Tampere city council to name park after communist Finnish civil war leader
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The Tampere city council on Tuesday decided to name a park after Hugo Salmela, the Red Guard officer who led the defence of the communist stronghold in the 1918 civil war.
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A group of Elvis fans have started a campaign to rename one of the Finnish capital's main streets, Bulevardi, Elvis Boulevard in honour of the late king of rock and roll, a supporter told AFP on Friday.
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The Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, meant to stand for the ages as a memorial to Hawaii's World War I veterans, has suffered decades of neglect, leaving it crumbling and almost forgotten. Now it's at the center of a debate that pits Honolulu's new cost-cutting mayor against historical preservationists.
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Specialists have been chosen for an inquiry into Finland's deportations to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Continuation War, 1941-44. Head of the project, picked earlier, is director of legislative ...
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More than 60 years after it was seized by communists, the Romanian government is to hand back one of the country&#039;s most popular tourist sites, the fabled Dracula Castle, to its former owner, the culture minister said Tuesday.
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Anders Eriksson, the chairman of the separatist Alands Framtid (Alands Future) party is to be removed from the delegation that the semi-autonomous province has in the Nordic Council.
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By Karen Sloan, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 11--The site where the crumbling Wintergreen Park Apartments once stood could be transformed into a neighborhood of new homes.
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A former Finnish defence minister and an influential academic were quoted as saying in Saturday's Hufvudstadsbladet, the Swedish-language daily, that the potential opponents of President Tarja Halonen and the ...
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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers whose exhumation from a war grave had sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia.The eight white caskets were lowered into new ground at the Defense Forces cemetery in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, foreign diplomats and World War II veterans.'We have fulfilled our duty and given these soldiers their final resting place,' Aaviksoo said after the hour-long ceremony. He said he hoped the reburial would prevent Russia from using the war grave issue in the future 'for provocations against the Republic of Estonia.' Read more
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Council meetings in Reus could take a turn for the bizarre after the northern Spanish town voted in a councillor who promised to turn up dressed as Elvis Presley and wants to turn the square into a nudist pool.
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A monument to Soviet soldiers has been vandalised in Estonia. Unknown malefactors smeared with paint a memorial in Rakvere, a town 100 kilometres east of the capital Tallinn.
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Russia on Monday called the unveiling of a monument commemorating Estonians who fought in the German army during World War II a "disgraceful act" and urged NATO and the European Union to take notice.
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President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo is visiting Finnish political leadership in Helsinki on Wednesday.
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By Brian Peach, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 20-- -- A statue of Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, which has graced Paducah's Lang Park in the Fountain Avenue neighborhood for 98 years, may have to find a new home, Planning Director Tom Barnett said at a city planning commission meeting Monday night.
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The mayor of Moldova's capital Chisinau, who backs closer ties with neighboring Romania, has scored a symbolic victory over the ex-Soviet state's communist president in a duel focusing on rival Christmas trees.
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Sweden's centre-right leader Fredrik Reinfeldt names his government, including ex-PM Carl Bildt.