Sun, 13 Jan, 2013 04:53:36 AM
A regional conference on the Council of Europe convention, known as the Istanbul Convention to combat violence against women and domestic violence will be held in Finland's ... details
Tue, 15 Jan, 2013 03:04:26 PM
Helsinki, January 15 – Finnish Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade Alexander Stubb is scheduled to visit France Wednesday for discussion over legislative policies with members ... details
Tue, 15 Jan, 2013 12:04:34 PM 2.8 percent inflation in 2012
The country´s average inflation rate for the year 2012 was 2.8 percent, said study report of the Statistics Finland on Monday.
The year-on-year change in consumer prices, inflation, calculated by was 2.4 percent in December, which was 2.2 percent in November, said the report, adding that the slight acceleration in inflation was due to increases in the prices of air travel and vegetables..
The report also said that the consumer prices were pushed up most from the previous year by risen prices of food, transport, alcoholic beverages and tobacco in December.
The cost of food ... detailsTue, 15 Jan, 2013 01:26:41 AM Finnish envoy meets Yemen President
After holding meeting with the Yemen prime minister last month, the Finnish representative on Monday met the president of the country to discuss the situation, although no ... detailsTue, 15 Jan, 2013 07:21:07 PM A cleaning woman stole an empty commuter train in a suburb of Stockholm and crashed it into a house, injuring herself, Swedish officials say.
The four-carriage train was driven out of the depot for about a mile until it jumped the tracks, becoming wedged into a three-storey building.
Police arrested a woman, who was flown to a Stockholm hospital with serious injuries. Nobody else was hurt.
A railway official confirmed the woman in custody was an employee.
"We have only heard good things about her," Tomas Hedenius, a spokesman for train operator Arriva, was quoted as saying by ... details |
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