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Nearly 60 percent of statutory officers are set for pay rises from 1 January, with the wage bill totalling more than EUR 500 million this year. This is almost half of the internal system’s budget, says the interior minister.

An armed man shot a male police officer dead and injured a female police officer and fled. The incident took place in the village of Birbiliskes in Lithuania's northwestern Mazeikiai District.