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US Army Awards $309M Worth Contracts To Javelin JV

The U.S. Army recently awarded the Javelin JV two production contracts for Javelin missiles and associated equipment and services with a total value of $309 million. Javelin JV is a partnership of Raytheon Technologies Corp (NYSE:RTX) Raytheon Missiles & Defense, and Lockheed Martin Corp (NYSE:LMT). The contracts include more than 1300 Javelin missiles funded from the…

Benzinga · May 16, 2022

Latvian minister resigns after commemoration of Soviet wartime victory

Latvia's interior minister resigned on Monday under pressure from the ruling coalition which criticized the police for failing to ban the country's Russian speakers from commemorating earlier this month the Soviet Union's victory in World War Two.

Reuters · May 16, 2022

Wildest Eurovision entries to appear on TV - Latvian pirates to Russian grannies

Eurovision has delivered plenty of wacky performances to our TVs since its first ever show in 1956, from a silver star-headed drag queen to a rocking demon

Daily Mirror · May 14, 2022

Eurovision 2022 fans go crazy for Latvia's 'mad' Eat Your Salad performance

Eat Your Salad was partly censored by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) due to swearing or unacceptable language

Wales Online · May 10, 2022

Women in poorest parts of Merseyside die younger than those in Colombia, Latvia and Hungary

It is "a somewhat disappointing showing for the world's fifth largest economy"

Liverpool Echo · Apr 24, 2022

Latvian and Estonian parliaments say Russia committed genocide in Ukraine

Lawmakers in Latvia and Estonia voted unanimously on Thursday to declare killings of civilians in areas of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces to be acts of genocide, according to statements posted on the two parliaments' bsites.

Reuters · Apr 21, 2022

Russia closes Baltic consulates, expels employees

Russia has ordered the closure of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian consulates and asked their employees to leave in a retaliatory move, Moscow's foreign ministry said on Thursday.

Reuters · Apr 21, 2022

EU preparing measures to prevent Russia from evading sanctions, Latvia says

The European Union is preparing new measures to prevent Russia from evading sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics told a news conference on Wednesday.

Reuters · Apr 20, 2022

Stunning Irish model who was given three-month cancer 'death sentence' is alive and thriving 16 years on

"My tumour was located in my brain stem, which is an inoperable location, and it was already very big when diagnosed (the size of a chicken egg)."

Irish Mirror · Apr 13, 2022

Presidents of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland head to Ukraine

German president was scheduled to be part of the visit but said on Tuesday he was not welcome by Ukraine.

Al Jazeera · Apr 13, 2022