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A man climbs out from the icy sea to the pier, in southern Helsinki, Finland, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Finland and Sweden have recorded this winter’s cold records on Tuesday as a temperatures plummeted to over minus 40 degrees as a result of a cold spell prevailing in the Nordic region. (Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva via AP)

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Cold spell in Finland and Sweden sends temperature below minus 40
By JARI TANNER - Associated Press
Tue,01/02/24-5:39AM , 63 Reads
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland and Sweden recorded their coldest temperatures of the winter Tuesday when thermometers plummeted as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) as a cold spell grips the Nordic region.
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Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, right, talks with European parliament President Martin Schultz during a high level conference on roles of regional actors as vectors for peace, at the European parliament in Brussels, Wednesday April 25, 2012. Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland and global peace broker awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work to resolve international conflicts, died Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. He was 86. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

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Martti Ahtisaari, former Finnish president, global peace broker and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies
By JARI TANNER - Associated Press
Mon,10/16/23-2:38AM , 91 Reads
HELSINKI (AP) — Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland and global peace broker who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work to resolve international conflicts, died Monday. He was 86.
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Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo meets the media in Helsinki, Finland, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Finnish and Estonian gas system operators on Sunday said they noted an unusual drop in pressure in the Balticconnector pipeline after which they shut down the gas flow. The Finnish government on Tuesday said there was damage both to the gas pipeline and to a telecommunications cable between the two NATO countries. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP)

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Damage to gas pipeline, telecom cable connecting Finland and Estonia caused by 'external activity'
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Tue,10/10/23-8:47AM , 98 Reads
HELSINKI (AP) — Damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity," Finnish officials said Tuesday, adding that authorities were investigating.
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Protesters gather in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, carrying Iraqi flags and images of influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr, Saturday, July 22, 2023, following reports of the burning of a Quran carried out by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen. Protesters attempted to cross the Jumhuriya bridge leading to the Green Zone, where the Danish embassy is, but were pushed back by security forces. (AP Photo/Ali Jabar)

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Denmark seeks to legally prevent burnings of Quran or other religious scriptures
By JARI TANNER - Associated Press
Sun,07/30/23-3:25PM , 153 Reads
HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark’s foreign minister said Sunday the government will seek to make it illegal to desecrate the Quran or other religious holy books in front of foreign embassies in the Nordic country.
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