Sources: Yle News
Finland joins the New York Declaration calling for the end of the Gaza war and advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. 2025-09-5
A district court in Helsinki, Finland, denies a request to release the impounded oil tanker "Eagle S", suspected of damaging the Estlink 2 submarine power cable and carrying sanctioned Russian oil. 2025-01-3
Finnish-Canadian sportswear mogul Peter Nygård is sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault. 2024-09-9
Twenty-four people are injured when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapses in Espoo, Finland. 2023-05-11
The National Assembly of Hungary votes 182–6 to approve Finland's accession to NATO, leaving Turkey as the last remaining NATO member to approve Finland's membership in the military alliance. 2023-03-27
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warns both Finland and Sweden that they could face "detrimental military and political consequences" if they attempt to join NATO. 2022-02-25
Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare reports the country's first death from COVID-19. 2020-03-21
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden confirms the election of Finnish writer and poet Tua Forsström as a new member of the Swedish Academy, the body that formally decides the annual winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2019-02-12
Finland's government plans to give all its citizens, rich or poor, a monthly payment of €800, with no strings attached. The Finnish government says it wants to launch a “universal basic income experiment” in 2017 to test the feasibility of this program, which would replace the country’s current benefits system. 2015-12-6
A gunman in the town of Hyvinkää near the Finnish capital Helsinki kills 2 people and injures 7 in a shooting before being arrested. 2012-05-26