The Estonian volleyball team has reached the final tournament of the world championship for the first time, but the question of whether head coach Alar Rikberg will continue will be decided on Friday. #волейбол #Эстония #чемпионатмира (translated)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the United States of deliberately delaying the delivery of interceptor missiles already paid for by Europe, while tensions with Donald Trump are running high. #Zelensky #Ukraine #USA (translated)
The Estonian volleyball team has qualified for the next summer's World Championship finals in Poland, but on Friday it will be revealed whether head coach Alar Rikberg will continue with the team. #EestiVõrkpall #MM2024 #AlarRikberg (translated)
The streets of Marseille turned into a war zone on Friday, October 16, due to protests, when yellow vest posters announced the start of a demonstration taking place the next day. #meeleavaldus #Marseille #kollavestid (translated)
President Zelensky in turn twisted the screw and said in a legendary interview with Piers Morgan that he feels betrayed by Trump. #Ukraina #DonaldTrump #Putin (translated)
Reedel, Nuñez noted that the government expects quite a large turnout. According to Nuñez, the use of shock grenades was allowed again on Saturday, although their use against students had previously been temporarily banned. #Prantsusmaa #Protestid #Vägivald (translated)
"As time passes, some patterns remain the same," Kent wrote on Facebook on Friday. #DonaldTrump #Ukraina #GeorgePKent (translated)
A Ukrainian airstrike hit a gas condensate stabilization plant in Surgut, Russia, during a successful operation on Friday, located 2400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. #Ukraina #Venemaa #energiakriis (translated)
Trump's latest capitulation to Putin once again betrays our Ukrainian partners and ignores the clear will of Congress. The purpose of the law was to punish Russia for its illegal aggression war, and Virginia Democrat Representative Don Beyer criticized Trump's decision, saying that the president is yielding to Putin. #DonaldTrump #VenemaaSanktsioonid #USAvälispoliitika (translated)
The Paide Women's Team defeated FC Flora 2-0 in a battle of the leaders on Friday, leveling up with the titleholders in the women's championship league, making the title race extremely exciting. #naistejalgpall #paide #fcflora (translated)
In the shooting that took place in the Märjamaa municipality, one person was killed and another was injured, and the police apprehended a 73-year-old man suspected of the crime within an hour after the incident. #tulistamine #politsei #kriminaalmenetlus (translated)
Estonian swimmers Eneli Jefimova and Egle Salu will compete on Friday in California in the College Swimming League, where they represent NC State and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. #ujumine #Eesti #ülikoolid (translated)
French Carcan wrote that Mediapart, despite its media expertise, no longer seemed able to influence an election and could not, according to him, inflict on Marine Le Pen the same "political assassination" as on François Fillon in 2017. He mentioned a strong disappointment in Parisian newsrooms and suggested that Mediapart investigate the Epstein affair and its French connections at the top of the state. He added that judges close to the media could provide him with documents. #Mediapart #MarineLePen #Élections2023 (translated)
Max Verstappen finished the first free practice of the GT World Challenge Europe in Portugal in twentieth place, after a productive session in which he completed many laps and caused a spin early in the practice. #MaxVerstappen #GTWorldChallenge #Formule1 (translated)
Ukraine attacked targets in the Moscow region, including a Yandex data center, on the night before Friday in response to Russian airstrikes that left part of Kyiv without electricity. #Ukraina #Venema #sõda (translated)
A Ukrainian drone strike hit a Yandex data center in Russia on the night of Thursday, targeting several other sites in the Moscow, Rostov, and Vladimir regions. #UkrainaSõda #Droonirünnakud #Venemaa (translated)
Reed Brody, a member of the United Nations expert group on Nicaragua, stated that the practice is used to "sow fear" among the detained, their families, and the population. #Nicarágua #DireitosHumanos #DesaparecimentosForçados (translated)
A 30-year-old man from Maastricht has been sentenced to five years in prison for fatally hitting a 4-year-old boy while driving at 112 kilometers per hour, more than 60 kilometers over the speed limit, with a blood alcohol content of 1.8 promille. #Verkeersongeval #DronkenBestuurder #Maastricht (translated)
El autor citó a la economista jefe del FMI, Silvana Tenreyro, quien afirmó que la resiliencia de la economía mundial empezaba a alcanzar sus límites y que era necesario pasar de sobrellevar la situación a reconstruir. Añadió que el mensaje resultaba algo inquietante.
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Stefan Willems shared a message from Grégory de Walque, commercial director of car-sharing platform Poppy, about the damage to shared cars in Brussels and Antwerp. De Walque wrote that Poppy had reached its record number of rides on Friday because the metro was not running and thousands of people used the app to get to work. By the end of the day, according to him, eight vehicles had been destroyed, two of which were completely burned out. He wrote that the damage was caused by rioters, not by protesters, and that this was the second time this year for Poppy. In his message, De Walque countered three reactions that he claimed to have often read under videos of the destruction: that shared cars belong to no one, that Poppy is insured, and that a large company would hardly notice a few destroyed cars. He stated that every Poppy is used hundreds of times a year and referred to research from Brussels Mobility, according to which each Poppy replaces 11.5 private cars among regular users. According to De Walque, Poppy was not insured for this kind of damage, and each destroyed car represented a direct loss. The costs of the destruction, he said, were higher than the revenue from Poppy's best day ever. He also wrote that the company had only had one profitable year since its inception and that the fleet consisted of 2,500 cars. De Walque wrote that the team would get the damaged cars back on the road, even during a strike. He asked Brussels, according to him, to help keep the shared cars available. #autodelen #Brussel #mobiliteit (translated)
