Newcomers Win in Latvian Election; Tough Coalition Talks Ahead
(WorldNews Europe)

Latvia´s ruling coalition lost its majority and two newly formed parties took more than a quarter of the votes amid widespread disillusion with the Baltic country´s politicians, the result in Saturday´s parliamentary elections showed with 80 percent of the votes counted. The country of 2 million, a quarter of whom are ethnic Russians, is a frontline state in Europe´s and NATO´s increasingly tense relationship with Vladimir Putin. The...