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Finnish-made Patria vehicles fitted with Russian weapons have been deployed to parts of Yemen where the United Nations says scores of civilians have been killed in the ongoing war. Despite warnings from aid agencies and the UN for more…

Hockey season returns to Finland this weekend, and the professionals of Liiga take to the ice. This year 15 teams are vying for hockey supremacy and Helsinki club HIFK have a new weapon in their arsenal, in the form of…

Workers at Foodora Finland say the company has eroded their terms and conditions of service, slashed pay, and even closed down a space where bike couriers could warm up in the middle of winter. Now, a pressure group of current…

As far as international football tournaments go, Finland can’t complain about their opening match of the new UEFA Nations League format, which got off to a dream start in Tampere this weekend with a 1-0 victory over Hungary. Ten thousand…

Sweden goes to the polls on Sunday to vote in local, regional and national elections. If polling is accurate, the results could signal an historic shift in the political landscape of our neighbours to the west: the ruling centre-left Social…

Finland’s two hundred members of parliament get back to work this week after their summer break. With just eight months still to go until the next planned general election, none of the parties in parliament are making any attempts to…

Finland’s men’s basketball team takes on Latvia tonight, in the build-up to qualifying for the World Championships – and both teams are doing it without their star players. Latvia has won all four of their last meetings, so Finland has…

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron is arriving in Helsinki today, for a two day visit aimed at cementing new security relationships, and reaffirming a Franco-German lead Europe ahead of Britain’s EU departure. Macron’s arrival in the Finnish capital is the second…

Two hundred kilometres inland from the North Atlantic coast of Greenland – on the opposite side of the Davis Strait to Canada’s northernmost territory Nunavut – lies the remote town of Kangerslussuaq. With a permanent population of only 550 people,…

Helsinki’s streets came alive on Thursday as thousands of spectators and performers celebrated the 30th annual Night of the Arts. "Helsinki has changed a lot of the past decades, but we believe people still want to get together and see…