MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will respond to Finland’s decision to grant the United States access to its military bases, a spokesman for Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. “I can only confirm that Russia will not leave unanswered the NATO military build-up on our border, which threatens the security of the Russian Federation,” Deputy Spokesman […]
(This June 25 story has been corrected to show the European Commission said that Finland would be the first to roll out the vaccine, not CSL, in paragraph 3) HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland plans to offer preemptive bird flu vaccination as soon as next week to some workers with exposure to animals, health authorities said […]
CONSTANTA, Romania (Reuters) – Finland on Tuesday made its first deployment for NATO since joining the alliance in April 2023, sending seven F-18 fighter jets to a military base in southeastern Romania where they will conduct air shielding missions with Romanian and British jets. A Finnish Air Force commander said the mission would help speed […]
Latvia and Finland will maintain a calm and factually grounded response to Russia’s surprise legislative project to redefine its maritime borders in the Baltic Sea, leaders of the two countries said on Friday. “It is clear that Russia is looking for new ways for hybrid actions on both our EU and NATO borders. We must […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finnish President Alexander Stubb said Tuesday that joining the NATO alliance a year ago has transformed his country into a “front-line state,” given that it has doubled the military bloc’s border with Russia. Finland, which became the 31st NATO member in April 202 3, has a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) land border with […]
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland will extend the closure of its border crossing points with Russia beyond the current April 14 deadline “until further notice” due to a high risk of organized migration orchestrated by Moscow, the Finnish government said on Thursday. The Finnish Interior Ministry said in a statement that the Nordic country’s national security […]
A 12-year-old student suspected of fatally shooting a classmate and wounding two others in Finland told police that he was bullied at school, officials said, as a nation shocked by the attack held a day of mourning. The suspect, who attended the school in the city of Vantaa, just outside Helsinki, was apprehended less than […]
Mourners have gathered outside a school in southern Finland a day after a 12-year-old boy was killed and two girls of the same age were seriously wounded in a shooting. The young suspect, who attended the school, was apprehended less than an hour later. The attack shocked the Nordic nation, where Finnish blue-and-white flags were […]
Flags are flying at half-mast across Finland on Wednesday as the nation mourned the death of a 12-year-old child in a school shooting that police said was perpetrated by a fellow sixth-grader. Two other Viertola school students, also aged 12, were severely injured in Tuesday’s attack, hospital officials and police have said. There was no […]
A 12-year-old child has died after being shot in a primary school in the Finnish city of Vantaa, just north of the capital Helsinki, the police said on Tuesday. Two other 12-year-olds were seriously injured, the police said. The emergency services arrested another 12-year-old pupil outside the school. The suspected perpetrator had a firearm with […]
Police in Finland say one of three students wounded in a school shooting has died. A 12-year-old student opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland, killing one student and wounding two others, police said. The suspect was arrested in the Helsinki area later Tuesday with a handgun in his possession, police said. Police […]
STORY: The victims were taken to hospital, a police spokesperson told Reuters. At the school, a building had been cordoned off by police. Parents were picking up their children from another school building hundreds of yards away. The shooting took place at the Viertola school in Vantaa, asuburb of the capital Helsinki, which has around […]