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Finland joined NATO on Tuesday in a "truly historic" moment for the military alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, adding that the move was a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Nordic nation ditched decades of neutrality when...

Finland is a happy place! For the sixth year in a row, the country has been named the happiest in the world in the annual World Happiness Report 2023. The Nordic country and its neighbors Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway...

U.S. Senators sent on Thursday a letter to President Biden expressing concern about Turkey’s continued delays around ratifying the NATO accession protocols for Sweden and Finland. The bipartisan initiative led by Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) states that...

The sale of F-16s to Turkey put forward to Congress by the Biden administration has met with resistance in Washington. The fighter jets are part of a billion-dollar package that would make up one of the biggest military weapons...

Turkey has raised demands that Sweden, a NATO hopeful, cannot and does not want to meet, said the Swedish Prime Minister on Sunday. Ankara has blocked Sweden and Finland's entry into the Western military since May in an attempt to...

Sanna Marin, the prime minister of Finland, has expressed regret over a topless photo of visitors taken at her official residence. She recently took a voluntary drug test, the results of which were negative, to deflect claims that she had...

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin is facing distress as videos of her dancing and partying wildly at a private party got leaked to the public. The 36-year-old Finnish leader was captured in a two-minute video originally published on a private...

President Biden signed ratification documents endorsing Finland and Sweden's NATO accession on Tuesday.

A senior Pentagon official confirmed on Wednesday that the US fully supports the modernization of Turkey's F-16 fleet, hours after Turkish President Erdogan agreed to lift the threat of a veto on Finland and Sweden joining NATO. As US President...

Turkey lifted on Tuesday its veto over Finland and Sweden’s bid to join NATO after the three nations agreed to protect each other’s security. The breakthrough, ending a weeks-long drama that tested allied unity against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, came...