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[15] Eagles had gone extinct, but both land and sea eagle populations have been revived by plantations, and in 2007 the first land eagle chick was hatched in Donegal in 100 years.


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The eagles are threatened by poison baits used by farmers and intended to control foxes and crows.


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[16] There are six national parks in the country: Ballycroy, Burren, Connemara, Glenveagh, Killarney and the Wicklow Mountains National Park.


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[17] Climate Ireland's climate is marine.


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The east and south are the driest, and the east and inland have slightly warmer summers and colder winters than elsewhere.


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Sometimes snow can be obtained there, but snow cover does not stay on the ground for long, even on the hills.


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Dublin in the east of the country has the average highest temperature of the warmest moon, July, 18.9 degrees Celsius, with an average lowest of 2.5 degrees for the coldest January and February.


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There is rain on 9 to 13 days in each month, with a total of 50—76mm per month.


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[18] In Galway on the west coast, temperature conditions are almost similar, but there are 15 to 24 days of rain each month, with months of rainfall between 52 and 132mm.


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The most rain falls in autumn and winter.


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[19] In Belmullet, in the northwest corner of the island, the warmest moon, the average highest temperature in August is 17.2 degrees, the average lowest of 3 degrees for the coldest January and February.


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Rain is received on 12 to 20 days each month, with more than 120mm per month in winter.


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[20] History Early stages The first inhabitants arrived in Ireland 6000 years BCE.


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About 4000 years later, there were tribes from southern Europe, building large Neolithic stone monuments and elaborate gold ornaments.


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Bronze age people who arrived in the next thousand years made elaborate gold and bronze objects and weapons.


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[21] Celtic tribes arrived in Ireland between the years 600—150 BCE.


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period.


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According to tradition, St. Patrick arrived in 432 shares.


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and converted the Irish to Christianity.


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[21] Vikings began to invade the area in the 8th century.


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The end of the growing influence of the Vikings has often been regarded as the end of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which Brian Boru, the High King of Ireland, was also killed.


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[22] British rule over the Kingdom of England conquered Ireland in the 12th century.


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The first conquerors were Normans.


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Henry II appointed his son Juhana, later John the Landless, as Lord of Ireland.


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The power of the English was lacklustre, and clashes with local flamboyans ordinary.


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Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James I attempted to instill Protestant faith and English spirituality in the Irish by encouraging immigration and confiscating Catholics' lands for Protestants.


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This is where the confrontation in Northern Ireland started.


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[23] Under Elizabeth I in the 1590s, the first revolt broke out when the Irish, led by Hugh O'Neill, fought for nine years for their independence.


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Fifty years later, the Kilkenny Confederacy led by Catholic superiors controlled two-thirds of the island at best.


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They demanded full autonomy, rights for Catholics, and an end to Englishing.


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The rebellion ended in the English Civil War, in which the Irish sided with Charles I against Oliver Cromwell.


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In 1649, Cromwell bloodily defeated the Irish.


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[24] After the revolt, a period of repression began.


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In 1641 Catholics had owned 60% of the land, by 1776 the proportion was reduced to 5%.


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In the late 18th century, Protestant idealists rose up on the barricades inspired by the American War of Independence.


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The action was defeated in 1798.


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The British attempted to curb dreams of independence with the Union Act of 1801, [25] which defined the place of personal union as a new state called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.


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[26] Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland was hit by a severe famine, during which the population dropped from eight to five million and the western parts of the country were almost completely depleted.


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Of the three million residents lost by Ireland, more than a million perished, the rest moved abroad.


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[27] Towards the end of the century there was a nationalist spirit.


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The domestic political situation in Ireland escalated into the Easter Rebellion of 1916.


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[28] Independence period The Revolutionary War broke out in 1919.


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In 1921, Ireland and Britain agreed to an armistice and the country's becoming a free state.


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Full independence Ireland achieved by the British enactment of Westminster in 1931.


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Ireland declared itself a republic in 1948 and separated itself from the British Crown and the British Commonwealth in 1949, joining the European Economic Community in 1973.


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[5] As recently as the early 1990s, Ireland was one of the poorest countries in the EU.


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Liberal economic policies, including low corporate tax and low wages, and EU support for education and infrastructure produced some of the toughest economic growth in the West, and by entering the 21st century Ireland was emerging as one of the wealthiest countries in Europe.


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Because of this 1995—2007 economic boom, the country was given the nickname “Celtic Tiger”.


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[21] There was a major housing bubble in the country when house prices rose 192% from 1997 to 2005.


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[29] At the same time, economic inequality rose to the greatest in the Western world after the United States.


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[30] In autumn 2008, as the British bank Northern Rock went under, Ireland provided unlimited collateral on deposits to prevent deposit flight and attract capital that had fled elsewhere.


