Retired Maj. Gen. Riho Ühtegi, floated Friday by a group of public figures as a potential presidential candidate, says he considers himself a conservative and believes foreign policy has its place in the president's work, but that ensuring national unity is the job's most important task.

Rally Estonia takes place later this month, and some of the biggest names from the World Rally Championship have already been racking up test kilometers around South Estonia this week ahead of round nine of the championship.

Retired Maj. Gen. Riho Ühtegi, floated Friday by a group of public figures as a potential presidential candidate, says he considers himself a conservative and believes foreign policy has its place in the president's work, but that ensuring national unity is the job's most important task.

Riigikogu Speaker Lauri Hussar (Estonia 200) said he is considering convening the Riigikogu Council of Elders in August. The second deputy speaker, Toomas Kivimägi (Reform Party), likewise believes there is no need to hurry.

A fresh fruit retail chain has been offloading products past their best-before date without adequately notifying the public.

The Muraste viewing platform in Harku Municipality, built to connect the community, has turned out far more popular than expected. But locals say the beautiful view is overshadowed by poorly parked cars, noise and litter problems.

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Egiptus alistas 1/16-finaali kohtumises Austraalia pärast puhtalt võidetud penaltiseeriat 1(4):1(2). Postimees vahendas mängu otseblogis.

Tusk says Poland is preparing for "various" scenarios after media reports of a planned Russian attack.

A doctors' group says it "borders on madness" that patients will have to obtain the note in person.

Employers are being urged to use their "common sense" to allow staff to work flexibly where they can.

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

The Council of the European Union on Friday announced sanctions targeting six scientists and researchers suspected of being involved in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “The EU remains fully committed to countering the proliferation and use of chemical weapons,” read the Council statement. The sanctions include an asset freeze and a travel ban to the EU. Navalny, long seen as the most significant political opponent to President Vladimir Putin, died in a Russian prison in 2024. According to five European governments, poisoning was “highly likely the cause of his death,” as analyses of samples from Navalny’s body “conclusively confirmed” the presence of epibatidine — a toxin from a poison dart frog. The scientists targeted by the EU’s sanctions worked in the military sphere, and have researched and published articles on the synthesis of epibatidine. They worked for the Signal Scientific Centre and Russia’s State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, a central part of the Russian Chemical Weapons program, according to the statement. Navalny had survived an attempted poisoning in 2020, which he said was carried out by Russia’s internal security service, the FSB, though Russia denied involvement. After leaving his country to receive medical care, he returned in 2021. He was then arrested and sent to a Russian penal colony, where he died in 2024.

The EU’s new digital Entry/Exit System is experiencing “technical problems,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledged on Friday. “We are working with the member states [so] that the technical problems are being solved,” von der Leyen said at a press conference in Cork, Ireland. The EES has been a subject of concern since its gradual rollout last year, but the problems have become more acute as air traffic picks up during Europe’s peak summer travel season. Airports and airlines have blamed the new border control system — which requires travelers from non-EU countries to register their biometric data — for hours-long queues, operational disruption and missed connecting flights. “There’s still quite a lot of work to do to have these technical issues solved together with the member states,” von der Leyen said. The comments mark a shift in tone from the Commission, which had downplayed disruption linked to the EES. “In most EU airports, this impact is indeed limited,” Markus Lammert, the Commission’s spokesperson for internal affairs, said Wednesday. The Commission said earlier this year that registering an entry or exit typically takes about 70 seconds. The aviation industry sees things very differently. Since the EES became mandatory, “waiting times at border control have increased significantly, now reaching up to five hours during peak traffic periods,” airport lobby ACI Europe and airline groups IATA and Airlines for Europe wrote in an open letter to von der Leyen on Wednesday. “These delays are impacting millions of passengers entering the Schengen Area … At the same time, airports and airlines are experiencing growing operational disruption, including flight delays, missed connections and increasing pressure on frontline staff,” the three organizations wrote. They urged the Commission to give countries greater flexibility “to completely suspend EES” where necessary, “at least throughout July and August.” Under the EES, travelers from non-EU countries such as the U.K. and the U.S. must register their fingerprints and a facial image the first time they enter the bloc for a short stay. The system is designed to combat overstays and the use of fraudulent travel documents by replacing passport stamps with a digital record. Registration can be accelerated through self-service kiosks or dedicated pre-registration apps. However, when the system became mandatory on April 10, border officers were still manually entering data at major hubs such as Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. So far, only Sweden and Portugal have activated the apps intended to speed up passenger processing. Several airports and ports have temporarily suspended biometric data collection during peak travel periods to ease congestion. The EES “did not change the legal frame about rules of entering and exiting the EU; it just creates transparency about abiding to the rules,” von der Leyen said in Cork. The Commission has defended the system by pointing to its security benefits. Between its original launch in October last year and April, “over 700 persons were identified as posing a security risk to Europe,” it said. Irish Minister for Home Affairs Jim O’Callaghan said those figures have since risen to “approximately a thousand people,” adding that around 110 million passengers have passed through EES checks since the system’s introduction. “It is effective in terms of protecting European Union security,” O’Callaghan said.

A security officer pushed the fan, as well as Trezeguet and Hassan, at the team hotel in Dallas before Egypt's match.

Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez dismissed criticism of the government's response.

Pope Leo has used his first major address to his home country to praise the US's history of ⁠welcoming immigrants, urging Americans to live up to the ideals put forward in the ⁠declaration of independence. In a speech broadcast live from the Vatican to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia ‌as he received the Center’s liberty medal, Leo said he hoped that ideals ​of 'unity, justice and peace' held by the founding fathers would guide the US as it celebrated its 250th anniversaryPope praises US history of welcoming immigrants in implicit rebuke to Trump Continue reading...

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