The decades-old port in Latvia is upgrading to 5G connection to support more autonomous technology and send data faster in ...

Michael J. Riga, 76, of Zionsville, passed away on May 3, 2025. Born in Manhattan, New York, he was the son of the late Michael and Adele (Hefko) Riga. Michael graduated from Dieruff High School ...

Writer Graham Greene once hailed Riga the “Paris of the North” and it’s an epithet that has never rung truer. The Latvian capital – with its bountiful museums and galleries – is bathed ...

Latvian pilot, later, "Butcher of Riga" Herbert Kucurs before a Riga-Tokyo flight in 1937.Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images A probe into a Latvian officer ...

In late 1941, he personally took part in mass murder at the Riga Ghetto and the nearby Rumbula forest, earning him a title as “The Butcher of Riga.” But the Latvian Prosecutor General’s ...

Yad Vashem denounced “repeated attempts to rehabilitate Cukurs’s image in Latvia by those distorting and ignoring historical truth.” The closure of the case may allow Latvia to seek to ...

A court in Latvia has closed its case against Herberts Cukurs, the “Butcher of Riga” believed to be personally responsible for killing at least 30,000 Latvian Jews during the Holocaust, the ...

“There was a special event at the monument of freedom in the center of Riga to welcome [us],” Kaza said. “Thousands gathered despite the late hour. A couple of days later, the entire team ...

Hapoel members and members of the Riga Jewish community visited the local Jewish cemetery paying tribute to the dead. Most Jews spoke Yiddish and asked for souvenirs of Israel. Coach Shimon Shilo ...

The BBC looks into the psychology behind travel souvenirs: why we buy them, their impact on local communities and the planet, and how we can shop more thoughtfully. On a recent backpacking trip ...