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In doing so, Ireland took on guarantees of around EUR 440 billion.


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As the unlimited warranty period expired in September 2010, the country's banks began losing hundreds of millions of euros a week in short-term funding, despite twice postponing the expiration date of the guarantee program.


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On November 18, 2010, Irish authorities announced the country needed tens of billions of euros in support funding to keep banks and the state afloat.


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[31] The administration and politics of the Irish Parliament (Oireachtas) is bicameral.


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The upper house of parliament is called Seanad Éireann and the lower house is Dáil Éireann.


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In both chambers, the majority party was long the centre-right Fianna Fáil.


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However, after the 2011 election, the majority in Parliament was formed by the centre-right Fine Gael and the centre-left Labour Party.


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[5] The reign of the President of Ireland lasts seven years and can only be re-elected once.


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The office of the president is essentially ceremonial.


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In certain constitutional positions, he is backed by the Consultative Council of State.


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At the Prime Minister's request, the President may dissolve Parliament


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Michael D. Higgins took over as president on November 11, 2011.


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[21] Ireland's head of government is the Prime Minister, or Taoiseach.


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The House of Commons elects the chairman of the largest party or coalition as prime minister.


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The other ministers are nominated by the Prime Minister and approved by the House of Commons.


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[21] Other politics in Irish politics throughout the country's independence have been an important subject of Northern Ireland's status.


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Fianna Fáil was formed after the 1922—1923 civil war from those who opposed the partition of the island.


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Although opponents of partition lost the civil war, Fianna Fáil was for a long time by far the most popular party in the country and has been in charge of government almost continuously since the 1930s.


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The other major party Fine Gael emerged from supporters of splitting.


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Other major parties include Labour, the Greens and Sinn Féin.


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[21] The Catholic Church has always had great power in Ireland.


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However, recent reforms have relaxed or removed a number of restrictions imposed by the church, and in 1972 the special status of the Catholic Church was removed from the constitution.


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[32] For example, divorce was only allowed in 1996.


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[33] Ireland is the first country in the world where gender neutral marriage has been approved through a referendum.


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Gay and lesbian couples are allowed to enter into a civil marriage after a change in the law.


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Voting took place on 22 May 2015.


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[34] Armed Forces Irish Defence Forces ((IDF),) consists of land forces, navy and air forces.


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There is no universal conscription in Ireland; the military ferment is voluntary for men and women alike.


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[5] Administrative division As of June 2014, Ireland is divided into 31 administrative regions ().


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Of the districts, 26 are counties, three are cities (Cork, Dublin, Galway) and two are urban-counties (Limerick, Waterford).


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The administrative districts are divided into a total of 95 municipalities ().


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[35] In the 2014 reform, the number of local government units decreased from 114 to 31 and the number of regional representatives from 1627 to 949 [36].


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In 2018, County Galway and the City of Galway decided to amalgamate no later than 2021, followed by the 30th [37] of the administrative districts.


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Fingal Dublin City Dún Laoghaire—Rathdown South Dublin Wicklow Wexford Carlow Kildare Meath Louth Monaghan Cavan Longford Westmeath Offaly Laois Kilkenny Waterford Cork City Cork County Kerry Limerick Tipperary Clare Galway County Galway City Mayo Roscommon Sligo Leitrim Donegal History of administration Historically the island of Ireland has had four counties: Ulster, Munster, Connacht and Leinster.


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The provincial division dates from the beginning of the Christian period and no longer has an administrative function.


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[38] In the map and list below are the counties under the old administrative division in English and Irish.


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The number behind the county name refers to the green areas on the map.


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The other six counties of Ulster (in the accompanying county map in pink colour) are part of Northern Ireland.


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Ulster (Ulaidh) Cavan/An Cabhán (9) Donegal/Dún na nGall (26) Monaghan/Muineachán (8) Munster (An Mhumhain) Clare/An Clár (20) Cork/Corcaigh (16) Kerry/Ciarraí (17) Limerick/Luimneach (18) Tipperary/Waterford/Port Láirge (15) Connacht (19) Waterford/Port Láirge (15) Connacht) Galway/Gaillimh (21) Leitrim/Liatroim (25) Mayo/Maigh Eo (22) Roscommon/Ros Comáin (23) Sligo/Sligeach (24) Leinster (Laigh's) Carlow/Ceatharlach (4) Dublin/Áth Cliath (1) Kildare/Cill Dara (5) Kilkenny/Kilkennya (5) Cill Chainnigh (14) Laois (13) Longford/An Longphort (10) Louth/Lú (7) Meath/An Mhí (6) Offaly/Uíbh Fhailí (12) Westmeath/An Iarmhí (11) Wexford/Loch Garman (3) Wicklow/Cill Mhantáin (2) Economy Ireland's economy is modern and largely dependent on foreign trade.


