Minister of Foreign Affairs Eva-Maria Liimets (Center) and Estonian Ambassador to the UN Sven Jürgenson summed up Estonia’s UN Security Council membership, appearing in front of the Riigikogu on Wednesday. Both emphasized cybersecurity topics as p...

Both the green turn and European Union climate policy are blamed for high energy prices. European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson assures that is not the case in an interview to Postimees.

A serious occupational accident at an Enefit Power oil plant in Ida-Viru County on Sunday cost the lives of two men, aged 27 and 38.

An accident that claimed the life of a young man at the Kuutsemäe Ski Center raises more questions than answers, with a criminal investigation launched to provide the latter.

One can only imagine the excitement of University of Tartu research fellow Erki Õunap when scientific journal Zootaxa published an article last month describing a new species of moth discovered in Estonia and named Nola estonica. A thorough study he...

The story of the man who burned his fence for heat every winter and had to build a new one in the summer is a sad one. I would not like to see the whole of Estonia be like that man. We can do better, Marti Aavik, Postimees editor-in-chief, writes.

The Taliban promises not to allow the territory of Afghanistan to be used for staging terrorist attacks against other countries, Bilal Karimi (40), one of two official Taliban spokesmen, tells Postimees in an interview.

Luxurious way of life, follow-me cars and a complicated case. Estonian detectives worked for years to unravel a wave of car theft and trace it back to the infamous Kamuolys gang out of Kaunas.

The Tallinn Strategic Management Office is seeking a partner to carry out a street space study for tramways, which would provide a basis for considering the possibility of extending the tramway network.

Postimees reporter Jaanus Piirsalu and photographer Erik Prozes spent ten days in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Piirsalu, who just arrived back in Estonia, says that the people tend to support the Taliban because the previous authority was wholly c...

Linnu street in the Tammelinn district of Tartu is the very embodiment of a quiet suburb, with small houses surrounded by picket fences. However, one such seemingly peaceful house hid a sinister business and had the neighbors on the verge of despair.

Taliban fighters came by once and asked what the school was teaching, took a brief look around and left without saying another word, Jamila Hakimi (26), head of a girls’ school in Jalalabad, said. The school has continued teaching as before.

Even Eduard Vilde would be hard-pressed to adequately describe the poverty of Pashtun villages near the Pakistani border. But the locals regard their newfound peace as more important than work.

Let us talk about women. Something that it seems must be talked about, especially in Afghanistan, as it has been the first thing on the minds of Westerners since the Taliban took over, perhaps even more so than the question of whether Afghanistan cou...

Stanislav Shushkevich, former chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus, tells Postimees about the background of the Belovezh Accords and how he found respect for Boriss Yeltsin’s adviser Gennady Burbulis whom he had until then considered unpleasa...

A powerful explosion was heard near Ilmarise street in Pääsküla between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday. A hiker found a dead body and notified the police soon after.

People’s lives are collapsing in Afghanistan, with everyone dreaming of escaping to the West.

Postimees journalists Erik Prozes and Jaanus Piirsalu will be reporting from Afghanistan over the next seven days.

During a time when electricity and gas prices are breaking records and there is talk of universal food and services price hikes, the Riigikogu has passed an amendment to almost double speed camera fines.

The question is not what Russia's goals are, but how and when it intends to achieve them, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu Eerik-Niiles Kross (Reform Party) writes.

Chairman of the energy council of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Engineer of the Year 2021 Arvi Hamburg says in an interview that Estonia and Europe have gotten ahead of themselves when it comes to the green turn and suggests it cannot be done wit...

The market price of electricity will exceed €600 per megawatt-hour on 11 hours on Tuesday, with the price on the Nord Pool exchange reaching €1,000 per MWh in the morning. But prices are shaped by manufacturers stopping consumption rather than ne...

Estonia has identified two positive coronavirus tests that could represent the new Omicron variant of the virus. One passenger suspectedly carrying the new strain arrived in Estonia from Dubai and the other from South Africa via Frankfurt. Both are v...

The next round of government cutbacks will result in the dialing back of fire prevention efforts, layoffs in the Tax and Customs Board and reduced agriculture support from the Ministry of Rural Affairs, while the funding of political parties will als...

People who decide to fight illegal wars for other countries need to be held responsible, legal expert Lavly Perling says in an interview.