VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Securing an end to the fighting in Ukraine must take place with Kyiv’s full involvement and come with more defense spending by regional countries to avoid any future ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In an interview with The Associated Press, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has said that any peace ...

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the President's palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) ...

Ukraine, maybe. Baltic countries, maybe.” Lithuania, which was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1990, is increasingly worried about the ongoing brutal war in Ukraine and the aggression of its ...

The divisions’ colours - yellow, green and red - mirror the colours of the Lithuanian flag, reflecting the commitment to contribute ... Bartuška says the infrastructure manager is now functioning in a ...

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The U.S. State Department has adopted a new policy under the Trump administration that effectively blocks U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, a report said ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear. By Kenneth Chang During his Inaugural Address on Monday ...

But executive order No. 5, the first non-appointment related order, declares the flags be flown at full mast for the remainder of Monday and any future inauguration days. Trump ordered this after ...

(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

Ukraine received a new military aid package from Lithuania at the end of last week. "We cannot slow down our support for Ukraine, because ensuring Ukraine's security means taking care of our own ...

To mark the death of former president Jimmy Carter, President Joe Biden declared flags be displayed at half-staff for 30 days to mourn him “as an expression of public sorrow.” That 30-day ...