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Ireland joined the euro in 1999 along with the first twelve EU countries.


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Between 1995 and 2007, the country's gross domestic product grew by an average of 6% per year, turning to a sharp decline due to the world economic crisis.


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During the economic crisis, the average selling price of Irish homes halved to 2010.


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Gross domestic product fell by more than 3% in 2008 and almost 8% in the following year.


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In 2010, gross domestic product only weakened by 1 per cent, and the country's economy was expected to return to a tolerable state during 2011.


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[5] In 2017, Ireland's national debt-to-GDP ratio was 73%.


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[39] About 5% of the Irish industry structure is agricultural, 49% industrial and 46% services.


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The country's major agricultural products include beef, dairy, barley, potato and wheat.


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Major industrial products, on the other hand, are various chemicals, medical supplies, computer hardware, food supplies and soft drinks.


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In addition, the country is investing in the manufacture of pharmaceutical equipment.


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Ireland's major natural resources include natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, baryte, gypsum, limestone and dolomite.


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[5] Ireland's main export goods include machinery supplies, computers, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, animals and animal goods.


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Irish exports target the United States, Britain, Belgium and Germany, while the main importing countries are Britain, the United States, Germany and the Netherlands.


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A 2010 estimate placed the value of Ireland's foreign trade at around US$115.7 billion.


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[5] Transport in Ireland is approximately 700 km of motorway in total (2009).


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The country's traffic, like Britain, is left-hand.


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There are a total of 39 airports in Ireland, the largest being Dublin Airport.


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[40] Approximately 60000 passengers pass through the airport daily.


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[5] [40] The road network is comprehensive and in good condition, but public transport is quite expensive, tidal intervals are long and routes do not extend everywhere.


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[41] Population See also Catholic Church in Ireland.


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The population of Ireland is mostly inherited from the Celts, but there has also been an admixture of English, Northerners (mainly Norse and Danes from the Viking period) and Iberians.


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In the 21st century, Ireland's population has grown drastically, with large numbers of immigrants coming to the country, mostly from Poland, Latvia and Lithuania.


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[42] In 2011, it had 4670976 inhabitants.


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[5] For decades, Irish demographics were dominated by emigration due to inadequate food supply in the 19th century, but the population decline ended in 1961, as although emigration continued, the birth rate was high.


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[43] The population predominantly speaks English, but a small minority living mostly in the western parts of Ireland, in the so-called Gaeltacht areas of the province of Connacht, speak the indigenous Irish language.


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The number of people who speak Irish is in the order of about five per cent, and the majority of them are bilingual as their second native English.


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[42] Irish has been the official language of Ireland alongside English since 1921.


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[44] In the 2016 census of Irish people belonging to the Catholic Church, 78.3% of the population.


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The Church of Ireland comprised 2.7%.


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Orthodox were 1.3 per cent and other Christians 1.6 per cent.


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Muslims made up 1.3 per cent, Hindus 0.3 per cent and other religions were in favour of 2.1 per cent.


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There were 9.8 per cent non-religious.


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The remaining 2.6 per cent did not say their position.


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[45] In 2010, 70% of Irish people said they believed in God; the proportion was the seventh highest in Europe.


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[46] The population distribution of different regions is very uneven.


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Population and industry are concentrated in the east, which houses the center of the country's politics and economic life.


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Approximately 30% of the population lives in the area of the cities of Dublin and Dún Laoghaire.


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[47] According to a 2004 World Health Organisation survey, Ireland has the fourth highest consumption of alcohol in the world, with over 14.4 litres per adult converted to pure alcohol.


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Only Luxembourg, Uganda and the Czech Republic are consumption even more plentiful.


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[48] Ireland is a major intermediate point for the shipment of hash from Africa to Britain and the Netherlands.


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In addition, synthetic drugs manufactured in Europe, as well as heroin and cocaine, are transmitted through Ireland.


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In particular, cocaine use is also on the rise in Ireland.


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[5] Education in Ireland is compulsory education for all children aged 8—15.


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Ireland's school system is three-phase: eight years-long primary school (), compulsory for everyone, 5—6 years of secondary education (), and higher education.


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[49] Children in Ireland are allowed to go to school no earlier than the age of six, but most 4- or 5-year-olds attend special classes associated with primary schools.


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[50] After primary school, the vast majority of young people enter secondary education lasting 5—6 years.


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Approximately 60% of those who complete secondary education later go to college, usually either college or college.


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[49] There are a total of seven universities in Ireland, the oldest of which is Trinity College, founded in 1592.


