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.

Kristen Michal, chairman of the Reform Party, on Sunday said opposition conservative parties and their allies want to reverse Estonia's development, limit people's freedoms and distance the country from its allies and the party needs to act as a counterweight.

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.

Kristen Michal, chairman of the Reform Party, on Sunday said opposition conservative parties and their allies want to reverse Estonia's development, limit people's freedoms and distance the country from its allies and the party needs to act as a counterweight.

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.

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Saksamaal Leipzigi linna lähedal vabadusse pääsenud tiiger vigastas vähemalt ühte inimest enne, kui korrakaitsjad looma maha lasid.

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.

Pope Leo XIV is creating a commission on artificial intelligence, a new Vatican body aimed at coordinating the Catholic Church’s response to AI. The move comes ahead of Pope Leo’s first encyclical, or pastoral letter, which is expected to prioritize an ethics-based approach to AI. The Vatican announced on Saturday that the pontiff had decided to launch the commission because of the increase in usage of AI, “its potential effects on human beings and on humanity as a whole [and] the church’s concern for the dignity of every human being.” The announcement came a day after Pope Leo signed his encyclical, a letter drawn up by the pontiff and sent to bishops to provide instructions or guidance on moral questions. His new encyclical, which should be made public in coming weeks, is expected to consider the question of AI within the church’s social teaching, which also covers issues such as labor, justice and peace. It’s not the first time Pope Leo has waded into questions of AI. Just a few days after he was elected in May 2025, he told cardinals that the Catholic Church owed it to the world to offer the “treasury of its social teaching” to confront the challenges posed by AI on “human dignity, justice and labor.” In June 2025, Pope Leo criticized the potential negative consequences of growing AI use. After noting AI’s potential for good, the pope said there is a possibility for “misuse for selfish gain” and as a way to “foment conflict and aggression.” “All of us, I am sure, are concerned for children and young people, and the possible consequences of the use of AI on their intellectual and neurological development. Our youth must be helped, and not hindered, in their journey towards maturity and true responsibility,” the pontiff said.

TALLINN — The Trump administration doesn’t like a unified European Union because the bloc is a geopolitical power that Washington has to contend with, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Sunday, urging EU member countries not to weaken the bloc by pursuing bilateral agreements with the U.S. “They don’t like the European Union, that’s very clear,” Kallas said at the Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn on Sunday. “But we need to understand why they don’t like the EU; why China doesn’t like the EU, why Russia doesn’t. It is because if we stick together, if we operate together, then we are equal powers, we are strong.” Kallas said it was “of course easier” to deal with individual countries, which are much smaller, than with a bloc that can act as an equal power. She said rhetoric such as “my relations with you are great, but I don’t like the European Union” were part of a divide-and-conquer strategy. “I’m very worried, because I sometimes also see countries going down that lane,” she said. “The dividing is actually working.” Several EU countries have sought to preserve their own channels with Washington since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni positioning herself as a potential bridge between Europe and the U.S. before the strategy failed with Trump’s criticism of Pope Leo XIV. Kallas urged EU countries to defend the European Union and make agreements through the bloc, saying about the U.S., China and Russia: “Why these powers want to dismantle the European Union is because we are much stronger when we are together.” The former Estonian prime minister also said Europe had “a very clear understanding of the diagnosis of the disease” when it came to China, but did not yet have an agreement on the cure. She said there were two choices: either increasing the “morphine” — the subsidies EU countries are handing out to industry — or beginning “chemotherapy,” meaning using the tools the EU has at its disposal, such as foreign direct investment, public procurement, and diversifying its supply of critical raw materials. “It will be painful to use the tools … because then there’s going to be retaliation,” she said. “We are not there yet and I’m worried that eventually also the rich countries will run out of taxpayers’ money to subsidize and we haven’t dealt with the underlying problem.”

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