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Tuesday May 14, 2024

Major data breach affects Helsinki City´s thousands pupils, staff

The City of Helsinki issued a notice of a data breach on April 30 targeted at its Education Division, said the City in a press conference on Monday. Most of the data on the network drive (tens of millions of files) are documents that do not contain personally identifying

Published: 21:52 pm,Monday 13 May 2024

Perussuomalaiset expels MP, MEP

The ruling Perussuomalaiset (Finns Party) expelled lawmaker Timo Vornanen, who was arrested on April 26 for his alleged involvement in a shooting incident at a night club in Helsinki and later released, local media reported on Monday, quoting party sources. The second largest component of the four-party alliance government,

Published: 03:04 am,Saturday 11 May 2024

Finland against Israeli operation in Rafah

President Alexander Stubb and Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen on Friday expressed their opposition over the Israeli plan to launch a large-scale ground operation in Rafah and renewed call for ceasefire in Gaza. The President in a post in his social media platform X, also clarified Finland´s abstention on the

Published: 01:53 am,Saturday 11 May 2024

3 stabbed in Turku, suspect held

Three people were injured when miscreant attacked them with a sharp knife at Perno area in Turku on Friday evening, police said in a press release. The incident took place in front of a shop at Hyrköistentie but police did not disclose detail about the incident. Responding to an emergency

Published: 03:50 am,Saturday 11 May 2024

UN body for fair refugee status procedures for asylum seekers

The United Nations Committee against Torture recommended that all asylum seekers and other persons in need of international protection arriving at Finland’s eastern land border, regardless of their legal status and mode of arrival, should have access to fair and efficient refugee status determination procedures and non-refoulement determinations. The

Published: 02:29 am,Friday 10 May 2024

Finland, other EU states fortify control of sanctions against Russia

Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland on Thursday signed a joint agreement in Vilnius with the view to strengthening and unifying the controls of EU sanctions against Russia, said Finnish Customs in a press release. The agreement will strengthen the uniformity of regional enforcement of sanctions and the

Published: 20:23 pm,Thursday 9 May 2024

SDP tops in popularity, Kokoomus 2nd

The main opposition party in the parliament Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (Social Democratic Party of Finland-SDP) became the most popular party in the country with 24.4 per cent support, according to the latest polls by the national broadcaster Yle released on Thursday. Kansallinen Kokoomus (National Coalition Party), the largest

Published: 01:05 am,Thursday 9 May 2024

Suspect planned Vantaa school shooting for 2-3 weeks

The suspect of the deadly shooting at Viertola school in Vantaa on April 2 planned the attack for two to three weeks before the incident, police said on Wednesday. The Western Uusimaa police almost completed the preliminary investigation into the incident and preparing the investigation report is underway, said

Published: 21:16 pm,Wednesday 8 May 2024

Finland, China police bosses discuss law enforcement, security cooperation

National Police Commissioner Seppo Kolehmainen on Wednesday met with Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong in Beijing and discussed possible cooperation in law enforcement and security sector, reported Xinhua. Wang said that guided by the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries,

Published: 02:32 am,Thursday 9 May 2024

Finland to send more material assistance to Ukraine

Finland will continue to send material assistance to Ukraine and preparations for sending several aid packages are under way, said the Ministry of the Interior in a press release on Wednesday. “Preparations for several aid packages to Ukraine are under way and, during this spring, we will send more

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