The clustering of Africa summits in 2026 is not coincidental. It reflects a continent whose geopolitical and economic weight is growing and whose governments are increasingly…

Flanked by divided NATO allies, the US walks a tightrope over a potential third world war

Police in the Baltic state of Estonia stopped a man who was driving erratically at the weekend, only to find he was blind. The 20-year-old was driving in the southern city of…

Estonia’s Parliament was behind barricades on Saturday for the first time since Soviet tanks tried to crush the independence movement in 1991, as violence rocked Tallinn for a…

Estonia spirited away the controversial statue of a Red Army Soviet soldier from the centre of the capital, Tallinn, in the early hours on Friday after violent riots against its…

A shoplifter who snatched a haul of cosmetics in an Estonian department store left security scratching their heads, until they found the ill-gotten gains stashed in his wooden…

The European Union’s environment chief on Thursday condemned the discharge of toxic waste in Côte d’Ivoire that killed at least eight people and vowed to beef up policing to…

A woman who fell through the floor of an old house in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, while having sex had to be pulled out of the basement by rescuers using a firefighter’s…

Former Estonian president Lennart Meri, a leading political figure in the Baltic states after they won independence from Moscow in 1991, has died at the age of 76, the…

More than 1 000 dead birds have been found along Estonia’s Baltic coast following a presumed oil spill from a ship, a spokesperson for the environment ministry said on Friday in…

Estonia’s serial tree feller, who stalked dozens of trees in a cemetery in the national capital, appears to have been caught in the act, police said on Friday. ”We arrested a…

The medieval old town of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, will be brightened up for four long winter nights this week by 10 000 lights, hoisted above the city on 500 helium-filled…