Estonia
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Estonia’s PM is on a Russian wanted list. What prompted the Kremlin’s move?The name of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas appeared on the Russian Interior Ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges.WorldFeb 13, 2024
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Estonia signs $200M deal with U.S. to buy rocket artillery systemNATO member and Russia's neighbor Estonia is boosting its defense capabilities by acquiring an advanced U.S. rocket artillery system.WorldDec 3, 2022
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Coronavirus: Europe’s first ‘travel bubble’ is between Lithuania, Latvia, EstoniaA dozen Estonian border guards removed all signs directing vehicles to stop at the border and huddled together at the roadside for cake and coffee.EconomyMay 14, 2020
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Estonia sorry after minister calls Finland PM Sanna Marin, 34, a ‘sales girl’Estonian Interior Minister Mart Helme questioned the Finnish leader's ability to govern the country during an interview on a radio show.WorldDec 17, 2019
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Estonia’s first Chinese lantern festival begins, features 40-meter long dragonThe festival runs until Jan. 12 and organizers are hoping to attract more than 100,000 people.WorldDec 8, 2019
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London’s Damian Warner wins bronze at 2019 World Track and Field ChampionshipsDamian Warner will bring a bronze medal home from the decathlon at the World Track and Field Championships.SportsOct 3, 2019
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Tech-savvy Estonia sets example of online voting as EU elections beginInternet voting — or i-voting —has been available since 2005 in the nation that gave the world Skype, and the percentage of voters using the internet to cast ballots has increased with each election, reaching 44 per cent of voters in a national election in March.WorldMay 20, 2019
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Russia boots 4 Canadian diplomats in tit-for-tat mass expulsion over spy poisoningFour Canadian diplomats are among a slew of foreign officials being booted from Russia in a mass expulsion in retaliation for Western countries ousting Russian diplomats this week over the poisoning of a former spy.CanadaMar 30, 2018
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Vast Russian exercise in the fall was rehearsal for invading the Baltic states: reportAn enormous Russian military exercise in mid-September was a “dry run” for a “full-scale conventional war against NATO in Europe,” the German daily Bild reported earlier this week.CanadaDec 22, 2017
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New York Muslims didn’t burn U.S. flag – cropped photo was from 2012 in BangladeshFake reports that a New York City mosque burned a U.S. flag to protest Donald Trump are betrayed by the borrowed photos they used.CanadaJun 10, 2017
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