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Lithuania ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Lithuania () is a country in Northern Europe, the largest of the three Baltic states.
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Riot police helped a mother regain custody of her 8-year-old daughter on Thursday in a tragic case that has riveted Lithuania for three years and led to three deaths.
Thirty-nine protesters were detained as they tried to prevent the police from carrying out a 5-month-old court order saying the mother should regain custody of her daughter from a house where relatives were keeping her.Many Lithuanians in the southern town of Garliava violently opposed the order because they allege the girl's mother, Laimute Stankunaite, is part of a pedophile ring.Protesters had long prevented authorities from taking the girl, Deimante Kedyte, from her deceased father's relatives by forming a cordon around the house. But early Thursday morning Stankunaite and her lawyer — both wearing bulletproof vests and surrounded by dozens of police carrying shields — whisked the girl out of the house to a waiting van.The demonstrators screamed and shouted obscenities, and many were later shown crying.Prime Minister A...The skeletons of 18 of Napoleon's soldiers were laid to rest Monday in Lithuania — 200 years after the French emperor tried in vain to invade Russia.Lithuanian deput...
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania's first post-independence president, Algirdas Brazauskas, died at his home Saturday, his wife said. He was 77.Brazauskas had been...
In a Lithuanian cemetery, a world away from ground zero, the twin towers still stand. Vladimir Gavriushin lays white roses near the 6-foot granite replicas of the Wo...
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Several hundred activists from the Baltic states and neighboring countries braved rain and hail to participate in an annual parade in defense of gay and lesbian righ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's energy dispute with Belarus escalated and reached the European Union on Wednesday after Lithuania said its Russian gas supplies, which transit...
Human rights groups have called on Lithuanian prosecutors to reopen a criminal probe into a secret CIA detention center set up in the country, and a top national sec...
The CIA built and ran a secret prison in Lithuania where it apparently used harsh interrogation techniques on Al Qaeda suspects, according to a broadcast report.ABC ...
A Lithuanian lawmaker says there is no evidence that U.S. airplanes with Al Qaeda suspects ever landed in the Baltic country.A recent report by ABC News claimed the ...
The mayor of Vilnius acknowledged Tuesday distributing a deliberately altered picture to The Associated Press and other news organizations intended to dramatize his ...
Two Lithuanian air force pilots ejected and sent their aircraft crashing into a swamp following a midair collision with a French fighter jet during a NATO training f...
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's most famous basketball player Arvydas Sabonis is making a good recovery after a heart attack, the basketball federation said on Wedne...
Five European Parliament members have visited an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania as part of an inquiry into possible torture of suspected terrorists.The lawmakers to...
History buffs from the Netherlands and other European countries have gathered in Lithuania to retrace Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Russia 200 years ago.The ent...
Poland and Lithuania are bonded by history, culture and Catholic faith but deeply divided over the letter w.Used a lot in Polish, the letter doesn't exist in Lithuan...
European lawmakers on Friday criticized two probes by Lithuanian authorities into alleged CIA prisons, describing them as contradictory and incomplete.The European P...
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Opponents of Lithuania's first gay pride parade threw smoke bombs and tried to break through a barrier Saturday but were stopped by police ...
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A Lithuanian appeals court said Friday that the country's first gay pride parade can go ahead as planned, overturning a ban imposed by a lo...
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A Lithuanian woman has been detained on suspicion of liaising with radical Islamic groups and plotting a suicide attack against an undisclo...
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