Finland has notified the United Nations it is leaving the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines, its foreign ministry said late on Thursday.

Decision to withdraw from Convention is based on Finland's defence needs in the deteriorated security environment,' says Foreign Ministry

Some parts of central Finland will see temperatures above the 25-degree Celsius mark, Finland's threshold for 'hot' weather.

Lithuania and Finland look set to start domestic production of anti-personnel landmines next year to supply themselves and Ukraine because of what they see as the military threat from Russia, officials from the two NATO member states told Reuters.

Finland's President Alexander Stubb is the head of state for one of NATO's newest members, and he sat down with CBC News to talk Trump, the war in Ukraine and what it's like sharing a 1,300-kilometre border with Russia.

Many Western democracies are worried about far-right parties’ popularity. But some are finding that letting them into government actually brings them back to earth.

July 7 (UPI) -- The AI company Groq announced Monday it is set to establish its first-ever European data center. It already has a presence in the United States, Canada and Saudi Arabia, but its global network will soon stretch to Helsinki, Finland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may attend the Helsinki+50 conference, which will take place in Finland on July 31, according to Ilta-Sanomat. The event will be dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act.