11 April 2026

Saquarema kept both Lithuanian women’s beach volleyball pairs alive in the Elite16 knockout stage. Monika Paulikienė and Ainė Raupelytė beat Brazil’s Carolina Horta and Elize Maia 2-0, while Ieva Dumbauskaitė and Gerda Grudzinskaitė next face Dutch pair Katja Stam and Raisa Schoon in the last 16.

The Seimas gave first-reading backing to Vytautas Sinica’s bill to expel foreigners convicted of intentional crimes from Lithuania. The proposal passed 48-3 with 33 abstentions, and would make employers cover deportation costs if the person had worked in Lithuania.

A roughly 100kg Second World War aerial bomb was found in a forest in Vilkaviškis district today. Explosive ordnance teams typically secure devices of that type first and then decide whether to defuse them on site or remove them for controlled destruction.

Domestic politics also turned to an anti-corruption warning over Ligita Girskienė’s plan to let municipal-housing tenants buy their flats in instalments. Parliament backed that bill at first reading by 44 votes to five, with 33 abstentions, and it now goes to committees and the government for further review.

Vilnius also saw large-scale fraud losses over the past day. A pensioner lost nearly €70,000, and three other residents were swindled out of about €97,000.

Lithuania’s women’s tennis team beat Germany in a historic result, one of the standout late sports developments. In Kaunas, a woman was killed after a man allegedly attacked his partner; she died at the scene.

Ukraine said 12 people, including two children, were killed in one of Russia’s biggest overnight attacks of the war. Kyiv said Russia launched 480 strike drones and 29 missiles overnight, and rescue crews were still searching rubble on Saturday.

Vladimir Putin announced a 32-hour Easter ceasefire on Friday, but at least two people were killed in Odesa hours later by drone strikes. Ukraine said Russia launched 160 drones in that wave and that 133 were shot down or intercepted. Russia’s defence ministry also said Moscow and Kyiv exchanged 175 prisoners of war each.

Kyiv has also signalled a new step on Western military support, which one analyst cast as an open slap at the Kremlin. Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent public comments highlighted long-range drones that can reach Moscow and pressure on Russia’s war machine.

In the EuroLeague, another club was eliminated from play-in contention after Thursday’s results. With one regular-season round left, the final playoff and play-in places will be settled in the last week.

Ukraine struck oil storage sites and ammunition depots in Russia and occupied territories. In the Kherson region, three people were killed and eight wounded in Russian attacks. In Belarus, more than 50 employees of an architecture firm were detained in a new wave of repression.

Tehran is facing deeper uncertainty over Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei after U.S. media reported today that he was seriously wounded in recent strikes. He has not appeared in public since taking the post, and Iranian state media has given no update on his condition.

An Iranian delegation that arrived over the past day has opened talks with the United States on a truce and the terms for de-escalation. Iranian state media said five disputes still block a deal: the nuclear file, missile limits, sanctions relief, regional influence and security guarantees. Indirect Iranian-U.S. contacts were also held yesterday in Doha and Oman, and the talks could be delayed or shifted into another format if those gaps are not narrowed within hours. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance arrived in Pakistan today for meetings tied to Iran and regional security, while Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened “very soon.”

NASA’s four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific yesterday after a roughly 10-day lunar flyby. The mission carried the crew more than 400,000 km from Earth and marked the first crewed trip around the Moon in more than 50 years.

In U.S. politics, Kamala Harris said yesterday in California that she is seriously considering another White House run in 2028. She ruled out a bid for California governor, and the remark has accelerated an unusually early Democratic contest over the party’s future leadership.

Iran said talks with the U.S. had moved to the expert level, while U.S. and Iranian officials held direct trilateral talks in Pakistan with Pakistani counterparts. CNN reported that U.S. intelligence assesses China is preparing weapons shipments to Iran as the truce begins.