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On 10 August in Washington, Lithuania’s Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis presented his credentials to President of the United States of America Barack Obama.
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Today, the European Commission has adopted a €10 million emergency decision to further assist the most vulnerable people in Pakistan affected by the disastrous floods.
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These are the financial results of the banking activities of the Danske Bank Group in Lithuania (Danske Bankas and Danske Lizingas UAB).
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) today signed its first loan agreement with Armenia.
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Given the worsening food crisis in the Sahel, the Commission today agreed to disburse €14.9 million for food security in Niger, the worst affected country in the area.
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Wildfire smoke in Moscow shuts down businesses and disrupts work at airports.
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The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed restructuring of Arnotts' debts in return for a transfer of control to Anglo Irish Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
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Christmas comes early to London's Oxford Street, as department store Selfridge's opens its festive store in the height of summer.
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A massive ice chunk four times the size of Manhattan has broken off one of Greenland's two main glaciers
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World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick will visit Bulgaria, Moldova, and Latvia on August 9 – 13, to meet with government leaders, business people, think tanks, civil society, and visit projects to discuss development issues and the impact of the global economic crisis.
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The European Commission today approved a new financial support package of €135 million for Morocco.
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The European Commission has approved an aid scheme that allows to grant compensation for the damage caused by the floods of May and June 2010 in Poland.
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Floods in Poland and Germany leave behind a wake of destroyed homes and lives.
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The European Commission is allocating an extra €10 million in humanitarian aid for Liberia.
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EU shows off cutting-edge technologies for sustainable cities.
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Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs sent letters of condolences to his Russian counterpart S. Lavrov and Minister of Transport, co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Lithuanian-Russian Commission for Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical, Humanitarian and Cultural Cooperation I. Levitin, expressing his condolences regarding the victims of violent forest fires in Russia.
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The World Bank is seeing a surge in demand from borrowers seeking the Bank’s expertise to mitigate currency and interest rate risk.
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The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules a Lithuanian package intended to stabilise the markets as a response to the global financial crisis.
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On 19 July, a school, which had been reconstructed with the funding from Lithuania’s Special Mission in Afghanistan, was opened in the village of Suri, the Zabul Province in the South of Afghanistan.
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Self-employed workers and their partners will enjoy better social protection – including the right to maternity leave for the first time – under new EU legislation that enters into force today.
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