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Russia’s inland waterways hold strategic significance. This is due to three reasons: first, the country has a large number of ...

Plus, the Caldecott, Newbery and Coretta Scott King awards honored a range of books for young people this week.

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In times of adversity, we might all benefit from a little sisu. Here's how people in the Seattle area define and live the ...

A leading author and historian has warned that Britons could face a severe punishment if they ignore conscription in the event of World War 3 and Russia has been issuing terrifying threats ...

Finland’s military will initiate the acquisition of anti-personnel land mines and start training staff, conscripts and reservists to use them later this year, it said Wednesday, after the country’s ...

The president told The Times that he felt “strongly” that Russia would not invade Ukraine again. By Anton Troianovski Reporting from Washington President Trump indicated that he was ready to commit to ...

Law enforcement in Finland has reportedly seized a Russian cargo ship suspected of sabotaging undersea telecommunications cables running across the Gulf of Finland from the Scandinavian nation to ...

On September 22, 1940, the first ships carrying Wehrmacht soldiers from Nazi Germany arrived in Finland. The startled chief of police at the port city of Vaasa rang the ministry of the interior for ...

“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 ...