US singer-songwriter Panda Bear and Britain's Sonic Boom headlined the final day of the Kikumu film, art and music festival Sunday.

Traffic-calming measures at a recently refurbished central Tallinn street are confusing and were unnecessarily expensive, Deputy Mayor Kristjan Järvan (Isamaa) said.

A commemorative plaque for the Baltic Way was unveiled in the center of Paris on Monday by the city's mayor and the prime ministers of Latvia and Estonia.

The European Commission will publish its proposals for changes to the emissions trading system (ETS) later this week and Estonia is calling for countries to be able to decide how they use the revenue from the sale of carbon allowances domestically.

A company which has operated Tallinn's annual Christmas market has once again won the tender to do so for 2026.

Summer capital Pärnu and the association of local authorities believe introducing a new tax on tourists would be beneficial, but officials in Tallinn think it would damage tourism.

Jalgpalli MMi esimeses poolfinaalis kohtuvad Prantsusmaa ja Hispaania. Postimees teeb täna kell 22 algavast mängust otseblogi.

Suurbritannia ametist lahkuv peaminister Keir Starmer on pälvinud Prantsusmaa kõrgeima ordeni tunnustusena tema töö eest Euroopa ja Ukraina julgeoleku tagamisel.

The bodies were recovered in a rescue operation that lasted several hours, officials say.

Prosecutors say he had been charged with raping 14 women, but was suspected of attacking dozens more.

The investor's decision comes weeks after Gates' appearance before US Congress over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump drops a 24-hour-old vow to charge cargo ships for using the Strait as the US continues its battle to break Iran's hold on the waterway.

The Trump administration is barring American citizens who were recently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where there is an ongoing Ebola outbreak, from returning to the U.S. until they’ve spent 21 days in a third country, a U.S. official confirmed to POLITICO Tuesday. In an effort to prevent Ebola from entering the U.S., the Trump administration began using federal transportation law on Monday to “place any American citizens who have been in the DRC on a Do-Not-Board list for any commercial flights heading into the United States,” the official said. Reuters first reported the news. POLITICO granted the official anonymity in order to confirm Reuters’ report. Do-not-board lists are generally intended to prevent travelers “known or suspected to have a contagious disease” that poses a public health threat from taking commercial flights, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decision follows a pattern of the Trump administration imposing unusually stringent travel restrictions related to the outbreak. In May, the administration blocked green card holders reentering the U.S. if they had recently been in the Congo. The administration also took an unusually stringent approach in quarantining Americans who’d been aboard a cruise ship with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus this spring. They were kept at a government facility in Nebraska for weeks. One passenger who wanted to leave said she was held against her will. During an outbreak in West Africa that started in 2013 and grew to be the largest on record, the Obama administration did not implement travel bans, only diverting travelers who were recently in affected countries to certain airports for screening. The Trump administration had been doing the same for U.S. citizen travelers, naming in May four airports in Virginia, New York, Texas and Georgia that could screen arriving passengers. The administration’s approach has reignited a debate over travel restrictions and infectious disease. Many global health bodies, including the World Health Organization, argue that travel restrictions usually do more harm than good, creating stigma, hurting local economies and discouraging countries from being transparent about infectious disease outbreaks. It’s unclear if the restrictions apply to U.S. government employees and contractors, and the White House did not immediately respond to questions about the scope of the ban. The CDC has at least two dozen employees working in the agency’s Congo office. The decision was based on a new risk assessment by the federal government, which showed increased spread of the virus closer to the Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. As of July 11, there have been nearly 2,000 recorded cases of Ebola in the Congo, and 702 confirmed deaths. Roughly two dozen American citizens were set to board flights Tuesday to the U.S. after having been in the Congo, the official said, adding that the State Department “will be working with these individuals to assist their 21-day waiting period before they can board a commercial flight back home.” The official did not specify where that waiting period will take place. Key context: Trump administration has expressed confidence about keeping cases of Ebola out of the U.S. In May, the administration initiated a plan to set up a facility in Kenya — a country that has never recorded an Ebola case — to house Americans exposed to Ebola, rather than bring them home. That plan was met with a sharp backlash from many Kenyans, who protested the facility. The Kenyan government halted construction of the facility after a Kenyan court blocked the plan. Two Americans have contracted Ebola in the outbreak so far and were sent to Germany for treatment.

