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Peters: NZ and Nordic nations to deepen ties amid global geopolitical shifts

Full text of Winston Peters' speech to the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm. State Secretary Hartelius, former Minister Tobias Billstrom, Ambassadors, members of Parliament,...

OSCE chair fined in Georgia after joining opposition protest

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, who currently serves as chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has been fined by...

Another NATO member pulls out of landmine treaty

The move will allow Finland to reintroduce anti-personnel mines into its weaponry stockpile as soon as January. Finland has formally withdrawn from an international treaty...

Three injured in school knife rampage in Finland (Disturbing Video)

A 16-year-old suspect has been taken into custody after a knife attack on female students at a school in southern Finland. Three schoolgirls have been...

Son of Finnish politician killed after joining Ukrainian forces as mercenary

Leo Aland, the son of Finnish politician Jyrki Aland, was killed in Ukraine after joining the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a foreign mercenary. According to...

MFAT denies responsibility for seized Cook Islands ship

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has clarified that the country is not responsible for a Cook Islands-registered vessel carrying Russian oil that...

Another Baltic Sea cable mysteriously breaks down

The undersea connection delivering electricity from Finland to Estonia has suffered an outage. The Finnish authorities are investigating an outage of the undersea power cable...

Undersea data cable linking Finland and Germany breaks apart

A major undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany, the C-Lion1, has been severed, with Finnish authorities reporting that all fiber connections along the...

WHO official testifies: Vaccine Passports were a scam to promote global vaccination agenda

A high-ranking official at the World Health Organization (WHO) has confessed during a dramatic testimony that the vaccine passports advocated by the agency were...

Biden forgets NATO’s new member

In yet another gaffe, the US president suggested that Norway, one of the bloc’s founders, joined only last year. US President Joe Biden has confused...

Finland facing likely rightward turn as ‘Rock Star PM’ loses election

Although the liberal-conservative National Coalition Party - having edged out its competitors in a tight run - pledged that it was open to negotiating...

Erdogan rubber-stamps Finland’s NATO membership

Finland is set to become the 31st member of the US-led military bloc. Finland is poised to join after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed...

Josephine Varghese: What the media did not pick up in the Ardern-Marin press conference

The biggest news story around the Finnish PM’s visit to New Zealand is the now-viral exchange between a member of the press and the...

Turkey reaches NATO deal with Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian countries will become observers at the upcoming summit. Turkey will support inviting Finland and Sweden into NATO at the bloc’s upcoming summit in Spain,...

Why Finland & Sweden’s NATO Admission Is So Important to the US

Previously-neutral Finland and Sweden formally announced their NATO bids on 15 May. The two Nordic countries have grown closer to joining the transatlantic military...

Finland welcomes NATO warships for drills

The drills come as Helsinki mulls NATO membership. NATO members Latvia, Estonia, and the Netherlands will hold joint naval exercises with Finland in the Baltic...

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