Helsinki Photo Festival – Fifty-eight international and Nordic photographers displayed in venues across the city; the overall theme for the festival is trust
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Finland investigates complaints of police participation in Black Lives Matter protest – uniformed officers allegedly held demonstration signs and gave on-site interviews in support
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Valtteri Bottas took the win for Mercedes at the F1 Austrian Grand Prix – teammate Lewis Hamilton suffered a dramatic late-racing demotion
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Finland's air force quietly drops swastika symbol – the air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918, shortly after the country became independent
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Why Finnish people tell the truth – in Finland, people are assumed to be honest all the time, and trust is implicit unless proven otherwise
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Katri Kulmuni will step down as Finland's finance minister after admitting on Friday that she had used taxpayers' money to fund training on how to speak in public
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For two years the government gave 2,000 unemployed citizens €560 a month with no strings attached – does Finland show the way to universal basic income?
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Finland has demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the number of smokers without seeing a surge in e-cigarette users
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The Finnish ski resort of Levi, with its season cut short because of coronavirus, is saving its snow for next season
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Malta's ambassador to Finland resigned on Sunday after he came under fire for comparing German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Adolf Hitler
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Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing – first major study of scheme comes as economic toll of coronavirus prompts fresh interest in idea
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In Helsinki's climate plan, community comes before bureaucracy
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Nightwish - Tribal (2020)
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Finnish carrier Finnair, which has focused heavily on routes to Asia, says it will deepen its cooperation with China's Juneyao Air
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Finland's pro hockey league moves its playoffs to NHL 20 – Liiga has partnered with Telia, a broadcaster and esports company, for a full slate of 'Liiga ePlayoffs'
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HIM band manager Seppo Vesterinen dies aged 71 – managed some of Finland's most globally successful music acts, including Hanoi Rocks and The Rasmus
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Finland enlists social influencers in fight against Covid-19 – government advice sent to bloggers, rappers and writers to get to those not reached by traditional media
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The city of Helsinki had the right to scrap its contract with Siemens over the failed automation of the Finnish capital's metro
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Finland's center-left government gave its blessing to majority state-owned Fortum's strategy to cut emissions, but promised to push the company further
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Finland shuts down Uusimaa [Helsinki region] to fight coronavirus
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Ville Lenkkeri – The Sacrifice Of A Sacred Tree (2013)
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World Cap Of Hockey – What would Team Finland look like if it had to be cap compliant?
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Finland has been named the world's happiest country for the third year in a row, maintaining the Nordic grip on the World Happiness Report's top spots
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How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero – after years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
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Päivi Räsänen is facing new police investigations for citing Bible verses on social media to object to the Lutheran church's participation in an LGBT pride event
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Finland jails Sierra Leone man in Liberia war crimes case – the first non-Liberian to be held accountable in connection with the civil wars
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Chelsea have seen off competition from Juventus and Inter to sign sixteen-year-old attacking midfielder Jimi Tauriainen from HJK Helsinki
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Finnish director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää ensured that his new film was torture for his actors, literally – but he insists his immersive methods are just like gardening
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Photographer Maria Lax comes from a northern Finnish town where UFO sightings were common – so she set about looking for answers
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What is Finland's Phenomenon-based Learning (PhenoBL) approach? This approach breaks down subject-based compartmentalisation of knowledge
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Sami Valimaki overcame difficult conditions to win the Oman Open on Sunday after beating Brandon Stone in a playoff
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Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas ended pre-season F1 testing with fastest lap – both on Friday's final day and overall
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Finnish FA drops 'women's' prefix for league in push for equality – top football league to be called National League, not Women's League
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Finnish Customs sits on millions in seized cryptocurrencies – agency doesn't want to see €15m in bitcoin seized years ago be returned to criminals
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Helsinki has donated €50,000 towards Baltic Sea protection, for use in the new Baltic Sea Challenge campaign to help prevent plastic waste
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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Finland's centuries-old pre-Easter buns get a modern makeover – as Shrove Tuesday approaches, cafés and bakeries are gearing up to sell more of the popular seasonal dessert
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The lessons a buoyant Finland can take from Iceland's Euro 2016 success
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Rather than punishing prisoners, Finland's open prisons focus on rehabilitation and preparation for a smooth reentry into society
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American woman's high school class ring, which was lost in Maine in 1973, has been found in a forest in Finland
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Why it's cheaper to have a baby in Finland than in the US
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World's first floorball museum to be opened in Finland – floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper, invented in Sweden in the late 1960s
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Nokia and SoftBank reveal trials that they say successfully demonstrate that 5G technology can be safely and efficiently utilised for connected cars
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Finnish government has proposed that primary care nurse visits become free of charge
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Finland's biggest game maker Supercell reported its full-year 2019 sales rose 2% to 1.39 billion euros
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Why Finland leads the field when it comes to winter cycling – progressive policies help get people on their bike, even in below-freezing conditions
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Finland blazes trail in keeping citizens cycling and healthy – country routinely praised for its schools system aims to do the same with preventive health
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Finland to become EU's only uranium producer – Finnish government gave the green light on Thursday for state-owned Terrafame to extract and refine
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Kurikka in Finland is offering free gym sessions to everyone over the age of 65
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Competition authority puts brakes on Helsinki-Tallinn combi travel card – app-based service Whim referred the planned cooperation to the Finnish competition authority
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