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Eight months in a Swedish prison for drunk Ryanair passenger

Filed under: Airlines Back in June, a drunk Ryanair passenger started to freak out, and attempted to open the aircraft door in the middle of a flight from Riga to London. The man had finished an entire liter of vodka and a couple of beers, and it took two professional boxers to get him away from the door and pin him to the ground. The plane ended up making an emergency landing in Sweden to dispose...

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Madam President

Mrs Vaira Vike-Freiberga was born in Riga (Latvia) on 1st December 1937. Fleeing the Soviet occupation her family left the country in 1945 and took refuge in Germany, then Morocco where she finalised her secondary education. She finally settled in...

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Squad sheets: Aston Villa v Bolton Wanderers

Back-to-back 4-0 defeats against Chelsea may have dented Bolton's confidence, but they have travelled well this season, picking up three points at St Andrew's on their last visit to the second city at the end of September and face a Villa side stuttering after one win in their last six league games. Kevin Davies is optimistic that they can bounce back. "I've been speaking to the players and it...

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Big-scale bets revealed in Latvian soccer scandal

Riga- New details emerged Friday of a major betting scandal in Latvian football that saw one of the Baltic state's leading clubs barred from top-flight competition. Guntis Indriksons, president of the Latvian Football Federation (LFF), said Friday in...

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Blue Coat Systems (BCSI) - More Global Labor Arbitrage

We see in today's news something I believe has been happening for many years, and continues ... under the surface, slowly but surely. I call it erosion because it is not obvious or a "big bang" emergency but as we look around and ask where all the jobs went [ Aug 14, 2009: No New Normal Say Some Economists, Prosperity Without Jobs? ] while concurrently trying to create bubbles on 5 year cycles...

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Latvia passes budget in first reading

RIGA - Saeima (Latvian parliament) has passed next year's budget in the first reading. A total of 64 deputies voted for the bill, while 32 voted against and one abstained. "Even though this budget should be considered a crisis budget, it will allow us to continue the program for stabilizat...

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MPs back Latvia's crucial 'crisis budget' - Summary

Riga - Parliamentarians in Latvia on Thursday backed Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis' call to approve a crisis budget for 2010, which moves the recession-hit Baltic state one step closer to its next bail-out payment from international lenders. MP...

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Latvia debates crucial 'crisis budget'

Riga - Parliamentarians in Latvia on Thursday debated Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis' call to approve a crisis budget for 2010, which would move the recession-hit Baltic state one step closer to its next bail-out payment from international lende...

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Meteorite hoax sizzles out in Latvia

I usually don’t hear much news from my home country, Latvia, in the UK media, apart from the occasional stag do embarrassment. So it was quite exciting to see recent headlines about a meteorite crash in the Latvian countryside. There was a shaky, eye-witness video clip, a big burning crater cordoned off by police and guarded [...]

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Latvian Railway Sector – Sustainable Development amid a Challenging Economy

RIGA - State Joint Stock Company Latvian Railway (LDz), one of the largest employers in the country, plays an important role in diminishing road traffic by facilitating inter-city mobility as well as constituting a growing and dynamic freight transport market. It is also one of the oldest companies ...

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Report claiming Latvia lacks savings’culture flawed

RIGA - Research conducted by GFK Custom Research and commanded by GE Money Bank reveal that 44 percent of Latvians are unable ‘to give up spending in favor of their financial stability,’ a press release on the bank’s Web site reads. This inability to save is attributed to an inability to give someth...

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Latvian legislators say 2010 budget proposal satisfies IMF demands

RIGA - Finance Minister Einars Repse (New Era) says he does not see the possibility right now for any chance of introduction into Latvia’s tax code of a progressive personal income tax, reports news agency LETA. He defends his position by pointing to neighboring countries Estonia and Lithuania, noti...

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Research and Markets: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - Banking Market in the Baltics 2009-2011, CEE Banking Brief

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Belarus looks to science, Medical conference, Swine flu; Russia, Ukaine, Latvia, UAE, Culture, Money, Hockey, Opposition and Polish scandal...

From the Top... #459 Alexander Lukashenko: Belarus’ science should advance national economy to higher level From: BelTA Belarusian science should become a powerful intellectual generator that will bring the national economy to a brand new level of performance, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he presented state awards on 3 November 2009. Addressing the awardees, the President...

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Latvia bank bad debt provisions rise to 8.1 pct

RIGA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Latvian banks, which include several Nordic groups, had made provisions equal to 8.1 percent of the total loan portfolio by end-September, a rise from 7.1 percent in August, the FKTK supervisor said on Tuesday.