AlQa'dah 23, 1432, Oct 21, 2011, SPA -- A Lithuanian court on Friday sentenced Irish citizen Michael Campbell to 12 years in jail for seeking to acquire weapons and explosives in Lithuania to arm a Northern Irish republican militant group after a (...)
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited Lithuania in a hastily arranged trip on Sunday to show solidarity with ethnic Poles, who have protested against plans to increase the teaching of the Lithuanian language in Polish schools, according to (...)
The Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe (OSCE) said Monday that it had started diplomatic
efforts to continue its work in Belarus, after the government there
shut down the OSCE office, according to dpa.
"I deeply regret that (...)
Lithuania started experiencing a decrease in gas
deliveries on Wednesday, as a dispute between Russia and Belarus over
back payments for gas continued, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, according to dpa.
A top official at the Lithuanian gas (...)
European commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso urged countries to support the ailing euro as the bloc grapples with a financial crisis that has caused the currency's value to plummet.
Barroso said it is important to help "keep the euro a strong (...)
Baltic leaders joined a chorus of condolences
Saturday following the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in a
plane crash in Russia, according to dpa.
"I have no words to describe my sorrow at receiving news of the
tragic plane crash this (...)
France told Lithuania today its plans to sell Russia a warship, if realised, would not involve any transfer of military technology, Reuters quoted a spokesman for Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite as saying.
Plans by Paris to sell military (...)
Health officials in Lithuania confirmed today
that the country had recorded its first death linked to the A/H1N1
flu virus, known commonly as swine flu, according to dpa.
The victim was a 14-year-old boy from the Baltic state"s
second-largest (...)
The prime ministers of three Baltic states said
today they remained committed to the joint construction of a new
nuclear power station for the region in which Poland will also have a
share, according to dpa.
After talks in the Lithuanian (...)
Improved relations between NATO
and Russia would benefit the Baltic states, the head of the
military alliance today told the former Soviet nations,
which are traditionally mistrustful of their large neighbour, Reuters reported.
Lithuania, Latvia (...)
Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius on
Thursday cast doubt on a promise from President Dalia Grybauskaite to
investigate claims that a secret CIA jail holding terror suspects
operated in the Baltic state until 2005, according to (...)
Ingrida Simonyte was confirmed as Lithuania's new finance minister today, according to dpa.
Simonyte, 34, has worked at the ministry since 1997. From 2002 she
headed the tax department. She was appointed a ministerial
undersecretary in (...)
Lithuania will refuse to close its Soviet-era
Ignalina nuclear power plant as planned unless the European Union
provides adequate compensation, Lithuanian Economy Minister Vytas
Navickas said on Thursday, according to dpa.
"Unless the energy (...)
Lithuania has agreed to drop its
objections to European Union talks with Russia on a new
strategic partnership, the Baltic country's foreign
minister said Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
Lithuania had blocked the negotiations because (...)