Nearly a quarter of residents in Latvia at risk of poverty
439 thousand persons or 23.4 % of the population of Latvia were at risk of poverty in 2020 – 1.8 percentage points more…
Latvian police come across 168 kg of suspicious white powder substance in banana crates
A day before Christmas Latvian State Police received a call from a security service of an undisclosed retail network. Security reported having found…
Pope Francis: World losing compassion, looks silently at war, tragedies
Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church has evaluated that the world shows less compassion to immense human tragedies in wars and different…
Italy facing presidential election with PM Draghi likely successor to Mattarella
Italy is nearing its presidential election and prime minister Mario Draghi is a likely successor to incumbent Sergio Mattarella. «Super Mario» resigning could…
Latvian mobile communications operators pay a pretty penny for 5G frequency rights
Three Latvian mobile network operators will pay EUR 13.273 million for the rights to use 700 MHz frequency range for their respective 5G…
Opinion | Latvian ex-prime minister’s empire and penalty
Early bird gets the worm and the smartest and most cunning got to the privatisation process in Latvia. Then the advisor to the…
Latvian SD Autocentrs to be fined for involvement in Volkswagen trader cartel
On 13 December 2021 the Senate of the Supreme Court of Justice in Latvia refused to commence cassation proceedings in relation to the…
Lithuanians searched Google in 2021 to ask about sports, Eurovision and Covid documents
The keywords used by Lithuanians the most in the Google search engine in 2021 show interest in European football, pop song contest and…
Lynx hunting to be prohibited in Latvia
Latvia’s State Forest Service (VMD) will not issue permits to hunt lynx this hunting season. The reason is because there are plans to…
