Maarika Lepik is now women's world champion in double-bit axe throwing after reaching those heights in Bollnäs, Sweden.

British electronic pop pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are to perform in Tallinn at the end of August.

Officials from Estonia and Sweden signed a prison rental agreement that will see several hundred Swedish inmates transferred to southern Estonia to serve part of their sentences.

Preparations for this year's presidential election are unusual, as only one party has nominated a party member, and no nationwide campaigning has been seen, some experts note.

The Ministry of the Interior tasks police, the Internal Security Service (ISS) and the Rescue Board with presenting annual recommendations in the field of internal security.

Officials from Estonia and Sweden signed a prison rental agreement that will see several hundred Swedish inmates transferred to southern Estonia to serve part of their sentences.

Tallinna FC Flora alustab neljapäeval Konverentsiliiga kolmandat eelringi, kui kohtub võõrsil Andorra klubi Escaldese Interiga. Flora peatreeneri Konstantin Vassiljevi hinnangul on võtmetähtsusega keskendumine.

Kolmapäeva õhtul oli ETV saates «Ringvaade» juttu teetigude püüdmiseks mõeldud söödamajadest, mille leiutas Hendrik Võrno. Mees rääkis, et leiutis sündis enda vajadusest lähtuvalt ja koheselt tekkis toote järele nõudlus. «48 tundi hiljem oli mul oma ettevõte,» avaldab ta.

Without Patriot interceptors, Ukraine's skies are wide open and people are fully exposed to Russia's missile barrages.

The drone was found near Ukrainian cargo planes before another object collided with a cargo aircraft in mid-air.

The changes are part of government efforts to tackle the youth unemployment crisis.

The repayments represent roughly 60% of all tariff revenue collected by the US government under the policy.

President Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. Trump’s attorneys filed the emergency stay motion Wednesday with Miami-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett, urging her to lift the order she issued last month that the British TV broadcaster is entitled to information on the financial performance of hundreds of Trump’s companies because he claimed his “brand, properties and businesses” were damaged by a documentary the BBC aired in the U.K. in 2024. Trump’s lawyers said in court filings that the demands for information are part of an effort by the BBC “to wrongly exploit this litigation for its own political benefit.” The BBC’s attorneys contend that the records are relevant to assessing Trump’s claims of massive damages. His initial lawsuit appeared to seek $10 billion, although a form his attorneys submitted to the court listed $5 billion. Trump’s lawsuit, filed last December, claims that the documentary defamed him by splicing together segments of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech in a manner that made it sound like he was directly calling for the violent attack on the Capitol that followed. The BBC has apologized for the editing, but said it was not an intentional effort to distort Trump’s words and isn’t legally actionable. Trump’s legal team is also asking the judge overseeing the lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, to overturn Lett’s order and to allow Trump to amend his lawsuit to trim out some of the language that led the magistrate judge to conclude that the financial performance of Trump’s businesses should be subject to discovery. The proposed new complaint “focuses on President Trump’s damages allegations on the reputational harm that he has suffered, which is at the core of this defamation action,” Trump attorney Alejandro Brito wrote. “That focus matters because third-party discovery here has expanded well beyond the issues actually in dispute.” The text of the new proposed lawsuit is currently under seal, but Trump’s lawyers say it describes “personal reputational harm as the primary compensatory injury” and continues to seek punitive damages against the BBC. The BBC has moved to dismiss the lawsuit on various grounds, including that the court lacks jurisdiction over the London-based broadcaster. Altman, a Trump appointee, has yet to hold a hearing or rule on that motion. Trump’s attorneys say the revised lawsuit they want to file would add new allegations to support the court’s jurisdiction over the suit, including that producers gave interviewees in the U.S. detailed instructions on how to access the documentary over the internet and that the BBC “received contemporaneous notice that its geoblocking [aimed at preventing viewing in the U.S.] was failing.” An attorney for the BBC did not immediately respond to request for comment.

German counterterrorism authorities are leading an investigation into an explosive-laden drone that was found overnight at Leipzig airport, an important base for the NATO alliance. An airport worker discovered the drone carrying an explosive device in a restricted cargo area late Tuesday, according to Dresden Public Prosecutor’s office and Saxony state police. A police bomb disposal robot examined the drone before officers disarmed the device by removing its detonator. Airport officials temporarily suspended flights and diverted several aircraft. One of the diverted planes, a DHL cargo aircraft, struck another flying object while climbing away from the airport. After landing at Hanover airport, officials found signs of an impact on the aircraft’s nose. Officials told WELT — which, like POLITICO, is part of the Axel Springer group — that the device’s detonator failed to function, preventing an explosion. They also said the drone was found just meters from a Ukrainian Antonov transport aircraft. According to the report, it contained Semtex, the explosive used in the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. Leipzig airport hosts the base of operations of NATO’s Strategic Airlift International Solution (SALIS), which gives participating countries access to Antonov cargo planes to transport military equipment. The airport is DHL’s largest European air hub and serves as an aircraft maintenance base for some Ukrainian Antonov aircraft. According to WELT, security authorities have internally classified the incident as an attempted attack. No suspects had been detained as of Wednesday evening. Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt interrupted his summer vacation in Italy to meet officials in Leipzig. Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster described the incident in a statement as “very serious security incident.” Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, assumed Moscow could be behind the incident. “I hope that all the authorities in Germany will now establish the facts as well. But who else could it have been besides Russia?” he posited on WELT TV. Russia’s embassy to Germany didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Lennart Pfahler contributed reporting from Berlin. This article has been updated.

The announcement comes as Lula warns of foreign interference and polls show a tightening presidential race.

Authorities are screening 5,000 refugees as rights groups warn they remain at risk of persecution in Myanmar.

CCTV captures the moment a passenger train crashes through a trailer carrying hay bales after the driver of the tractor towing it stopped on a level crossing. The footage was released by Polish State Railways, which said the tractor driver had been found to be intoxicated, and that although no injuries had been reported he had endangered the lives of about 500 people Continue reading...

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The US and China use the technology as an instrument of state power, while the EU is still considering its course

Incident appears to mark an escalation after two years of drone incursions at European airports