STORY: These women in rural Estonia are learning to fight. They're the newest recruits to a state-run paramilitary defense group. And for many of them, the war in Ukraine is top of mind. KRISTEL ERIKS ...

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In keeping up with ‘the future is female’, Estonia, in Nothern Europe recently became the only country in the world where both the Head of State and Prime Minister are women.

If there’s one thing New York really doesn’t need, particularly amid a sharp downturn in the market, it’s another art fair. Or so you might have thought. Undeterred by the city’s already crowded ...

PADISE, Estonia, March 22 (Reuters) - Early on a Sunday morning fifteen women in rural Estonia listen to an instructor explain the inner workings of rifles and bullets, after spending a freezing night ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -Lishanna Ilves of the Nebraska track and field program has been named the Estonian Women’s Athlete of the Year for 2021, the Estonian Athletics Association announced in December.

The first thing that strikes me about Kalma Saun is that there is nowhere to hide. Brilliant white tiles stretch from floor to ceiling and buffed steel faucets reflect the glare from fluorescent ...

Katrina Lehis already etched her name into history as the first fencer from Estonia to win an Olympic medal by claiming a bronze in the women's individual epee event earlier this week, but she didn't ...

Estonia's women's chess team drew 2:2 twice in a row this week at the ongoing European Team Chess Championships in Batumi, Georgia, with one more round to go. On Sunday the team 2:2 with the ...

The ambush came at dawn. Moments before, the only sound in the frigid forest of Klooga, 40 km west of the Estonian capital Tallinn, had been light snoring coming from beneath a handful of camouflaged ...

CHIBA, July 27 (Reuters) - After decades of waiting for an Olympic fencing medal to come along, Estonia won their second inside four days on Tuesday when they narrowly beat South Korea to claim gold ...