Estonian sports official and marathon runner Renna Nelis was recently elected secretary general of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS).

Estonia does not need a president who can be everything at once, but an institution that helps keep our constitutional order in balance when the world around us is not, Mari-Liis Jakobson writes.

Estonia's rising debt burden reflects years of decisions by every major ruling party, not just the current coalition, says Bank of Estonia economist Kaspar Oja.

Former Reform Party leader Siim Kallas says the party needs a fresh direction and a clear platform ahead of the upcoming election and that the coalition will reach a consensus and elect Estonia's next president in the Riigikogu in early September.

In what officials say is a first for Estonia, a Tallinn court fined plaintiffs over false academic references generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in a legal filing.

Estonia has more than 400 churches, and at least 50 of them will need roof repairs in the coming years.

Euroopa Keskpank tühistab hulgaliselt pankadele kehtestatud soovitusi ja nõudeid ning alandab hea valitsemise tava ootuseid, vastates sel teel osaliselt pangandussektorist tulnud kriitikale, kus kaevatakse tohutut ülereguleerimist.

Jalgpalli MMil sündis G-alagrupis hiline draama, kui Iraanilt võeti lisaajal VARi abil ära võiduvärav Egiptuse vastu. 1:1 viik tähendas, et Egiptus pääses alagrupist edasi, Iraani saatus jääb aga sõltuma teiste tulemustest.

Germany's highest ever temperature of 41.3C is recorded provisionally in Saarbrücken, over the border from France.

A nine-year-old and five women were killed when Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen drove into the market in 2024.

The US president says "Numerous European countries" have been discussing bringing in such a levy.

King Charles paid £12.9m in tax for 2024-2025 - here's what we know about his unique tax situation.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to bless its massive expansion of ICE detention — a policy that federal district courts have overwhelmingly rejected. Solicitor General John Sauer is urging the justices to resolve whether people residing in the U.S. without incident for years — sometimes decades — may be subject to mandatory ICE detention while their deportation proceedings play out. It’s a fight that could determine the fate of millions of people, and it could also help define the reach of due process rights for those accused of being in the country illegally. The U.S. Justice Department is asking the justices to sign off on a policy that has been overwhelmingly rejected by federal district court judges across the country, who have described it as a draconian violation of the law and constitutional due process rights. Judges have delivered more than 9,300 rulings against the administration’s unprecedented policy, which targets people who have resided in the U.S. for years and requires them to be detained without the opportunity for a bond hearing while their deportation proceedings are underway. Despite the lopsided result in district courts, Sauer described an “untenable divide” at the appeals court level. Five appellate circuits have ruled on the issue, breaking 3-2 against the administration. A divide among appeals courts typically makes the Supreme Court more likely to intervene. The matter is still pending in another six circuits and could result in additional rulings at any moment. The Trump administration is appealing a ruling of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which rejected the administration’s approach last month and also found people subject to the administration’s new view of mandatory detention have a constitutional due process right to a bond hearing. “Especially given the volume of cases involved, this Court should grant review and resolve this case as swiftly as practicable,” Sauer wrote in a brief urging the court to take up the issue. The result of the administration’s new policy, adopted on July 8, 2025, has been a tsunami of emergency lawsuits filed by people swept up by the new policy. Those cases have inundated courts in every corner of the country, straining the judiciary, inflaming tensions between judges and the Justice Department, and exposing ruptures between DOJ lawyers and their counterparts at ICE. The cases have spiked amid enforcement crackdowns like Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota and Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, which have coincided with broader, sometimes violent encounters between anti-ICE demonstrators and law enforcement. Since Congress updated immigration laws 30 years ago, the modern system has required detention primarily for people apprehended crossing the border or soon after. Those with established roots in the country — often with spouses and children who are U.S. citizens — have been afforded bond hearings in immigration court, a chance to prove they can live safely in their communities while their deportation proceedings pend for months or years. But the Trump administration adopted an unprecedented reinterpretation of the law, treating people apprehended anywhere in the country — no matter how long they’ve lived here — as though they had just crossed the border, subjecting them to mandatory detention without bond. At its essence, the fight is over what it means to “seek admission” to the U.S.. Immigration law labels nearly anyone who arrives in the country without permission as an “applicant for admission.” And it says any “applicant for admission” who is “seeking admission” to the country must be detained without bond. Most judges who have rejected the administration’s approach say the phrase “seeking admission” underscores that the policy was meant to apply to border crossers, as opposed to those in the interior of the country who are no longer “seeking” to get inside. Each of the last five presidential administrations — including Trump’s first — viewed the law this way, they note. And the Supreme Court, in a 2018 ruling by Justice Samuel Alito, described the availability of bond hearings as the “default” rule for “aliens already present in the United States.” But the Justice Department contends that the phrase “seeking admission” is a largely superfluous description of “applicant for admission,” drawing no distinction between people arriving at the border and those who crossed it years earlier. And DOJ attorneys argued Friday in a letter to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the Supreme Court may have tipped its hand in the Trump administration’s favor with a ruling Thursday in a case about the administration’s policy on asylum for people arriving at the border.

