カテゴリー: Finland
Defence minister says Xi Jinping should note resolve to stay the course by global democratic alliance, including AustraliaDefeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is critical to restraining China in the Indo-Pacific, Finland’s defence minister has said, …
Rights group also finds rise in openly gay, bisexual and transgender people running for office in 36 countriesPoliticians in at least 51 countries used homophobic or transphobic rhetoric during elections last year, from depicting LGBTQ+ identity as a f…
The Finnish electricity grid’s head of operations says sabotage can’t be ruled outAn undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia broke down on Wednesday, Finland’s prime minister said, the latest in a series of incidents involving cables and energ…
Regional leaders meet after undersea telecoms cables severed, while Chinese ship remains at anchor nearbyThe Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has said the Baltic sea is now a “high risk” zone as he met Nordic and Baltic leaders days after a sus…
Ahtari Zoo said it had spent 8m euros on a facility for Lumi and Pyry since they were brought to Finland in 2018A zoo in Finland has blamed rising inflation and upkeep costs for its decision to return two giant pandas to China, more than eight years ah…
Partnership could produce up to 90 icebreaker ships to counter Russian and Chinese inroads into regionFreezing cold war: militaries move in as Arctic ice retreats – photo essayCanada, the United States and Finland say a newly announced “Ice Pact” to bu…
Investigators seeking to establish whether it came from a Chinese container vessel and have not ruled out sabotageFinnish investigators have recovered a large ship’s anchor from near the spot where a Baltic Sea gas pipeline was extensively damaged and …
Police focusing on Newnew Polar Bear cargo ship that was in the area when gas pipeline was damagedFinnish police have said a Chinese ship whose movement coincided with the time and place of the suspected sabotage of a pipeline between Finland and Eston…
World Happiness Report finds higher levels of benevolence in all global regions than before the pandemicIt claimed 6.7 million lives, locked down entire countries and triggered a global economic slump, but Covid-19 has not affected humankind’s happines…
Finland’s PM says she met Ardern in New Zealand because they are both ‘prime ministers’ after journalist asks whether it was due to similar age and genderThe prime ministers of Finland and New Zealand have taken a swipe at suggestions their first face-…
Experts say social support, honesty and generosity key to wellbeing, as Afghanistan and Lebanon struggle in global ranking Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, in an annual UN-sponsored index that ranked Afgh…
Almost 10,000 new cases in India on Thursday as WHO warns situation outside Europe deterioratingIndia reported almost 10,000 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, with hospitals swamped in the worst-hit cities of Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai, and predict…
Plenty of countries with male leaders have also done well. But few with female leaders have done badlyCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn 1 April, the prime minister of Sint Maarten addressed her nation’s 41,500 people. Coron…
This year world leaders struggled to manage the fallout from the erratic tenant in the White House – as China flexed its imperial muscles. We look back at the events that created the most turbulenceClick here for 2019’s reasons to be cheerful A year of…
Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France have complained of intimidation by Beijing Two days after Abdujelil Emet sat in the public gallery of Germany’s parliament during a hearing on human rights, he received a phone cal…