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VILNIUS - Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus has undergone corrective eye surgery, the president’s press service said. Adamkus had lens replacement surgery on his right eye on Thurday afternoon. The president was released from the hospital on Thursday evening, and has spent Friday recovering

TALLINN - A former Estonian environment minister has pled not guilty to charges that e demanded a large bribe while in office. Villu Reiljan, 54, a parliamentarian with the People’s Unionand a former environment minister, stood trial alongside Tarmo Sild, 32, and businessman Aivo Parn, 40. The t ...

RIGA - The Free Trade Union of Latvia (LBAS) has demanded that the government compensate workers for the country’s high inflation rate and threatened large scale protests if their demands are not met. LBAS submitted a document to the government on Thursday that invited officials to talks on the

RIGA – The results of a recent survey by Eurostat suggest that the population of the Baltic states will drop by as much as 25 percent by 2060 if nothing is done to stymie the trend. The report, released on Aug. 28, predicted that by 2060 the population of Estonia,Latvia and Lithuania will fall

TALLINN - Estonian real estate group Arco Vara has announced that it lost approximately 28 million kroons (1.8 million euros) in the second quarter of 2008. The announcement brings the company’s net losses to 44.7 million kroons in the first half of this year – down by 271.9 million kroons fro ...

A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.

Who brought down the cooling towers in South Yorkshire?

A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.

Do you want to save the biosphere or boost your own brand of politics? You can’t do both.

A cunning new loophole has wrecked the government’s Climate Change Bill.

The G8 Summit in July 2005 looks to be historic because of promised debt relief for some poor countries in Africa as well as action on climate change. But behind the media and government spin, is this really the case? The proposed $40 billion debt write-off does not look as historic as described, as ...

Industrial monoculture agriculture reduces ecological and food diversity while actually being less productive than smaller scale farming. Climate change impacts will further reduce the resilience of crops, thus potentially affecting food security and further increasing dependency on a few wealthy co ...

Tax shelters, typically used by the mega rich and many big corporations, could be costing the US Treasury tens of billions of dollars per year. Aggressive marketing of tax avoidance products by accounting, law, and tax investment firms makes this a lucrative industry.

As the recent massive Millennium Ecosystem Assessment shows, global environmental degradation is severe endangering the planets capability to sustain us as we waste resources and put more and more pressure on ecosystems.

Product placement, whereby a company subtly advertises their product in a film, has been going on for decades. But now this idea is extending to books, television programs, pop songs and computer games. Even news items can really be advertising. Advertisers therefore have an influence on the enterta ...