Sunday, October 9, 2022

Sanna Marin: How much partying is too much for a leader?

Someone pulled out a phone, and the revellers posed for the camera, dancing, laughing and hugging each other.

A perfectly normal night out for any ordinary woman in her 30s.

But as the prime minister of Finland, Ms Marin is not an ordinary woman.

Footage of the party was leaked on

 

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Ukraine war: Finland closes border to Russian tourists

Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all closed their borders to Russian tourists earlier this month.

But Russians will still be allowed to visit family or for work and study in Finland, the foreign minister said.

The decision comes after the number of Russians arriving at the border

 

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Facebook reveals login credentials of over 1 million users stolen by malicious apps

Facebook is notifying users who "may have unknowingly self-compromised their accounts by downloading these apps and sharing their credentials."

As per Bloomberg, a million users were potentially affected.
In its post, Meta said that the apps tricked people into downloading them with

 

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Finland wants to transform how we make clothes

Now he runs a Finnish start-up where socks are the norm on the office floor, and he proudly sports a round-neck T-shirt spun from recycled clothing fibres, tucked into some baggy shorts.

His firm, Infinited Fiber, has invested heavily in a technology which can transform textiles

 

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Hungary and Turkey are the last two roadblocks to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden


In the corridors of power in Stockholm and Helsinki, the champagne is on ice.

After just three months, 28 out of 30 NATO states have ratified the treaty changes in their national parliaments that would approve membership for Finland and Sweden; while 24 nations have already deposited

 

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'Hope Türkiye approves our NATO membership,' Finnish PM says

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Friday that she hopes her country's NATO membership will be approved by Türkiye as soon as possible.

Marin answered press members' questions at the entrance to the informal EU Leaders' Summit held in Prague, the Czech Republic, on Friday.

 

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Finland Leader’s Solution for Ending the War in Ukraine Goes Viral

Finland’s uber-cool Prime Minister Sanna Marin was once again going viral on Friday, this time for a mic-drop moment about Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine. Marin, 36, was asked by a reporter for her thoughts on President Joe Biden’s comments about trying to find Putin’s “off-ramp

 

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