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Finland's Q2 GDP falls 0.4 pct, annual growth forecast cut
Daily Finland
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Finland's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.4 percent in the second quarter of 2025 from the previous quarter, Statistics Finland said in a press release on Friday, reported Xinhua. The working-day adjusted GDP remained unchanged from...
Finland will finally remove swastikas from the flag of its air force after ‘awkward situations’
The Independent
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August 29, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Geoffrey Roberts – Dare to Appease: Finnish Lessons for Ukrainian Peacemakers
Brave New Europe
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August 29, 2025
What Ukraine could learn from Finland’s war with the Soviet Union Geoffrey Roberts is Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy Finland Pictures taken in the direction of Ilomantsi on the...
Liquid Sun Sets Autumn Date for Finnish e-SAF Production
Energy Intelligence
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August 29, 2025
Finnish power-to-liquids firm Liquid Sun is targeting an autumn start-up for a first of a kind pilot e-SAF facility near Helsinki. The Espoo project is backed by flag carrier Finnair and Finnish airport operator Finavia and aims to establish e-SAF...
Big deal to shoppers, businesses: US tariff exemption for small orders ends Friday
Great Bend Post - Kansas
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Post photoBy MAE ANDERSON NEW YORK (AP) — Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the United States this week as part of President Donald Trump’s agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global...
Snub at Trump? Biden-era pacts on minerals & Indo-Pacific trade find mention in India-Japan factsheet
The Print
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August 29, 2025
New Delhi: India and Japan have announced that their partnership in critical minerals hinged on two Biden-era agreements—the Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)—in what could be perceived as a snub at...
Von der Leyen says US trade deal wasn’t linked to Ukraine
EurActiv
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August 29, 2025
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has denied that Europe accepted a lopsided trade deal with the United States out of fear that Washington might stop supporting Ukraine militarily. "There is no linkage between the two," von der...
Swedish challenger bank Northmill targets EU expansion
Tech.eu
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August 29, 2025
Northmill is targeting expansion across the EU, as the Swedish challenger bank reports quarterly pre-tax profits of 56 million kronor (€5.1m). The retail and business bank currently operates across the Nordic markets of Sweden, Norway, and...
Insights Into Electronic-Cigarette Perspectives: Smokers’ Knowledge Attitudes and Practices at Hamad Medical Corporation, 2020
Dove Medical Press
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August 29, 2025
Introduction Tobacco consumption accounts for 7 million global deaths annually due to direct use (6 million) and (1.2 million) due to passive smoking.1 Furthermore, the economic burden of tobacco use has overwhelmed nations and healthcare systems....
Corvallis food bank faces rising tide of hunger, decreasing supplies
Corvallis Gazette-Times - Oregon
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Ashlie Stoddard reads stories to four of her eight children in the back of a 3,800-square-foot warehouse off Highway 99W in South Corvallis. Some 40 other people sit patiently in the corner, waiting for someone to guide them through their grocery...
Putin Defrauded French Companies
Charter 97
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The Kremlin boss took away Russian industrial gas plants from them. Putin has transferred the assets of the French chemical holding Air Liquide to the company M-Logistics. The Russian dictator signed the corresponding decree on Friday, August 29....
Sarawak Forest Department partners with Finland’s Arbonaut
ScandAsia
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August 29, 2025
The Forest Department Sarawak (FDS) has signed an agreement with Finnish forestry technology company Arbonaut Ltd. Photo: FDS. Sarawak Tribune has reported, that The Forest Department Sarawak (FDS) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement and a...
Google Street View car mistakenly drives through children's traffic playground in Finland
Yle Uutiset
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August 29, 2025
The Google cars have reportedly been driving into private yards in Oulainen this summer. Google Street View images of the children's traffic park in Oulainen. Residents in the northern Finnish municipality of Oulainen have reported Google Street...
Finland and Poland consider restoring peat bogs to defend against Russian tanks
Ukrainska Pravda
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Stock photo: Getty Images Finland and Poland are considering rewetting drained peatlands to create defensive barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Source: France 24, as reported by European Pravda Details: Since Russian tanks...
From NATO Hub To E-commerce Leader: Amazon Bets Big On Sweden
Forbes
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Amazon is doubling down on Sweden, pouring billions into data centers that power its AWS cloud empire while eyeing the country’s emergence as a NATO logistics hub and Northern Europe’s e-commerce epicenter. With a new NATO facility in Enköping and...
Sweden and Finland order HF manpack radios hardened ‘against jamming and interception'
Janes
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KNL's software-defined CNHF manpack radio. (KNL) Telenor subsidiary KNL's Cognitive Networked High Frequency (CNHF) manpack radios ordered by the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) are designed for...
Digital backbone: bringing new capabilities to the UK defence market
Shephard Media
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Finland-based Bittium works across a range of products in tactical communications, from software-defined radios (SDRs) and voice over IP solutions to device management and encryption software. A key partner of the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF), it...
Golf and straight talk: How Finland's president won Trump's ear
IOL
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Finnish President Alexander Stubb and US President Donald Trump bonded during a round of golf, sparking a close relationship that has propelled the Nordic nation into an unexpected role in Ukraine peace efforts. The charismatic and athletic...
Construction begins on Finland’s third Pohjanmaa-class corvette
Naval Technology
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August 28, 2025
Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) along with its subsidiary RMC Defence has commenced the construction of the third Pohjanmaa-class multi-role corvette for the Finnish Navy. The initiation of the construction was marked by steel cutting on 26...
Data-driven destination management: What South Africa, Seville and Helsinki can teach the world
Breaking Travel News
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August 29, 2025
From climate pressures to uneven visitor flows, destinations face unique challenges—but share one powerful solution: data. After working with tourism organizations in South Africa, Seville, and Helsinki, The Data Appeal Company (part of Almawave...