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The largest of the universities is University College Dublin, founded in 1854, with a total of over 24000 students.


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[51] Culture The unformality of Irish culture distinguishes it from British culture, at least in the view of the Irish themselves.


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Humour and linguistic wit are appreciated, and breaking the rules is punished with sarcasm or mockery.


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[52] Irish food resembles the cuisine of other northern European countries.


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Meat, potatoes and cereal products are its basis, vegetables are used as a side dish, especially cabbage, swede, carrots and Brussels sprouts.


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Lamb, chicken, beef, ham and turkey are eaten fried or casseroles.


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Fish, especially salmon, and shrimp are also used.


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International cuisine has spread to Ireland, but staple domestic dishes and especially drinks such as whisky and Guinness beer have maintained their popularity.


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The pub is an essential meeting place, but meals are rarely served there.


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[52] The symbols of Ireland include a three-leaf clover worn by the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick (iir.


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Padraich) is reported to have used as an example when explaining the Holy Trinity, as well as the golden harp which also appears on all Irish euro coins.


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The harp was also on Irish pound coins (iir.


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Punt) and is still on the coat of arms of Ireland.


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[52] Traditional Irish musical instrument music is often originally intended as an accompaniment to dances.


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Folk songs feature ornamented mourning songs as well as ballads that can tell about politics, work, alcohol and love alike.


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[53] Irish themes have been used in their music include Clannad, The Dubliners, Thin Lizzy, Boyzone, and The Corrs.


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Other Irish artists are also successful around the world, among the front-row stars to mention U2, Enya, Jedward, Sinéad O'Connor, Westlife, My Bloody Valentine, Niall Horan of the One Direction band, as well as Boomtown Rats (and singer Bob Geldof).


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The Riverdance dance troupe has made Irish tap dancing known in the world.


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[54] Ernest Walton of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1951, along with John Douglas Cockcroft, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “sharing an atom”.


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[55] William Rowan Hamilton was a noted mathematician.


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[56] There are also a number of well-known writers in Ireland, most of whom write in English.


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Four of them have received the Nobel Prize in Literature: William Butler Yeats 1923, George Bernard Shaw in 1925, Samuel Beckett in 1969 and Seamus Heaney in 1995.


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[57] Other well-known Irish writers have included James Joyce (whose memory is celebrated annually on Bloomsday), Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Patrick Kavanagh, Colm Tóibín, Brendan Behan, Roddy Doyle, and Bram Stoker, the creator of Dracula.


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Ireland's public broadcaster is Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE), which operates two television channels and four national radio channels.


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In addition, there are several commercial television and radio broadcasters in the country.


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[5] Ireland is the most successful country in the Eurovision Song Contest to date, having won seven times.


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[58] The UNESCO World Heritage List lists two sites from Ireland, the Bend of the Boyne Ancient Monuments and the Skellig Michael Monastery Group.


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[59] Sport Ireland's unofficial national sports are the so-called Gaelic sports, the most important of which are Gaelic football, which remotely resembles football, and racket hurling.


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[60] [61] In the Olympics, the country has excelled mainly at the Summer Olympics; at the Winter Games, the country has not won any medals.


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At the Summer Olympics, Ireland has been particularly successful in boxing (12 medals), athletics (6 medals) and swimming (4 medals).


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[62] Ireland has a total of 252844 registered football players and 5828 football clubs.


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The country's national football league is officially called the League of Ireland Premier Division.


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The Ireland national football team has participated three times in the Football World Cup (1990, 1994 and 2002) without winning any medals.


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The country was ranked 23rd in the FIFA rankings in January 2012.


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At its best, the country has been sixth in the ranking list in 1992—93.


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Along with football, rugby and horse racing are also popular.


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Police captured the man.


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It later emerged that the man in question had links to the al-Qaeda terror network and had been in custody in Somalia for involvement in planning the assassination of Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state.


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£) on deposits lost when Icesave bank went under, but that he intends to subject the question to a referendum.


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Milan Bandić, who was up against him, fell short of a 40% vote catch.


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[2] 11 January — Finnish sports journalists chose skier Aino-Kaisa Saarinen as the best Finnish athlete of 2009.


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12 January — Haiti is hit by an earthquake that claimed more than 100,000 victims, according to some estimates.


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Many key buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince, were badly damaged or completely destroyed.


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The epicentre of the quake was about 25 miles from Port-au-Prince to the western luncheon.


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12 January — The Helsinki District Court began what has been described as the most extensive serial murder trial in Finnish history.


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The primary carer from Helsinki was charged with five counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault and drug and property offences that had occurred between 2004 and 2009.


