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Finland

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Recovered black box may offer answers to Hornet jet fighter crash Arctic Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 14:27
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An official investigation into the crashed fighter jet in Rovaniemi is currently underway. The flight data recorder, or “black box”,

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Finnish fighter jet crashes in Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 09:23
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The accident occurred near Rovaniemi Airport on Wednesday morning. An F/A-18 Hornet crashed near Rovaniemi Airport in Finnish Lapland on

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 2 Finland General 

Blizzard brings hazardous road conditions to North Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, May 5, 2025 at 13:23
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Authorities warned of hazardous driving conditions in the northeast and of train delays in eastern Finland. where a track fault

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Record winter tourist season for Finnish Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 11:28
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In addition to a surge in tourism in Arctic areas of Finnish Lapland, the more southerly cities of Kemi and

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General 

Last summer in Lapland likely warmest in 2,000 years

Yle News
Posted: Monday, April 28, 2025 at 12:27
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A new study indicates that the summer of 2024 in Finnish Lapland was not only the warmest on record, but

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Finland invests in future arctic rail link to Norwegian Sea

Yle News
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:27
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Finland is under pressure to switch its rail to the standard European gauge. In the first phase, a planned train

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Rovaniemi airport in Arctic Finland to get major expansion as passenger numbers surge

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 16:12
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Rovaniemi Airport in Arctic Finland will get a major upgrade with a €3 million expansion to accommodate the surging number

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Finland keeps border with Russia closed “until further notice”

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 14:21
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Finland will keep all the checkpoints on its eastern land border with Russia closed until further notice, the Interior Ministry

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Politics Politics (Finland) 

Finland leaves Ottawa mine ban treaty, citing geopolitical security concerns

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 18:03
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Finland has announced it will withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, an international treaty banning anti-personnel mines, citing the escalating tensions

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Politics Politics (Finland) 

Sami Parliament in Finland call for reform to Reindeer Damage Act

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 16:12 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 16:21
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The Sámi Parliament in Finland is calling for reform of the Reindeer Damage Act after the March 13 government refusal

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Arctic Finland sees unseasonably mild winter this February

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 17:31
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Finland’s Arctic Lapland region experienced an astonishingly mild winter through the month of  February with the average temperature roughly 7

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Featured • Zone 2 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Finland) 

While Trump casts doubt on NATO policy, B-52s make first time ever bombs drop over Lapland

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 09:48
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This is the first time bombs have been dropped by United States strategic bombers, hitting targets in Rovajärvi firing range,

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Environment Environment (Finland) 

Springlike weather coming to Finland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 09:46
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Many parts of Finland will see spring-like temperatures on Thursday and Friday, according to Yle meteorologist Elias Paakkanen. Many southern

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Geopolitics Geopolitics (Finland) Newsroom Picks • zone 3 

Finland, Denmark aim to bolster defence cooperation, ministers say

Yle News
Posted: Monday, March 3, 2025 at 13:03
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Finland and Denmark want to increase the countries’ defence cooperation, according to Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen (NCP) and Danish

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Business Business (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 

Lapland travel boom

Yle News
Posted: Monday, March 3, 2025 at 09:54
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Finland is entering the third and final week of the school winter holidays, and Ilta-Sanomat carries a piece looking at the flood

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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