Finland to eliminate infantry land mines by 2016; defence personnel...
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Between 2009 and 2016 the mines will be phased out, and replaced by new weapons systems, for which the government will provide EUR 200 million in extra funding.
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KIRUNA, Sweden  - Red lines on a map show cracks  in the ground menacing Kiruna, a model town in Sweden's frozen  north which may have to be moved as the world's biggest  underground mine is dug deeper beneath it.
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NAIROBI  - For the first time since it entered into force five years ago, the international treaty to ban antipersonnel landmines comes up for review here, but no official US delegates will be present among the hundreds of diplomats, campaigners and
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Finnish President Tarja Halonen on Thursday spoke against suggestions to transfer to government the final authority to deploy Finnish troops as part of the European Union's rapid response force.
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Clearing unexploded cluster bombs used   by Israel in Lebanon during the month-long war, many of them   U.S.-manufactured, could take 10 years, a British-based   demining group said on Friday.
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The Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World concluded here Friday with 144 states that have banned antipersonnel mines reaffirming their commitments to end sufferingcaused by the deadly weapons.
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KUUSANKOSKI, Finland  - When Finland's UPM-Kymmene bowed to tough market conditions and shut its Voikkaa paper plant two years ago, Raimo Loytty readily swapped a 30-year career in the mill for a stone mason's chisel.
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Finnish leaders on Saturday expressed their gratitude to the veterans of the Continuation War which ended in a ceasefire in the late summer of 1944.
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Controversial proposals to reduce the number of army regiments are expected to be finalised by military chiefs.
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STOCKHOLM  - TeliaSonera Corp., the Nordic region's largest telecommunications operator, said Friday it plans to cut 650 jobs in Finland, or about 10 per cent of its workforce there, as it moves to control costs.
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DELEGATES from more than 140 countries gathered yesterday seeking to eliminate and ban landmines that kill or maim up to 20,000 people a year worldwide.
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Indonesia said a clearer agenda was needed for dialogue with separatist rebels after talks in Finland failed to yield a formal truce, even as its troops killed four guerrillas in a new skirmish in tsunami-hit ...
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[India News]: Jammu, Nov 19 : Three Indian Army personnel, including an officer, were killed when separatist guerrillas triggered a landmine in Jammu and Kashmir Friday, the third day of the withdrawal of troops from the state.
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Delegates on Sunday attended the opening ceremonies of an international conference on eradicating land mines. The first five-year review of the international treaty to ban land mines
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has defended the use of landmines by weak countries countering aggression by stronger adversaries, and said the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines should be amended or scrapped.
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shakes hands with Hungarian defence minister after a military parade in Budapest, Wednesday. The prime minister said that Hungary would withdraw its 300 troops from Iraq by March 31 next year.
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Nokia , the world's top cellphone maker, said on Tuesday it plans to close its plant in Bochum, Germany, by mid-2008 and may cut up to 2,300 staff as it moves production to lower-cost regions.