Oct. 03, 2024 03:49 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — On a weekend morning in the fall of 2004, 13 runners lined up in a London park for an informal race — unaware they were taking the first steps in what would become a global movement.
Paul Sinton-Hewitt had simple ambitions: to provide a free, weekly 5-kilometer...
Sep. 23, 2024 07:15 AM EDT
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania signed a deal with U.S. ammunition producer Northrop Grumman on Monday as it seeks to increase defense capabilities in the shadow of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte and Steve O’Bryan, the company's vice president, met...
Sep. 07, 2024 13:56 PM EDT
HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said Saturday they are committed to completing by the end of the decade a financially troubled and badly delayed high-speed rail project integrating the three Baltic countries with the continental European rail network.
Set to link the...
Jul. 29, 2024 10:39 AM EDT
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — One person died and some 200,000 households were left without electricity in Lithuania and neighboring Latvia as strong storm winds and heavy rain pounded the Baltic nations overnight.
A 50-year-old woman was killed in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, by...