News notices and news from Lithuania.
Over the past few months, Lithuania has witnessed a series of incidents that, just a few years ago, we might have found easier to imagine happening somewhere else rather than here.
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Lithuania recorded the sharpest quarterly economic contraction among 20 European Union countries that have published data for the third quarter, according to Eurostat figures.
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Lithuanian Airports sees no indications that Latvian carrier airBaltic plans to discontinue its flights between Vilnius and Lisbon or Hamburg, despite the airline’s decision to drop another route and significantly scale back its operations in Lithuania.
1d ago · Read at LRT English →
Lithuanian households face a costly winter, with natural gas bills for those heating their homes expected to rise by about 32 euros a month from January, while the regulated electricity price is set to increase by around 20%, exceeding levels seen during the 2023 energy crisis.
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Palantir, a controversial AI software company, is entering Lithuania, where the country’s military is eyeing procurement of a tool already used in combat. But enabling algorithmic decision-making carries its own risks.
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Lithuanian Culture Minister Lukas Alsys has questioned the timing of a planned publication of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Lithuania, despite the publisher’s promise to include extensive historical commentary and critical analysis.
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Lithuanians are significantly less likely than the average European Union resident to pay for digital subscriptions, whether for films, television, sports, music or online news. Experts say the gap reflects a combination of purchasing power, established consumption habits, the availability of free a
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More than 125 million text messages leaked over four years have been found in a publicly accessible database belonging to the Latvian branch of telecommunications company CSCTelecom, including sensitive data belonging to Lithuanian businesses and their customers, the technology and cybersecurity new
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Lithuanian Airports plans to challenge Latvian airline airBaltic’s decision to cancel flights between Vilnius and Düsseldorf in a US court as part of the carrier’s Chapter 11 restructuring proceedings.
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Lithuania’s president said four drones and dozens of suspected meteorological balloon sightings were detected moving from Belarus towards NATO's external border.
3d ago · Read at Euronews →