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The targets of the crimes had been elderly people from Helsinki.


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13 January − The Finnish Tietotoimisto acquired the Lehtiimaa photo agency owned by Sanoma News.


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17 January — Sebastián Piñera elected President of Chile.


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18 January — Turkish Mehmet Ali Agca is released from a Turkish prison.


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He had been sentenced in 1981 to life imprisonment for the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II and, in addition, imprisonment for crimes committed by him in Turkey.


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Agca had said he attempted to assassinate the pope on a mandate from the Soviet security service, the KGB and Bulgaria.


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[3] 18 January — Construction of the motorway on the main road 51 between Kivenlahti — Kirkkonummi was announced to begin in February.


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[4] [5] 19 January — Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a member of the Hamas leadership, was assassinated in a hotel in Dubai.


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The murder was believed to have been carried out by Israel's Mossad, and the hit team used passports from several European countries and Australia.


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[6] [7] [8] 21 January — An Air Force Hornet fighter crashes on the Juupariver in Pirkanmaa.


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The plane's pilots were saved by ejection seats, but were injured when they fell into the woods.


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Moments earlier the plane had taken off from Jämsän Hall.


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January 25 — 90 people were killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 into the Mediterranean Sea.


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25 January − Ali Hassan al-Majid, who served as Iraq's defence and interior minister and army commander during Saddam Hussein's term, was hanged.


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In total, four different death sentences had been imposed on him for several mass murders with chemical weapons.


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29 January — Seinäjoki District Court dismissed all charges against the Kauhajokelan Lieutenant in the Kauhajoki School Survey trial.


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The lieutenant had been charged with manslaughter and gross breach of official duty.


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The prosecutor and relatives of the slain youths appealed the decision to the Court of Appeal.


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February 2 − The election of the Bureau of Parliament formed a demonstration by several MPs towards Speaker Sauli Niinistö.


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Niinistö was elected Speaker with 89 votes, but 53 delegates voted for other persons, 29 abstained and 15 tickets were rejected.


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Johannes Koskinen of the SDP was forced to give up the seat of Second Deputy Speaker and was replaced by Tarja Filatov, who had in turn been ousted from the seat of President of the Parliamentary Group by Eero Heinäluoma.


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4 February — Laura Chinchilla elected in the Costa Rican presidential election as successor to Óscar Arias Sánchez of the same party.


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7 February — Second round of presidential elections in Ukraine.


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Viktor Yanukovych, who lost the 2004 presidential election, won.


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The losing prime minister, Julija Tymoshenko, disputed the election result and took it to court, although observers said the election went ahead with integrity.


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February 10 — Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger begins.


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February 12 — University of Alabama shooting incident.


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He's 12.


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— February 28 — The Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver.


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14 February — NATO launched a 15,000-man “Mushtarak” major offensive on Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province.


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[9] 15 February — Several people perished in Buizingen train crash.


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18 February — Niger's military embarks on a coup d'état against President Tandja Mamadou.


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Mamadou had previously extended his term as president through questionable means.


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[10] 20 February — Heavy rains wreaked havoc and mudslides on the Portuguese island of Madeira, killing 42 people.


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The destruction was estimated at €1.4 billion.


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[11] 25 February — Hammarland's medieval church in Åland was the target of an arson attempt.


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Several firebottles were thrown in from the window of the church, caused by the start of fire marred the interior of the church.


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Damage was left minimal thanks to swift action by the fire brigade.


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Police captured two teenage girls who confessed to the act explaining Satan worship as the motive.


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February 27 — Earthquake in Chile near the city of Concepción.


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March 3 − The Turku Court of Appeal upheld the verdict received by the Nokian nurse Katariina Pantila at the District Court.


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Pantila had been sentenced in May 2009 to life imprisonment for murder and attempted murder.


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Pantila was found dead in his cell at Turku County Jail on 8 March.


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March 7 — Iraqi elections.


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More than 62% of those eligible to vote voted, despite a “curfew” declared by Al Qaeda.


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About 40 people were killed in various attacks on election day.


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[12] 11 March — Kari Mäkinen, Bishop of the Diocese of Turku, was elected as the new Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland.


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The previous archbishop, Jukka Paarma, will retire in June.


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11 March − Turkey summoned its ambassador home from Stockholm after the Swedish Riksdag had declared the 1915 massacre of Armenians on the territory of the Ottoman Empire as genocide.


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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cancelled his already agreed visit to Sweden.


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11 March — The government adopts Finland's first national counter-terrorism strategy.


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11 March − Communications Minister Suvi Linden announced that she did not intend to push ahead with the law on the shrugged so-called media levy.


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March 12 — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits India to visit his counterpart Manmohan Singh.


