It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas as the traditional tree arrived at Town Hall Square (Raekoja plats) on Thursday.

As scams and fraud schemes continue to proliferate in Estonia, investor and financial literacy advocate Kristi Saare warns that even savvy, experienced investors can be duped.

Opposition parties do not support next year's draft state budget in its current form and will vote against it in the final vote if necessary.

Center Party Chairman Mihhail Kõlvart remains Estonia's most preferred candidate for prime minister, according to a new Norstat poll, while support for Isamaa leader Urmas Reinsalu has fallen sharply over the past month.

It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas as the traditional tree arrived at Town Hall Square (Raekoja plats) on Thursday.

As scams and fraud schemes continue to proliferate in Estonia, investor and financial literacy advocate Kristi Saare warns that even savvy, experienced investors can be duped.

Iisraeli sõjavägi korraldas ööl vastu neljapäeva rünnaku Gaza sektori lõunaosas Khan Younises asuvale haiglale. Palestiina tervishoiuametnike teatel sai surma kuus ja vigastada ligi 30 inimest.

Rootsi rannikul leiti Läänemere põhjast umbes 450 aasta vanune kaubalaev, mis on nüüdseks aidanud teadlastel paremini mõista, kuidas toimis rahvusvaheline rauakaubandus 16. sajandil. Kõige huvitavamaks avastuseks ei osutunud aga laeval veetav raualaadung, vaid selle vedamiseks kasutatud puidust tünnide eriline ehitus.

Later on Thursday, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will travel to Dublin to meet Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

For parents in parts of Ukraine, trying to lead a normal family life with just a few hours of power each day is taking its toll.

As uncertainty swirls over the boss of the AI chip giant, some names have emerged as potential successors.

The UK economy grew by 0.7% in the three months to September, according to official figures.

Poland failed to overturn seven major European Union climate laws Thursday, with the bloc’s top court rejecting challenges to measures including the 2035 target for zero-emission cars and carbon pricing for heating and transport. The rulings by the Court of Justice of the EU uphold key parts of the EU’s Green Deal and bring to a close a legal campaign launched by Poland’s previous nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-EU administration kept the campaign alive by deciding not to withdraw the lawsuits. Poland argued that the laws would fundamentally reshape its coal-dependent energy system and therefore required unanimous approval by EU governments, effectively giving Poland a veto. The court rejected that argument, ruling that the measures could be adopted by a qualified majority of member countries. The judges also dismissed challenges to the bloc’s carbon border tax, energy efficiency rules and national emissions reduction targets. Six lawsuits were filed in July and August 2023, while PiS was in power. The seventh was lodged on Dec. 14, a day after Tusk took office with a promise to repair Warsaw’s relations with Brussels. His government reviewed the cases but decided not to withdraw them. The court’s decisions are final, but Tusk’s Poland is still among the countries pushing to weaken parts of the EU’s climate legislation, including by seeking to delay the new carbon market for heating and transport, known as ETS2.

KYIV — The Kremlin continued its onslaught against Ukraine just hours after peace talks in Abu Dhabi ended, attacking Kyiv with ballistic missiles and 123 attack drones Thursday. Ukraine reportedly shot down 94 attack drones and no missiles, while one person was killed in Kyiv and five were injured, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said. Emergency services also reported fires in the Rivne and Zhytomyr regions. Russia’s defense ministry claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was targeting drone production sites and electricity substations. Moscow also reported shooting down some 70 Ukrainian drones over eight regions overnight. The mutual attacks came hours after Russia and Ukraine concluded another round of trilateral peace talks, mediated by the United States. While both sides agreed to prepare another major prisoner swap, other issues, including territory and Europe’s participation in future talks, reportedly caused heated debates at the negotiating table. A member of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia, described negotiations as some of the toughest yet, saying the Russians made strict demands and left little room for compromise. “Every inch of our land will be returned,” Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation, said after the negotiations, describing Ukraine as “an abscess that burst.” In addition to demanding Ukrainian territories, the Kremlin called for the establishment of a new security architecture in Europe. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said territory remained one of the many topics discussed during the latest round, with the U.S. mediators focusing on different ways to solve the territorial spat, mainly in the Donbas region. “They believe that to stop this war, we must leave our own territory. It is impossible to speak to us in such a way when it concerns the independence of our country. They are trying to find some variations of this. And I have heard various things,” Zelenskyy said during a press conference in Dublin on Wednesday. “The idea was something like this: If the war were to stop along the current front line, then parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions could subsequently be administratively transferred to the jurisdiction of a different oblast. But that was just one of roughly a million different ideas,” a senior official, who was granted anonymity to discuss classified details, told POLITICO. “This does not mean that Ukraine will ever recognize the occupied territories as Russian,” the official added.

A 17-year-old teenager has been found in dense bushland during an aerial search after being missing for six days.

Harry Kane set to become England’s most capped player while Jude Bellingham could be joined by younger brother, Jobe.

The Ukrainian president said Europe should ‘become a regular part’ of negotiations with RussiaLuxembourg’s PM Luc Frieden looks to be absolutely chuffed to be representing all three Benelux countries at today’s summit, as his Belgian and Dutch colleagues are too busy to attend as they face domestic crises.“I have the privilege of representing 30 millions citizens today,” he said on arrival to Dublin, with a massive smile on his face. Continue reading...

Unprecedented view of cosmos provided by Euclid mission throws up many more cases of gravitational lensingA mission to create the largest ever 3D map of the universe has revealed more than 900m galaxies in its first major data release together with about 15,000 potential cases of a phenomenon that could help unlock the secrets of the “dark universe”.Launched in July 2023, the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission promised to create the largest cosmic map ever made, encompassing a third of the sky and more than 10bn years of cosmic history. Continue reading...

Army struggles to intercept Russian jet-powered drones, just as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Vladimir Putin

Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve star in Cannes-winning movie about a Romanian immigrant and his Norwegian wife accused by the secular state