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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that Russia was now focusing its hybrid attacks on neighbouring Finland, using migrants to try to destabilise the country.
4 Apr
A 12-year-old boy suspected of shooting and killing a classmate and wounding two girls at a school in Finland, had likely planned the act, police said Thursday.
3 Apr
A 12-year old suspected of shooting and killing a classmate and wounding two girls at a school in Finland said he had been motivated by bullying, police said Wednesday Flags flew at half-mast as the northern European country observed a day of mourning a day after the boy had opened fire in a classroom at…
2 Apr
A 12-year-old opened fire Tuesday at a school north of the Finnish capital Helsinki, killing a fellow student and seriously injuring two others before being taken into custody, police said. The Viertola school in Vantaa, Finland's fourth-largest city, has around 800 pupils and 90 staff. Children in grades one to nine, or aged seven to…
2 Apr
A 12-year-old opened fire Tuesday at a school outside the Finnish capital Helsinki, injuring three other children, police said, adding that the attacker was in custody. The school in Vantaa has around 800 pupils and 90 staff. Children in grades one to nine, or aged seven to 15, attend the school. "There are people injured…
20 Mar
Finland remained the world's happiest country for a seventh straight year in an annual UN sponsored World Happiness Report published on Wednesday. And Nordic countries kept their places among the 10 most cheerful, with Denmark, Iceland and Sweden trailing Finland. Afghanistan, plagued by a humanitarian catastrophe since the Taliban regained control in 2020, stayed at…
1 Feb
A massive Finnish strike movement kicked off on Thursday, grounding most air traffic and closing workplaces in a protest against proposed government labour reforms that include social benefit cuts.
26 Jan
Finland's former prime minister Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto lead a pack of nine candidates running in the country's presidential election on Sunday.
11 May 2023
Some 27 young people, most of them children, were injured in Finland on Thursday when a temporary footbridge by a construction site collapsed and they fell several metres onto a road, rescuers said. "Approximately 27 youths, mostly minors, have been injured, to varying degrees," the Western Uusimaa rescue department in Espoo, near the capital Helsinki,…
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