(MENAFN) A senior Russian lawmaker likened Latvian officials to Nazi Germany on Friday after Riga ordered the deportation of 841 Russian pensioners for failing a mandatory language test. Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia’s State Duma, said the...
(MENAFN) The Latvian government has officially sanctioned modifications to its legislation concerning assistance to Ukrainian refugees, cutting the support budget by more than one-third and significantly reducing several existing benefits. Latvia,...
(MENAFN) The Latvian government has approved amendments to its refugee support law, significantly reducing financial assistance for Ukrainians and cutting several benefits. Latvia — one of Kiev’s strongest allies within the EU and home to at least...
RIGA, Latvia, Oct. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Latvian AI company Tilde has unveiled TildeOpen LLM, an open-source large language model trained on Europe’s flagship supercomputer LUMI. With 30 billion parameters, TildeOpen outperforms global...
VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Immigrant Invest, a leading consulting company in investment migration, has announced that Latvia’s Golden Visa now stands out as one of the strongest alternatives to Greece for American...
The global peat market is evolving amid rising sustainability concerns, regulatory shifts, and technological advancements. WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES, October 1, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Peat Market 2025-2032: Driving growth through...
(MENAFN) Annual consumer price growth across the eurozone climbed to 2.2% in September, rising from 2% in August, as revealed by final figures published on Friday by Eurostat. This result aligned with early market predictions and continued to...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SHARC International Systems Inc. (CSE: SHRC) (FSE: IWIA) (OTCQB: INTWF) ("SHARC Energy" or the “Company”), the pioneer of Wastewater Energy Transfer (“WET”), is pleased to provide an...
MACAU, October 19 - Sanctioned by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), organized by the Sports Bureau and StarMac Entertainment Production Limited, and co-organized by the Macau-China Basketball Association and Chaiioi Sports Company...
(MENAFN) Annual inflation across the eurozone edged higher to 2.2% in September, up from 2.0% in August, according to final figures published Friday by Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency. The reading aligns with earlier forecasts and...
Europol broke down a major crypto phishing ring responsible for at least $5.7 million in thefts. Criminals based out of Latvia operated millions of fake accounts to scam users across Europe. Police seized $330,000 in crypto from the criminals, but...
Indexo Real Estate Fund has acquired two shopping centres -- Damme in Rīga and Auriga Kuressaare, Estonia. The total value of the transaction is EUR 56 million, co-financed with the support of Swedbank AS, the fund said. The main tenants of Damme...
Ride Mobility, the operator of shared e-bikes, has introduced age verification tools for customers as of Monday, Edgars Jākobsons, CEO of Ride Mobility, told LETA. From now on, every user who wants to use the Ride service will have to present an...
The Swedish forest owners’ association Södra will sell its Baltic land holdings — a total of 153,000 hectares — for €720 million to Ingka Investments, a company affiliated with IKEA, Ingka Investments announced. Of this, 135,000 hectares are...
Britons are set to be poorer than Turks and Latvians by the 2040s, according to new research that shows the UK plummeting down global economic rankings. New modelling by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) found Britain will be...
Apple accelerates global green initiatives with major renewable energy purchases and new investments in China. Apple has signed agreements to purchase 650 megawatts of renewable energy across Europe, including solar and wind farms in Greece,...
The European Military Mobility Fund supports three projects in Latvia. One of them - the bridge over the Salaca river - will be completed soon. A contract has been signed for the reconstruction of the airport apron. And the third, with the largest...
Europol has announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. According to the agency, the Friday operation caused a dent in a platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its sets to carry out diverse crimes...
Māris Strautnieks is a young man who works for the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD), but in his free time he has been cleaning up not only Līvbērze parish, where he lives, but also many other places in Latvia for five years. This year alone,...
On October 17-18, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continued with an exchange of strikes, a key feature of which was the record-breaking activity of Russian aviation in employing KAB guided aerial bombs. According to the Ukrainian Armed...
