Finland’s much-celebrated experiment in rolling out Universal Basic Income (UBI), a proposed replacement for out-of-work benefits in post-industrial nations where all citizens are paid by the government regardless of their income, is to end as the local government seeks other
A rejected asylum seeker who targetted women in a stabbing attack said he was at “war against women” and committed the attack to “strengthen the Islamic kingdom”.
HELSINKI (AP) — A rare terror trial opened Monday in Finland in the case of a Moroccan asylum-seeker and alleged Islamic State sympathizer charged with fatally stabbing two people and wounding eight others.
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Police forces across Finland are carrying out a search for illegal immigrants in a six-day crackdown on aliens living in the country without permission, local media reports.
Finnish investigators have confirmed that the 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker who killed two and injured seven others in the city of Turku last August was a supporter of Islamic State.
Newly released statistics from the Finnish Police University College show that foreigners account for as many as 37 per cent of suspects in sexual offence cases in metropolitan areas despite making up only 10 percent of the population.
Finland will investigate evidence suggesting that soldiers of its army were involved in killing Jews during the Holocaust, the office of Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said.
The presidential candidate of the Finns Party — who were in government under a coalition deal until June — would take Finland out of the European Union if elected, she has said.
Authorities in Finland have noted a significant increase in failed asylum seekers converting to Christianity and appealing their deportation orders.
Around 50 failed asylum seekers crossed the border from Finland into Sweden at the border crossing in Torneå, in full view of authorities, hoping to claim asylum.
Around 80 Finnish citizens have travelled to the Middle East to fight for Islamic State and now the government is considering allowing those who return to skip housing queues to help them better integrate back into society.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Finland released a third suspect Friday in a fatal stabbing attack allegedly carried out by a Moroccan asylum-seeker, a development that came hours after the Nordic country’s news agency said officers will be issued MP5 submachine guns in addition to their normal equipment.
After three days of Hurricane Harvey, the message emerging from Houston and the Texas coast is not one of chaos and destruction, but of collective strength, as Americans help each other survive through the worst of circumstances.
President Donald Trump repeated his promise to make Mexico pay for his long promised wall on the Southern border, vowing that they would pay “one way or another.”
Finland has lost track of thousands of asylum seekers like the one who killed two and injured eight in the city of Turku on August 18th.
HELSINKI (AP) — Police in Finland on Wednesday arrested two more suspects in connection with last week’s stabbings that killed two people and wounded eight in a knife rampage in the southwestern city of Turku, authorities said.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Monday expressed “shock” at Friday’s deadly stabbing attack in Turku, Finland.
Finnish police investigating a mass knife attack in the city of Turku Friday afternoon have said they consider the event a possible terror attack and have made a number of further arrests at private homes and an asylum centre.
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The populist, euroskeptic party in Finland’s three-party government broke in two Tuesday, days after its election of a new leader threatened to spell the end of the coalition.
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An immigration hardliner was elected Saturday as leader of a euroskeptic group that sits in Finland’s three-party center-right government. The Finns Party elected Jussi Halla-aho as its leader to replace Foreign Minister Timo Soini, who stepped
Finland’s finance minister has added his voice to those calling for European Union funding to be withdrawn from member states which refuse to take in migrants.
An up-and-coming leader of Finland’s only Eurosceptic party has proposed a national referendum on leaving the European Union as well as on abandoning the euro in favor of a national currency.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland has debuted a 1,000-year-long GIF, hoping to keep the exhibition going until 3017.
HELSINKI (AP) — Shia LaBeouf’s latest stunt is to spend a month isolated in a cabin in Finland’s remote Lapland region with his only communication with the outside world coming via text message to visitors to a Helsinki museum.
A Finnish police officer on Tuesday was cleared of charges of negligence over the appearance of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s name on a database of criminal suspects.
HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish lawmakers on Friday rejected a petition from more than 100,000 people demanding the repeal of a law allowing same-sex marriage that takes effect on March 1.
In a bizarre coincidence that would put the superstitious on high alert, a flight bearing the devil’s number 666 flew straight to HEL on Friday the 13th.
A Eurosceptic member of the Finnish parliament has been criminalised and fined for posting an anti-Islam Facebook post on his personal page.
Finland is launching a “radical experiment” to see if a simple monthly payment can replace the nation’s ever-expanding tangle of welfare programs.
Three people have been critically injured and several others less severely after a car mounted the pavement in Helsinki, Finland. The incident, which police say was not deliberate, took place outside a subway station in the eastern part of Finland’s
Three women including a local politician and two journalists were shot dead in Finland on Saturday night after they left a restaurant in the town of Imatra. Finnish media has reported how the Social Democrat chair of the Imatra town council
A member of Finland’s True Finns party is unrepentant after having been sentenced to pay a fine for the crime of agitating against an ethnic group in a blog post. True Finns local chapter leader Terhi Kiemunki has rejected the ruling that
AFP – Collectors with a penchant for old Soviet cars will head to the Arctic this weekend where the Finnish customs will auction dozens of cars abandoned by migrants crossing over from Russia. The 128 cars, mostly Soviet-era Ladas or
President Barack Obama says the leaders of Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland should have a bigger role in shaping the future of the world, even though they represent a small fraction of the global population.
A Swedish reporter was surprised to find that women are supportive of the Soldiers of Odin group, saying they make the streets safer. This past Sunday saw a brawl in Gothenburg that left one of the members of the “Soldiers of
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Two Iraqi men have been charged with war crimes by Finnish prosecutors, the Helsinki prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. The men are charged in connection with incidents that took place in Iraq in 2014 and 2015 and
The European Union’s (EU) Enlargement Commissioner has claimed Russia is working to destabilise the continent by flooding it with migrants from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Speaking in an interview with Germany’s Zeit, EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn articulated his view that it was “no coincidence”
Wearing black jackets adorned with a symbol of a Viking and the Finnish flag, the “Soldiers of Odin” have surfaced as self-proclaimed patriots patrolling the streets to protect native Finns from immigrants, worrying the government and police. On the northern
