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This Finnish ski resort is launching a summer-long treasure hunt for a €20,000 gold bar

Visitors will have longer to search in the daylight as Levi experiences the midnight sun from late May to the end of July. Experiencing the midnight sun has long been on our travel bucket list (and not just because we’re Zara Larsson fans) – but there’s a very good reason to finally tick it off this year. That’s because Levi, a ski resort in Finnish Lapland, is set to launch a summer-long treasure hunt to find a hidden gold bar worth €20,000.

NATO exercises at Finnish-Russian border as drone incursions mount

Finland jails businessman for trafficking Thai berry workers

Finland jails businessman for trafficking Thai berry workers HELSINKI, Finland: A Finnish court on Monday (Jun 8) handed a two-and-a-half-year jail term to a local businessman for human trafficking Thai workers to pick berries in the Nordic country. Finnish authorities have cracked down in recent years after cases of exploitation of seasonal migrant workers in the nation's berry industry came to light, and have accused leading companies in the sector of having formed a cartel to depress...

Finland's president says EU should expand to 40 states — including Canada

HELSINKI, Finland — Finnish President Alexander Stubb has outlined his vision for a much larger European Union, saying the 27-nation bloc needs to "think big" and seize the moment to project power on the global stage. Speaking at an energy conference in the Finnish capital on Wednesday, Stubb said the EU should push to increase its membership to 40 states and named the U.K., Canada, Turkey, Norway and Iceland as potential candidates to join. His comments come as the Trump administration's...

Finland’s foreign minister says Ukraine ‘is now holding the cards’ as Russia signals talks

EXCLUSIVE: Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said Ukraine has gained new leverage against Russia, arguing that Moscow’s renewed talk of negotiations comes as Kyiv has strengthened itself militarily, politically and diplomatically. Valtonen’s comments carry particular weight because Finland is one of NATO’s newest members and now sits on the alliance’s longest border with Russia. Finland joined NATO in April 2023 after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ending decades of military...

Cross-Domain Dead Tree Detection via Knowledge Distillation in Aerial Imagery

arXiv:2606.02303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting dead trees in aerial imagery is vital for assessing forest health, especially as tree mortality increases globally due to climate change, but domain variability and scarce labeled data often limit model generalization. This study advances the TreeMort-1T-UNet (Tree Mortality 1-Task U-Net) model, initially trained on Finnish aerial imagery (source domain), by applying knowledge distillation (KD) to adapt it to various target domains,...

Rescuers race to save two people still trapped in cave in Laos

Rescuers race to save two people still trapped in cave in Laos Rescuers face heavy rains, equipment failures in search for two people trapped in central Laos cave by flash floods. Heavy rains have threatened to delay the search for two people who remain missing in a flooded cave in Laos, after five others were rescued after being trapped underground for more than a week. Finnish diver Mikko Paasi, one of the first international rescuers to arrive at the site, told The Associated Press news...

GB's Patten and partner Heliovaara beaten in French Open doubles final

Great Britain's Henry Patten and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara lose to Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the French Open men's doubles final.

Ice hockey-Helenius is the hero as Finland beat Swiss in world final

Ice hockey-Helenius is the hero as Finland beat Swiss in world final ZURICH, May 31 : Konsta Helenius struck the only goal of the game in sudden-death overtime as Finland beat Switzerland 1-0 to win the gold-medal game at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on Sunday, breaking the hearts of the hosts as they lost their third final in three years. After suffering an overtime loss to the United States in last year's final, the Swiss were thwarted again, this time by a disciplined Finnish...

Defence spending plan delay 'has left the UK less safe and undermined its credibility'

British paratroopers exit an American Chinook during training at an undisclosed training ground less than 50 kilometres from the Russian border in Finland where Nato troops are taking part in Exercise Northern Star, led by the Finnish military, with soldiers working alongside coalition allies and training Nato soldiers together to deter aggressive neighbouring states. The large scale ground exercise, comprising of around 4,000 coalition troops include the use of new technologies, including...