Tartu Administrative Court dismissed a complaint filed by 18 parents challenging Kõrveküla Basic School's decision to start classes at 8 a.m.

A Pärnu court sentenced a 37-year-old Ukrainian citizen to a year and ten months in prison for smuggling migrants into Estonia, with expulsion and an entry ban to follow.

In this installment of his commentary series, Harri Tiido examines Finns' assessment of the health of their democracy. Democracy is likely one of those things whose absence is felt most acutely only after it is gone, Tiido notes.

Replacing high-profile members who have recently quit politics will be a major challenge for the Reform Party, political analyst Tarmo Jüristo finds.

Tartu Administrative Court dismissed a complaint filed by 18 parents challenging Kõrveküla Basic School's decision to start classes at 8 a.m.

A Pärnu court sentenced a 37-year-old Ukrainian citizen to a year and ten months in prison for smuggling migrants into Estonia, with expulsion and an entry ban to follow.

Rahvusvaheline spordiarbitraažikohus (CAS) määras Rumeenia võimlejale Ana Barbosule kaheaastase võistluskeelu.

Nutikad linnusöögimajad viivad traditsioonilise linnuvaatluse digiajastusse. Tuntud tootja Birdbuddy tuli välja taskukohasema mudeliga Nook, mis jäädvustab tiivulisi külalisi kaameraga ning aitab tehisaru abil tuvastada tuhandeid erinevaid liike.

Scores of flights across Europe have received bomb threats this week, but no explosives have been found so far.

Gardaí say they are "aware of a threat made against media organisations here and in Europe".

Investors had been selling off tech shares in part due to concerns the Democrat election victory would mean slower AI development.

Fears of more AI regulation appear to have sparked fear among investors, but concerns about the industry have been growing for some time.

PARIS — A group of European ambassadors posted in Paris questioned Marine Le Pen about her plans for France and the EU over a lunch on Wednesday, four officials with direct knowledge of the meeting told POLITICO. The lunch at the lavish neoclassical Hôtel de Beauharnais — once home to Napoleon’s stepson, and now the residence of the German ambassador in the capital — mainly covered Le Pen’s future EU agenda, officials said. Le Pen, who is comfortably leading the polls in the 2027 election race, has pledged to fight in Brussels to downsize EU institutions, turn the European Commission into a secretariat that would no longer have any competence on foreign policy, internal security or health, and to drastically cut France’s contribution to the EU budget.   The group of ambassadors from the eight countries that share a border with metropolitan France —  Germany, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco and Andorra —  already met with conservative presidential candidate Bruno Retailleau in September. They are planning to host meetings with the other presidential hopefuls, including far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, at their respective embassies in the coming months.  “I don’t know if it reassured or worried them,” said an adviser to Marine Le Pen who accompanied her to the lunch. “What is sure is that they can now report back to their capitals what the National Rally wants to do,” the adviser added.  Le Pen was mainly questioned about her plans to downsize the EU and on bilateral issues, as well as U.S. President Donald Trump after his seismic defeat in the midterm elections. While in the past, the National Rally has been supportive of Trump, the party has progressively distanced itself from the U.S. president. The National Rally’s Jordan Bardella on Wednesday said his party was not affected by the result and suggested that Trump’s popularity was undermined by the war in the Middle East and its economic consequences. Le Pen has also been campaigning for a harsher approach on migration, which would involve stricter checks at the borders, potentially impacting countries whose envoys she met on Wednesday. All of them, apart from Andorra and Monaco, are part of the Schengen free-movement area.  “There is a general interest on what would her stance be on the key issues of mutual interest and cooperation on which we are working with France,” said one diplomat from a participating country. “It was a very frank exchange. She told them what she says everywhere and she was able to elaborate on a number of topics a little more at length than she would do on TV,” the same adviser said, adding that Le Pen regularly meets ambassadors. Back in December, Le Pen and her No. 2 Jordan Bardella also met with U.S. ambassador Charles Kushner. The far-right leaders are also preparing the ground for a possible election win by meeting top French business executives.  Marcelo Wesfreid and Nicolas Camut contributed to this report. 

Spain shouldn’t co-host the 2030 FIFA World Cup if Morocco gets to stage the final, said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative People’s Party leader and favorite to become the next Spanish prime minister after this month’s snap election. Speaking on the sports TV show El Chiringuito, Feijóo said it is “fair, fitting and unquestionable” that Spain, “a global football power,” hosts the final. “If it does not host it, Spain should not take part in organizing the World Cup,” Feijóo added, before confirming, in response to a follow-up question, that he would advocate for Spain to withdraw from co-hosting duties if Morocco was awarded the flagship match. Feijóo noted that the 2030 World Cup was originally a Spanish-Portuguese bid, until Morocco was invited at a later stage. Despite that chronology, Moroccan officials have been pushing vigorously to stage the final, which is the world’s most prestigious sports event. Rafael Louzán, Spain’s football chief, told POLITICO in June that he was confident either Madrid or Barcelona would host the final, despite Morocco pouring vast amounts of cash into football infrastructure. Tensions have flared between the two countries in recent months. Spanish political parties this summer accused Morocco of stoking a migrant crisis in Spain’s North African territory of Ceuta, after 80,000 people surged into the city in late July. A Sigma Dos poll for El Mundo following the Ceuta crisis found that 84.4% of Spaniards opposed Spain continuing to co-host the World Cup with Morocco. Leftist party Sumar, the Socialists’ junior coalition partner, said this summer that the World Cup “cannot be shared with a country that uses desperate people for its own geostrategic interests.” The left-wing party tabled a resolution in parliament that far-right Vox backed in an unusual convergence. The text never made it to a vote because parliament was dissolved ahead of the snap election.

More than 100 activists broke into a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam.

Amateur cricketer was clicking his fingers while fielding to trick umpire into thinking the batsman had edged the ball.

Irish government issues statement in response to latest bomb threats against European flights after some Irish media organisations received similar threats Tell us: have you been affected by the bomb threats to flights in Europe?A Romanian airline Tarom flight from Prague to Bucharest is the latest believed to be affected by today’s bomb threats.The aircraft, operating flight number ROT226M, sent a squawk code of 7700 – general emergency – before landing safely in Bucharest. The threat was later confirmed to be unproven. Continue reading...

Asian and European markets follow Wall Street with sharp fall as FTSE down 1.9%Business live – latest updatesEuropean stock markets have fallen sharply as a rout in US tech stocks spread across the Atlantic, after the Democrats’ midterms victory sparked fears of a slowdown in the AI industry.A sell-off on Wall Street on Thursday was followed by sharp falls in Asian stocks markets on Friday. The investor sentiment then reached London, where the market was, at one stage, poised for its worst day since March. Continue reading...

European officials fear Washington could strike agreement with Moscow that undermines Nato and restores Russia’s sphere of influence

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