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Finnish backpacker undergoes surgery on finger after being injured by gunfire in Mumbai
Finnish 19-year-old backpacker Oskari Pölhö, who was wounded during a terrorist attack at Mumbai’s historic main railway station on Wednesday is doing well. On Friday he underwent surgery at Bombay Hospital to remove shrapnel from his finger. The attackers fired into a crowd with assault rifles, and threw grenades at the packed station. Pölhö, who had graduated from upper secondary school in Espoo in the spring, was taking a few months off to travel. In spite of his harrowing experience, his feelings toward India are remain positive.
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Petrol prices on the slide: now approaching EUR 1.00 a litre
Over the weekend, the pump prices of petrol and diesel fell so low across the country that it would have been impossible to even dream of such bargains only last summer. For example, the standard 95-octane unleaded cost only EUR 1.10 a litre at several filling stations around Finland. The cheapest price of EUR 1.069 a litre was listed at the Onnenliekki station in Tuuri in Ostrobothnia, while diesel there cost EUR 0.949 a litre. This compares with hard times in the summer when motorists could expect to have to pay around EUR 1.60 for a litre of unleaded. But then the world price for crude was hovering around 150 dollars a barrel, and now it is closer to 50 dollars a barrel.
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Thousands of chickens killed in animal rights activist raid on poultry farm
Thousands of chickens died in the western community of Närpiö when a poultry farm was raided by suspected radical animal rights activists Thursday night. The chickens died of asphyxiation after the attackers had cut the electricity supply and destroyed the ventilation equipment of the building where thousands of chickens were kept. The raiders broke into the building through a broken window. In addition to the ventilation, they damaged feeding equipment, and a packaging machine. Graffiti left on the wall suggested that the raid was the work of radical animal welfare activists.
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 Writing skills of Finnish schoolboys alarmingly weak
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Adoption from abroad taking longer and longer
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Finland to launch unique dementia prevention study
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OSCE foreign ministers’ meeting to be biggest conference ever in Helsinki
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Passengers stuck in Thailand angered by scant information forthcoming from Finnair
SPORT
Updated 15:30 - A very good weekend on skis
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Gevor downs Amin Asikainen’s dream of retaining his EBU title
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Silent and moody: the enduring image Germans have of Finns
This is something we all know: the Finns are a nation who are silent in two languages. The quotation is from the German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, and is commonly understood by Germans and Finns alike to have been a comment on the taciturn nature of the Finnish people. Although the reality is often quite different, the image has withstood the ravages of time. But stereotypes run both ways. It was revealed at a recent symposium in Berlin that preconceived images that Finns have of Germans are just as resilient, and just as questionable.
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Rare northern cow breed maintained at prison facing closure
CULTURE
Artist Mattijuhani Koponen recalls turning point 40 years ago
CULTURE
Success in America: neither easy nor cheap for Finnish rock bands
BUSINESS & FINANCE
Huge discounts on Spanish holiday properties now a commonplace
PEOPLE
Online pastor says he acts like spiritual band-aid
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