After breaking away from a crumbling Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Belarus became increasingly aligned with Russia, unlike ...

Belarus under Lukashenko has become embroiled in the battle between NATO-backed Western Europe and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Meanwhile, Belarus’ record on human rights – and its complicity in Russia’s ...

Sweden was spurred to join NATO in response to the security threat posed by Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. It has sent its troops to Latvia, which borders Russia and its ally Belarus. As a ...

Immigrants who escaped socialism after World War II founded a deer camp in west-central Wisconsin that endures today through ...

Sweden has sent 600 soldiers to the Russian border. This is the country's first NATO mission, reports SVT. The soldiers have ...

Riga (AFP) – In Riga Russian Theatre's rehearsal room, actors gather for a table-read of the season's big premiere, "Lady Macbeth" -- but the play's poster will not crop up around the Latvian ...

Briana Navarro reached for her cellphone and called her grandmother for a third time, hoping she'd pick up and Navarro would hear her tender voice. But like each time before, the phone rang, the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With levels of sooty air pollution far too high across swaths of the Los Angeles area, Dana Benton is sleeping with a mask on, even with her air purifier running. “My car ...

The US Justice Department accused him and another Iranian of supplying the drone technology to Iran that was used in a January 2024 attack on a US outpost near the Syrian-Jordanian border that killed ...

The first major awards ceremony of the year, the Golden Globes kicked off the 2025 awards season with an unforgettable night of milestones – not least Karla Sofía Gascón becoming the first out ...

Lithuania expects Latvia and Estonia has a unified position on the use of anti-personnel mines. This statement was made by the head of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense, Dovile Shakalene, Baltnews ...

A total of 20 cars and 10 trucks are waiting to enter the EU near the Lithuanian border checkpoint Salcininkai (Benyakoni). Over 160 trucks are waiting in front of the Latvian border checkpoint ...