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The Italian Air Force escorted a Finnair plane into Rome after an anonymous bomb-threat email was sent to Aeroporti di Roma (ADR) and other companies at Fiumicino. The plane arrived safely.

Exclusive: US is 'playing politics' with Patriots - Finnish minister

The email, which claimed it was from “fighters of the Male State”, said devices had been placed on inbound flights from Helsinki and Dublin and they would explode in 60 minutes.

In another case from Finland, a court dismissed charges against the captain of a Russian oil tanker accused of damaging undersea cables in the Baltic Sea on account of lack of jurisdiction.

Shona Murray brings the latest on Ukraine's need for interceptors and talks to Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen ahead of next week's Abu Dhabi talks.

Travellers holding Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish passports can now use Thailand’s automated passport control gates, following an expansion that has made the system available to citizens of 33 countries and territories.

Thailand and Finland are exploring new opportunities to strengthen their educational cooperation, with Finnish organisations presenting initiatives in teacher training, digital learning and early childhood education during a meeting at Thailand’s Ministry of Education. The meeting took place on 4 November, when Thailand’s Deputy Permanent Secretary for Education, Surapong Uemuthai, welcomed Finnish Education Ambassador Outi Hakanen and representatives of several Finnish education organisations. Several Finnish organisations presented their ongoing and proposed initiatives in Thailand. Omnia, a Finnish education provider, has signed a cooperation agreement with Thailand’s Office of the Vocational Education Commission to support the professional development of teachers and education personnel. Meanwhile, Finnish digital mathematics platform Eduten is working with Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission to introduce its learning platform in pilot schools. Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences also expressed its willingness to support Thailand’s One District One Scholarship (ODOS) programme. Finnish early childhood education provider HEI Schools presented its approach to play-based learning and discussed how elements of the Finnish early childhood education model could be adapted to the Thai education system. As a next step, Thailand and Finland plan to organise a joint education seminar in 2027 to further develop the proposals and translate the discussions into practical cooperation. The meeting highlights Finland’s continued engagement with Thailand’s education sector, where Finnish expertise in teacher training, digital learning and early childhood education is being explored as part of efforts to improve the country’s education system.

People walk at Fiumicino Airport after Italian Air Force jets safely escorted a Finnair plane from Helsinki to its scheduled landing in Rome following bomb threats on Thursday.

Countries including Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia and the Czech Republic have said they will refuse to play Russia. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Russia and Belarus, a close Moscow ally, would be barred from the World Junior Championship beginning next month in Alberta, while the Finnish city of Turku threatened to drop hosting duties for the 2028 World Junior Championship.

A Finnair plane taking off from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport on Nov 5, after it was diverted due to a bomb threat.

Italian fighter jets escorted Finnair's Helsinki-Rome flight.

October figures on frontline shifts according to Finland’s Black Bird Group: Russians barely moved.

A court in Helsinki sentenced two sailors from the vessel Fitburg, which damaged cables in the Gulf of Finland, Yle and Reuters report.

A Finnish court convicted the captain and boatswain of a cargo ship of aggravated criminal damage in relation to an incident last year in the Gulf of Finland.

A Finnish court on Thursday found a Russian ship captain and an Azerbaijani crew member guilty of aggravated sabotage after their vessel, the cargo ship Fitburg, damaged two underwater telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year. Finland seized the Fitburg in the Gulf of Finland on Dec. 31 while it was sailing from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Israel. Authorities in the Nordic country suspected it purposefully damaged cables running from Finland to nearby Estonia. A judge at the Helsinki District Court sentenced the Russian ship captain to 3 years and 6 months in prison, while the Azerbaijani crew member received 2 years and 10 months. In a statement, the court said the two men acted intentionally when the ship dragged an anchor chain and shank along the seabed for around 130 kilometers (81 miles). The Helsinki District Court also ordered the two men to jointly pay around 1.9 million euros ($2.1 million) in damages. Both the captain and crew member, who have remained in Finland since the Fitburg's seizure and are subject to travel bans, have denied any wrongdoing. They also challenged Finland's jurisdiction in the case. Finland has stepped up efforts to protect its undersea infrastructure following a string of incidents impacting cables and pipelines in the Baltic Sea in recent years.

The series of warnings on Thursday morning affected flights between Italy, Ireland, the UK, Spain, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Finland, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Greece and Czechia. The latest alerts affected flights by Ryanair, Aer Lingus, Wizz Air, Finnair and LOT. All landed safely. Initial searches of some of the planes found nothing suspicious. Also affected were an LOT Polish Airlines flight from Warsaw to Brussels, two Finnair flights from Helsinki to Rome and Vienna and four flights by other airlines to Prague. The threats against the Finnair flights were “unfounded or hoax”, said an airline representative.

A Finnish court on Thursday jailed the Russian captain and an Azerbaijani crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for aggravated sabotage over damage to two subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year. Finland on December 31 seized the vessel in the Gulf of Finland while it was en route from Russia to Israel, on suspicion that it had damaged cables running from Helsinki to Estonia. The Helsinki District Court sentenced the captain to three years and six months in prison.

At least eight flights from Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, Madrid, Milan and Warsaw were confirmed to have been targeted with bomb threats. Finnair said that Flight 1761 from Helsinki to Rome was targeted by a bomb threat, but nothing out of the ordinary was found after it landed, Finnish broadcaster Yle reported.

The Helsinki-Rome flight was escorted to Rome by a fighter jet and was checked by bomb disposal experts, an airport spokesman told AFP.