Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before ...

SALLA, Finland (AP) — Traditional reindeer racing that’s been delighting spectators for decades in Finland brought hundreds of fans to the Salla Reindeer Cup in the frigid town of Salla this past ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new barbed wire border fence on the closed border between Finland and Russia (Alessandro RAMPAZZO) (Alessandro ...

Finland, traditionally one of the European Union’s most fiscally disciplined countries, has received a wake-up call from Brussels. The European Commission, the bloc's executive arm, last week ordered ...

Finland and Britain on Saturday wrapped up the Northern Axe 25 joint military exercises, one of several early winter drills held by the Northern European nation and attended by NATO allies this year.

“These are Santa’s reindeer. But we are really lucky because Santa needs them only one day of the year. So we can fly them 364.” It’s a well-rehearsed line. Juha Kujala has uttered it many times over ...

Russia plans to cut off gas shipments to Finland starting Saturday at 7 a.m. local time. Finnish energy provider Gasum said Russia is halting natural gas imports after the company failed to pay in ...