Finnish municipal workers will go on strike in the cities of Tampere and Kuopio, joining a massive industrial action that has been going on in the country for over a week, the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals in Finland, Tehy, said on Monday

The Turkish human rights platform We Will Stop Femicide has received the international prize for gender equality (IGEP), awarded once every two years by the Finnish government, the Finnish Cabinet said on Monday

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said that the two anti-Semitic incidents that took place in his country on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day an act of vandalism in a synagogue and burning of an Israeli flag are "very worrying" and stated that judicial proceedings concerning the cases have been initiated