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/ 20 February 2009
As Latvia’s economy shrinks, making fun of the state’s embattled leaders — with mocking T-shirts and penguin posters — has become quite popular.
Thanks to a popular vote, Canada and China are the most heavily represented nations in a new global edition of Monopoly.
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/ 21 February 2008
The pet rabbit of Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, Leonardo da Vinci, has died, the Telegraf newspaper reported on Thursday. Nicknamed Lisis, the five-year-old bunny possibly died of stress caused by a recent relocation to the presidential residence, Zatlers told the TV 5 channel.
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/ 16 December 2007
Latvian authorities have given residents something to cheer about when they invited them to cut their own Christmas trees for free — only to be chased away by forest rangers. A Riga forestry agency said a state body had invited residents to cut their trees from forests located 50km or more outside the capital, but people had instead descended on protected areas.
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/ 29 November 2006
Nato pledged on Wednesday to stay the course to restore peace and stability in Afghanistan at a summit where nations offered guarded concessions to improve the mobility of allied forces battling Taliban insurgents. Alliance leaders also reversed policy on Serbia and Bosnia by offering them a first step towards Nato membership.
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/ 11 September 2006
Hundreds of Latvians knitting 4 500 pairs of woolen mittens as gifts for the November Nato summit have been told to avoid a folk symbol said to ward off evil since it looks like a Nazi swastika. A spokesperson for the Nato leaders’ summit said the Latvian Thunder Cross, or Fire Cross, will not figure in the design of any of the thousands of unique pairs of mittens.
A man who cut off his own penis in a drunken bet had his organ stitched back on Thursday by Latvian doctors, the first such operation in the country’s history, Latvian public television reported. The 30-year-old man made a bet with his friend for 1 000 lats ($1 800) that he would cut off his penis.
Latvian police have detained a thief on a lonely beach who walked up to young women stark naked, scared them and then stole their personal belongings, police said on Tuesday. ”Two girls complained that they had been robbed on a beach by a naked man,” said Guntis Skride, spokesperson of Riga municipal police.