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...team of Alex Gough, Sam Edney, and Chris and Mike Moffat finished in an aggregate time of 2:10.864. Austria was 1.004 seconds back. Latvia placed third, trailing Canada by 1.230 seconds. The American team of Bengt Walden, Erin Hamlin, Matt...

In this article: World Cup, Mike Moffat, Chris Moffat, Preston Griffall, Sam Edney, Erin Hamlin, Matt Mortensen, and Bengt Walden

...true of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. It is blessedly not as popular a destination with stag parties as neighbouring Riga in Latvia. The mayor of that city recently announced new zero-tolerance measures to put manners on unruly...

In this article: Vilnius, Dog, Lithuania, Lake Galve, Garlic bread, Claustrophobia, Ostrich, and BlackBerry

...which then informed police. The questioning of the two Fortuna players came one day after UEFA announced that five clubs in Albania, Latvia, Slovenia and Hungary are suspected of match-fixing. German prosecutors are leading an...

In this article: Fortuna Duesseldorf, Champions League, KS Vllaznia, KF Tirana, Europe, Slovenia, Honved Budapest, and SC Verl

...9:09 AM on 16th November 2009 Shoppers are being led to believe they are buying British cheddar when nearly half of it is made in Latvia, Ireland and New Zealand. Because of a legal loophole, supermarkets can label cheese as being...

In this article: Cheddar cheese, UK, Ireland, Cheddar, New Zealand, and Tesco

...countries of eastern Europe are worried about security. Their biggest concern is NATO, where officials are meant to be drafting contingency plans to defend Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Barack Obama pushed this idea at the NATO summit in...

In this article: NATO, Europe, NATO Summit, European country, Barack Obama, Poland, Estonia, and Lithuania

...co-chair. On November 30, 2007, the White House announced that Larson would be nominated to become Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USA to the Republic of Latvia in 2008, replacing the Catherine Todd Bailey. In June of...

In this article: Chuck Larson, Iowa Senate, Barack Obama, Iowa, and Rob Hogg

...he did well on foreign policy matters -- he could name the prime minister of the Republic of Georgia and talk about Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia and Poland -- but in the beginning he had an opportunity to separate himself from the Bush...

In this article: Franklin Raines, Barack Obama, Bill Cunningham, Fannie Mae, John McCain, Michael Dobbs, Cincinnati, Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs, and Sean Hannity

...neither would Obama (cringe-worthy for the rightwingers, I'm sure). They both love this country and they both are politicians who are lying to some extent to get elected. I'm for Obama, but I honestly do want to know about his stance on some...

In this article: Matt Damon, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Republican Party, Alaska, Abraham Lincoln, Democracy, Climate change, and God

...(ODS). The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as the new caucus is named, has faced criticism "for having MEPs from Latvia whose members have celebrated the Nazis, condemned homosexuality and claimed the election of black US...

In this article: David William Donald Cameron, Conservative Party, Labour Party, Tony Blair, David Davis, Sandra Howard, Norman Lamont, Gordon Brown, and Allegation

...invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, sends a very clear signal to Poland and other countries of the old Soviet bloc, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, that there is no guarantee of U.S. support should Russia make demands. "This is...

In this article: Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Poland, U.S., NATO, Israel, World War II, Warsaw Pact, and Taliban