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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė received Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn, who is currently in Lithuania on a working visit.
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A group of journalism students in Moscow pose semi-naked for a steamy calendar wishing Russia's prime minister a happy birthday.
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Some 200 people are rescued from a burning passenger ferry off the coast of Germany after an explosion rocked the ship.
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A European civil protection team of five experts from France, Belgium, Sweden, Austria and Germany will arrive in Hungary on Monday morning to support the Hungarian authorities in their efforts to combat the pollution caused by the break of a sludge depository in the city of Ajka.
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In the EU27 in 2008, 20% of women and 32% of men aged 25 to 34 lived with at least one of their parents.
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The President of the European Commission said, “With this Nobel Prize, the international community acknowledges the fruitful work of one of the best writers of our times.
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Europe needs a secular "soul" and the European project is running into trouble through a combination of individualism, globalisation and a lack of interest from national governments.
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At the fall meetings of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe on 8 October in Palermo, Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE Ambassador Renatas Norkus will deliver a speech about the strengthening of ties between the OSCE and the Mediterranean partners.
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The European Investment Bank and African Development Bank today agreed to provide EUR 45m to design, build and operate onshore wind farms on four islands in the Cape Verde archipelago.
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MEPs want future EU budgets to accommodate new policy priorities as well as negotiations on new sources of financing.
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EU cohesion policy not only needs adequate funding, it should also be more flexible to reflect regional differences, says Parliament in two resolutions adopted on Thursday on cohesion policy priorities after 2013.
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“Vertical” health funds targeting specific diseases such as AIDS, malaria or TB have achieved some success, but only at the cost of draining resources from basic “horizontal” health infrastructure such as clinics.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov thanked Lithuania for helping Russia to fight forest fires.
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At the opening of today's plenary session in Brussels, Parliament's President Jerzy Buzek made reference to Monday's flood of toxic waste in Hungary, the anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the EP's support for abolition of the death penalty.
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Philippine flight attendants just dance to Lady Gaga in safety demo.
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China and the European Union will hold their annual meeting in Brussels on 6 October.
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Lithuania will encourage the governments of the OSCE participating states to take more pro-active measures to ensure the safety journalists and to put more effort into investigating cases of violence against journalists, and will emphasize the importance of media self-regulation.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite presented letters of credence to Dainius Junevičius as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Arab Republic of Egypt.
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On October 18-19, the second International Forum “Cash Circulation and Self-Service Banking. Cash out. Cash In. Cash Recycling in Russia and the CIS 2010” will be held in Moscow, Russia.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė presented letters of credence to Loreta Zakarevičienė as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Poland.
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