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Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. Photo: collected
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Finland ranked again the world’s happiest country in 2025: What’s the secret?

For the eighth consecutive year, this Nordic country is at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford

People walk on a street in Copenhagen, Denmark. File photo: Ritzau Scanpix/Philip Davali via Reuters
World+Biz

Denmark, Finland and Singapore: How life is in countries with least corruption

Finland's President urges "Global South" countries to engage in international affairs. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Finland President meets CA, seeks Global South's proactive roles in major global affairs

Finnish Coast Guard stops a small boat which tried to reach the oil tanker Eagle S anchored near the Kilpilahti port in Porvoo, on the Gulf of Finland December 30, 2024. Photo: Lehtikuva/Jussi Nukari/via REUTERS
Europe

Finland's Elisa says Baltic undersea cables were torn apart by external force

Students attend a class on media literacy at the Hiidenkiven Koulu school on November 19, 2024 in Helsinki, Finland. Photo: AFP via BSS
Europe

How Finnish youth learn to spot disinformation

Finnish Coast Guard stops a small boat which tried to reach the oil tanker Eagle S anchored near the Kilpilahti port in Porvoo, on the Gulf of Finland December 30, 2024. Photo: Lehtikuva/Jussi Nukari/via REUTERS
Europe

Owner seeks release of oil tanker seized in Finland cable probe

Oil tanker Eagle S is anchored near the Port of Kilpilahti near the city of Porvoo, on the Gulf of Finland on December 28, 2024. Photo: Lehtikuva/via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

Finland finds drag marks on Baltic seabed after cable damage

Finnish Border Guard's ship Turva and oil tanker Eagle S sail on the sea outside the Porkkalanniemi, Finland on 26 December, 2024. Photo: Reuters
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Finland boards oil tanker suspected of causing internet, power cable outages

Non-resident Ambassador of Finland to Bangladesh Kimmo Lahdevirta called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at his office in Dhaka today. Photo: BSS
Bangladesh

Finnish firm keen to set up plastic recycling plant in Cox's Bazar, envoy tells CA Yunus

A Finnish border guard and their dog Nita patrol the Finnish-Russian border which is marked by a narrow clearing in the forest near Hoilola village, in Eastern Finland, June 5, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Anne Kauranen
Europe

Finland scrambles to close new migrant route via Russia to Europe

New non-resident Ambassador of Finland to Bangladesh Kimmo Lähdevirta met Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen at the latter’s office on Thursday (30 May) and discussed issues of mutual cooperation. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Bangladesh, Finland to hold political consultations in October to strengthen ties

Finland's President Alexander Stubb speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, May 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/ File Photo
Europe

Russian defence ministry proposes revising Baltic Sea border

Police officers talk to family members of pupils at the Viertola comprehensive school in Vantaa, Finland, on April 2, 2024. Three minors were injured in a shooting at the school on Tuesday morning. A suspect, also a minor, has been apprehended. Lehtikuva/MARKKU ULANDER via REUTERS
Europe

One dead, two wounded in Finland school shooting, 12-year-old suspect held