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HELSINKI (AP) – The Finnish government says it has agreed to take in up to 175 asylum seekers from camps in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, and Malta “to alleviate the humanitarian situation” experienced by migrants in the Mediterranean members of the European Union.

The northern English city of Hull is set to become the first city in the United Kingdom to try to adopt a universal basic income scheme, despite the failure of similar schemes to reduce poverty and joblessness in America and Finland.

Sweden, a country with a population of just over ten million people, granted a total of 1.2 million residency permits in the last decade.

A 27-year-old migrant man was given a short five-year term by a Finnish court for sex attacks against six victims, including an underage girl.

Leaked documents from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs show that the government has planned to fly Islamic State extremists and their children back to Finland.

Parents, originally from Finland, have had their underage teen daughter taken away from them by a European country’s government after they refused hormone therapy.

Finland’s new leftist coalition government has appointed a women-majority cabinet, with women outnumbering men nearly two-to-one.

(AFP) — Paris, London and Berlin on Saturday welcomed six new European countries to the INSTEX barter mechanism, which is designed to circumvent US sanctions against trade with Iran by avoiding use of the dollar.

Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein, a Social Democratic Party politician in Helsinki, admitted to making up a hate hoax story because he was “angry”.

HELSINKI (AP) — In a glimpse of the future, an entire sports event has been run on horse manure.

The press conference is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. EST. 

At least one person has died and another ten have been injured in Kuopio, eastern Finland after a suspect brought a sword to a local college and began attacking people.

Finland’s prime minister says Britain is running out of time to present a new and credible Brexit proposal.

Andrew Yang’s (D) aggressive pitch to offer a universal basic income of $1,000 monthly to U.S. adults has been attempted numerous times on a small scale, but the experiments have not necessarily produced the desired results.

Finnish police say they have arrested two Swedish men on suspicion of involvement in the shooting of two officers in southern Finland.

Democrat 2020 candidate Andrew Yang claimed during Thursday’s debate that universal basic income, paid for by tax similar to Europe, would create “millions of jobs.”

The Finnish government has announced plans to keep track of rejected asylum seekers by using ankle monitors, saying they would only be used on a case-by-case basis.

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila’s center-right government resigned Friday after failing to push through a planned social and health reform.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – The Norwegian Intelligence Service says GPS signal disruption as seen during major NATO drills in Norway last year “is of particular concern” for the military and “is also a threat to civil aviation in peacetime.” The

An experiment where unemployed Finns were given a basic income failed to encourage them to find work, researchers have found.

Oulu has banned asylum seekers from making visits to local schools and day care centres as an investigation into migrants abusing children in the city continues.

Tens of thousands of Finns have demanded a “zero tolerance” approach to third world migrants who commit sex offences, after new cases of foreign men preying on children emerged.

Finland’s prime minister has used a New Year’s address to demand citizens refrain from “disseminating hate speech” in the wake of investigations into a foreign rape gang preying on young girls.

Iraqi and Afghani asylum seekers are up to 40 times more likely than native Finns to be suspects in sexual crimes in 2017, according to the police statistics and Statistics Finland.

Finland is considering revoking the citizenship of migrants convicted of sex crimes after Oulo police exposed a migrant rape gang that preyed on young girls.

Police in Finland say they are not ruling out a potential terrorist motivation after two “foreign” men attacked bus drivers while on the road, in one case nearly causing a head-on collision.

Finland is set to speed up the deportation of criminal aliens after it emerged a 10-year-old girl was repeatedly raped and abused by migrant predators.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) blasted “despicable” President Donald Trump for his “lack of compassion” after the California wildfires and said Trump should just “keep his mouth shut.”

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Malaysian police said Wednesday that four tourists from Finland have been arrested for distributing Christian materials at public places on a resort island. The police chief of Langkawi island, Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahim, said the two

Chicago Bulls forward Lauri Markkanen — who is from Finland— jumped to Twitter on Sunday and posted a photo of himself holding a rake. In a tweet meant to troll President Trump’s recent comment about Finnish wildfires.

Finland has summoned the Russian ambassador to express “concern regarding GPS signal disruption” that occurred during NATO’s vast Trident Juncture military drills in Norway “and the security risks it causes.”

Russia has been accused of disrupting the satellite signals vital to the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) during a major NATO military exercise last week, moving the Russian government to deny involvement.

Finland’s interior minister has proposed a greater police presence in migrant-populated suburbs in order to avoid the problems neighbouring Sweden has faced in recent years.

The majority of people who travelled to Europe in 2015 at the height of the continent’s Migrant Crisis had made the journey seeking better material living standards and did not fit the criteria to be refugees, Finland’s Prime Minister has said.

Ranking member House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) raised a motion to subpoena the interpreter who attended President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, during a hearing on Thursday.

Hollywood stars carried over their collective outrage over Monday’s press conference feature President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin into Tuesday.