Stranded cruise ship evacuated
msn.com     05-May-2008            

Latvia's coast guard on Monday 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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Latvia: Soviet Murals

globalvoicesonline.org     3 hrs ago   2 related          

An ongoing initiative (RUS) to compile a list of “those who died in the war of 2008, whose names are found on the web” - by LJ user hunu: “The list is incomplete, of course. […] I've placed the names of the dead on the same...                    

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Drop in east European migrants to UK

ft.com     9 hrs ago   1 related          

By Andrew Taylor, Employment Correspondent The number of eastern and central Europeans registering to work in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since their countries joined the European Union four years ago according to...                    

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Latvia has the best-functioning electricity market: CEO of Eesti Energia

balticbusinessnews.com     11 hrs ago          

CEO of the Estonian state owned energy company Eesti Energia, Sandor Liive, said at the international energy policy conference in Tallinn that Latvia has the best-functioning energy market. Formally, also Lithuanian market is...                    

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ACCIDENT AT ALTON TOWERS - 1 FATALITY AND OVER 70 PEOPLE INJURED

freepressreleases.co.uk     14 hrs ago          

Specialist crash investigators have been called to the scene where, on Monday 18th August 2008, a coach crashed down an embankment in Staffordshire, killing one and injuring 70 others.The coach, which was coming down a hill,...                    

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