The EU offered €610 million, on condition that Kiev sign a loan deal with the IMF. "We don't have to be humiliated like this," Yanukovych told Ukrainian TV, adding that the IMF wanted higher taxes and frozen salaries and pensions.

Russia bought about a quarter of Ukraine's exports, and Ukraine's machine-building and aircraft plants worked largely for Russian customers. He warned the deal would wreck whole sectors of the economy.

On November 21, 2013, Kiev put the deal on hold. Less than a month later, Moscow offered $15 billion in loans and cut the gas price by a third.

He was never against closer ties with Europe, he says. He refused to sign a deal that, in his words, betrayed Ukraine's national interests. The Maidan protests began the night he put it on hold, and three months later he was overthrown.

The Donald Trump administration is aware of Flávio Bolsonaro’s departure for the United States and will grant asylum to the PL senator, according to information from Folha de S.Paulo. According to the newspaper, an ally of the family said the U.S. administration assisted in the plan to enable the defeated candidate’s departure from Brazil.

Flávio reportedly fled with his wife and two daughters to the United States, where he is expected to land in Miami or Dallas. The Federal Police (PF) opened an investigation this Tuesday (10/27) after the Argentine news outlet Infobae reported that Flávio had entered Argentina to flee toward the United States. According to Folha, authorities are also investigating whether Flávio is flying to Caracas, Venezuela, and from there to Miami.

Currently, Flávio Bolsonaro is under investigation in two inquiries before the Supreme Federal Court (STF): money laundering through betting platforms and the funding of the movie Dark Horse. Starting in February, when his term as senator for Rio de Janeiro ends, he will lose his special jurisdictional privilege before the Supreme Court.

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The usual neoliberal imperialists on Imgur are celebrating "student protests" that have brought down the "authoritarian" government of Serbia.

What's going on? Is this another CIA-funded "Colour Revolution"?

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Just five hours after polls opened, Netanyahu sicced his fanatics on voters … claiming the Arabic-speaking minority is somehow stealing the election. This, in a nation that never tires of boasting it leads the world in both surveillance technology and democratic practice.

In June of 2026, it was revealed that France investigators discovered that Israeli tech firm BlackCore of meddled in New York and Scotland votes in an attempt to sway the vote in Israel’s favor.

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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is negotiating a $750,500 agreement with Israeli technology company Cognyte to acquire an advanced mobile phone-tracking system, despite the anti-Israel views of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

According to a report by the New York Daily News, the proposed three-year contract would provide the NYPD with FalcoNet, a surveillance system designed to help investigators locate suspects by identifying and tracking nearby cellular devices.

The agreement, which would be awarded directly to Cognyte without competitive bidding, is currently undergoing a public review process and has not yet received final approval.

FalcoNet operates by simulating a cellular communications tower, prompting nearby mobile phones to connect to the device. The system can then identify individual phones and assist law enforcement personnel in determining their approximate locations.

The equipment can be installed in police vehicles, attached to drones, or carried in a backpack. According to the report, the NYPD intends to deploy the technology primarily through its police vehicles.

Cognyte's technology incorporates artificial intelligence, although the precise functions performed by AI within FalcoNet have not been publicly detailed.

The NYPD already employs similar cellular tracking systems to locate criminal suspects and assist in searches for missing individuals or people at risk of suicide. Police officials maintain that FalcoNet offers capabilities better suited to the department's operational requirements than competing systems.

“The department explored different cell-site simulators and determined that this device best met the needs of the NYPD," a police spokesperson told the New York Daily News.

The proposed acquisition has prompted objections from civil liberties organizations, which warn that the technology could collect identifying information from phones belonging to individuals who are not subjects of police investigations.

Daniel Schwarz, senior privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, told the Daily Newsthat the agreement raises concerns about surveillance practices and the protection of residents' personal information.

“Cell-site simulators require warrants because they are highly intrusive, dragnet surveillance," Schwarz said. “And this new tech goes even further by incorporating undisclosed AI capabilities that analyze people’s behaviors."

Police officials emphasized that the technology would operate under existing departmental restrictions, including a requirement to obtain judicial warrants for most criminal investigations.

Emergency circumstances, including situations involving an immediate threat to life, may allow officers to deploy cellular tracking equipment before obtaining a warrant, subject to departmental procedures.

The NYPD also said that FalcoNet would not be used to monitor telephone conversations or collect text messages from devices unrelated to investigations, and that information obtained through the system would not be shared with other agencies.

Access to the technology would be limited to four authorized members of the department's Technical Assistance Response Unit, operating through computers connected to an isolated network.

Civil liberties advocates have questioned whether existing oversight mechanisms are sufficient to ensure compliance with those restrictions, particularly because the department does not publicly disclose individual deployments of its cellular tracking equipment.

The proposed agreement remains under consideration as New York City officials review public comments before determining whether to authorize the purchase.

“We are reviewing the proposed contract," a City Hall spokesperson told the Daily News.

Cognyte did not respond to the newspaper's requests for comment.

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