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Lithuania's new Interior Minister Rita Tamasuniene says firefighters and border guards will be a priority when raising wages next year, adding that the move will be aimed at closing the pay gap among statutory services.

Lithuania's State Border Guard Service has acquired two drones to fight cigarette smuggling.

Next year, Palanga Airport will make travellers welcome in its renovated premises, announced Lithuanian Airports.

A sailing exhibit of the Lithuanian Sea Museum, a replica of a traditional fishermen boat – kurenas, has on Tuesday sunk in the Curonian Lagoon. Two people were saved but the captain is missing, Nina Puteikiene, spokeswoman for the museum told BNS Lithuania.

Aviabaltika, a company based in Lithuania's central Kaunas District and owned by businessmen Yuri Borisov, is making money from orders from Lithuanian border guards and the country's army, the delfi.lt news website reports on Thursday.

Businessmen from Lithuania's port of Klaipeda, who win state tenders in Russia, also receive orders from Lithuania's strategic companies and the army, the investigation team from Lithuania's public broadcaster LRT has discovered.

Vilnius Airport has launched automated border control gates to facilitate the flow of passengers through the airport, Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports) said on Friday.

Lithuanian border guards detained three illegal migrants who arrived in Vilnius Airport on a flight from Greece on Sunday, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) said on Monday.

Lithuanian border guards rescued four people on an Estonian-registered boat in the Baltic Sea late on Sunday, the State Border Guard Service, or VSAT, said on Monday.

The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to submit a package of legislative amendments aimed at clarifying the legal regulation of martial law to the parliament for approval.

The Lithuanian government plans to clarify the legal regulation of martial law to define in more detail the competences of the leaders, the composition of the armed forces and the use of special measures under a state of war.

Lithuanian border guards detained a UK citizen late on Tuesday, illegally taking an Iraqi family of four, who had asked for asylum in Lithuania, to Poland.

The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT) has warned of possible temporary traffic restrictions at the Medininkai checkpoint on Thursday and Friday due to road repairs in Belarus on the other side of the border.

The Panemunė-Sovetsk border checkpoint on the Lithuanian-Russian border will not work for four hours on Thursday, Lithuania's State Border Guard Service said.

20 migrants from Iraq and Afghanistan were detained in Lithuania's northeastern district of Ignalina on Tuesday, the country's State Border Guard Service said on Thursday.

Border guards at Vilnius Airport have detained six people who flew in from Greece, having forged Romanian and Italian ID documents.

A Vilnius court has halted a tender announced by Lithuania's border guards for the installation of CCTV systems on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border.

A Russian woman has been detained after smuggling around 15 kilograms of amber from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad into Lithuania, the State Border Guard Service said on Thursday.

Vietnamese diplomats and officials will discuss migration issues with Lithuanian border officials during their visit to Lithuania starting on Tuesday.

Lithuanian border guards detained four illegal immigrants from Vietnam and a Latvian citizen who was driving them on Saturday, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said.