Latvian coast guard evacuates 650 from ship
chron.com     05-May-2008            

Latvia's coast guard today removed more than 650 people from a stranded cruise ship after tugboats failed to pull the luxury liner off an underwater sand bank in the Baltic Sea. ... In a five-hour operation, 651 passengers — most of them elderly Germans — and 11 crew... [read full story]                    


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Small Talk: Private equity firm on the dragon's trail

independent.co.uk     5 hrs ago          

At the start of last year, private equity practitioners were described as being the masters of the universe. The label looked a little silly a few months later when the bottom fell out of the leveraged finance market,...                    

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Monument to canned sprats goes up in Latvia

rian.ru     04-Sep-2008          

RIGA, September 4 (RIA Novosti) - A monument to caned fish was unveiled Thursday in Latvia, one of the world's main producers of sprats, local media have reported. The sculpture, located at a fish-packing factory in the...                    

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