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General Electric Sheds 134 Tampere Jobs Troubled industrial giant General Electric has made 134 job cuts from its production facility in Tampere. The work that was done by GE Power’s Grid Solutions Oy will be transferred instead to the USA…

Prosecutor Appeals MP’s Fine Prosecutor Eija Velitski says she will appeal for a tougher sentence against Finns Party MP who was convicted of assault and sexual harassment. Teuvo Hakkarainen was fined more than €3000 and ordered to pay a further…

Restaurants Tackling Finland’s Plastic Pollution Finnish restaurants and bars are looking at the problem of plastic pollution, to see whether they can cut down on single use plastics like straws, stirrers, lids and cutlery. It comes as France gets ready…

Turku Terror Trial Verdic Expected The verdict is due today in the trial of an asylum seeker from Morocco, accused of committing Finland’s first terror attack. Prosecutors demand a prison sentence for Abderrahman Bouanane for stabbing two people to death…

A record number of people became Finnish citizens last year according to the latest figures from Statistics Finland released this morning. Some 12,219 foreigners got Finnish passports in 2017, which is up by 2844 from the previous year. The biggest number…

New Report On Treating Asylum Seekers The Finnish Immigration Service Migri has released a new report today, on how to cope with any future influx of asylum seekers. The bottom line: Migri needs to get ready now, to be able…

Journalist Harassment Trial Begins The trial begins today in Helsinki District Court of two right wing agitators, accused of harassment of a journalist. Ilja Janitskin, the founder of MV-Lehti right wing website; Johan Bäckman, a pro-Kremlin propagandist, and a third…

Helsinki Police Shoot Armed Man Police have shot an armed man in Helsinki. The incident happened just after 05:00 this morning in Ruskeasuo, a neighbourhood in the north west part of the capital. According to police they received a call…

Police in Eastern Finland are searching for a man who went missing on Friday. Officers say the 65-year-old left his home during the evening, and was last seen riding his bicycle from Kiihtelysvaara to Oskola, south east of Joensuu. Weekend searches already…

Troops in northern Finland have started a search for unexploded ordinance that could be a threat to local residents in Ivalo. Ten soldiers from Jaeger Brigade are taking part in the six day clean-up effort, to find and dispose of…