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Investigators probing the deadly cargo plane crash in Lithuania found the aircraft’s flight recorders on Tuesday, the justice ministry said, as they sought to establish what caused the disaster. The DHL plane coming from the German city of Leipzig crashed early on Monday near the Vilnius airport, killing one crew member and raising questions over […]
One person died in the incident, which came months after people alleged to have been working for Russian intelligence services used the company to ship incendiary devices. Source link
A cargo plane flying on behalf of German logistics company DHL crashed near Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania early on Monday, killing at least one person, according to Lithuanian officials. The deceased person was confirmed by Lithuanian police to be a Spanish national and member of the flight crew, although not one of the pilots. […]
The crash near Vilnius Airport sparked a fire in a residential area, officials said. One person on board was killed and three others were hospitalized. Source link
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A DHL cargo plane crashed on approach to an airport in Lithuania’s capital and skidded into a nearby house Monday morning, leaving at least one person dead, officials said. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. The head of the country’s firefighting service said that the plane skidded for […]
Taiwan’s foreign minister Lin Chia-lung met with European Parliament members this week in an unannounced stop in Brussels as part of his first visit to Europe to firm up ties. Taiwan has worked to strengthen ties with European countries as it faces an increasingly assertive China, which claims the self-ruled democratic island as part of its […]
Swedish police investigating the believed sabotage of two fibre-optic undersea cables in the Baltic Sea have said a Chinese ship off the coast of Denmark was “of interest” as Danish officials said its navy was shadowing a Chinese-registered cargo ship. The ship identified by Denmark – the Yi Peng 3 – passed both the cables […]
On Aug. 23, 1989—the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which established spheres of Soviet and German influence across Eastern Europe—approximately 2 million people across the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania formed a human chain stretching more than 400 miles in a sign of resistance to the Soviet Union’s occupation […]
Mapped: The World’s Top 20 Tallest Countries This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. This graphic ranks the 20 tallest countries in the world, by average height. Data comes from NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, […]
Article content (Bloomberg) — Lithuania’s Jewish community urged the Baltic nation’s president to intervene to prevent a party involved in an antisemitic scandal from becoming part of a new ruling coalition. The surprise decision by the Social Democratic Party, winners of October’s election, to invite the Dawn of Nemunas – whose leader is on trial […]