Riga - The Latvian parliament on Thursday rejected constitutional amendments, giving voters a right to call for snap elections, forcing the small Baltic EU nation to hold a referendum on the issue
Riga/Vilnius - The parliaments of Lithuania and Latvia on Thursday ratified the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, bringing to 13 the number of member states signed off on the document.
Riga - More than 650 passengers, mostly elderly Germans, who were evacuated from a cruise ship stranded off Latvia were beginning to head home, LNT TV reported Tuesday.
Rezekne, Latvia - Sergejs Cakss swerves his 2002 Volkswagen Golf around potholes in one of the poorest parts of the European Union, near the Russian border.