The first stretch of an upgraded highway in central Estonia opens to traffic on Friday.

Despite being behind schedule, work is ongoing to electrify a stretch of rail line between Tartu and Tapa.

Political communication expert Annika Arras said that although parties should step up public discussion about the presidential election, the potential candidate should be someone who genuinely wants to run.

Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise has said she has not given her consent to be a presidential candidate ahead of this autumn's elections.

A European Environment Agency report ranks Estonia's bathing water quality among Europe's poorest. However, a marine biologist says that does not mean the country's beaches are unsafe for swimming.

Andre Farm, a cheesemaker based in Tartu County, has stopped selling its cheese through most major retail chains, saying the retail sales system has become too costly.

BBC lülitas mõne päeva eest välja enam kui 100 aastat tegutsenud pikklaineraadio Radio 4. Kuigi traditsiooniliselt ei saa enam seda kuulata, saab seda teha läbi interneti. See on alles algus viimaks ellu BBC tulevikuplaane, mille üheks osaks on lõpetada ka ringhäälingutelevisiooni teenuse edastamine tavapärasel viisil.

Reedel kell 12 annab ülevaate olukorrast Venemaa agressioonisõjas Ukraina vastu kaitseväe luurekeskuse ülem kolonel Ants Kiviselg. Pärast seda tutvustab Kaitseressursside Ameti peadirektor Anu Rannaveski kaitseväekohustuse täitmise ja kaitseväeteenistuse korraldamise 2025. aasta tulemusi ja olulisemaid arengusuundi.

The latest barrage deployed the largest number of weapons on the capital and hit locations over a wide area.

Around 600,000 followers of the Society of Saint Pius X, a Catholic sect, are affected.

Wedding lists are being replaced by cash requests, but guests are divided over how much to give.

The government had initially said it would not relax licensing laws further for the World Cup.

BRUSSELS — Former member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was “repeatedly hacked “with Pegasus spyware while serving on the Parliament’s committee investigating spyware abuses, according to a new forensic investigation. The revelation raises fresh questions about whether the work of the inquiry itself was compromised. Researchers from Toronto University’s Citizen Lab found that Kouloglou’s phone was infected at least twice — on Oct. 21, 2022 and March 6–7, 2023 — during two critical phases of the investigation carried out by the Parliament’s PEGA Committee. The findings mark the first publicly documented case of an active member of the committee being targeted with Pegasus, the notorious spyware operated by Israeli cyber-intelligence leader NSO Group that has been used to target political figures worldwide, including the EU’s top leaders. Kouloglou told POLITICO that both hacks occurred during periods of “enormous preparation” for committee activities. During the October 2022 incident cited by Citizen Lab, lawmakers were preparing research missions to Greece, Cyprus and Spain as part of investigations into government use there. According to the report, the spyware would likely have given the attacker access to Kouloglou’s private emails, text messages and other communications relating to the committee’s deliberations, potentially exposing confidential parliamentary work. The second infection in March 2023 occurred as lawmakers finalized the committee’s report. Kouloglou, an investigative journalist turned MEP, had traveled to Brussels for discussions on the final text. “Without a doubt the hacking had to do absolutely with my status as member of the PEGA Committee,” said Kouloglou. The researchers are not attributing the hacking to any specific government. Instead, the report identifies overlaps with a previously documented Pegasus campaign targeting exiled Russian- and Belarusian-speaking journalists and activists in Europe. This suggests the operation was likely carried out by an NSO Group customer authorized to deploy Pegasus across multiple European countries, according to the report. “Whichever entity is responsible for the hacking, the infection could have exposed strictly confidential exchanges among PEGA Committee members and their staff, and other sensitive and confidential parliamentary proceedings, including to parties under investigation by the Committee itself,” wrote the report’s authors. Sophie in ‘t Veld, a former MEP and lead lawmaker on the PEGA Committee, told POLITICO that the real question is why, after hundreds of politicians were targeted — including European Parliament President Roberta Metsola — the European Commission has done nothing to stem the abuse or punish the perpetrators. “While we’re all obsessing with the state of democracy and the rule of law in the United States, there’s complete impunity on this,” said in ‘t Veld. “If attempts to target the phone of the president of the European Parliament or members of the European Commission, does not trigger sufficient reaction [and] is not enough to break the deadlock, then what is?”

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Switzerland remain unbeaten at the 2026 World Cup and will face either Colombia or Ghana in the next game.

President says Washington’s relationship with Nato is ‘not reciprocal’ and ‘they were not there for us’ in Iran warDonald Trump has said it is “ridiculous” for the US to continue its “one sided” relationship with Nato, less than a week before a summit of the military alliance in Ankara.Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that “They were not there for us!!!” and Washington’s relationship with Nato “is not reciprocal”. Continue reading...

Researchers say Stelios Kouloglou’s device was compromised after he joined European parliamentary committeeNSO Group’s hacking software was repeatedly used against a member of the European parliament while he was conducting an investigation of spyware abuses in Europe, according to a new report.Researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto said they could not attribute the attacks against Stelios Kouloglou to any particular government operator of Pegasus spyware. But their investigation found the attack against the Greek now-former MEP bore the hallmarks of a previous hacking campaign against exiled Russian and Belarusian journalists in Europe. Continue reading...

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