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• A wide and varied career
Ahtisaari has had a broad career in politics and peacemaking. A primary school teacher who joined Finland's Foreign Ministry in 1965, he spent 20 years abroad, first as ambassador to Tanzania and then to the United Nations in New York. In 1994 ...
• Ex-Finnish president wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it honored Ahtisaari for ...
• Medicine kicks off Nobel Prize
Science writer Karin Bojs of Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, a leading Nobel guesser, predicted a shared medicine prize between Italy's Giacomo Rizzolatti and Finland's Riitta Hari for research on so-called "mirror neurons" in monkeys and humans. In ...
• Finland media: Threats sent to students
KAUHAJOKI, Finland - Several bomb threats and other threatening messages have been sent to students and schools across Finland in the wake of a shooting rampage that left a total of nine dead, Finnish media reported on Thursday. Police said they were ...
• Finland mourns dead students
A teenager looks at candles at dawn at the Kauhajoki vocational high school in southwestern Finland, on Wednesday, a day after a student killed 10 people before shooting himself in the head. HELSINKI, Finland - Finland mourned the dead of its second ...