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Finland Mourns Child Killed in Viertola

Web News 3 April 2024 257 0

Flags have been flying at half-mast across Finland after a boy was killed and two girls seriously wounded in a shooting at a school on Tuesday. The shooting took place in a classroom at Viertola school in Vantaa, to the north of the capital, Helsinki. According to Police said all three victims Continue Reading

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Extreme Snowfall Leaves 1,000 Vehicles Trapped On Swedish Road

Web News 4 January 2024 165 0

Swedish authorities say people who got trapped in 1,000 vehicles in heavy snow for more than 24 hours have been evacuated. Rescuers worked through the night to free people stuck on the main E22 road in the Skane Area of southern Sweden. Many of those trapped were evacuated by rescue teams and told to return […]Continue Reading

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Ukraine war: US backs Sweden, Finland, for Nato membership – Biden

Web News 20 May 2022 413 0

The US President, Joe Biden, says, Sweden and Finland have the full total backing of the country in their decision to apply for Nato membership. Report says, both countries submitted their applications to be part of the Western defence alliance this week, marking a major shift in European geopolitics. To join the alliance, the two […]Continue Reading

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Finland, Sweden NATO Membership: Voices that Matter

Web News 11 April 2022 979 0

After four years, the staccato of guns and booms of cannon ceased giving the world relief from a brutal war, World War 1 between 1914 and 1918, which left some 8.5 million soldiers dead as a result of battle wounds or disease.  The world would be swarmed by another apocalypse twenty-one years later, World War […]Continue Reading

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Finland to Give Fathers Same Parental Leave as Mothers

Web News 6 February 2020 636 0

Finland’s new government has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave, in a push to get fathers to spend more time with their children. The country’s Health and social affairs minister Aino-Kaisa Pekonen told reporters that “a radical reform of family benefits” had begun, with the aim of strengthening the relationship of […]Continue Reading