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President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia on national holiday - Republic Day.
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Next Tuesday, June 1 at 17.00 hours, President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet with the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Angela Merkel, who will be in Vilnius on a working visit.
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Ahead of the 2010 No Tobacco Day (Monday 31st May), the European Commission unveils the results of a Eurobarometer survey which shows that a strong majority of EU citizens support stronger tobacco control measures.
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MEPs visiting Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories welcomed the launch of proximity talks, and stressed that negotiations should lead to a solution based on two viable and autonomous states.
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More than 6,000 Harley Davidson motorcyclists parade across one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.
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A four-year-old Chinese boy is a natural born thriller when it comes to impersonating Michael Jackson's most famous dance moves.
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Ahead of the upcoming World Cup, soccer-mad Brazilians are painting the town yellow, green and blue.
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A 13-year-old boy from California becomes the youngest climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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A five-month old Siberian tiger with cataracts in both eyes becomes China's youngest animal to undergo surgery.
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Despite the current economic crisis and tensions in the euro, Estonia is set to adopt the single currency in January.
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Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis met with the parliamentary delegation from Moldova, that is paying a visit to Lithuania at the invitation of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the U.S. International Republican Institute and the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies, which is currently chaired by Lithuania.
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President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Dr. Birutė Galdikas, a well-known Lithuanian Canadian primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author of several books relating to the endangered orangutan.
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Commission proposes a bank tax to cover the costs of winding down banks that go bust.
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The European Commission today presented an analysis of the costs, benefits and options for moving beyond the EU's greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 from 20% below 1990 levels to 30% once the conditions are met.
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The European Investment Bank will provide a total of EUR 400 million to Hellenic Petroleum SA in order to increase the production of cleaner fuels via the upgrading of the Elefsina refinery.
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At a joint EU–Latin America Civil Aviation Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Vice-President Siim Kallas, responsible for transport, today signed two "joint declarations" with Latin American aviation leaders that will lay the foundation for closer cooperation in civil aviation between the EU and Latin America.
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Britain's soccer star David Beckham visits troops in Afghanistan. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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The Italians, the defending 2006 World Cup champions, will be honing their skills at a high altitude training camp until their departure for South Africa on June 8.
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Maradona says Champions League hero Diego Milito will have a shot at starting for Argentina as the squad prepares for a last World Cup tune-up.
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Ministers from 37 countries - 27 from the European Union and the ten that form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations - will meet in Madrid on Wednesday to commemorate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of a formal framework for relations between the two groups.
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