Two people arrested earlier this month on suspicion of financing terrorism and performing terror recruitment activities have foreign backgrounds, officials said Saturday.
The detentions are the first known terror-linked arrests in the Nordic (...)
Finnish Social Democrats have endorsed former prime minister Paavo Lipponen as their candidate in next year's
presidential elections, results showed Tuesday, according to dpa.
Lipponen, 70, secured two thirds of the roughly 23,000 votes cast
by (...)
About 50 people were detained Saturday during a
protest at a nuclear plant in western Finland, dpa quoted police as saying.
The protest was staged at the Olkiluoto plant where two of the
country's four reactors are located. A fifth reactor is (...)
Finnish police have arrested an 18-year-old man after searching his home and finding items that can be used to make explosive devices, according to Reuters.
Police said on Thursday they were tipped off after finding 10 kg of ammonium nitrate (...)
Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker,
Thursday reported a net loss of 492 million euros (695 million
dollars) for the second quarter amid falling sales, according to dpa.
The group reported a net profit of 104 million euros in the (...)
Finland's Parliament has overwhelmingly elected conservative party leader Jyrki Katainen as the country's new prime minister.
In a 118-72 vote, lawmakers on Wednesday approved the appointment of Katainen, who was finance minister in the outgoing (...)
The two main parties in the incoming six-party
Finnish government Saturday announced their ministers for the new
government led by Jyrki Katainen and his National Coalition Party, according to dpa.
The conservative party has relinquished (...)
Finland's prime minister-elect kicked off a last-ditch round of talks with rival parties on Tuesday, reviving attempts to build a coalition after six-way negotiations broke down last week, according to Reuters.
Jyrki Katainen, head of the (...)
A rescue package for Portugal cleared another
hurdle Friday when a key committee in the Finnish parliament approved
the country giving its support to the bailout, dpa reported.
European Union finance ministers are due to meet to approve (...)
Euro zone central bankers welcomed a plunge in oil and commodities prices on Friday, saying it could cool inflation, but gave no sign they would change their determination to tighten monetary policy this year, according to Reuters.
"The fall in the (...)
Awwal 26, 1432 / April 30, 2011, SPA -- The leader of the nationalist True Finns party
which made an electoral breakthrough in Finland's recent
parliamentary elections said Saturday said he was ready to discuss
terms for approving a possible (...)
Awwal 25, 1432 / April 29, 2011, SPA -- Joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks said Friday
it has finalized its deal to buy parts of US-based group Motorola's
wireless network infrastructure assets, according to dpa.
Nokia Siemens Networks is to (...)
Awwal 17, 1432 H / April 21, 2011, SPA -- Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker,
Thursday reported a rise in its first quarter net profit and said it
had signed a cooperation agreement with software giant Microsoft, according to (...)
Awwal 17, 1432 H/April 21, 2011, SPA -- Nokia Corp. reported better than expected first-quarter profits Thursday but its global market share dropped to below 30 percent for the first time in over a decade as the world's top cellphone maker continued (...)
Awwal 15, 1432 / April 19, 2011, SPA -- Finland's likely next prime minister ruled out proposing major changes to a bailout package for Portugal, seeking to soothe concerns that the Nordic country's new government could block EU plans and upset (...)
Awwal 14, 1432, April 18, 2011, SPA -- Finland's nationalist True Finns party scored big electoral gains Sunday and were the third largest party in the country - and perhaps part of the future government.
True Finns leader Timo Soini, who names his (...)
Awwal 11, 1432 / April 15, 2011, SPA -- Finland's National Coalition, the party tipped to win Sunday's election, said it was sure the next government would support an EU bailout plan for Portugal although a popular opposition party remained against (...)
Akhir 24, 1432 H/March 29, 2011, SPA -- Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia Tuesday said it
had filed a new complaint against Apple for allegedly violating
several patents used in the rival company's computers as well as
iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (...)
Akhir 20, 1432 H/March 25, 2011, SPA -- A once-obscure populist party with roots in the Finnish countryside has become a sudden political sensation, riding a wave of voter discontent with everything from immigration to bailouts for other euro (...)
Akhir 06, 1432 H. / March 11, 2011 -- Bank of Finland Governor Erkki Liikanen has been appointed for a second seven-year term as the head of the Nordic country's central bank, according to AP.
The 60-year-old Liikanen has headed the bank since (...)
Akhir 02, 1432 H/March 7, 2011, SPA -- US Vice-President Joe Biden arrived Monday in the
Finnish capital Helsinki, the first stop on a three-nation tour that
includes visits to Russia and Moldova, according to dpa.
Biden - arriving from the (...)
Awwal 12, 1432 H/Feb 15, 2011, SPA -- A Finnish soldier was killed by a roadside bomb
in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
The soldier and his unit were on their way to a shooting range
near the town of Aybak when the blast occurred, dpa cited (...)
World-leading mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. says its net earnings fell 21 percent in the fourth quarter, according to AP.
CEO Stephen Elop says Nokia «faces some significant challenges in our competitiveness.»
Net profit was ¤745 million ($1.02 (...)
Nokia Corp. is suing Apple Inc. in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands for allegedly infringing its patents with technology used in the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
The complaints, filed in October through December, follow earlier lawsuits by (...)
Hijjah 13, 1431 / Nov. 19, 2010, SPA -- Two Russian trucks collided in eastern Finland on Thursday, the driver in one of them died.
"A truck and a freight minibus collided on the road between the cities Lappeenranta and Vaalimaa near the (...)