Pudāns nominated as commander of Latvian National Armed Forces
November 21, 2024
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…
PHOTO: the long-awaited opening of Lidl in Latvia
Food products, household goods, low prices, new products – just some of the reasons why Latvians have awaited the opening of Lidl chain…
Latest Covid-19 cases in Baltics. 479 in Latvia, 1 114 in Lithuania, 540 in Estonia
A total of 479 new Covid-19 infection cases were found in Latvia in the last 24 hours. 359 of the patients were either…
With colder weather on Belarus-Lithuania border, NGO speaks of starving migrants there
Lithuanian legislators have been asked by the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Human Rights Monitoring Institute to explain how vulnerable migrants are being allowed to…
