With a cacophony of honks sounding like a hailstorm, tens of thousands of hungry geese blanket a lush green field in Finland with their black flocks."There's probably around 20 to 30 hectares behind me, it is easily eaten in a day," cattle farmer Kar...

Turkey on Saturday called off a visit by Sweden's defence minister over a planned demonstration by a right-wing extremist in Stockholm.Turkey has been angered by permission obtained by Rasmus Paludan, a Swedish-Danish politician whose anti-Islamist a...

Finland announced Friday a 400-million-euro military aid package to Ukraine, its largest to date and including heavy artillery as well as munitions but no Leopard tanks."Ukraine continues to need support in defending its territory," Defence Minister...

By AFPDeep in the Finnish woods, the moss and blueberry shrubshide a deadly threat to the boreal forests that are as important to the planet as the Amazon rainforest.With chunks of their bark peeling off and needles falling from dying branches, more...

Standing next to a freshly-cut clearing the size of seven football fields, Finnish forest engineer MattiJappila pointed to growth rings in an up to 300-year-old tree stump."I have started to systematically carry out these loggings, sort of in advance...