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🇫🇮 There is no evidence that AI poses an existential threat, Helsinki professor Teemu Roos tells Yle. He says big firms may use that warning to shape regulation and keep an edge.

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#Finland #AI #Nordics #Tekoäly

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🇪🇪 Column: Harri Tiido – ERR: Talk of bananas in Siberia hides the cost of thawing permafrost, he writes. New land can turn to bog, while drought hits Russia’s old grain belt. A warmer climate is not an automatic economic win.

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#Estonia #Climate #Russia

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🇮🇸 Opposition leader Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir says the public needs a clearer account of why a minister left the cabinet, Vísir reports. She says education minister Inga Sæland has given mixed answers.

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#Iceland #Politics #Nordics

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🇳🇴 FM Eide told the UN it faces a triple crisis of norms, money and institutions, VG reports. International law is not a menu states can pick from, he said. The speech is a call for reform, not a new UN decision.

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#Norway #UN #Nordics

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🇸🇪 A week after Andersson got the mandate to form a government, the four centre-left parties have still not opened joint talks, SVT reports. Centre and the Left are blocking each other. 12 November is the budget deadline.

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#Sweden #Election2026 #Nordics

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🇫🇮 Most Finns now say Ukraine should show some flexibility on its goals for a lasting peace, an EVA poll out via Yle finds. About three-quarters still say other countries must not dictate the terms.

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#Finland #Ukraine #Nordics

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🇫🇮 President Stubb asked Elon Musk to open Starlink over Russia so Ukraine can hit ballistic-missile launchers there, Yle reports. “It would save lives,” he told Reuters.

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#Finland #Ukraine #Starlink

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🇸🇪🇫🇮 Swedish Gripens and Finnish Hornets flew their first joint Quick Reaction Alert on 24 Sept, identifying a Russian military group over the Gulf of Finland, Reuters reports. It was identification in international airspace, not an announced violation.

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Today in the North — Friday, 25 September.

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🇸🇪 At least four people with gang-crime links worked as polling clerks in Stockholm in 2026, DN reports. The paper also found 69 other clerks with recent court cases. Staff screening is now under debate.

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#Sweden #Election2026 #Crime

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🇪🇪 Column: Tarmo Miilits – ERR: Russia is a strategic threat, he writes, but there is no sign it intends to attack a NATO country now. Hybrid activity is real.

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#Estonia #NATO #Russia

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🇪🇪 The largely EU-funded defence base in Narva is about six months late and will now cost more than €20 million, ERR reports. Main building is due in 2027; a temporary site should open earlier that year.

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#Estonia #Defence #EU

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🇮🇸 Iceland’s UN envoy stayed in the hall during Netanyahu’s speech, Vísir reports. The foreign minister was at an UNRWA event. Other Nordic missions also stayed. Remaining seated is not a change in Iceland’s policy.

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#Iceland #UN #Nordics

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🇩🇰 Denmark has raised the threat of a destructive cyberattack from medium to high, https://t.co/LMGzkhzFRN reports. SAMSIK says Russia is likely to try. The change is a threat level, not a report of an attack today.

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#Denmark #Cyber #Russia

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🇳🇴 The government will merge separate hate-speech and discrimination plans into one strategy due in 2027, Aftenposten reports. A first step: 4 million kroner for library spaces where young people can meet. Measures are still being drafted.

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🇸🇪 Left Party leader Dadgostar says she stayed silent on the Borlänge ballot claims until the party could look into them, SVT reports. The politician at the centre will not take up his seat. An inquiry is not a finding of guilt.

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#Sweden #Election2026

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🇫🇮 The government has sent parliament a bill to use civilian-service conscripts and reservists in floods, fires and other crises, Yle reports. The president could order up to two weeks. Not yet law; the aim is 1 January 2027.

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#Finland #Security #Nordics

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Today in the North — Thursday, 24 September.

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🇪🇪 Column: Hans Väre – ERR: Estonia should plan an off-switch for AI in critical services, he writes. Like backup generators, digital systems need a way back to human control. Convenience, he argues, is not a readiness plan.

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#Estonia #AI #Nordics

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🇪🇪 Estonia has imposed its own sanctions on Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman after the EU took them off its list, ERR reports. FM Tsahkna signed the order from New York. This is a national measure, not an EU relisting.

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#Estonia #Russia #EU