Opposition party leaders hit back at Reform Party Chairman Kristen Michal's criticism on Sunday, accusing him of fearmongering and offering no vision for an alternative future.

Junior coalition party Eesti 200's board on Sunday said Estonia needs radical, fundamental and long-term changes in tax policy, the labor market and pension system.

Opposition party leaders hit back at Reform Party Chairman Kristen Michal's criticism on Sunday, accusing him of fearmongering and offering no vision for an alternative future.

Junior coalition party Eesti 200's board on Sunday said Estonia needs radical, fundamental and long-term changes in tax policy, the labor market and pension system.

A court has sentenced a teacher in South Estonia to seven years' prison time after finding him guilty of pedophile offenses, Lõuna Postimees reported.

The Estonian Education Personnel Union (EHL) will demand during teachers' salary negotiations that the government fulfill its pre-election promises by raising teachers' minimum salary to 120 percent of the national average.

Pühapäeva õhtul saabus Leedu ametivõimudele teade, et Samane külast leiti alla kukkunud droon, teatas Leedu riiklik kriisiohje keskus.

Haridus- ja teadusminister Kristina Kallas (Eesti 200) ja kuue avalik-õigusliku ülikooli rektorid allkirjastasid halduslepingud aastateks 2026-2028, kuid suur osa lepingust ehk lisanduvate õppekohtade rahastamise tõus sõltub riigieelarve strateegia läbirääkimistes.

Eight people were injured, four seriously, before passers-by gave chase and stopped the man.

Staff Sgt Mohamed Mahdhee died while diving in the search-and-rescue operation, the Maldives government tells the BBC.

The government is cracking down on third parties who use bots to buy tests and resell them at inflated prices.

Hundreds of people queue outside branches across the UK to get the £335 item.

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te urged the Trump administration to continue arms sales to the self-governing island in order to ensure “regional peace and security” in a Facebook post Sunday. U.S. support is essential in pushing back against Beijing’s increasingly aggressive regional military footprint, Lai said. “China has never abandoned its intention to annex Taiwan by force and continues to expand its military capabilities in an attempt to alter the regional and cross-strait status quo,” Lai said. U.S. arms sales and security cooperation “are not only necessary but also key elements in maintaining regional peace and stability,” he added. Lai’s post follows President Donald Trump’s comments on Air Force One and in a Fox News interview Friday that he’s delaying approval of a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan as a “negotiating chip” with Beijing. “I haven’t approved it yet. We’re going to see what happens. I may do it, I may not do it,” Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier. Trump spoke following a two-day summit with China’s leader Xi Jinping in Beijing that otherwise produced few substantive outcomes. Ending weapon sales to Taipei has been a longtime demand of Beijing, which claims the island as Chinese territory and has pressed its claim by ratcheting up military intimidation of Taiwan. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Trump’s comments didn’t signal a backpedal on U.S. ties to Taiwan. “The president was really clear about this — there’s no change in American policy on Taiwan,” Greer told ABC News on Sunday. Trump said that he had discussed U.S. arms sales to Taiwan “in great detail” with Xi. That’s an apparent violation of a 1982 pledge former President Ronald Reagan made to the island that it wouldn’t consult with Beijing on those transactions. Withholding weapon sales to Taiwan would also violate the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act which commits the U.S. “provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character” to deter potential Chinese aggression. That pledge is “the most important deterrent against efforts to undermine regional peace and stability,” Lai said. Trump suggested that weapon sales to Taiwan might embolden its government to declare formal independence — a potential trigger for conflict with Beijing. “We’re not looking to have somebody say, ‘Let’s go independent, because the United States is backing us,’” Trump said. Xi reiterated China’s longtime warning that doing so risked conflict with Beijing in his meeting with Trump last week. “’Taiwan independence’ and cross-Strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water,” Xi said, per a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout. Lai repeated Taiwan’s position that it is already “a sovereign and independent democratic nation” that Beijing has no legal claim to. And he warned of the consequences of a possible Chinese invasion attempt that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said was potentially “imminent” in a speech last year. “Any act that undermines peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is not only a blatant challenge to international rules and order but will also have a significant impact on Indo-Pacific security, global supply chains, and the world economy,” Lai said.

A drone strike caused a fire on the perimeter at the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi officials said Sunday. Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), responded to the incident with a statement saying “military activity that threatens nuclear safety is unacceptable.” Grossi called for “maximum military restraint near any [nuclear power plant] to avoid the danger of a nuclear accident.” There have been no reports of injuries or radiological release. No one has claimed responsibility for the strike and the UAE has not blamed anyone. The country’s defense ministry wrote on X that three drones had entered the UAE from the “western border direction” on Sunday. Two were intercepted, but the third drone struck an electrical generator “outside the inner perimeter” of the power plant. The defense ministry said in a statement that investigations were under way “to determine the source of the attacks.” The incident comes as regional tensions around the Iran ceasefire remain active. Tensions with Iran have been rising in recent weeks following repeated drone and missile attacks linked to the wider regional conflict. Ceasefire talks between Iran and the United States also remain stalled. The UAE’s nuclear regulator said on X that the fire isn’t impacting the safety of the plant and that “all units are operating as normal.”

The US president has pressured Iran to concede to demands including dismantling nuclear programme and missile stocks.

At least five people have been killed in Israeli air attacks on several locations in southern and eastern Lebanon.

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Canal+ head says he will not work with hundreds of actors and directors who signed protest against Vincent Bolloré’s political swayThe head of France’s biggest film producer, Canal+, has said the group will no longer work with hundreds of cinema figures who signed a petition voicing concern over the growing influence of the rightwing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré.The open letter, published earlier this week to coincide with the opening of the Cannes film festival, was signed by more than 600 figures, including the actor-director Juliette Binoche, the director and photographer Raymond Depardon, the French-Iranian film-maker Sepideh Farsi and the director Arthur Harari, who co-wrote the Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall and is premiering his film The Unknown in the main competition in Cannes. Continue reading...

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Brussels’ proposed quota reduction could cost Kyiv up to €1bn in lost export revenue