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Birds’ fall migration is at its peak in southern Finland. This autumn, observers have spotted unusually large flocks of Eurasian jaybirds in the Uusimaa region.
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The Finnish Defence Forces plans to recruit Somali men and women living in Finland to serve as interpreters in the Atalanta crisis management operation in Somalia. In...
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Investigations are underway into the misappropriation of funds at the Konti recycling store operated by the Finnish Red Cross (SPR) in the city of Lahti in southern...
made popular Sep 21 2010
The government wants to slash income support given to underage asylum seekers, reports the regional newspaper Ilkka. Officials suspect that children have been sending...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Police in Helsinki are looking for a man who held up a bank in Helsinki on Friday afternoon. The suspected robber of the Osuuspankki branch on the corner of...
made popular Sep 18 2010
“It will bring in new technologies developed by Finnish companies, which will provide impetus to the trade between both Finland and India,” said Finland Counsellor...
made popular Sep 14 2010
Not that there have been a rash of defections from Iran, but there have now been two diplomats who have quit their posts in protest of their government’s...
made popular Sep 14 2010
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced that it will install a new server and infrastructure in India for messaging and push e-mail services. This step was taken to...
made popular Aug 31 2010
The “KiVa Koulu” anti-bullying programme prevented an estimated 5,000 pupils from being bullied last year in Finland. Kiva means ‘nice’ in Finnish, while koulu...
made popular Aug 28 2010
Tuija Brax (green), Finland’s justice minister, criticised working group proposals to ban organised begging, regional daily Turun Sanomat reported on...
made popular Aug 25 2010
Still riding high on Newsweek’s ranking as the best place to live in the world, Finland has received a less-tangible honour: being rated as having the...
made popular Aug 19 2010
Newsweek magazine has ranked living conditions in 100 countries around the world. In the magazine’s analysis, Finland was judged to be the best.
The analysis...
made popular Aug 17 2010
The Finance Ministry’s budget plan for next year does include funds to help protect the Baltic Sea. At the Baltic Sea Summit in Helsinki last February, Finland vowed...
made popular Aug 16 2010
Hindus and Jews have strongly criticized reported eviction notices to Roma camps in Helsinki (Finland) without providing alternatives.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed; and...
made popular Aug 13 2010
These dramatic images were taken in the moments before a powerful thunderstorm struck parts of Finland.
The bad weather front is clearly visible as it approaches the...
made popular Aug 12 2010
Both Finnish Railways (VR) and the Finnish Transport Agency would like to cut trees along railway tracks to avoid further storm damage, regional daily Turun Sanomat and...
made popular Aug 11 2010
Around 24,000 households were still without electricity in Finland on Monday morning after Sunday’s severe thunderstorms, utilities Vattenfall and Fortum told the...
made popular Aug 10 2010
The “World Sauna Championships” in the Finnish city of Heinola came to a tragic end on Saturday evening when one of the finalists, a Russian man, died in the end...
made popular Aug 9 2010
Henna Virkkunen (cons), the Finnish education minister, told the Finnish News Agency (STT) that Sweden’s foreign student quota, introduced earlier this year, was...
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Tens of thousands of households are without power across Finland following a severe storm on Wednesday. It could take days for companies to restore power. This is the...
made popular Aug 5 2010
Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi says a proposal advocating gender neutral marriage will not be implemented during the term of the current administration.
In an interview...
made popular Jul 30 2010
Two Finnish climbers died on Tuesday while ascending Kebnekaise, Sweden’s highest mountain.
The police said a man in his late 20s and a woman in her early 20s had...
made popular Jul 28 2010
Air currents have carried impurities from brush fires in Russia into parts of south-east Finland. Although air quality remains satisfactory, it is expected to get worse...
made popular Jul 27 2010
Finland’s Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb is not in favour of a ban on wearing the burkha face-veil. He told the provincial paper Satakunnan Kansa that diversity...
made popular Jul 23 2010
Over half of Finns say they would want alcohol ignition locks to be installed on all new automobiles, according to a survey by the newspapers Turun Sanomat, Kaleva and...
made popular Jul 21 2010
The Finnish military is preparing for an increase in mental health problems experienced by soldiers returning from overseas operations like the Nato-led mission in...
made popular Jul 20 2010
South African 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya has won her first race since being cleared to return to competition after underdoing gender tests.
Semenya won...
made popular Jul 16 2010
Marketta Kokkonen, Espoo’s retiring mayor, and Olavi Louko, the head of the council’s technical and environmental services, were on Tuesday charged with...
made popular Jul 14 2010
South African world 800m champion Caster Semenya is set to return to competition at the Lappeenranta Games in Finland on 15 July.
The 19-year-old has been out of the...
made popular Jul 9 2010
A shooting incident in the early hours of Tuesday morning outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Porvoo has claimed two lives. One person was seriously wounded.
The...
made popular Jul 6 2010
Finnish military officials have begun training Somali security forces as part of an EU operation in Uganda.
A total of 2,000 soldiers are to be trained during two...
made popular Jul 1 2010
Finland has become the first country in the world to give its citizens the legal right to broadband internet access.
Telecom suppliers will now be forced to provide...
made popular Jul 1 2010
Finland’s Ombudsman for Minorities dealt with nearly 500 discrimination complaints last year. About 50 of the reported cases were for discrimination at...
made popular Jun 30 2010
At least 22 people lost their lives during Midsummer festivities over the weekend in Finland.
The Midsummer death toll was the highest in a decade, ever since 25 people...
made popular Jun 29 2010
Finnish women drink six times more today than they did in 1970. According to the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), alcohol consumption by Finns has...
made popular Jun 25 2010
Finland’s parliament voted as expected for Mari Kiviniemi to become the next prime minister, paving the way for her approval by the Nordic country’s president later...
made popular Jun 23 2010
Government is clamping down on Finland’s gun law but does not plan to ban semiautomatic weapons. An investigation board set up to review the Kauhajoki school...
made popular Jun 21 2010
The opposition’s Left Alliance is starting its three-day party conference in Jyväskylä, central Finland, on Friday.
Paavo Arhinmäki MP, the current chairman,...
made popular Jun 19 2010
Finnish government is allocating 400,000 euros for granting humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan, a spokesman for Finland’s Foreign Ministry told Itar-Tass Thursday.
made popular Jun 18 2010
Outgoing Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen submitted his resignation to President Tarja Halonen at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki late Friday morning.
Timo Kalli, the...
made popular Jun 18 2010
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Finland’s Tuomas Puhlman, right, celebrates his team’s first goal against Canada with teammate Sami Kapanen during first period action at the IIHF Men’s World Hockey Championship Monday, May 4, 2009 in Kloten, Switzerland. Finland won 4-3 in a...
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