offers flowers in front of the nameplate honoring Latvian soldiers who participated in the 1950-53 Korean War at the War Memorial in Seoul on Nov. 29, 2024, in this photo provided by the War ...

In Riga Russian Theatre's rehearsal room, actors gather for a table-read of the season's big premiere, "Lady Macbeth" -- but the play's poster will not crop up around the Latvian capital as it ...

The film takes place in two eras - the mythical world of Lacplesis, Laimdota and the Black Knight and the Latvian War of Independence of 1919 during which the love story between Janis Vanags and ...

An often overlooked feature of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc states' cultural character, we select five bands from ...

If you served in the U.S. military during the Global War on Terrorism, chances are high that there are a handful of battle songs you associate with your service. Whether you went on patrol to ...

This is a very special song, for several reasons. First, it is a song that the Hasidim sang before the war in Poland on their way to their Rabbi in Góra Kalwaria, in a world that Hitler (y"s ...

Want some end-of-the-world classics for your next mixtape? Listen to these songs about nuclear war. After World War II, anxiety over the atom bomb began to influence the creative arts, particularly ...

Trump, Hosting Israel’s Leader, Says Palestinians Should Leave Gaza “They have no alternative right now” but to leave, President Trump said shortly before he welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin ...

A row has erupted between the Latvian government and the country’s largest airline, airBaltic. It follows the recent disclosure that airBaltic has been forced to cancel 4,670 flights for its 2025 ...

Edgars Platonovs, a 41-year-old Latvian volunteer soldier fighting for Ukraine, was killed in action in December on the eastern front, the Latvian Armed Forces reported on Jan. 10. Platonovs was ...

Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar won the night's biggest awards, but the real takeaway from the Grammys is that a wave of younger stars has arrived on the pop scene, fully prepared to own the spotlight.

Ukraine has become a war lab for the future since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Driven by necessity, it has had no choice but to rely on rapid innovations to fight back. As a result, ...