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In this Sunday, March 26, 2017, file photo, Belarus police detain journalist Raman Pratasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus. Raman Pratasevich, a founder of a messaging app channel that has been a key information conduit for opponents of Belarus’ authoritarian president, has been arrested after an airliner in which he was riding was diverted to Belarus because of a bomb threat. The presidential press service said President Alexander Lukashenko personally ordered that a MiG-29 fighter jet accompany the Ryanair plane — traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania — to the Minsk airport. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

West condemns plane’s diversion to arrest Belarus journalist

By Raf Casert and Liudas Dapkus - Associated Press

This image made from video provided by the State TV and Radio Company of Belarus, shows Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko armed with a Kalashnikov-type rifle near the Palace of Independence in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Lukashenko has made a dramatic show of defiance against the massive protests demanding his resignation, toting a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest as he strode off a helicopter that landed at his residence while demonstrators massed nearby. (State TV and Radio Company of Belarus via AP)

Police in Belarus detain opposition activists amid protests

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Lithuania lawmakers vote to remove disputed artificial beach

By LIUDAS DAPKUS - Associated Press

A woman prays as they wait for Pope Francis to arrive to celebrate a Mass in Confluence Park in Kaunas, Lithuania, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. Pope Francis is on the second of his two-day visit to Lithuania. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Pope warns Lithuanians against rebirth of anti-Semitism

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 18, 2018 file photo, Pope Francis meets a group of faithful from China at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. On Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018, the Vatican announced it had signed a &quot;provisional agreement&quot; with China on the appointment of bishops, a breakthrough on an issue that for decades fueled tensions between the Holy See and Beijing and thwarted efforts toward diplomatic relations. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)

Vatican, China make breakthrough deal on bishop appointments

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Lithuanian capital to launch ‘G-spot’ ad before papal visit

By LIUDAS DAPKUS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2017, file photo, Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Dovydaus Neverauskas, from Lithuania, makes his Major League debut in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in Pittsburgh. The 24-year-old flamethrowing reliever understands his debut - the first in the MLB by a player born and raised in the eastern European country - could have a ripple effect back home, where his father Virmidas has spent the better part of 20 years trying to nurture the sport to health (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

MLB’s first Lithuanian learned the game where few play

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, Shmuel Levin, the chairman of the Jewish religious Community of Vilnius and Lithuania, leans against a wall of the power substation built of tombstones from a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania. Tombstones from a Jewish cemetery were used to build a power substation in the 1960s. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Lithuanian power grid has dark secret buried in Soviet past

By Liudas Dapkus - Associated Press