RIGA - Latvian and German companies have signed a memorandum on the maintenance of the IRIS-T mid-range air defense systems in the Baltics, LETA was told at the Latvian Defense Ministry. The ...

Stanford men’s basketball landed a commitment from 18-year-old Latvian forward Kristers Skrinda on Friday. Skrinda is the team’s first commit of the 2025 recruiting class. The forward, standing at six ...

ID cards in Latvia may not be valid for digital signature transactions by June, and the government says it is bent on finding ...

Latvian military volunteer Ņikita Tarenovs, who went by the alias Latviiets ("Latvian"), has been killed in action while fighting against Russian forces in Ukraine. Source: Latvia's public broadcaster ...

Gregory Zalcman, from left, Ron Dyens, Gints Zilbalodis, center, and Matiss Kaza accept the award for best animated feature film for "Flow" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby ...

At a press conference at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, President Trump said the alliance was "not a rip off," showing a marked difference in tone in how he talks about the ...

Latvian startup Deep Space Energy is developing a compact radioisotope power generator that it says can deliver the same output as legacy space nuclear systems while using five times less fuel. The ...

Gauss’ 13-year tenure at airBaltic was full of notable achievements, but recent months have seen tensions flare between airline management and its majority shareholder. Martin Gauss has been removed ...

Latvian defence tech startup Origin has secured €4.5 million from the European Defence Fund (EDF) to develop a man-portable ISTAR drone (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and ...

Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze told RFE/RL in an exclusive interview on July 4 that “Russia can go on for a while” in its war against Ukraine as it is “cannibalizing all the civilian economy and ...