Former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin will have a memoir out this fall, looking back on a momentous four years in office when she presided over her country’s joining NATO, its response to the pandemic and the enactment of legislation on climate change and social justice.

The leaders of France and Germany have urged new municipal elections in northern Kosovo in the hopes that another ballot will quell a flare-up of ethnic tensions that have led to violent protests in the region.

Finland's outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, says she will resign as the leader of her Social Democratic Party at the next party congress in the autumn.

Finnish voters have given a boost to conservative parties in a weekend election, depriving the popular left-wing Prime Minister Sanna Marin of another term as the country prepares to make its historic entry into NATO in the coming days.

Finland’s main conservative party has claimed victory in a parliamentary election in an extremely tight three-way race where right-wing populists took second place, leaving popular Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democratic Party third, dashing her hopes for reelection.

Finland’s leader says it must give more weapons and support to Ukraine to ensure it wins its war against Russia.

Finland’s prime minister says she was convinced that there is a “wide support” within the Parliament to build a fence on the Nordic country’s border with Russia as proposed by the Finnish border guard officials.

A leaked video that shows Finland’s 36-year-old prime minister dancing and singing with friends at a private party has triggered a debate among Finns about what level of reveling is appropriate for their leader.

Finland’s prime minister has ruled out taking any drugs during a “wild” party in a private home.

Estonia and Finland want European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians amid the war in Ukraine.

Finland’s leader says that the Turkish president’s decision to order that 10 foreign ambassadors be declared persona non grata after calling for the release of a jailed philanthropist and human rights activist was a “regrettable situation.”.

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A 16-year-old girl has assumed the post of Finnish prime minister for one day in the Girls Takeover scheme part of the U.Ns Day of the Girl to raise more awareness of gender equality in the world. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)A 16-year-old girl ceremoniously assumed the post of Finnish prime minister for one day for the “Girls Takeover” program — part of the U.N. International Day of the Girl to raise more awareness of gender equality. Girls, too, have a digital future, and that is why girls should have a voice in technology,” Murto said. Girls Day on Sunday. ___This story corrects that Marin is Finland's third, not second, female prime minister.