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.

Teiste seas näiteks Portugali jaoks on USA F-35 olnud väga pikka aega kindel kandidaat uueks lahingulennukiks, edastas ukrainlaste uudisteagentuur Unian pühapäeval Poola suurima uudiste- ja veebiportaali Wirtualna Polska tehnikarubriiki.

Ukraina president Volodõmõr Zelenskõi pidas pühapäeval Euroopa Ülemkogu eesistuja António Costaga läbirääkimisi Euroopa riikide kaasamise üle tulevastesse rahuläbirääkimistesse, edastas uudistekanal Ukrinform.

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.

A new reviews confirms the high-speed rail line's "original sins" include a technical design, changing political priorities and ballooning costs.

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

China will purchase at least $17 billion in U.S. agricultural products annually through 2028, in addition to soybean commitments already agreed to, the White House said in a fact sheet released Sunday. The announcement followed President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing last week for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and was among the few concrete deliverables from a summit Trump had pitched in March as a “monumental event.” The White House also said China has renewed expired registrations for more than 400 U.S. beef facilities and added new listings, while working with U.S. regulators to lift suspensions on the remaining plants, a move aimed at widening market access for American farmers. And they said China has resumed poultry imports from U.S. states that the U.S. Department of Agriculture determined are free of avian influenza. The new agricultural purchases would add to soybean commitments reached after Trump and Xi struck a broader trade truce negotiated during their October 2025 summit in Busan, South Korea. As part of that agreement, China committed to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually through 2028 while both countries paused a wider tariff escalation. On Iran, both countries agreed Iran cannot get ahold of a nuclear weapon, that the Strait of Hormuz shipping corridor should reopen, and that no country or group should be allowed to charge tolls. Both countries have also agreed to establish a board of trade to manage commerce in non-sensitive sectors and the board of investment, according to the Sunday fact sheet, which the White House says will provide a “government-to-government forum” to discuss investment-related issues. And China agreed to an initial purchase of 200 Boeing aircraft, according to the release. The country will also address restrictions on the sale of rare earth production and processing equipment and technologies, the fact sheet said, without providing any further details. The update came two days after Trump concluded a state visit to China for talks with Xi, after which Trump told reporters tariffs had not been discussed. But that appears to contradict a statement from China’s commerce ministry from Saturday, which said the two sides had reached a preliminary agreement to reduce some tariffs and also confirmed agricultural and aircraft deals, though it did not provide specifics. As part of the summit, both sides “agreed to promote two-way trade, including in agricultural products, through arrangements such as mutual tariff reductions on a range of products,” China’s ministry said. Not all of the specifics the White House announced Sunday have been confirmed by China’s government. Trump and Xi are expected to meet as many as four times this year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in January. Their next face-to-face encounter will be when Xi makes a state visit to the White House in September.

MADRID — The conservative People’s Party won an election in Spain’s Andalusia region but looks to have lost its majority in the local parliament, in a setback for the party’s moderates as they prepare for next year’s general election. The underwhelming result — which saw the PP lose seats to its left and to its right — means the party will almost certainly need the backing of the far-right Vox party in order to form a new government. “We didn’t graduate with first-class honours,” said Juanma Moreno, the PP candidate and incumbent regional president, of the result. “But we did get an outstanding grade.” The PP is in opposition at the national level in Spain, and polling ahead of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party ahead of next year’s national vote. With the PP well ahead in polls throughout the Andalusian campaign, the main question ahead of the election was whether Moreno would be able to secure his second consecutive majority in the region, the most populous in Spain. With 99.8 percent of votes counted, the PP is on track to secure 53 seats in the 109-seat parliament, a loss of five seats. Moreno is the leading figure of the PP’s moderate wing. The loss of his party’s majority — albeit by a narrow margin — is a blow to those who saw his centrist politics as a potential model for the national leadership to follow into the next general election, scheduled for 2027. Adelante Andalucía candidate Jose Ignacio Garcia celebrates his party’s results in Jerez de la Frontera on May 17. | Roman Rios/EPA Moreno had appealed to conservative and moderate Socialist voters to turn out to ensure he secured a majority, which he argued would provide the region with continued stability.  On the campaign trail he also criticized the central government over a train accident that killed 46 people near the city of Córdoba in January. Looking leftward, Sánchez’s party also had a bad night, registering its worst-ever result in Andalusia, which used to be its biggest electoral stronghold. It won 28 seats, down from 30 four years ago, with parties to its left performing well. Adelante Andalucía, to the left of the Socialists, made substantial gains to win eight seats, ahead of the left-wing coalition Por Andalucía, which registered five.  The Socialist candidate, María Jesús Montero, campaigned heavily on healthcare, accusing the PP of negligence following a scandal related to the management of breast cancer scan results in the region. “These are not good results for us,” Montero said. “We take note of what Andalusians have told us at the ballot box.” In third place, Vox gained one seat to secure 15 in total, and is seen as the only possible governing partner of the PP. Turnout was 65 percent. The Andalusia election follows three other regional ballots in recent months, in Extremadura, Aragón and Castilla y León. The PP won all of those convincingly but each time falling short of a majority and leading it into arduous negotiations with Vox to form governments. In each of those regions, Vox has demanded a tougher line on immigration. In Extremadura and Aragón, the PP agreed to implement a “national priority” policy, which the ultra-nationalist party says seeks to give Spaniards access to public services and benefits ahead of foreigners. Vox said it also wants to introduce this concept in Andalusia. “Andalusians have spoken clearly and they have told the Andalusian government what they want,” said Vox’s candidate, Manuel Gavira. “They want national priority.”

Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran

Critics have denounced the event as a blurring of the separation of church and state mandated by the US Constitution.

Wave of almost 600 drones launched across 14 regions, after Moscow’s deadly three-day attack on Ukraine last weekOne of Ukraine’s largest ever drone strikes against Russia’s regions, including Moscow, has killed at least four people and wounded a dozen more, the Russian authorities have said.The wave of almost 600 Ukrainian drones struck overnight across 14 Russian regions, as well as the Crimean peninsula and the Black and Azov seas, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday, with the area around the capital among the worst-hit. Continue reading...

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...

Rightwing populists emerge as prospective coalition partner for conservative People’s party in Andalusia

Ukrainian president claims responsibility for attacks in retaliation for Russia’s bombardment of Kyiv