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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin speaks during a meeting of Social Democratic party of Finland in Lahti, Finland, Wednesday Aug. 24, 2022. Marin apologized Wednesday after the publication of a photo that showed two women kissing and posing topless at the official summer residence of the country's leader. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)

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Finland's leader apologizes for party photo at summer home
By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press
Wed,08/24/22-4:46AM , 118 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s prime minister apologized after the publication of a photo that showed two women kissing and posing topless at the official summer residence of the country's leader.
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FLE - Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, left, speaks with Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas during a round table meeting at an Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels, on Dec. 15, 2021. Estonia and Finland want European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians amid the war in Ukraine. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Tuesday that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right.” Her Finnish counterpart, Sanna Marin, says Russians traveling in Europe is "not right.” (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)

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Estonia, Finland want Europe to end Russian tourist visas
By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press
Tue,08/09/22-5:02AM , 349 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leaders of Estonia and Finland want fellow European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens, saying they should not be able to take vacations in Europe while the Russian government carries out a war in U
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Convicted mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik sits in the makeshift courtroom in Skien prison on the second day of his hearing where he is requesting release on parole, in Skien, Norway, Jan. 19, 2022. A decade after the 2011 bombing and shooting spree that left 77 dead, Breivik is seeking early release from a 21-year sentence — the maximum term in Norway. (Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB scanpix via AP, File)

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Norway court rejects mass killer Breivik's parole request
By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press
Tue,02/01/22-9:24AM , 199 Reads
COPENHAGEN (AP) — A Norwegian court ruled Tuesday that far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, must remain in prison, saying there remains “an obvious risk” he could return to behavior that led up to the massacre.
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Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, takes part in a coronavirus press conference, with Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke, left, and director of the National Board of Health Soeren Brostroem, right, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Wednesday Jan. 26, 2022. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

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Danes halt virus restrictions; rest of Europe a patchwork
By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press
Tue,02/01/22-3:05AM , 151 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark took the European Union lead Tuesday by scrapping most pandemic restrictions as the Scandinavian country no longer considers COVID-19 “a socially critical disease.” European nations elsewhere had a patchwork of different approaches, with some relaxing virus measures while others tightened them.
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