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The meeting agreed that Russia would build 16 nuclear reactors in India [13] and supply India with 29 MiG-29K fighters for the Admiral Gorškov aircraft carrier to be delivered to it.


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[14] At the same time, it was announced that Russia and India would hold manned spaceflight 2015.


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[15] 14 March — The all-time seventh decade in Formula One series began with the Bahrain Grand Prix at the Sakhir circuit with the race won by Fernando Alonso.


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The victory was the 22nd of her career on 18 March − The Turku Court of Appeal sentenced Alma Media communications group to pay journalist Johanna Korhonen €80,000 in damages.


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Korhonen had considered his sacking from the seat of Lapland People's Editor-in-Chief in 2008 as discrimination.


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20 March − Matti Väisänen, Doctor of Theology, was elected the first bishop of the Luther Foundation.


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29 March — Two suicide bomb attacks were carried out on the Moscow subway.


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30 March — Writer Sofi Oksanen received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for her novel Purge.


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The value of the prize was DKK 350000, or approximately EUR 47900.


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April 1 − Mikael Pentikäinen started his work as editor-in-chief of Helsingin Sanomat.


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Previously, he had worked with e.g.


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As editor-in-chief of the Etelä-Saimaa magazine and the Finnish Information Agency.


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The previous editor-in-chief of HS, Janne Virkkunen, retired at the end of the year.


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3 April — Cambridge University team wins the Cambridge—Oxford rowing competition with a time of 17.35.


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3 April — Spain abolished analog television broadcasts.


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April 5 — Space shuttle flight STS-131: Atlantis took cargo to the International Space Station.


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[16] 6 April − Coalition MP Marja Tiura relinquished the seat of chair of the party's parliamentary group due to reports that the Centre of Finland had tempted her to change parties after the 2007 parliamentary elections.


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Tiura disputed the claim of Jarmo Korhonen, the party secretary of the Centre Party, and businessman Arto Merisalo that the initiative to defect had come from Tiura himself.


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7 April — Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev fled the capital, Bishkek, to his homeland south due to unrest that broke out in the country.


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His opponents declared control of the country and formed an interim government, with former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva rising to the head.


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President Bakiyev fled to Kazakhstan and was later granted asylum in Belarus.


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April 8 — Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev sign a nuclear arms restriction treaty in Prague.


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The agreement followed the expired START treaty and will reduce the number of nuclear warheads to 1550 per party, or about a third.


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[17] [18] 9 April — Minister of Economic Affairs Mauri Pekkarinen became a member of the Council of State for a total of 4000 days.


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10 April — Smolensk plane crash 2010: e.g.


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The Polish president and several top politicians were killed.


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April 10 — Several weeks of unrest in Thailand turned violent when 12 people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes between protesters and police and the army.


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Protesters took an additional five soldiers hostage.


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[19] [20] 13 April — More than 2000 people were killed in the Yushu earthquake in Qinghai and Tibet.


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15 April - Significant parts of European air traffic starting in Northern Europe were shut down due to Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption.


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April 21 — Ukraine and Russia strike a surprise deal to extend the rent of the Black Sea Fleet's Sevastopol base for 25 years in exchange for a 30 percent drop in gas prices.


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[21] April 22 — Large-scale oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank.


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23 April — One person was killed and two injured when a small plane crashed into a forest in Eväsalo in the Porvoo archipelago.


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The plane was en route to Helsinki Malmi Airport.


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May 6 May — United Kingdom general election, 2010.


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Local elections were also held on the same day.


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The election resulted in the formation of a Conservative Party-Liberal Democrat coalition government, with David Cameron as Prime Minister.


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May 10 - European Union finance ministers, at their emergency meeting stretched into the morning hours in Brussels, agree on €440 billion loan guarantees for euro countries, the EU Commission's 60 billion stabilisation fund and the IMF's €250 billion stake in Greece to prevent the spread of the economic crisis.


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Finland hits the amount of 8.1 billion.


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[22] Following the bailout of Greece, several southern European countries also fell into austerity curbs with the aim of reducing their budget deficits.


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May 10 — In the Philippine presidential election, a successor to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is elected.


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11 May — David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.


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12 May — The Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the Protection Police did not have to make public what they possess, so called. Tiitinen's list.


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May 14 — Space shuttle flight STS-132: Discovery took a Russian Rassvet, or Mini-Research Module 1, to the International Space Station.


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[23] 21 May — A monument to Veikko Vennamo and post-World War II settlement activities was unveiled in the village of Alalong in Lapinlahti.


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May 23 — Czech Republic wins the sixth Ice Hockey Men's World Championship in its history 28—29.


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May — Czech elections.


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[24] ČSSD emerged as the largest party, but in total the right gained a majority in parliament.


