Riot police helped a mother regain custody of her 8-year-old daughter on Thursday in a tragic case that has riveted Lithuania for three years and led to three deaths. VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Riot police helped a mother regain custody of her 8-year-old daughter on Thursday in a tragic case that has riveted Lithuania for three years and led to...

... confronted together. Finally, reducing the presence of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe would add to the concerns expressed by many European leaders about U.S. long-term commitments to the continent. Thanks to U.S. leadership, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and other European countries have enjoyed historically unsurpassed security since joining NATO, but that security should not be taken for granted. All of the NATO allies must understand that the global security landscape is changing. Cyber threats...

My grandfather was born in Manchester in 1912. His parents had only recently arrived from Lithuania, and they soon moved on. After losing two children to scarlet fever in filthy industrial Manchester, they left for much healthier Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. My grandfather was born in Manchester in 1912. His parents had only...

KIEV — Lithuania's president warned Ukraine of isolation over the imprisonment and deteriorating health of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Dalia Grybauskaite spoke late Friday after visiting Tymoshenko in a hospital in the eastern city of Kharkiv...

... "western Eurasian steppe" — an area now shared by southwest Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The research followed 16 years of collecting hair samples from more than 300 horses in Russia, China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Lithuania — areas where horses were the first to be domesticated and weren't too heavily bred. Warmuth said fellow researchers took hair samples from "local village-type horses," simple animals whose genetic profiles would be less likely...

... Russia prepares to enter the World Trade Organization. Industry experts anticipate that WTO accession will increase competition on the market and potentially lead to a better quality of icy treats for customers. Ice cream makers from Belarus, Spain and Lithuania will take part in the festival. Valery Yelkhov, head of the Russian Union of Ice Cream Makers, said competition may come from any WTO member once Russia accedes to the organization. Local producers currently account for 98 percent of the ice...

... forever if we didn't have this volume," Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer said. "Who knew there were more than 1,000 ghettos?" More Jews died during World War II in Poland and the western Soviet Union — today's Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania — than the estimated 1 million gassed in Auschwitz, Langer said. "The people are dead, but at least we have the memory of the place where they lived and some knowledge of who killed them," said Langer, an 83-year-old professor...