Author: Jari Tanner
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Newly enlarged NATO starts drill in Finland, Norway and Sweden in defense of its Nordic turf
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NATO kicked off an exercise on Monday to defend its newly expanded Nordic territory when more than 20,000 soldiers from 13 nations take part in drills lasting nearly two weeks in the northern regions of Finland, Norway and Sweden
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Norway’s hospitalized king gets a pacemaker in Malaysia after falling ill during vacation
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The royal house of Norway says King Harald has been implanted with a temporary pacemaker at a hospital in Malaysia’s resort island of Langkawi
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Finland’s new president Alexander Stubb says the Nordic country enters ‘a new era’ as a NATO member
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Alexander Stubb has been sworn in as Finland’s new president
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Former PM Alexander Stubb wins Finnish presidency, narrowly defeating ex-top diplomat Pekka Haavisto
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Ex-Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has narrowly won Finland’s presidential election runoff on Sunday against former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto
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Finland extends Russia border closure until April 14 saying Moscow hasn’t stopped sending migrants
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Finland’s government says that it will extend the closure of the country’s border with Russia until April 14
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Neutral Finland, Sweden warm to idea of NATO membership
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HELSINKI • Through the Cold War and the decades since, nothing could persuade Finns and Swedes that they would be better off joining NATO — until now. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has profoundly changed Europe’s security outlook, including for Nordic neutrals Finland and Sweden, where support for joining NATO has surged to record levels. A…
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Finnish police shoot man who stabs 8 people in Turku; 2 dead
HELSINKI — A man stabbed eight people Friday in Finland’s western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking for more potential suspects in the attack. A suspect — who police said was “a youngish man with a foreign background” —…