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29 May — The final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.


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The competition was won by Germany's Lena Meyer-Landrut with the song Satellite.


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May 31 - Israel halts a convoy of activists seeking to break the Gaza blockade at sea off Gaza.


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Another twenty activists were killed in the attack on the aid convoy.


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31 May — German Federal President Horst Köhler announces his resignation due to a stir raised over his Afghanistan statement.


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[25] June 1 June — AC/DC performed at Tampere's Ratina Stadium.


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June 2 — Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announces his resignation after betraying his election promise to close the American base in Okinawa.


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June 3 — A fierce fire breaks out in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, destroying seven buildings and killing up to 100 people.


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6 June — Archbishop Jukka Paarma's successor, Kari Mäkinen, is consecrated in office.


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8 June — Green Day performed at Helsinki Kyhäsaari.


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6 June — Linnanmäki amusement park was forced to close prematurely due to a mass brawl involving up to 150 Kurdish and Somali youths.


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[26] [27] June 8 — Benigno Aquino III was confirmed as the winner of the Philippine presidential election nearly a month after the election.


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[28] 9 June — The UN Security Council decided to impose additional sanctions on Iran over the country's nuclear program.


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China and Russia also voted in favour of sanctions.


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Instead, they were pitted by Brazil and Turkey, which had previously negotiated a deal with Iran to exchange uranium in Turkey for an Iranian research reactor.


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Lebanon abstained.


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[29] On 9 June − The Church's most valuable object, the Kozelchen Mother of God icon, as well as jewellery and rings, were stolen from Uspensky Cathedral in Helsinki.


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Attempts had also been made to take another icon from the church.


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Police suspected the theft was a charter job and the stolen items had ended up overseas.


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June 10 — NHL club Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup for the first time in 49 years.


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10 June — Kiss performed at the Sauna Open Air Festival in Tampere.


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10 June — Riots erupted in Oš, Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.


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Groups of youths circled the city, burning cars and houses and looting shops.


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The unrest also spread to surrounding areas.


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The country's interim government placed the environment of Oš and Žalal-Abad under a state of emergency and curfew and ordered police and security forces to fire on the marauders.


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[30] In three days a hundred were killed and more than a thousand had to medical treatment.More than 75,000 Uzbeks also fled towards Uzbekistan.


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[31] 11 June — Porvoo District Court sentenced a Rwandan man who lived in Porvoo to life imprisonment for mass destruction.


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Pastor François Bazaramba was convicted of complicity in planning and carrying out the 1994 Rwandan genocide.


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In addition, Bazaramba's lawyer was fined a penalty fee of EUR 2000 by the Finnish Bar Association for improper conduct during the trial.


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Bazaramba and his lawyers immediately announced they would appeal the sentence to the Court of Appeal.


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It was the first mass extinction lawsuit in Finnish history.


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Bazaramba's defense argued that a significant portion of the evidence in the case had been obtained by torturing those subpoenaed as witnesses.


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11 June — 11 July — Football World Cup in South Africa.


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12 June — Minister of Municipal Affairs and Administration Mari Kiviniemi is elected President of the Party at the Centre Party Conference of Finland in Lahti, succeeding Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.


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12 June — The National Coalition held its party conference in Jyväskylä.


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Chairman Jyrki Katainen and Party Secretary Taru Tujunen were elected without opposing candidates again to their positions.


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12 June — Swedish People's Party holds its party conference in Tampere.


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At the meeting, it was decided to change the party's Finnish-language name to the Swedish People's Party of Finland.


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13 June — 2010 Belgian general election.


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The election was followed by a year and a half of lengthy government negotiations.


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The government crisis was resolved on 5 December 2011 when Elio Di Rupo assembled a six-party government.


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[32] 15—17 p.m.


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June — The E3 Electronics Fair was held in Los Angeles.


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16 June — The Supreme Court upheld the fine sentences received by Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's former female friend Susan Ruusunen and publisher Kari Ojala at the Helsinki Court of Appeal.


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Ruusunen was sentenced to 20 and 60 days fine for invading Vanhanen's privacy in the book The Prime Minister's Bride.


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The KKO overturned the Court of Appeal's judgment of forfeiture of proceeds to the State because of the low cost of the book, but kept intact the compensation of EUR 1000 to Vanhanen for mental suffering imposed on Ojala.


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June 16 and 17 — The United States and European Union agree on additional sanctions on Iran.


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[33] Russia criticised the action as contempt for UN Security Council decisions, saying it would complicate the position of the “Sixers” involved in the talks.


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[34] 17 June — Sweden's Riksdag approved the replacement of existing nuclear power plants with new reactors.


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The decision emerged with 174 in favour and 172 against.


