Estonian endurance athlete Kaidi Kivioja made her full-distance Ironman triathlon debut at the European Championships in Hamburg, setting a new domestic record in the process.

The City of Tallinn is hiking school lunch funding starting this fall, increasing the daily lunch rate to €2.10 to help maintain meal quality amid rising costs.

According to a Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) fresh economic report on Estonia, the country should tighten its budget and reform taxes.

Lawmakers are proposing an amendment that would give the Riigikogu the final say on whether a nuclear power station can be built in Estonia.

The City of Tallinn is hiking school lunch funding starting this fall, increasing the daily lunch rate to €2.10 to help maintain meal quality amid rising costs.

Prosecutors have charged a man with attempted murder following an explosion which took place at the Ülemiste keskus mall in Tallinn just before Christmas last year.

Leedu koondise peatreener Edgaras Jankauskas leidis pärast Eestile 0:1 kaotatud Balti turniiri finaali, et tulemus oli õiglane ja vastas platsil nähtule.

Hiinas asuvas lõbustuspargis sattus etendusel osalenud robot publikule liiga lähedale ning lõi videokaadrite järgi last jalaga. Juhtum, mille video levis kiiresti sotsiaalmeedias, on tekitanud internetikasutajates vastakaid reaktsioone – osa peab olukorda koomiliseks, kuid enamik väljendab muret turvalisuse ja robotite kasutamise üle avalikel üritustel.

Protesters are angry that the suspect had already been reported to police last August in a separate case.

The flagship partnership project became a glaring example of discord between the two nations.

Claude Fable 5 is a version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, an AI program which caused a stir among technology, finance, and government leaders.

The company behind ChatGPT files its plans one week after Anthropic did the same.

President Donald Trump announced that Iran shot down an American Apache helicopter late on Monday, promising consequences for the country on Tuesday as peace negotiations stall and an April ceasefire appears increasingly under strain. “There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.” Trump’s comments came hours after U.S. Central Command announced two crew members were rescued by American forces after their helicopter went down near Oman. The cause of the incident was at that point under investigation, CENTCOM said. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for additional context on any planned response. Trump’s social media post came in stark contrast to his optimism Tuesday morning that a peace agreement with Tehran could be reached within days. The president told reporters that “we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal.” But the Iranians have in recent days signaled that more conflict could be on the horizon. “We prefer the language of diplomacy, but we speak other languages far more fluently,” Mohammad ⁠Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, wrote on X minutes before Trump’s social media post. “Break your commitments, and we’ll switch to what we speak best. You ride the horse you saddled!” Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday, its first such action since the ceasefire came online more than two months ago, amid Israel’s campaign in Lebanon. Trump publicly chastised Israel and Iran on Monday, saying peace negotiations are “proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.” And on Saturday, U.S. forces intercepted a series of Iranian missiles aimed at the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf states.

DUBLIN — The European Union should target Russia’s ability to produce metals and refine oil in its next round of sanctions, EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Tuesday. Kallas was speaking on a visit to Dublin shortly after the EU published its 21st package of sanctions designed to increase pressure on Russia over its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Her focus on metals poses a particularly awkward question for Dublin. The Irish are due to take the EU Council’s rotating presidency in July — and they host a Russian company that manufactures alumina, the key ingredient for Russian aluminum. The Rusal-owned Aughinish Alumina refinery in County Limerick has avoided any European sanctions chiefly because, so far, the EU has not targeted manufacturers of materials used to make aluminum and other metals. But, speaking at a press conference alongside Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee, Kallas said the EU’s next sanctions package may well target Aughinish, whose alumina is ending up in Russian weapons systems, according to an international investigation published in March. The company admits its exports of the material to Russia have more than doubled since Russia drastically expanded its war on Ukraine in 2022. Kallas said she and McEntee had discussed reports that Irish-produced alumina was empowering Russia’s weapons supply chain — and if proven, this support must be closed in the 22nd sanctions package. “Alumina is not currently covered by the EU sanctions. Europe must close all loopholes, tighten sanctions enforcement, and ensure our commitments are backed by deeds,” Kallas said. “No European products should end up in drones and missiles that kill Ukrainian civilians.” “We will ensure that any decisions that need to be taken to put pressure on Russia, that they will have the full support of Ireland,” McEntee agreed. That marked a departure from previous government statements, notably in May, when Taoiseach Micheál Martin stressed that imposing sanctions on Aughinish production “would damage ourselves more than Russia.” McEntee said the Irish government expected to receive findings from its own internal investigation later this month and, if evidence of Irish alumina in Russian weapons is confirmed, Ireland would support EU restrictions on Aughinish exports to Russia. Such a step would be certain to have negative political repercussions in Ireland, where the alumina refinery on the River Shannon employs nearly 500 people. In its own briefing note to the Irish government, Aughinish’s owners threatened that trying to cut off its Russian customers would imperil the refinery’s survival — and sharply increase costs on Ireland’s power grid. When asked why the EU had not taken this step in Tuesday’s 21st package, Kallas cited lack of unanimity among member countries — but did not single out individual capitals.

Al Jazeera’s Ava Warriner explains what happened on the day of the attack, the alleged cover-up that followed.

Questions linger over whether the explosion of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will affect the Artemis III mission.

Political row emerges over state’s failure to tackle sexual violence against children as people protest across FranceA lawyer for the family of an 11-year-old girl whose disappearance and murder sparked protests across France has called for more funding for the struggling justice system, amid a political row over the French state’s failure to tackle sexual violence against children.“Frankly, if the justice system had more resources, this tragedy and all the others wouldn’t have happened,” said the family’s lawyer, François Roujou de Boubée, on Tuesday. “The victim’s family and I trust in the justice system. So enough is enough.” Continue reading...

Luca Parmitano to pilot all-male crew of four paving way for planned first human landing on Artemis IV in 2028Jared Isaacman, the Nasa administrator, hailed the creation of “Earth’s first starfleet” on Tuesday as he revealed the Artemis III crew and details of the next stages of the space agency’s project to return humans to the moon.An Italian astronaut, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (ESA), will be the pilot of the planned two-week mission to lower Earth orbit next year that will test lunar landers from private companies Blue Origin and SpaceX. Continue reading...

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