Estonia plans to become the first country in the world to introduce digital identities for AI agents to better regulate the industry, Prime Minister Kristen Michal (Reform) has said.

The Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) and the Rescue Services Agency are facing a staffing gap as the number of new recruits does not match those retiring. The agencies say low salaries are the main problem.

Estonia plans to become the first country in the world to introduce digital identities for AI agents to better regulate the industry, Prime Minister Kristen Michal (Reform) has said.

A campaign post featuring EKRE founder Mart Helme was removed from social media after using Alo Mattiisen's 1988 hit "Isamaa ilu hoieldes" unauthorized.

Estonia plans to become the first country in the world to introduce digital identities for AI agents to better regulate the industry, Prime Minister Kristen Michal (Reform) has said.

The Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) and the Rescue Services Agency are facing a staffing gap as the number of new recruits does not match those retiring. The agencies say low salaries are the main problem.

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Kaks Soome purjetajat eksisid ilma kompassi ja korralike navigatsioonivahenditeta Eesti vetesse ning triivisid Venemaa piiri suunas, kuid nad jõudsid tagasi kaldale pärast kogu öö kestnud päästeoperatsiooni.

The US president earlier questioned Meloni's popularity after suggesting she "begged" for a photo at G7 summit

Ukraine's president said his country was open to "engagement" about "difficult and painful chapters of our shared past".

Sales agreements will be legally binding sooner and making sellers provide more home information up front are part of the planned changes.

The Ryanair boss extends his contract to 2032, in a deal featuring a bonus scheme that could earn him more than €150m (£130m).

U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Switzerland on Sunday for high-stakes peace talks with Iran, saying before takeoff that Washington had “a couple days of talks” to try to launch the next phase of President Donald Trump’s fragile ceasefire agreement. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance landed at Emmen Air Base outside Lucerne shortly before 6 a.m. local time, according to his office.  He joins U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, at the Bürgenstock resort, where U.S. and Iranian officials are trying to turn last week’s interim agreement into a durable end to nearly four months of war. “I’m looking forward to starting the technical talks with the Iranians, the Pakistanis, and the Qataris,” Vance told reporters before departing Joint Base Andrews. “There’s a lot to discuss, but we’re going to go through it all.” The immediate test is the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries roughly a fifth of global oil supplies. Iran said on Saturday that it would close the strait in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon, which Tehran says violated commitments tied to the ceasefire. U.S. officials disputed that account. Central Command said commercial vessels continued transiting the waterway, and Vance said before leaving Washington that he had seen no evidence Iran had actually halted maritime traffic. Vance said a successful trip would mean “getting things set up in the right way” with political leadership overseeing the process while technical teams remain on the ground. He said he expected to stay only “a day or two.” “I think we’re going to hopefully make progress on the nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon ceasefire issue,” Vance said. “Those are the two big things that I think we’re going to be focused on.” The Iranian delegation includes chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and senior oil, security and central bank officials. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, army chief Asim Munir and Qatari mediators are also expected to participate.

OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rousing Davos speech, where he called on middle powers to not become losers to the world’s “hegemons,” delivered a message that positioned Canada as an influential convening power. Now, with billions watching — including during this afternoon’s match between Germany and Côte d’Ivoire in Toronto — the World Cup is giving Canada an unprecedented opportunity to thirst-trap a global audience to take America’s neighbor a little more seriously. “The international brand of Canada is important for our economy, for our place in the world, diplomatically, but also commercially,” Canada’s Secretary of State for Sport and Olympic gold medalist Adam van Koeverden told POLITICO. “We just want to emphasize that Canada is open for business,” he said. “We’re taking advantage of the reality that all eyes will be on Canada for the next couple of weeks throughout the FIFA tournament … and we want to continue to reinforce relationships, make new friends [and] meet new corporate partners.” Canada needs foreign investors to get the Carney government’s dreams of building oil pipelines, new rail and port expansions to unlock new wealth for a country that continues to be the target of tariffs and casual annexation threats from its closest ally. And a bellicose U.S. President Donald Trump has only helped Carney in his trips around the world to lure more foreign investment, selling Canada as a reliable destination to an unreliable United States. A goal for senior Canadian government officials is to use the World Cup to bait deep-pocketed viewers to attend the inaugural Canada Investment Summit that Carney is organizing in September. The idea is to attract “the world’s largest investors” to raise C$1 trillion over the next five years to charge the economy — Carney’s message of adapting to the global “rupture” by wresting economic control of the future put into practice. That could mean more cash to expand sport infrastructure, such as stadiums, to host more global sporting events. The Toronto Stadium is notably the World Cup’s smallest among the 16 host cities with a 43,000-seat capacity. But organizers don’t want people to fixate on that. Sharon Bollenbach, executive director of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Toronto Secretariat, told Forecast the city is leaning in hard on its “world in a city” theme — a nod to a city widely recognized as the most multicultural in the world. “We speak 250 languages in our city,” she said. “Our cultural diversity is very extensive and vibrant … in all of our neighborhoods, in food, in the culture.” Asked what’s different about Toronto compared to Los Angeles, another city that could claim the same characteristics, Bollenbach suggested it’s the general optimism in the air that sets the Canadian city apart. “I think we just live that every day in such a positive and energetic way that that’s something we really want to showcase,” she said. There’s hope the waterfront images of Toronto’s CN Tower and Vancouver’s North Shore mountains in the backdrop of World Cup stadium shots will generate an eventual tourism boom that hasn’t yet happened for the tournament itself. Sara Anghel, president and CEO of the Greater Toronto Hotel Association, said one factor in lower-than-expected demand is that half the game tickets sold in Toronto are “local-ish” from the city area and province. The trend isn’t unique to Toronto after FIFA canceled blocks of thousands of hotel rooms in host cities this spring in response to fizzled out expectations. “June is already a really, really busy month for Toronto, and so when we’re bringing this World Cup that’s never happened in our city ever, we’ve displaced all of the meetings and conferences that would usually come into the city,” Anghel said. “They’re staying away because of the FIFA games.”

Iranian and US officials are set for high stakes talks in Switzerland to reinforce the Memorandum of Understanding.

Both nations seek a durable end to their war as Iran slams Israeli attacks on Lebanon as violations of interim deal.

Spain’s leading festival of photography showcases the work of more than 300 visual artists in nearly 100 exhibitions across the countryPhotoEspaña, Spain’s leading festival of photography, held its official opening in Madrid this month and by September nearly 100 exhibitions will have showcased the work of more than 300 visual artists in the capital and across the country. Loosely corralled under the theme of reimagining, the exhibitions feature work by major figures in Spanish and international photography and less well-known emerging artists.From the series Invisible Line. Photograph: Alejandro Cartagena Continue reading...

Poll also finds three quarters of people in Britain want closer ties, with majority accepting free movementTwo-thirds of EU citizens would back Britain rejoining the bloc, while most UK voters say Brexit has been bad for the issues they care about and want closer ties, including levels of integration – such as free movement – long seen as toxic, a survey has found.Ten years after the Brexit referendum, the polling by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a thinktank, found 66% of respondents across 15 countries felt UK membership was a very good, good or “neither a good nor a bad” idea. Continue reading...

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Ukraine’s innovations cut into Russia’s manpower advantage