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Iron Wolf 2017, this year's largest multinational military exercise in Lithuania, will be formally opened concurrently in the Lithuanian Armed Forces' two military training areas, in Rukla and Pabrade, on Monday, the Defense Ministry said.

Lithuanian leaders on Sunday expressed condolences over the terrorist attacks in London, which took innocent lives.

Lithuania's pavilion to take part at the Expo 2017 world exposition opening in Astana in two weeks will be presented at the Vilnius Town Hall on Monday.

Lithuania will continue to cooperate with the United Kingdom and international community in counter-terrorism efforts, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said as he offered his condolences to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over Monday's deadly explosion in Manchester.

Lithuania will seek all possible guarantees for Lithuanians living in the United Kingdom after that country leaves the European Union, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said ahead of her bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May in Brussels on Thursday.

More details are available about the attack against Lithuanian migrants in Northern Ireland – the local police have told Lithuanian diplomats that unidentified individuals fired at least three shots at the house in Lurgan in early hours of Monday.

Brits concerned that they will lose the free travel benefits after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union are looking into ways to procure passports of other EU countries. The Lithuanian Embassy in London, too, says it has received more enquiries about the Lithuanian citizenship. To read this ...

The number of migrant workers from eight eastern EU nations in the United Kingdom has topped one million.

Six out of ten Lithuanians have a negative opinion about the results of the recent referendum in the United Kingdom of leaving the European Union. Every fourth Lithuanian has relatives living in the UK. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Britain's new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has ancestral ties with Lithuania. The controversial politician's great grandfather was a Litvak born in Žemaičių Kalvarija, the famous American palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe (Loew). To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking her...

Albinas Januška, Lithuanian politician, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party, a signatory of the Lithuanian Independence Act and once the ultimate éminence grise, gives a scathing analysis of the country's domestic politics and the ills affecting the European Union.

New data released by Statistics Lithuania show that even more people emigrated from the country over the first half of this year than in January-June 2015. Demographers say the figures are alarming, but may be inflated due to Brexit. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking...

Lithuania's economy could suffer a hit of up to 0.8% as the United Kingdom negotiates its divorce with the European Union, according to Lithuanian prime minister. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

A Lithuanian furniture maker has been forced to freeze plans of investment after the United Kingdom, its biggest export market, voted to leave the European Union. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The United Kingdom's foreign policy should not undergo radical change after Boris Johnson, the controversial former London mayor and a leading Brexit campaigner, has been appointed secretary of state for foreign affairs, Lithuanian Minister Linas Linkevičius believes. To read this article, try a €5....

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius met with the United Kingdom's new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Brussels on Monday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania's Deputy Foreign Minister Mantvydas Bekešius says he has been reassured by the United Kingdom's new Minister of State for immigration James Goodwill that attacks against Lithuanian migrants will not be tolerated. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian Deputy Foreign Minister Mantvydas Bekešius is meeting the Lithuanian expat community in London to discuss Brexit vote results and the recent surge in attack against Eastern European migrants in the United Kingdom. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.