🇫🇮 Finland Mentioned

On November 2, a second wave of suspected cyberattacks affected supermarkets and food businesses in at least nine European countries, including Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden.

Finnish Ambassador Arto Haapea welcomed the attention the embassy’s Instagram page had received. “As long as it’s positive and good and brings us more visibility to the work we do to bring Australia and Finland closer,” Haapea said. He hoped the attention would encourage people to visit Finland and further strengthen the relationship between Finland and Australia.

In particular, passenger planes traveling from Istanbul and Hurghada to St. Petersburg landed in Helsinki.

At the end of September, Finnish game studio Remedy released Control Resonant, a sequel to the popular action game Control (2019).

Quiet slopes, short queues, a long season and an easy-to-navigate property market are making the chilly heights of Norway, Sweden and Finland a hot spot for buyers.

Ukrainian military drones have been straying into the airspace of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, creating concerns that the war in Ukraine is spilling over into NATO countries that border Russia and its ally Belarus.

A Finnair flight between Helsinki and Rome was escorted by Italian fighter jets while another plane, from Dublin to Rome, was diverted to a French air base. The scare affected a total of 20 airports in 16 countries, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, and the UK.

Earlier in the day, Harris said the vast majority supported the deal and that member states were “not worlds apart” and “inches away”, before adjourning the meeting “to take stock” for another round of bilateral talks after Finland, Estonia and Malta still objected to the compromise. Finland, the other holdout, wanted higher taxes, but in the end also agreed to the compromise.

Participants gather for the Cultural Fair Day Fun Walk in Jakarta on 8 November, attended by Finnish Ambassador Pirjo Suomela-Chowdhury. Finland’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Pirjo Suomela-Chowdhury, joined the Cultural Fair Day Fun Walk in Jakarta on Sunday, 8 November. According to the Finnish Embassy’s Facebook post, the occasion also gave the ambassador an opportunity to meet Culture Minister Fadli Zon. For the Finnish ambassador, participation provided an informal setting to connect with Indonesia’s cultural community and the minister.

Carney's pledge, coupled with the stated refusal by Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and others to face Russia in an international tournament, appears to have given the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association (NIHF) hope that its team could still play in the upcoming tournament.

Carney's pledge, coupled with the stated refusal by Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and others to face Russia in an international tournament, appears to have given the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association hope that its team could still play in the upcoming World Juniors.

Finland is pouring 100 million gallons of water into a 66-foot-deep basin to create the world’s largest pit heat storage facility; one charge holds 18,000 megawatt-hours of heat and could supply water to around 20,000 people at a time.

Finland’s Ambassador for the Indo-Pacific, Jari Vilén, met ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn in Jakarta on 9 November to discuss potential cooperation. The discussions focused on areas where Finland’s Policy Outline for the Indo-Pacific and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific could support cooperation. Vilén serves as Ambassador for the Indo-Pacific at Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Manoj Arora expressed pride in his daughter's achievements in Helsinki amid Delhi's worsening air quality. He shared pollution level comparisons between Delhi and Helsinki to highlight environmental concerns.

Finland is exploring the possibility of building anti-tank obstacles on its border with Russia, following Ukraine’s example. The country’s army commander, Lieutenant General Pasi Välimäki, told Bloomberg. According to Bloomberg, Finland is better prepared than other European countries for a possible war with Russia. It has much to teach others.

Gustav Mahler’s rarely performed Symphony No 8, a work requiring such a large orchestra and choir it is known as “Symphony of a Thousand”, finally received its Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra premiere on Saturday, heralding an ambitious new chapter as the 26-year-old Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski officially took the podium as music director.

Since the October 30 decision, several leading ice hockey nations — including Finland, Sweden and Czechia — have said they would refrain from playing against Russia in any tournament in which it is allowed to take part.

“Every time a user scrolls or likes a video on TikTok, the algorithm serves more of the same, leading users down rabbit holes they cannot easily escape from,” European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees tech sovereignty, said in a statement.

Dozens of civil society and grassroots groups have said they will join the “Stop Dirty Data Centres” events on Friday and Saturday in 15 European countries, including Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom, organisers said.