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As of Monday, isolation will no longer be required for arrivals from Germany, Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, Norway, Iceland, Serbia and Liechtenstein. This has been made possible by raising the COVID-19 incidence rate threshold serving as the basis for drawing up the list of affected countries.

Foreigners from Sweden, Luxembourg and Portugal will be banned from coming to Lithuania next week, based on the list approved by Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga.

The existing bank for residents of Sweden, Portugal and the United Kingdom to come to Lithuania will remain next week.

A Lithuanian has been taken from a ferry to a Klaipeda hospital after arriving from Sweden on Sunday and nine other passengers are waiting for additional health checks.

Во вторник в шведском городе Мальме был официально открыт прижизненный памятник самому знаменитому футболисту королевства - Златану Ибрагимовичу.

Sweden's furniture group IKEA, Finland's Dasos Capital as well as Lithuania's Dzukijos Miskas and its shareholders are the major forest owners in Lithuania, the delfi.lt news website reports.

Знаменитый голливудский актер Леонардо Ди Каприо высказался о пожарах, которые охватили леса в Сибири. Популярный артист сделал заявление в Instagram.

New details have emerged regarding the Tuesday night incident when two Lithuanians fell overboard from a ferry going to Lithuania from Sweden. It turns out one of the men was trying to save the other one.

The chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance (CBF), which is looking into the circumstances and consequences of the 2009-2010 crisis, expects to meet with the heads of Sweden's central bank and financial watchdog during his visit to the country next week.

Lithuanian Finance Minister Vilius Sapoka says the topic of alleged money laundering via banks often starts to make headlines in the run-up to elections.

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Two Mi-8 helicopters of the Lithuanian Air Force have been helping to fight wildfires in Latvia and Sweden for the third week now, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

Lithuania ranks 36th in the annual World Press Freedom Index, produced by Reporters Without Borders, unchanged from last year.

The Netherlands is building new coalitions within the EU to compensate for the loss of the UK as the union's main free trade champion, and has found partners in the Baltic States. At the same time, a domestic policy issue involving gas supplies and the Dutch stance on Russia have the potential to pu...

The Palestinians are considering opening their embassy in Vilnius later this year, making it a bridge for Arab countries to the Baltic states, Foreign Minister Riad al Malki says.

A future without cash was the subject of the Swedish-Lithuania Business Forum on Thursday in Vilnius. How to achieve that cashless society, the merits and some of the challenges was the main subject of presentations and panel discussions. Sweden gives us a closer look as to how the cashless future i...

Lithuania's 8th consulate in Sweden has been opened in the city of Linkoping.