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Finland marks 70th anniversary of Winter War

Source: Seattle Times

Helsinki :: Finland | updated Wed Dec 02 06:40:47 -0800 2009 | disasters

Finns on Monday marked the 70th anniversary of the Winter War, a conflict that saw this tiny country hold off Stalin's Red Army for 105 days and suffer one-third as many casualties in weather that was so cold some soldiers...

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Finland fire kills 5, injures 9

Source: Yedioth Ahronoth

Naantali :: Finland | updated Sat Oct 10 16:10:59 -0700 2009 | disasters

Police said Saturday that all the victims are under 20 years old. The fire destroyed the wooden house in a quiet suburb in the coastal town of Naantali, 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of Helsinki. Police say firefighters and...

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Finland's Foreign Minister Discusses Clinic Attack in Gaza with ...

Posted by: mokki

Helsinki :: Finland | updated Sun Jan 18 15:25:00 -0800 2009 | disasters

On Wednesday, Alexander Stubb , Finland's Foreign Minister, met with Israel's ambassador to the nordic country, Avi Granot, to discuss the destruction of a hospital clinic in Gaza co-funded by a Finnish Lutheran group called Finn Church Aid . Finn...

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High pressure to fabricate Racak reports

Posted by: AriRusila

Helsinki :: Finland | updated Sun Oct 19 19:46:17 -0700 2008 | disasters

Forensic dentist Helena Ranta says that officials of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs had tried to influence the content of her reports in 2000, when Ranta was commissioned by the European Union to investigate the events of Racak in Kosovo....

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Deaths feared in Finland school shooting

Posted by: anonymous

Kauhajoki :: Finland | updated Tue Sep 23 05:26:51 -0700 2008 | disasters

(CNN) -- Several people are feared dead after a man opened fire at a college in southwestern Finland Tuesday before killing himself, state media reported. The shots were reported at a college for home- and institutional-economics in the municipality of...

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Finland School Shooting - Nine Students Feared Dead

Posted by: wikiboy

Helsinki :: Finland | updated Tue Sep 23 06:50:32 -0700 2008 | disasters

A 20 year old gunman went on a shooting rampage in a Finnish vocational school near Helsinki and up to 9 are feared dead. Police eventually managed to disarm him, but not before her turned the gun on himself and...

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Reality live in

Posted by: AriRusila

Jyväskylä :: Finland | updated Sun Sep 21 20:11:45 -0700 2008 | disasters

One news headline on Serbianna pages popped up to my eyes yesterday. I quate "Ten oxygen bottles required by the Hospital Center in Gracanica after they were seized by Kosovo separatists who demanded recognition of Kosovo in exchange for life...

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Alan Warner on Aaltra

Source: The Guardian

Helsinki :: Finland | updated Sat Dec 05 16:57:26 -0800 2009 | disasters

I find most good cinema by idly channel-hopping on late-night television. With Aaltra I needed to see just one frame and a panning shot to know it was for me. I'm not some grand connoisseur; with so many bland-looking movies...

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