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Sámi Culture Year in Oulu: Hope Under Mining Pressure
As Oulu celebrates its turn as a Capital of Culture, Sámi artists step into the spotlight whilst mining projects continue to press on their grazing lands to the west.
BUSINESS
Finland’s Unemployment Paradox: Rising Joblessness, Surprising Calm
Finland recorded 10.3% unemployment in October 2025, the highest figure since 2009, yet public discourse suggests that economic pessimism does not always translate into social despair.
PODCASTS
Neutrality in Question? Austria Debates Age Old Thinking
Austria debates its military neutrality amid rising NATO influence in Europe, as Brigadier Dr. Walter Feichtinger analyses security shifts post-Ukraine invasion.
Food & Drink
Finland: When Prosperity Packs on the Pounds
In Finland, saunas once sweated away stress, now fast food feeds growing waistlines as wealth brings unintended consequences.
BUSINESS
The New Syria: Russia, China, and NATO Fight for Dominance
Russia, China, and NATO vie for control of melting sea routes, energy, and rare earths in a contentious battle of geopolitics.
Popular
Trump’s Health Shock Reaches Far Beyond America
As Belgian ministers warn that Trump threatens Europe's healthcare model, the damage is already spreading through aid budgets, medicine routes, and public health systems far beyond Washington.
Alberta’s Separatist Feed Was Made in the Netherlands
After CBC traced several Alberta separatist YouTube channels to operators in the Netherlands, Canada's political fringe began to look less local than it likes to claim.
Sudan’s Drone War: Low-Cost Conflict In Energy Crunch
In Khartoum's bombed-out streets, 1.8 million people reclaimed their homes, before drone strikes resumed.
Switzerland Names a Buried Crime
After Swiss lawmakers voted this week to declare the treatment of Yenish and Sinti families a crime against humanity, a long-buried national shame entered public language at last.
Piracy Around the Horn of Africa is Going Global
With four tankers seized near Somalia in a fortnight, POTUS describes his own navy boarding foreign ships as piracy.
