The United States Air Force may deploy the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter stealth aircraft to the Baltics later this year when the aircraft becomes operational. General Herbert Carlisle, the commander of Air Combat Command, said he’d like the F-35s “do some Baltic air policing”, according to the National Interest, an American online magazine. “As […]
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In April and May, more than 2.7 million people from 20 countries joined the Let’s Do It! cleanups, accompanied by festivals and events to draw attention to the growing problem of illegal waste. Let’s Do It! cleanup events were held in Belarus (23,000 people), Cyprus (15,000), the Czech Republic (65,000), Greece (60,000), Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The Estonian delivery startup, Starship Technologies, is to test its autonomous delivery robots in the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland; a similar programme is to be announced in the US. According to Starship, one of the largest European food delivery companies, Just Eat; a leading German parcel delivery company, Hermes; a leading German retailer, Metro
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Business Insider, a US-based online newspaper, has listed the Estonian island of Saaremaa as one of 17 best under-the-radar islands in Europe. The newspaper says that “Saaremaa takes visitors back to the time of the pirates and Vikings who once called it home”. “It’s easy to imagine them as the dense pine forests, thatched-roof houses,
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The Estonian mobile payments company, Fortumo, has launched direct carrier billing with the European mobile operator group, Deutsche Telekom; the first market to be connected to Fortumo’s direct carrier billing platform is the Czech Republic with six million subscribers of T-Mobile. The partnership aims to enable Fortumo to provide payments to merchants in 12 countries where Deutsche Telekom
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A conference that took place in Israel last week marked the 90th anniversary of Jewish cultural autonomy in Estonia; 90 people attended what was the biggest Estonian-arranged conference in the Holy Land. The Estonian ambassador to Israel, Malle Talvet-Mustonen told Estonian World that the conference also marked the 25th anniversary of Estonia regaining independence after
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Estonia and the United States signed an agreement last week, reinforcing cooperation in research, development, testing and evaluation activities between the US defence department and the Estonian ministry of defence. The agreement was signed by the deputy assistant secretary of defence for Europe and NATO, Jim Townsend, and the Estonian ambassador to the United States,
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One of the biggest clean technology (cleantech) programmes in Europe, ClimateLaunchpad, has selected 11 Estonian startups for a three-month mentorship programme in order to be prepared for the ClimateLaunchpad European finals. The chosen startups – SolWay, Gleather, ALGACAP, Winsect, BÖX, WildAr, BugOil, HeatSmartel, Get it Clean, and Polycycle – will get the chance to learn from top-notch
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The European Union is to provide €1 million to study the feasibility of a railway tunnel between Tallinn and the Finnish capital, Helsinki; the study is supposed to definitively identify whether such a tunnel would be viable. The project is also to identify the potential technological possibilities for building the tunnel, and how it could
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NATO allies are to deploy four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to help deter any potential Russian threat to the region. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the UK, the US and Germany agreed to send a battalion each, “to help deter any show of force such as that deployed by Moscow in
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