President Gitanas Nausėda spoke by telephone on Monday with President Andrzej Duda of Poland to discuss the results of the Polish parliamentary election, security and defence cooperation and regional security, the presidency said.
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President Gitanas Nausėda and leaders of other 26 member states of the European Union (EU) on Sunday issued a joint statement which strongly condemns Hamas and its brutal and indiscriminate terrorist attacks across Israel, the presidency said.
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Police received three emails on Sunday night with an identical text saying explosives have been placed in various institutions and will be set off today at 12:12 p.m. About 1,500 such emails were sent to some 1,500 recipients, it said.
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Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says a number of different institutions across the country have received a total of 900 emails with hoax bomb threats.
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On Friday, three trade unions are holding a march and a rally in Vilnius city centre in solidarity with other trade unions protesting in Europe and opposing austerity measures.
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The State Security Department (VSD) has stated that emails with bomb threats sent to Lithuania’s schools and kindergartens represent a coordinated and deliberate attack by hostile countries. The police stated that the number of emails with bomb threats in the Russian Language has reached 633.
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Lithuanian police announced that education establishments have been receiving mass bomb threats on Friday morning.
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National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas says decisions agreed at the NATO summit in Vilnius must be put into practice as soon as possible.
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Lithuania’s Ambassador Eitvydas Bajarūnas must be recalled as soon as possible for operations of the embassy are paralysed, says MP Žygimantas Pavilionis, chair of the parliament's foreign affairs committee.
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Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Thursday met with Ambassador of Israel Hadas Wittenberg Silverstein, the Office of the Government reports.
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President Gitanas Nausėda met with Mayor of Kaunas City Visvaldas Matijošaitis on Wednesday. The president said he expected the politician to cut his business ties to Russia “as soon as possible”, according to the presidency.
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The second evacuation flight by Lithuanian Air Force plane Alenia C-27J Spartan from Israel is planned for Thursday evening. Thirty Lithuanian nationals have registered for the flight.
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Julia Mickiewicz – a Belarusian activist, co-founder of the Feminist group within the Coordination Council in Belarus – had to leave her country 2 years ago. Together with the organisation for non-formal organisation for which she works, Julia relocated to Lithuania. Julia tells about life in immigration, future of Belarus and the first days after the presidential elections in Belarus in August 2020, the emerging protests – and how Belarusian women became the new symbol of resistance.
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A plane from Israel landed at Vilnius Airport on Wednesday afternoon after several delays. A total of 141 passengers were on the commercial flight, including pilgrims who were stuck in Bethlehem.
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Lithuania has increased the threat level after the 77 km Balticonnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia was damaged earlier.
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MP Mindaugas Lingė, chairman of the Seimas Committee on Budget and Finance, has revealed that some time ago a group of legislators addressed the Constitutional Court to contest the Government’s 2022 resolution whereby China was listed as an unreliable supplier of software.
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On 10 October, an Informal video conference of EU ministers of foreign affairs on the situation in Israel and the Middle East region took place in Oman following the attack on Israel by Hamas, reports the Foreign Ministry.
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Finland and Estonia have reported that gas pipeline Balticconnector connecting the two countries was shut down on Sunday due to a gas leak and it is believed that damage was caused deliberately by external activity. Following these reports, Lithuania’s Minister of Energy Dainius Kreivys stated that Lithuania’s energy infrastructure is safe.
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Long queues of passengers at Vilnius Airport will end only when the new terminal opens, says Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis.
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The police in Lithuania have enhanced security near synagogues after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel from Gaza on Saturday.