England coach Thomas Tuchel said he substituted Jude Bellingham during the 3-0 World Cup qualification win against Latvia to prevent the Real Madrid midfielder from being sent off. Goals from ...

NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said Tuesday they are abandoning the 1997 Ottawa convention treaty outlawing the use of anti-personnel landmines (APL) amid the ongoing conflict ...

The defense ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said in a joint statement that they “unanimously recommend withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention” — the international antipersonnel mine ...

All four countries share borders with Russia. Poland, Lithuania and Latvia also share borders with Moscow's ally Belarus. The announcement comes as Ukraine and Russia may be on the brink of ...

In a joint statement, the defence ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland said that since signing the Ottawa Treaty, threats from Moscow and its ally Belarus have "significantly increased".

TEREHOVA, Latvia — Behind the barbed wire fence, over the top of the snow-capped trees, a Russian flag flutters in the wind above what was once a busy crossing point. “This is the last stop on the ...

Image: Latvia's President Edgars Rinkevics and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Riga, Latvia last January. Pic: AP Photo/Roman Koksarov But Mr Rinkevics said he believes that both Europe ...

LATVIA'S president has warned European countries to "absolutely" introduce conscription as he dubbed the continent as "weak" militarily in the face of threat from Russia's Vladimir Putin. The ...

Latvia reintroduced compulsory military service for adult males on January 1 last year, having abolished it in 2006. The Baltic country shares a 180-mile border with Russia to its east and is ...

A Leopard battle tank, part of NATO's deterrence force in Latvia, is seen on a recent exercise at the Adazi training range, near the capital of Riga. (Murray Brewster/CBC) The notion that ...

Latvia has awarded a research and development (R&D) contract to Origin Robotics, a defense technology startup, for the development of a high-speed interceptor drone. The initiative is part of the ...