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Estonia signs $200M deal with U.S. to buy rocket artillery systemNATO member and Russia's neighbor Estonia is boosting its defense capabilities by acquiring an advanced U.S. rocket artillery system.WorldDec 3, 2022
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‘Living in pain’: Canadians travel across the world to avoid surgery backlogA surgery backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has steered Canadians thousands of miles away from home to get life changing procedures done without the wait.HealthApr 21, 2022
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Manitoba man travels overseas for knee surgery, bills province for costMax Johnson was tired of waiting for elective knee surgery, so he travelled to Lithuania to get the procedure done right away and has invoiced the province for the cost.HealthNov 19, 2021
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Belarusian order to land plane carrying journalist draws anger from Canada, U.S.Law enforcers detained activist Roman Protasevich, 26, who had been put on a wanted list after last year's mass street protests.WorldMay 23, 2021
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Belarus protests: Here’s a look at what’s happening and whyDemonstrations, some of them violent, have been ongoing in Belarus since Sunday, but why are people protesting? Here's a look at what's going on.WorldAug 15, 2020
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Coronavirus: Europe’s first ‘travel bubble’ is between Lithuania, Latvia, EstoniaA dozen Estonian border guards removed all signs directing vehicles to stop at the border and huddled together at the roadside for cake and coffee.EconomyMay 14, 2020
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Lithuania headed for runoff vote in presidential raceWith 1,631 of the country's 1,972 voting districts counted early Monday, results provided by Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission showed Gitanas Nauseda, a banker-turned-politician, leading the nine-candidate field with 31.2 per cent of the votes.PoliticsMay 12, 2019
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Lithuanian president praises Donald Trump’s ‘unpredictable leadership’Lithuania’s Dalia Grybauskaite made the remarks about Trump’s leadership style while addressing NATO concerns in Washington.PoliticsApr 3, 2018
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Russia boots 4 Canadian diplomats in tit-for-tat mass expulsion over spy poisoningFour Canadian diplomats are among a slew of foreign officials being booted from Russia in a mass expulsion in retaliation for Western countries ousting Russian diplomats this week over the poisoning of a former spy.CanadaMar 30, 2018
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Vast Russian exercise in the fall was rehearsal for invading the Baltic states: reportAn enormous Russian military exercise in mid-September was a “dry run” for a “full-scale conventional war against NATO in Europe,” the German daily Bild reported earlier this week.CanadaDec 22, 2017
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