LONDON — Andy Burnham pledged Tuesday to end the U.K.’s “cover-up culture” and put “decency back at the heart of the British state.” In his first House of Commons speech since returning to parliament last month, the Makerfield MP — who is expected to become the next British prime minister on Monday — praised legislation from the departing Keir Starmer government that imposes a duty of candor on public officials. Burnham said the law will “change the way this country thinks and works about justice,” as it “truly is a rewiring of the state and a passing of power from the authorities to the hands of ordinary people.” MPs approved the legislation Tuesday evening, and it will now go to the House of Lords for further scrutiny. With parliament rising for the summer recess on Thursday, it will likely be Burnham’s only intervention from the backbenches of the House of Commons. The Public Office (Accountability) Bill  — widely called the Hillsborough law — is named after the 1989 tragedy in the Sheffield stadium where 97 Liverpool fans died following a crush. The draft law imposes a duty on public bodies to tell the truth and cooperate with inquiries after survivors and the families of those who died campaigned for decades to find out what had happened. Subsequent investigations found police cover-ups and false narratives had been spread about the circumstances of the Hillsborough deaths. ‘Campaign for truth’ Burnham, who is originally from Liverpool, expressed his pride at seeing “this bill plant the values of the city of my birth at the heart of this country.”  He has repeatedly spoken about how being heckled by fans during a speech at Liverpool Football Club’s Anfield ground when he was culture secretary in 2009 changed his political outlook. In what will be seen as a statement of intent, Burnham said the legislation will help other victims of injustice, citing the families of people killed in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London, nuclear test veterans and sub-postmasters who were falsely accused of stealing money. “This bill advances all of these just causes and the campaign for truth and justice does not stop here. Indeed, it accelerates from here,” he said.  Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey picked up on Burnham’s name-check of other efforts, challenging him to “put right those scandals” when he takes office. Burnham adopted a conciliatory tone towards the current prime minister, praising his “commitment to a country based on justice and fairness.” He described the Hillsborough legislation as Starmer’s “legacy.” Starmer resigned as leader of the ruling Labour Party last month, acknowledging he had lost the support of his MPs, who feared an election wipeout after a terrible set of local election results in May. Speaking about the Hillsborough tragedy in the same House of Commons session, Starmer said of the coverup, that the state had deployed “all its power to obstruct justice and truth” as a “stain on our history.”

Analyst Alex Alfirraz Scheers says the US risks falling into an escalation trap if it launches a ground assault in Iran.

Donald Trump backs away from fee, says regional countries will instead invest in US in return for transit protection.

Pop star, whose parents are Kosovan Albanian, expresses admiration for demonstrations, which are entering their sixth weekAlbania’s “flamingo revolution” has won its most prominent supporter yet after the pop star Dua Lipa expressed admiration for the protest movement against a Trump family-backed resort in the Balkan state.As demonstrations against the €1.6bn (£1.36bn) real estate project entered a sixth week, the London-born singer, who was partially raised in Pristina, home to her Kosovan Albanian émigré parents, described the civic unrest as “inspiring”. Continue reading...

Firework displays cancelled as Paris military parade asserts ‘France’s rearmament … and Europe’s strategic awakening’Emmanuel Macron has presided over his final Bastille Day parade in Paris amid a searing heatwave and wildfires that forced authorities around the country to cancel traditional firework displays and balls celebrating France’s national day.The French president was joined for the annual military procession and flypast by his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the British ‌prime minister, Keir Starmer, the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and two dozen other national leaders. Continue reading...

Programme intended to plug gaps in air defence and will draw on lessons from war in Ukraine

Over the past week, Kyiv has struck vessels in the Sea of Azov at a faster pace than during the 1980s Iran-Iraq tanker wars