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Minister of Defense Jüri Luik visited Ämari Air Base on Wednesday, meeting members of the French and United States air forces currently based there.

Gyms and swimming pools will reopen on July 25 while amateur cricket teams will be allowed to compete again from Saturday in the latest relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions.

Eligibility cut from nine hours of work to eight.

LOVE Island’s Grant Crapp has asked Tayla to be his girlfriend on the Aussie dating show – and presented her with a ring. Tonight sees the couple go from strength to strength as they commit to coupling up in real life as he pulls out the bling. The Aussie pair have had their ups and […]

The biker needed hospital treatment for a dislocated arm and fractured collar bone

Average global temperatures could rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday.

South China Sea and the “Chinese Code”  Navy Adm. Philip S. Davidson, commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, spoke at the Halifax International Security Forum, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. By David Vergun, DOD Freedom of navigation by air and by sea is important globally, including in the South China Sea, where trillions of dollars in commerce …

Police say the driver was not injured but the crash is still under investigation.

On Thursday, following the 7-2 rulings from the Supreme Court rejecting President Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity in the New York tax returns and House financial oversight cases, the president took to Twitter to complain. In the thread, Trump whined that he was being unfairly targeted by the Supreme Court decisions — which were […]

Xiaomi is long rumored to launch Mi TV Stick. The device has been spotted on a bunch of e-commerce platforms in the past. Now, it has made an appearance on another online store. The Xiaomi Mi TV Stick was spotted on Xiaomi’s official Portugal website, but the page seems to have taken down now. Thankfully, a Portuguese news […]

The current name is considered racist but Berlin authorities are now set to pull the new name too.

FEW THINGS about Donald Trump’s rise are harder to explain than the fact that some of the most religious Americans were behind it. In 2016, 81% of white evangelicals voted for him. It seems no one was more astonished by this than those who knew him best. “He has no principles. None!” marvelled his sister Maryanne Trump Barry, according to a forthcoming family exposé by Mary L. Trump, the president’s niece.

FOR MORE than 4,000 years Stonehenge has stood on Salisbury Plain in southern Britain. The landscape surrounding the Neolithic monument contains many secrets, with features dating back to much earlier times. Having surveyed more than 18 square kilometres in the vicinity, archaeologists continue to make surprising discoveries. The latest, a series of deep pits forming a vast circle more than two kilometres in diameter, shows how technology makes it possible to peer even further back into time.

THE EURO ZONE has not been a hospitable place for investors seeking safety in recent years. The currency area’s pool of super-safe, AAA-rated sovereign securities shrank by 40% between 2007 and 2018. Rating agencies downgraded some of its members during the debt crisis of 2010-12. Two of its remaining top-rated issuers—Germany and the Netherlands—have energetically hacked away at their debt piles.

LAM WING-KEE runs a tiny bookshop on the tenth floor of an unremarkable building in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. He is also the country’s most famous exile from Hong Kong. His shop is a replica of his former business in Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Books, which until 2015 sold material the Chinese government considered subversive. That year Mr Lam was kidnapped by Chinese agents and held without charge for eight months. He fled to Taiwan early last year, fearing that an extradition bill under consideration... Читать дальше...

IT WOULD BE “the very worst thing” to have to impose a second lockdown, warned Daniel Andrews, the premier of Victoria, when he started easing the state’s restrictions in May. On July 8th he was forced to do just that to 5m residents of Melbourne, the state’s capital, plus a district to its north, where a second wave of covid-19 has been rolling in. Active cases almost tripled in the first nine days of the month, to more than 930. Contact-tracers are overwhelmed, Mr Andrews conceded, as he shut restaurants and bars for another six weeks. Читать дальше...

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“I’M CONSTANTLY AFRAID that we will get infected,” frets Diverson Bloso, “We don’t have money to bring us to the hospital, in case that happened.” A messenger at a printing press in Quezon City, part of Manila’s sprawl, he prays he keeps his job. His boss told workers that the business might have to close because of quarantine measures to stop the spread of covid-19. But at least Mr Bloso still has regular income. A woman who lost her job at an online casino says the restrictions have prevented her from attending interviews for new jobs. Читать дальше...

THE ROAD from Jinju’s high-speed train station towards the outskirts of town winds past row after row of brand-new high-rise apartment blocks decorated in dark grey and ochre. The buildings are surrounded by half-finished strip malls with mock-European brick facades. Construction is frantic, though large posters advertise steep discounts on flats in the finished complexes.

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Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall says that humanity's survival depends on conservation of the natural world. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, she tells the story of her formative days working with chimpanzees, how she transformed from a revered naturalist into a dedicated activist and how she's empowering communities around the world to save natural habitats.

THEY HAVE gained few headlines and have barely been noticed even in Spain. But over recent weeks the Spanish government has organised six virtual ministerial meetings with its counterparts in Latin America to share experiences of dealing with the pandemic that has hit their countries so hard. These gatherings culminated in a video get-together on June 24th in which Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, was joined by nine presidents. They agreed to work together to try to ensure that international... Читать дальше...

MARCOS MAYORUNA found Jesus 15 years ago. The son of a cacique (chief) from the Vale do Javari, an indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon larger than Austria, he was converted by a missionary from another ethnic group and became a pastor himself. After seminary in Rio de Janeiro he went home to spread the word of God to the Mayoruna and other tribes.

THE STAGE is still set. The most recent production at Northern Stage, a theatre on Newcastle University’s campus, was in technical rehearsals when Britain went into lockdown. Props from the show are strewn across the stage. At the back of the auditorium, a bag of popcorn and a bottle of Lucozade lie on a table, as if the crew expected to return at any moment. “This show is ‘Arriving’,” explains Kate Denby, the venue’s executive director. Indeed.