Kaspars Gorkšs appointed Director of Latvia’s State Chancellery
October 20, 2026
Latvian minister of health and physicians call for much tougher restrictions
Pointing towards the sharp surge of Covid-19 infection cases, Latvian Minister of Health Daniels Pavļuts called for tougher restrictions at the Monday, 4…
EU to complicate visa process for Belarusian citizens in response to growing aggression
The European Union will limit the issue of visas to Belarusian officials in response to the aggressive attempts by Minsk to destabilize the…
Latvian ministry decides in favour of founding Academy of Internal Security
Latvian Ministry of the Interior has decided in favour of creating an Academy of Internal Security under consortium of State Police College, Pauls…
Tanzanian author Gurnah to receive Nobel Prize in literature
Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been named the laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. His masterful novels on the effects of…
Retail trade volume in Latvia up 3.7%
Compared to August 2020, total retail trade turnover rose by 3.7 %in August 2021. Turnover of retail trade in food products declined by…
Housing price rise in Latvia reportedly above the average among EU member states
When compared to the same period of last year, housing prices in Q2 2021 increased 12.4% in Latvia, which is more rapid than…
Lars Vilks, Latvian-Swedish artist, author of Mohammad cartoon, dies in car crash
Latvian-Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who has survived a number of murder plots over drawing a cartoon depicting Islamic prophet Mohammad has died in…
BNN ANALYSES | Lithuania moves forward with 100-euro prod to get seniors jabbed
Linas Jegelevičius for the BNN The liberal-conservative Lithuanian government has endorsed this week a proposal by the Social Security and Labour Ministry paving…
Minister: tighter safety restrictions will be tailored to avoid impacting the economy too much
Tighter safety restrictions to halt the rapid spread of Covid-19 will be adopted in a way to avoid impacting the economy too much…
