In an unprecedented move, war crimes are due to be heard in the Liberian capital – but this is a Finnish court holding a special session, not part of the Liberian judicial process
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The trial of the suspected warlord Gibril Ealoghima Massaquoi, accused of atrocities during Liberia's civil war, has started in Finland
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Leading politicians in Finland have expressed outrage after former prime minister Juha Sipilä was assaulted outside the country's Parliament building
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Email accounts belonging to Finnish MPs were compromised during a cyberattack on the country's parliament in the autumn
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Germany and Finland have repatriated five women and eighteen children from Syrian camps housing suspected family members of Islamic State militants
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Sweden, Finland and Estonia to look at new evidence on MS Estonia sinking in 1994 – ferry sank with the loss of 852 lives, in one of Europe's worst peacetime maritime disasters
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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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Finns aghast that Trump could think their country is part of Russia – allegations in former US adviser John Bolton's White House memoir mocked on Finnish social media
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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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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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Finland has become the latest European country to agree to house dozens of asylum-seeking minors from over-crowded Greek refugee camps
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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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Finnish government has agreed to take in up to 175 asylum-seekers from camps in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta to alleviate the humanitarian situation in the Mediterranean
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Finland's foreign minister faces probe over Syria repatriations – Pekka Haavisto will be investigated over his plan for swiftly bringing children held in Syria to Finland
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The appointment of Sanna Marin as Finland's prime minister has reversed the dwindling fortunes of her Social Democratic party
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Estonia's president has apologised after his country's interior minister mocked Finland's new prime minister
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Finland is a capitalist paradise
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Finland's finance minister deleted an Instagram post and issued an apology after criticism by a human rights group
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Finland anoints Sanna Marin, thirty-four, as world's youngest serving prime minister
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Russia arrests conman who built fake border – the man erected mock border posts and charged four men more than $10,000 to take them to Finland
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Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne resigned on Tuesday after a member of the ruling coalition said it had lost confidence in him following a series of disruptive strikes
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Finland's flag-carrier airline, Finnair, said it has been forced to cancel almost 300 flights amid a nationwide solidarity strike for postal workers
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Finland said that demands for a EU budget worth 1% of the bloc's combined GDP as well as the EU Commission's proposal for 1.11% were both unrealistic
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Finland halts arms exports to Turkey and condemns military operation in Syria
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Finland's papers are dominated on Thursday by President Sauli Niinistö's extraordinary meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump
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A woman has been killed and ten other people wounded in a sword attack at a vocational school in the Finnish city of Kuopio
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Finland under pressure to criminalise lack of consent in rape laws
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Finland urges EU to consider banning Brazilian beef over Amazon fires
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UK will delegate its voting rights in meetings it does not attend to Finland, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU
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Hungary’s far-right government vilifies Finland over rule of law inquiry
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Finnish government plans to allow congestion charges in its cities
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has criticized Finland at a political event in Romania
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Aino-Kaisa Pekonen – No-strings-attached basic income model would not be a part of the government's social welfare overhaul
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Finland to Estonia undersea rail tunnel project has taken a step forward
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Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy
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Finland’s Social Democrats win close election victory
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There’s No Plan B for Port Security
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