions. #PolitiqueQuébécoise #Désinformation #NominationPartisane (translated)

After the protests, the government is considering easing the opening of shops on Sundays to compensate for the financial losses of merchants, while acknowledging that Sunday work is based on alleged volunteerism that can be burdensome for employees. #Commerçants #OuvertureDimanche #Manifestations (translated)

Clément Molin estimated that the war in Ukraine had caused nearly one million deaths among Ukrainian and Russian military personnel. He emphasized that the available counts were partial and that both sides were attempting to hide their losses. According to the figures he presented as verified, the Ukrainian toll amounted to 106,000 dead, 105,000 missing — the majority of whom were likely dead — and 12,000 prisoners of war, totaling approximately 224,000 losses. For Russia, he reported 282,000 dead and at least 70,000 additional deaths by the end of 2025, amounting to about 352,000 losses, while noting that losses for 2026 were almost absent from the counts. Molin cited the work of M0nstas, based on data from Mediazona and Ualosses, indicating that official Ukrainian figures were comparable to Russian losses when considering the changing ratio of killed to wounded. He concluded that Russian losses might actually be between 500,000 and 600,000 dead. For Ukraine, he estimated the toll to be between 300,000 and 400,000 dead, considering this estimate more difficult to reach. He reported that Ualosses faced challenges in obtaining precise data for major cities, Transcarpathia, and the occupied south and east. He added to the death toll the volunteers and foreign mercenaries, Ukrainians from occupied territories conscripted into the Russian army and killed in combat, as well as 2,000 North Koreans killed in Kursk. He also reminded that, in his view, the number of wounded was at least twice that of the dead, and that tens of thousands of people had been amputated on both sides. In this regard, he cited the official Ukrainian figure of 1.5 million military losses. Molin estimated that the total death toll therefore exceeded one million and called for the consideration of psychological trauma, desertions, and demobilized soldiers. He described the war as a "bloodbath" and wrote that each year seemed more deadly than the last. #Ukraine #Guerre #Conflit (translated)

Standard Liège, despite a difficult sporting situation with a ninth place in the standings, succeeds in restoring its finances, reducing its losses to 9.3 million euros thanks to rigorous management and a reduction of its debt. #StandarddeLiège #RedressementFinancier #FootballBelgique (translated)