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The public in Lithuania is too nervous about Zapad 2017, a large-scale military exercise that has started in Russia and Belarus, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Thursday morning.

The Lithuanian Migration Department has decided to deny asylum to Alisher Toshev, a Tajik national who was last week detained at Vilnius Airport over national security concerns and remains in special accommodation premises for asylum-seekers at the airport's border control area.

Lithuania spends a higher proportion of its GDP on education than the EU average, ranking 12th among all 28 member states, according to the latest Eurostat figures released on Monday.

Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, the European Union's (EU) ambassador to Russia, says he will shortly end his diplomatic service in Moscow and engage in analytical work and politics upon return to Lithuania, listing the demographic crisis as the key challenge in his home country.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says he was assured by his Swedish colleague that the Swedish MP's initiative to block criticism for Belarus at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) did not reflect the entire country's position.

At Sweden's imitative, Lithuanian parliamentarians' resolution criticizing the construction of Belarus' Astravyets nuclear power plant was blocked at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday.

Lithuanian citizen Nerijus Bilevičius sentenced for murder of a young female in Sweden will have to serve his life sentence in Lithuania, a Šiauliai court ruled on Tuesday.

Mexico's honorary consulate, headed by Ieva Kubiliene, a lawyer, was opened in Vilnius on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said.

Lithuania this year lost four positions and ranks 40th among 127 countries in the latest Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages in Lithuania last year were among the lowest across the European Union (EU), figures from the EU statistical office Eurostat showed on Thursday.

On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry registered draft legislation on the appointment of new ambassadors to Germany, Italy and the Vatican.

The number of deaths from drug overdose in Europe has risen for the third year in a row and Lithuania is among five European nations that recorded a considerable increase in fatal overdoses, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) said in a report published this week.

Vilniuje lankėsi Švedijos verslo ir investicijų tarybos „Business Sweden“ krašto apsaugos, gynybos industrijos ir kibernetinio saugumo departamento vadovas Ulfas Rudebarkas. Kaip išvengti kibernetinių grėsmių ir saugoti savo duomenis jis patarė interviu DELFI.

Eksportą skatinančios agentūros „Versli Lietuva“ vadovo konkursą laimėjęs Švedijos prekybos ir investicijų tarybos „Business Sweden“ viceprezidentas Vidurio ir Rytų Europai Mantas Zalatorius atsisakė vadovauti įstaigai.

Švirkštas įsmeigiamas vienam darbuotojui tarp nykščio ir rodomojo piršto. Tuomet vienu paspaudimu į jo ranką implantuojama mikroschema – sukurtas dar vienas „kiborgas“.

The Iraqis who in December 2015 became the first refugee family relocated to Lithuania under the EU's resettlement program have lost their residence permit as they failed to return to the country from Sweden within six months.