Large-scale entrepreneur Harry Männil, whom the Simon Wiesenthal centre accused of war crimes but who was cleared of any wrongdoing, died on Monday at the age of 89 in San Jose, Costa Rica, ...

Saeima in Latvia today supported in the third and final reading President Raimonds Vejonis' amendments to the National Security Law, National Armed Forces Law, and Cabinet of Ministers' Rules of ...

On June 23, farewell ceremony for the outgoing US Naval Attache in Lithuania Cdr Tomas Algirdas Alksninis was held at the Ministry of National Defence. Vice Minister of National Defence Vytautas ...

Lithuania and Hungary are interested in accelerating the development of the Eastern Partnership, the countries share similar positions on many issues that the European Union and NATO focus on, and the ...

The fact that Ventspils millionaires – Olafs Berkis, Olegs Stepanovs, Igors Skoks and Genadijs Sevcovs – have been elected into Ventspils Nafta Supervisory Council clearly shows that the international ...

The motion to remove Krotovs came from six opposition council members regarding the situation with the Stendes nami company. Due to significant debt, the company’s buildings in all of Stende are on ...

Local and foreign basketball fans during the European Basketball Championship (EuroBasket 2011) will be able to use a unique mobile payment service MokiPay, created by the Lithuanian company MokiPay ...

The Estonian retail chain Selver plans to open up a supermarket in the Latvian city of Rezekne (eastern Latvia) in 2008, LETA was informed by Selver Latvia Executive Director Uldis Priekulis. The ...

The cargo turnover of Estonian ports has increased, but it is too early to rest in laurels since the Ust-Luga port in Russia is developing fast and snatching a part of cargo flows, LETA/Äripäev writes ...

Munkevics was the mayor of Jurmala from September 2006 to October last year. The other candidate for the office was Jurmala ATU Director Juris Visockis (New Era); four Jurmala councilmen voted for him ...

Estonia has completed the decade-long clean-up of one of Europe's most hazardous radioactive waste dumps on the Baltic coast, an official in charge of the operation said Monday. "It is completely safe ...

The Embassy of Latvia has started work in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Head of Mission, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., Rūdolfs Brēmanis. The Latvian Embassy will temporarily ...