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VILNIUS - Lithuania ranks among the last ten countries among Eastern and Central European countries in terms of the spread and usage of drugs, shows statistical data published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Compared to other countries across the globe, the Lithuanian

TALLINN- The Estonian government has given about 4 million kroons (.26 million Euro) to the Ministry of Culture for the athletes who won medals at the Beijing Olympics and their coaches. Gerd Kanter, who won the gold in discus, stands to receive 1.6 million kroons and his Icelandic coach Vestein

VILNIUS - Lithuania still fails to agree with Latvia on the building of a power bridge with Sweden, Latvian TV channelLTV reported. Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers’ view is the same as Latvia's energy experts. Their opinion is that the power link with Swedenshould only be built after setting

VILNIUS- Republican candidate for US president, John McCain, has expressed support the Lithuanian position with respect to Georgia. In a telephone conversation with Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, the US senator stressed the importance of the actions taken by the Baltic and Polish leaders

RIGA - A popular referendum on raising state pension levels has failed to garner enough votes to pass. It was the second referendum to fail because of voter turnout in less than a month. The Central Election Commission said that, based on preliminary data from all 998 polling stations across Latvi ...

A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.

Do you want to save the biosphere or boost your own brand of politics? You can’t do both.

A cunning new loophole has wrecked the government’s Climate Change Bill.

A Proposal to Hamish Mykura, Head of Documentaries, Channel 4

Iran is the least of the world’s offenders against non-proliferation.

This web site has continued to grow. From July 2007 to end of June 2008, over 16 million pages were viewed on the site (up from about 14 million the previous year). During peak periods of the year, the site was getting, on average, some 60-70,000 page views per day. This site remains a spare time ef ...

To mark the 10 year anniversary the global issues web site was redesigned. This is actually something that I had wanted to do for a while, but the anniversary provided a good excuse to actually do it. The purpose of the redesign was two-fold: 1) I was always uncomfortable with articles being categor ...

Countries and regions such as the US and EU have claimed the impact of biofuels on the food crisis has been minimal and that instead demand from countries such as India and China are amongst the prime factors. However, a World Bank report finds that biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% ...

Although many people have struggled, even sacrificed their lives for democracy, the reality has often been mixed. Issues range from things like paradoxes with democracy itself, to the challenges of keeping a population interested in participating while a poor quality free press limits the ability fo ...

The global food crisis that has made headlines in 2008 has been simmering for a while. The rise in food prices, affecting the poorest the most, has a variety of causes, mostly man-made. It has resulted in riots, an overthrow of a Prime Minister and many deaths, around the world. It has been common t ...