Sources: CNN
Finnish-Canadian sportswear mogul Peter Nygård is sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault. 2024-09-9
After 18 years under construction, the Olkiluoto 3 reactor in Finland, Europe's most powerful nuclear power plant unit at 1.6 GW, begins delivering regular electrical output. 2023-04-16
Finland reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from Sweden. 2021-12-2
Chinese president Xi Jinping visits Finland on his way to the United States. 2017-04-5
Avian flu virus H5N8 outbreaks are reported in birds in India, Germany, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and several other European nations. The World Health Organization advised on 17 November that human infection is possible, but unlikely, based on information available. 2016-11-26
More than a dozen alleged ISIS-linked, terrorist members of Rawti Shax, a European offshoot of the Iraqi Kurdish jihadist network Ansar al-Islam, are arrested in a coordinated, multi-nation sweep by police across Europe. The operation dismantled an integrated cell in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The group is accused of radicalizing fighters, planning attacks targeting Norwegian and British diplomats in the Middle East, and planning to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region. 2015-11-12
Sweden is imposing temporary border controls to stem a record inflow of refugees. The Nordic nation pleads with the rest of Europe for help. 2015-11-11
Former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl blames recently deceased former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's hostility towards a closer Europe as the cause for ongoing tensions between the United Kingdom and the European Union. 2013-04-11
PayPal, the online payments business, a division of eBay, launches a European version of the PayPal Here mobile payments system. 2013-02-21