The facts are frightening. In 2009, Ukraine’s GDP is expected to decline by 8 percent. Iron and aluminium exports, pillars of the national economy, are in free fall, the banking system is on the brink of collapse, and like Iceland and Latvia, the government has already requested help from the International Monetary Fund. In a nutshell, Ukraine is collapsing.
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The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation yesterday released 600 pages of the 2,000 page final report into the Jokela school shooting. 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen opened fire at Jokela High School, killing eight before turning his gun on himself, receiving fatal wounds.
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Today the European Commission examined the updated stability programmes of Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. All four have reached, maintained or exceeded the objective they have set themselves to have sound public finances. Luxembourg and the Netherlands have presented budgetary strategies that are in line with the sound principles established in the Stability and Growth Pact. In both countries, the trajectory seems sufficient to maintain, by a large margin, their medium-term objective (MTO).
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Hundreds of children panicked in southern Finland on Friday after an online threat that their school would be the next target for a shooting rampage, the school's principal said.
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Finland is holding a day of mourning for the victims of Wednesday's school shooting, in which an 18-year-old student shot dead six pupils and two members of staff.
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At least seven persons killed in a tragic shooting at a school in Jokela in the municipality of Tuusula north of Helsinki according to Finnish news sources. The YouTube video, entitled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007", was posted by a user called Sturmgeist89.
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At least seven people have died after a student opened fire at a school in southern Finland, hours after a video was posted on YouTube predicting a school massacre.
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At least one dead in school shooting in Jokela, near Helsinki, Finland; police confirm that gunman is caught. Suspected gunman "acted strange in recent days."
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Armenian President Robert Kocharian will be paying a formal visit to Finland November 5-7, the RA leader’s press office reported.
The Armenian delegation will include Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Minister of Trade and Economic Development Nerses Yeritsyan, Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharyan and other officials.
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A new survey into the world's greenest and most livable countries has concluded that out of 141 countries reviewed, Finland is the greenest.
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Designers of Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor knew as far back as 2001 that it must be able to withstand an airplane attack.
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Nokia and the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, today announced an agreement to work together on a key strategic collaboration in nanotechnology research
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