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Worldwide Birth Rate Warning Issued for 2025
Newsweek
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July 4, 2025
This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for an "overwhelming number of countries," new analysis shows. Birth Gauge, an open-source database that aggregates global fertility and population trends, analyzed the number of...
TMT FC sign partnership with 3 int’l organisations
The Point
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TMT FC signed partnership with JDFS Alberts-a top Latvian football club known for elite youth development, Baltic Sports Agency (BSA)- a strategic sports agency based in Latvia and Adoura Sports Consulting – a U.S.-based sports consultancy with...
Zelensky: World believes in Ukrainians
Ukrinform
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The world supports Ukraine because it believes in Ukrainians — people who truly deserve that trust, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. "I also want to praise Sweden today: there is a decision on a new defense support package. Thank you,...
Stanley Fischer, economist and IMF crisis handler
The Times
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In the summer of 1998 the rouble lost more than two thirds of its value and Stanley Fischer surrendered a portion of his dignity. Fischer, an economic theorist turned financial-crisis firefighter, was second in command at the International...
Belgium, Finland, France and Spain advance to Semi-Finals
FIBA Basketball
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LA PALMA (Spain) - Belgium, Finland, holders France, and hosts Spain qualified for the FIBA U18 Women's EuroBasket Semi-Finals after an exciting round of Quarter-Final action. In addition to the Quarter-Finals, the Classification Round for...
Estonia's police hand out postcards from Death to celebrate good drivers
ERR
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July 11, 2025
Road deaths and accidents in Estonia have been on an upward trend for the last five years, pushing authorities to find innovative ways to combat the problem. Experts say there is little demand in society for road safety measures. The campaign was...
Three people arrested in the West Midlands for retail cyber attacks at M&S, Co-op and Harrods
Express & Star
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July 10, 2025
Four people have been arrested in the UK as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into cyber attacks targeting M&S, Co-op and Harrods - including three from the West Midlands. Two males aged 19, another aged 17, and a 20-year-old female...
Belgium and Turkey join the Drone Coalition
Babel
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The Steering Committee of the International Drone Coalition in Riga on June 2 supported the desire of Belgium and Turkey to join the group. There are now 20 participating states. All of them have pledged to allocate €2.75 billion this year to...
Will small nationalisms remake Europe?
Unherd
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July 9, 2025
San Candido is Italy — if only someone would tell the locals. Even before you arrive, past needle peaks and pine trees, you’ll notice the road signs: “Innichen” defiantly above, “S. Candido” almost a nickname below. Once you reach the centre, the...
Three for the Weekend: Rainbows, Ice Cream, Folklore
LSM
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June 27, 2025
Riga Pride 2025 This year, the Riga Pride parade will take place on Saturday, 28 June, at the culmination of Pride Month and on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The planned meeting place for the parade is Vērmanes Garden. The meetup begins...
District heating group Utilitas sees 20% profit boost
ERR
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July 3, 2025
Energy and district heating company Utilitas increased its profit to €32 million in 2024 and began supplying district heating in Latvia. A 2023 agreement with the City of Tallinn for the privatization of Tallinna Soojus proved profitable, earning...
Belgium to buy 11 more F-35s and boost defence budget to 18 Billion EUR
Belga News Agency
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July 2, 2025
Belgium is entering a new phase in its defence policy, with major investment plans, international cooperation and strategic realignment both at the federal and regional levels. The Council of Ministers is set to decide Friday on the updated...
Israel Condemns Iran’s Suspension of IAEA Cooperation, Urges Europe to Reinstate UN Sanctions
Algemeiner Journal
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July 2, 2025
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Wednesday condemned Iran’s decision to halt cooperation with the UN’s nuclear watchdog and called on the international community to reinstate sanctions to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. “Iran has just...
Friday 4th July 2025 Football Match Results
The Nigerian Voice
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FIFA Club World Cup Fluminense vs Al-Hilal SFC 2-1 International Friendlies SFC Opava vs Chrudim 3-2 Farul Constanța vs Radnicki Nis 3-0 Teplice vs Viagem Ústí nad Labem 3-2 Universitatea Craiova vs MTK Budapest 1-0 Miedz Legnica vs Wisła Płock...
Finland Withdraws from Ottawa Treaty on Anti-Personnel Mines
Mezha
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July 11, 2025
Finland has officially announced its withdrawal from the convention banning the use of anti-personnel mines and has informed the United Nations accordingly. This information was released in a press statement by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign...
UN Event Sheds Light On Belarus' Escalating Human Rights Violations
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 3. On July 2, the Permanent Missions of Latvia and Lithuania to the United Nations Office at Geneva held a side event on the deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus, Trend reports. Held...
Mullen Offers Reassurance to Baltic Republics
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES 10.20.2008 Courtesy Story Following a meeting this morning in Helsinki, Finland, with his Russian counterpart, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff traveled here to discuss defense issues with Latvian officials. Navy...
4 Arrested in U.K. for Cyberattacks on Retail Tied to Scattered Spider
SecureWorld
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July 10, 2025
British authorities have arrested four individuals in connection with a series of cyberattacks that disrupted operations at major U.K. retailers—Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods—earlier this year. The National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the...
Edmunds Jansons’ Born in the Jungle enters final stages of production
Cineuropa
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02/07/2025 - The animated family adventure flick, inspired by the life of Latvian explorer Aleksandrs Laime and based on a children’s book, is nearing completion and attracting strong international interest Born in the Jungle by Edmunds Jansons (©...
Unreliability of Donald Trump's US means a cascade of nuclear armament is on the way
Irish Examiner
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July 4, 2025
At first glance, the recent joint US/Israeli attack on Iran looks like yet another flare up of regional rivalries in a Middle East tortured by endless conflict, intense geopolitical competition, and mass murder. Unlike previous iterations of...