SEATTLE — Iran’s adventure through a World Cup beset by geopolitical complexity and logistical complications will likely continue after the team landed a frenetic 1-1 draw against Egypt.Iran, which began the World Cup as the first competing team at war with the host nation, now waits another day to learn its fate. The results of other games will determine whether Iran proceeds to the tournament’s elimination rounds or heads home. “Reaching the knockout stage under these circumstances would not merely be a sporting achievement; it would also be a symbol of resilience, hope, and national unity,” Abolfazl Pasandideh, Iran’s ambassador to Mexico, told POLITICO prior to the match. The high-stakes intra-Mideast encounter kicked off hours after a tenuous peace between the U.S. and Iran was threatened by American strikes on Iranian military installations along the Hormuz Strait. U.S. Central Command described the strikes as a response to an Iranian drone attack on a Singaporean cargo ship that Trump called a “foolish violation” of the ceasefire. Iran’s progress in the World Cup will likely have little direct bearing on the future of any peace negotiations, but the increasing probability that the team could play its next match in Canada rather than the U.S. could ease questions about the team’s status that have bedeviled the Trump administration. “The White House FIFA Task Force has prepared for and is aware of all potential scenarios involving 32 teams that will move into the knockout rounds and will advance from there,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said before the match. Despite being one of the first teams to qualify for the World Cup, Iran’s participation was left uncertain after Trump first launched strikes against the country in February. Iranian soccer officials threatened to boycott the tournament; Trump told POLITICO, “I really don’t care” if the team participated. The politically fraught matchday unfolded against the backdrop of “Pride Match” festivities that had been planned over the last year and a half to take place on June 26. The event was complicated by a FIFA lottery draw that placed Iran and Egypt in Seattle on the designated day. Sports officials from both countries, whose governments are among the world’s most repressive to sexual minorities, objected to the designation. Indeed, despite FIFA’s announcement that rainbow flags would be permitted in the stadium, few were visible as the match began. Instead the stands rippled with the colors of the two Middle Eastern countries on the field, including many of the pre-revolutionary lion-and-sun flags that FIFA has attempted to ban under a stadium code of conduct that prohibits political displays. Among the groups of fans massing near Seattle’s Pioneer Square were many challenging the Iranian regime. Some held pictures of Reza Pahlavi, the son of a former Shah who has put himself forward as a potential national leader, while others recited the names of protestors allegedly killed by government forces. “No deal with murderers. Stop bargaining with Iranian lives,” read one sign held by protesters. By mid-afternoon, news spread on the streets of Seattle of the U.S. military strikes, raising the stakes around a match that would likely help to determine whether Iran’s team would need to negotiate with the U.S. government as it progressed in the World Cup. The U.S. government has not said whether it will further adjust the travel rules should Iran advance in the tournament. “Any measure that facilitates athletes’ participation and competition on equal terms is a positive step,” Pasandideh said of the Trump administration’s relaxed travel rules for the Iran team ahead of the Egypt match. An apparent extra-time goal that would have put Iran through to the knockout round as the Group G winner sent players and fans into paroxysms of joy before being ruled out after a lengthy video review. While Egypt’s path into the next round is guaranteed, Iran will have to wait for results from matches involving Algeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to know its future steps. It could end up playing its next match in Vancouver or Dallas — or be forced to head home.“We want them to be able to compete, and if they’re good enough to advance to the next round … they’ll have the opportunity to do that,” White House World Cup task force Executive Director Andrew Giuliani said in an interview earlier this month. The result in Seattle eliminated one possible route for Iran through the tournament that could have included a potential U.S.-Iran quarterfinal on July 6. The earliest the two erstwhile belligerents could now see one another on the soccer field is in an improbable final, where Trump is expected to award the winning team its trophy.

Fishermen have captured the moment twin earthquakes hit Venezuela’s La Guaira coastline on Wednesday.

Cape Verde erupted in celebration after the national team qualified for the World Cup knockout stage and made history.

Activists aim to repeat disruption of Jeff Bezos’s wedding when billionaire Tilman Fertitta drops anchorProtesters in Venice are planning to disrupt a visit by the billionaire US ambassador to Italy in his 117-metre superyacht, which they fear he plans to dock in the lagoon city.“We ruined the party for Jeff Bezos’s wedding last year – this year let’s ruin the ambassador’s tour!” said Stella Faye, a 28-year-old researcher and activist, at a meeting of about 40 demonstrators on Thursday. Continue reading...

Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across AlpsSwiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave battering Europe, according to the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (Glamos).The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland’s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday, marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day. Continue reading...

Activists have been arrested, journalist accreditations denied and public assemblies banned before July meeting

Talks about the phaseout stalled after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz sparked concerns of an energy supply crisis