By Anne Kauranen and Liz Lee HELSINKI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto said on Wednesday he had held constructive talks with China’s President Xi Jinping over the damage inflicted last …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – The navies of Britain, Finland and Estonia were practising subsea infrastructure protection in the Baltic Sea region on Monday together with the Finnish Border …
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By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland said on Monday it had become impossible to return asylum seekers who did not meet the criteria for protection and said that it might …
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By Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland will erect barriers at four crossings on its border with Russia from midnight, officials said on Friday, in a bid to …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland is looking at ways to take control of Helsinki’s biggest sports and events arena which has been shut since last year because of …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland has finished inventorying its existing bomb shelters in a government effort prompted by neighbouring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, and found it …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that the United States has approved the sale of a co-developed missile defense system to Finland. The ministry said that having …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Europe later this month for meetings in Britain, Lithuania and Finland, the White House said on Sunday. Biden’s trip, scheduled …
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OSLO (Reuters) – Russia has informed neighbouring Finland that it will terminate a bilateral agreement on mutual visits to military installations, the Finnish defence ministry said late on Tuesday. The …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia plans to overhaul its air defence forces after gaining new experience in the war in Ukraine and will also bolster its air defences to counter Finland’s …
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Finland Officially Becomes 31st NATO Member Micaela Burrow on April 4, 2023 Finland officially became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance Tuesday, an event brought on by the …
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) – Citizens of St Petersburg, the Russian city closest to Finland, on Tuesday accused their neighbour of turning its back on them by joining the Western military …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Finland became a member of NATO on Tuesday, completing a historic security policy shift triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto completed the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden wants both Finland and Sweden in NATO and is more focused on both countries joining rather than them doing so at the same …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday said Finland and Sweden are ready to join the NATO alliance, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sweden should not expect …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland announced on Friday a new donation of more than 400 million euros ($434 million) worth of defence equipment for Ukraine, not including Leopard 2 heavy tanks …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French power group EDF and energy group Fortum said on Thursday they had signed an framework agreement to study opportunities for cooperation to develop nuclear reactor projects …
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By Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) – Finland’s defence minister Antti Kaikkonen said the sooner Turkey ratifies its NATO membership bid the better and it would consider granting arms export permits …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of AIM 9X Block II tactical missiles, AGM-154 Joint Stand Off weapons and related equipment to Finland for an …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland’s finance ministry on Monday cut its economic growth forecast for 2023 and said the country was at risk of a recession. The ministry now predicts gross domestic …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s parliament ratified the entry of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Thursday, bringing the two Nordic countries one step closer to …
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By Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland on Thursday slashed value-added tax on electricity to 10% from 24% over the winter and said it would pay more subsidies …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) – European Union members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland, which all share a border with Russia, may stop Russian tourists from entering their countries …
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WASHINGTON – More than two-thirds of the U.S. Senate approved on Wednesday Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO, the most significant expansion of the 30-member alliance since the 1990s as …
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MADRID – President Joe Biden supports a deal that will allow Finland and Sweden to join NATO and played a behind-the-scene role in the Nordic countries’ negotiations with Turkey, a …