Latvia will close one of its two border crossing points with Belarus due to the ongoing Minsk-engineered migrant crisis, the Latvian government announced on Sept. 19. Latvia has suspended the ...

The Latvian State Border Guard will ask the government to close the Silene border crossing with Belarus after a record number of people tried to illegally cross last week, the Latvian Radio reported ...

HELSINKIHELSINKI — Latvia is growing worried over the increasing number of migrants attempting to cross over into the Baltic nation through the border with Belarus and has called up the military to ...

Latvia, along with neighboring Estonia and Lithuania, has emerged as one of the most vocal opponents of Russia in the wake of Putin’s unprovoked brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago.

Belarus's Investigative Committee said on November 3 it had launched a probe against unspecified Latvian officials on charges of "crimes against human safety" over the deaths of 12 migrants along the ...

Latvian authorities bolstered security at the border with Belarus as the Baltic nation accused its eastern neighbor of organizing migrant crossings over the frontier. The Latvian State Border Guard ...

The Belarusian customs is ready to increase the load on checkpoints with Poland and Latvia after Lithuania announced the ...

Latvia prevented 246 people from illegally crossing from neighboring Belarus on September 10 -- a 24-hour record, the Latvian Border Guard said on September 11. According to the Border Guard, 472 ...

Lithuania has repeatedly taken unilateral decisions to close border checkpoints. As a result, nearly 5,000 Lithuanian tractors and trailers are currently stranded on Belarusian territory.

VILNIUS, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Latvia's parliament voted on Thursday to ban its national teams from playing any national teams of Russia and Belarus regardless of what flag they may compete under, as a ...

Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Sekreta met with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in ...