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

Reservists taking part in the large-scale Exercise Spring Storm have been gaining experience in drone warfare, particularly those with technical backgrounds.

Varro Vooglaid's recent exit from the EKRE group means that the Riigikogu now has more unaffiliated or independent MPs than at any time before in the 21st century.

EKRE MP Rene Kokk refuted claims according to which whether he will run for the party again in 2027 is somehow connected to the fate of Varro Vooglaid.

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.

Kümned tuhanded inimesed kogunesid laupäeval Londonis paremäärmusliku aktivisti Tommy Robinsoni korraldatud marsile ning Palestiina-meelse protestiga ühinenud vastudemonstratsioonile, samal ajal kui politsei alustas suuremahulist operatsiooni, et hoida rivaalitsevaid osalejaid lahus.

Eesti korvpallimeistrivõistluste kolme võiduni peetava finaalseeria avamatšis ei pidanud Tartu ülikooli spordihoonesse kogunenud 2311 pealtvaatajat pettuma. Kohaliku Maks & Mooritsa ning Kalev/Cramo vahelises heitluses jagus pinget lõpuni välja. Võõrustajad võtsid oma napilt, 83:78.

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.

John Hammond is one of 30 parents who told BBC Your Voice they'd experienced problems with the CMS.

Analysts say the moves have been fuelled by concerns a Burnham-led government would increase government borrowing.

Thousands of people took to the streets in Vienna on Saturday to protest Israel’s participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, as the grand finale is set to kick off in the Austrian capital in the next few hours.   This year’s event is caught up in a geopolitical storm, as five countries are boycotting the contest over Israel’s participation. The countries say their decision is due to Israel’s war in Gaza and the resulting humanitarian crisis it has triggered. A number of demonstrations and events were planned in Vienna this week to protest Israel’s participation in the song contest, culminating in the large march that took place on Saturday. Event organizers estimate the crowd size surpassed five thousand. Other reported estimates placed the final turnout between hundreds and thousands. Vienna police declined to comment on the demonstration, or the size of the crowd that turned out, but police lined the demonstration route and a helicopter circled overhead on Saturday.  The crowd marched through Vienna chanting “boycott Israel, boycott ESC [Eurovision Song Contest]” and “no stage for genocide,” finishing up near the Weiner Stadthalle stadium where tonight’s final will take place. Two protesters scaled the scaffolding of a nearby building to hang a Palestinian flag, drawing cheers from the crowd. Wilhelm Langthaler, a member of Palestine Solidarity Austria which helped organize this week’s anti-Eurovision demonstration, told POLITICO that the main message is for Israel to be excluded from the song contest.   “The idea is there should be no stage for genocide,” he said. He said that although Eurovision is a “small event” in the grand scale of things, if Israel is allowed to participate, it “symbolically stands” for the “disaster and catastrophe” in Gaza being supported by other countries. The vice president of the Vienna police, Dieter Csefan, previously told POLITICO that security measures around the contest go “far beyond the usual level,” but that “security of the song contest and the right to freedom of assembly are not inherently in conflict.”  Norbert Kettner, chief executive of Vienna’s tourism board, told POLITICO that security measures around the city are “much more intense” than the last time Eurovision was hosted here in 2015.  “Yes, the security measures are extremely high. No big event in the free world can be made anymore without high security levels,” Kettner said, adding that the city is working to “protect people who want to celebrate peacefully, but also protect people who want demonstrate peacefully.”  He added that across the week, the energy among fans from different countries has been “peaceful and moderate.”   Eurovision’s organizer, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), has repeatedly underlined that the song contest is apolitical, and that any broadcaster can take part as long as they follow EBU rules.   Speaking at a press conference on Saturday evening, the director general of Austria’s public broadcaster (ORF), Ingrid Thurnher, addressed the protest. She said everybody has the right to their opinion, and “that’s the nature of democracy,” but as the final is tonight the focus should be on the stage.   “We would really like for a couple of hours to have music, have the whole attention at this Eurovision Song Contest. Everybody’s heard, everybody has his right to say his opinion tonight, but it’s the musicians who take the voice on this stage,” she said.  

Russian President Vladimir Putin simplified the process for citizenship for residents of Moldova’s Transnistria region, which Moldovan President Maia Sandu blasted as a mobilization tool for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Putin signed a decree on Friday allowing for residents of Moldova’s breakaway region to obtain Russian citizenship without having to reside in Russia or speak Russian. Sandu hit back on Saturday, saying that “probably they need more people to send to the war in Ukraine.” She suggested it was one of Russia’s tactics to threaten Moldova over its efforts to reintegrate Transnistria, a Moscow-backed region in eastern Moldova where Russian troops have been stationed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Since the war in Ukraine began, most of the people from the region took their Moldovan citizenship because they felt safer to have the citizenship of the Republic of Moldova and not the citizenship of Russia,” said Sandu, who was speaking at a security conference in Tallinn. Moldova was granted EU candidate status in 2022 and formally started negotiations to join the bloc in 2024. Sandu’s pro-European party, Action and Solidarity, holds a strong majority in the country after winning the 2025 parliamentary elections despite a hybrid interference campaign from Russia. When asked whether Putin could block Moldova’s membership into the EU due to the Transnistria case, Sandu responded that “only the EU can decide whether Moldova can become part of the EU or not. Russia has nothing to do with it.”

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Man in 30s arrested over incident in Modena that left two seriously hurtEight people were injured, two seriously, on Saturday after a car rammed into a group of pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena.Police said the driver, in his 30s, had been arrested. He is also alleged to have attempted to stab a passerby who had tried to stop him from fleeing the scene. Continue reading...

Humpback had been found deceased on Friday after rescue attempt criticised as ‘pure animal cruelty’Timmy the whale has been confirmed dead by Danish authorities two weeks after the beached humpback was transported to the North Sea in a rescue attempt criticised as “pure animal cruelty”.Denmark’s Environmental Protection Agency said a whale had been found dead on Friday near ​the small ⁠island of Anholt in the Kattegat, a broad strait between Denmark and Sweden, and confirmed it was Timmy on Saturday. Continue reading...

Metropolitan Police estimates suggest attendance fell far short of last year’s 150,000-strong gathering

The French far-right could dynamite the relationships fundamental to the European project