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Finnish court names knife attack suspect Abderrahman Mechkah
:: The 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker suspected of killing two women and wounding eight people with a knife in Finland on Friday is called Abderrahman Mechkah, a court said on Monday. The crimes are being treated as murder and attempted
Finland stabbing suspect an an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen
:: Police are now investigating a stabbing spree in Finland that left two people dead as a terrorist attack, police said Saturday, identifying the suspect as an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen. “The act had been investigated as murder, but during the
Two dead, eight hurt in Finnish city stabbings; suspect held
:: At least eight people have been hospitalized and two persons are dead following the stabbings in the Finnish city of Turku, the city’’s hospital told local news agency STT. “I can confirm that eight people are in our hospital,”
Thousands of Iraqi refugees leave Finland voluntarily
Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily, citing family issues and disappointment with life in the frosty Nordic country. Europe is in the grip of
Many Iraqis abandon Finnish asylum process to return home
Nearly 70 percent of Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland whose applications were processed last year have abandoned their claims, with many returning home instead, officials said Friday. Statistics from the Nordic country’s immigration service revealed Finland processed 3,700 Iraqi asylum
Neutral Finland to boost Iraq, Lebanon missions to help France
Finland said on Friday it would boost its involvement in a training mission in Iraq and in a U.N.-led operation in Lebanon to help relieve French forces following the Paris attacks last month by ISIS militants. France made an unprecedented
Nokia plots comeback with Android tablet
Nokia is back in the fray. Just months after selling its ailing handsets business to Microsoft, the Finnish company is planning to go back into the consumer market with a new tablet. The former top mobile phone maker, which has
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