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Wars and rumours of war have resulted in millions of Swedes receiving copies of a government pamphlet advising them on how to prepare and cope in the event of an armed conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the Russian Army to add 180,000 more troops, which would bring its total to 1.5 million active-duty soldiers — the second largest army in the world after China.

The parliament in Finland has approved a bill that would allow its border guards to turn back illegal migrants from Russia.

The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved.

A Chinese container ship remains the prime suspect in causing damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between NATO members.

The head of the EU said Finland’s decision to close its border crossings with Russia over surge in migrants is security matter for the bloc.

Ukraine has cemented yet another ‘NATO-lite’ deal with an alliance member, inking a ten-year agreement with Finland.

Alexander Stubb was sworn in Friday and said the country took “the final step into the Western community of values” by becoming a NATO member.

Centre-right globalist Alexander Stubb is projected to win Finland’s presidential election runoff against the Green Party’s Pekka Haavisto.

Finland’s national airline Finnair will reportedly start weighing passengers along with their carry-on luggage to estimate the plane’s weight before take-off.

The UK, Italy, Finland, Canada, and Australia said they will halt UNRWA funds over allegations staff participated in terror attacks on Israel.

Senior Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen being hauled through the courts again over “homophobic” writings going back 20 years.

Finland will extend the closure of its because it suspects Moscow is trying to send undocumented migrants across the frontier.

Finland’s government will reopen two out of eight border crossing points with Russia later this week, officials said Tuesday.

Finnish hockey star and Olympian Sanni Hakala now says she was paralyzed from the chest down after a collision on the ice during a game.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) could grow again in just a matter of weeks as the alliance reacts to Russia’s invasion.

EU border agency sending officers and equipment to Finland to help amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants.

Finland will close four crossing points on its long border with Russia to stop the flow of Middle Eastern and African migrants.

A group of northern Euro nations has agreed to work together, saying they will share deportation flights and organise voluntary repatriations.

Three Finnish men who embraced neo-Nazi ideology were found guilty Tuesday of committing crimes with terrorist intent.

Finland joined the three Baltic countries in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory.

President Joe Biden was caught on video getting unusually close to a young toddler on Thursday at the end of his five-day European trip.

President Biden arrived in Finland for U.S.-Nordic Summit, his final stop on a three-nation European tour, returning to the U.S. tonight.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be unhappy with reports that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit currently underway in Vilnius, Lithuania will culminate with an offer of increased support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion, but not an offer of full membership in NATO.

U.S. President Joe Biden flew into the United Kingdom on Sunday night, a stop-off on his way to the NATO summit in Lithuania tomorrow.

Finland’s conservative NCP announced key Cabinet positions for the upcoming government, which is set to be the most right-wing since WWII.

Finland’s outgoing ‘party girl’ Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced she will be divorcing her husband following a series of scandals.

The Eurovision Song Contest will hold its final competition on Saturday, pitting 25 of the continent’s most musical countries – and Australia, for some reason – against each other in an increasingly unsuccessful bid to prevent them from going to war.

Two dozen people, many of them schoolchildren, were injured when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in a southern Finnish city.

It is “obvious” why Russia is interested in European infrastructure and there is suspicion cables and pipes may already have been “mined”. 

A classic of the Cold War — Russian spy trawlers — with ostensibly civilian ships loitering close to NATO exercises and underwater cables. 

Finland’s much-delayed and costly new nuclear reactor, Europe’s most powerful by production capacity, began energy production on Sunday.

The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s border with Russia – primarily meant to curb illegal migration – has broken ground.

Finland’s outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, said Wednesday that she will resign as the leader of her Social Democratic Party.

Finland’s President will attend a ceremony at the NATO headquarters in Belgium today to mark the 12th new member this century. 

Right-wing wins spell end of the Marin govt, perhaps best known for partying when she was, by her own virus rules, supposed to be quarantined.