Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A notice warning about land mines is attached to a tree as a Ukrainian specialized team searches for mines in a field in ...

Eve of NATO defence ministers' meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen hailed plans on Wednesday for six NATO member states ...

Finland this week became the latest country to withdraw from an international agreement that bans the use of antipersonnel mines, joining several fellow NATO allies in a move aimed at deterring ...

HELSINKI — Finland will host a new land command unit of the NATO military alliance, Minister of Defense Antti Hakkanen told reporters on Friday following a meeting of the alliance in Brussels. After ...

A three-decade global effort to end the use of land mines appears to be over. Finland and other European countries are leaving the Ottawa Convention, the treaty banning anti-personnel mines, as the ...

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The Finnish Ministry of the Interior announced on Thursday that all of its land borders with Russia would be closed from December 15 to January 14 due to the surge of illegal immigration, just a few ...

HELSINKI — Finland’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to pull out of a major international treaty on antipersonnel land mines Thursday as the Nordic country seeks to boost its defenses against an ...