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Gintė Damušytė, a Lithuanian diplomat, has been proposed as the country’s new ambassador to Denmark and Iceland.

An allegedly leaked copy of a sexual education project being prepared by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science has revealed a program which seems to rely primarily on abstinence.

This week, Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former Australian prime minister, will be visiting Moscow. Speaking at the Carnegie Moscow Center on February 18, 2016, Kevin Rudd outlined Chinese foreign policy under Xi Jinping. In a new article written exclusively for Carn...

At the United Nations headquarters in New York, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will sign the Paris climate change agreement today.

Angela Merkel is more needed in Europe as the German chancellor than the leader of the United Nations (UN), Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in an interview to the German radio Deutschlandfunk.

On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift.

The Lithuanian government agreed on priority issues the country will raise during its term at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Council. These will include the safety of reporters and the rights of the Crimean Tatar community, according to approv...

The Syrian civil war, which started five years ago, has devastated the country, killing 270,000 people and displacing half of the population. Public Radio International, based in the United States, developed an application that simulates the scale of the damage in terms of any other country of your ...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is planning to raise the issue of Belarus' Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., this week.

With great fanfare and “surprise” Russia once again seemingly out-maneuvered Western leadership in Syria. While much ink has been spilled debating whether President Vladimir Putin is executing a sound strategy—or is merely a tactical opportunist—it is clear that he has achieved his primary strategic...

The strength of the country's economy as measured in GDP per capita has the largest impact on happiness in Lithuania and countries around the world, according to the UN.

Russian statements about maneuvers in Syria should be viewed with caution, says Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, adding that countries should wait for actions to prove them.

A meeting in Geneva on Tuesday is to discuss progress that Belarus has made in reassuring Lithuania about a nuclear power plant that is being built near the Lithuanian-Belarusian border.

Lithuania will send six additional military police officers to NATO's mission in Afghanistan and a water purification unit and staff officers to the United Nations operation in Mali, the Ministry of National Defence told BNS on Tuesday.

Palestine does not seek to change Lithuania's attitude towards Israel, but wants the country to serve as a mediator in the peace negotiations, Palestine's Foreign Vice-Minister Amal Jadou has said in Vilnius.

The Lithuanian language is in threat of decline as competition from foreign languages, exclusion from scientific fields and lower literacy levels threaten its well-being.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė cancelled a planned trip to London where she was to attend an international high-level conference on humanitarian aid to Syria. Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius will take part in the event instead.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday it had allocated EUR 20,000 in humanitarian aid to refugees in Turkey.

A treetop walkway in Anykščiai is one of five finalists for the UN World Tourism Organization's (UNWTO) awards for innovation in tourism.

The Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will not run for UN Secretary General despite being named by several international NGOs as a possible candidate to run for the post which will be decided the United Nations General Assembly this year.