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The Social Democrats announced they would reverse the decision if they won the next election.


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According to the 1980 referendum, nuclear power was to be abandoned by 2010.


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[35] 18 June — Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen submitted his government's resignation to President Tarja Halone.


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18 June — Liisa Hyssälä, who takes over as Director-General of the Finnish National Insurance Institute, resigned from Parliament.


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Mauri Salo became the new MP.


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June 19 — Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Daniel are married.


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20 June — German metal band Rammstein performs a headlining concert at the Provinssirock event in Seinäjoki.


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22 June — President Tarja Halonen granted resignation to Vanhanen's government and appointed a government formed by Mari Kiviniemi.


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The only ministerial change was the appointment of Tapani Tölli, MP for the Centre, as the new Minister for Administration and Municipalities.


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June 23 - Russia cut natural gas supplies to Belarus by 80 percent because of unpaid bills, but assured the measure would not affect natural gas supplies to central and western Europe.


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June 23 — U.S. President Barack Obama sacks Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was in charge of the mission in Afghanistan.


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In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, he had criticized The Runaway General (appeared June 25) [36] members of the Obama administration, including Vice President Joe Biden, National Security Adviser James L. Jones, Afghanistan Envoy Karl W. Eikenberry, and Special Representative Richard Richard Holbrooke.


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24 June — Australia gained its first female prime minister when Julia Gillard was elected Labor Party chair to replace Kevin Rudd.


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24 June — Alfa Romeo turned one hundred on 27 June — Guinea's presidential election.


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The winner was confirmed in December after unrest and a Supreme Court ruling by Alpha Condé.


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28 June — The US FBI announced the arrest of ten agents who had spied for Russia.


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[37] The case received plenty of publicity and the most attention of those imprisoned were Anna Chapman and award-winning Peruvian journalist Vicky Peláez.


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There was also wonder about US motives because the arrests took place shortly after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's US visit and alleged spies were reportedly unable to access classified information.


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The prisoners were exchanged at Vienna airport on July 8 in Russia for those convicted of espionage in favor of the United States.


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July 1 − Parliament granted by 120-72 votes to Teohon Voima Oy and Fennovoima Oy permits to build two new nuclear power plants in Finland.


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Two MPs abstained and five were absent from the ballot.


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The site of the former power station was Olkiluoto in Eurajoki, while the latter was competed for by the municipalities of Ruotsinkylä, Pyhäjoki and Simo.


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1 July — Presidency of the European Union passes from Spain to Belgium.


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2 July − Deputy Judge Risto Kuisma stood in Parliament to replace Tommy Tabermann.


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Kuisma had fallen out of parliament in the 2007 elections.


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4 July — Second round of presidential elections was held in Poland, won by Bronisław Komorowski.


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[38] 6 July − Two men were killed and one seriously wounded in a shootout outside a burger restaurant in Porvoo.


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The third victim died of his injuries in hospital.


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Just from life imprisonment to parole, the shooter and the victims didn't know each other before.


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July 10 — The Rosetta probe flew past asteroid 21 Lutetia at a distance of 3162km.


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July 12 − Switzerland decided not to extradite film director Roman Polański to the United States, where he had been ordered detained for a sexual offence he committed in 1977.


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July 13 − Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro made his first public appearance in several years in an interview aired on Cuban television.


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The interview was timed or timed to coincide with the release of dozens of Cuban dissidents, on which Castro did not take a position, however.


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Castro warned the world of a looming nuclear war because of the nuclear arms dispute between the United States and Israel and Iran.


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On July 13 − Microsoft discontinued support for Windows 2000 operating system Excented.


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July 15 — Argentina became the first Latin American country, and the 10th in the world, to legalize (non-clerical) gay marriage.


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The bill passed in the Senate by a vote of 33—27 after nearly 15 hours of deliberations.


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[39] 15 July − The Government of India adopted a new symbol for the Indian rupee.


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[40] 16 July — Kuopio Housing Fair opened.


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The fair is open until August 15.


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[41] 22 July — ICJ, the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague, issued an advisory ruling that Kosovo's independence did not violate international law.


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The decision came about by a vote of 10—4.


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Serbia declared that, despite this, it would never recognise Kosovo's independence.


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To date, Kosovo had been recognized by 69 countries, incl.


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The United States and 22 countries out of 27 EU member states.


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[42] [43] July 25 — Wikileaks year to publicize more than 90,000 internal reports on U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan War of 2004−2010.


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26 July — Khmer Rouge warden Duch sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment.


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[44] 27 July − Iceland entered into membership negotiations with the European Union.


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July 28 - France announced it would disband illegal Roma camps and expel Roma from other EU countries who break the law.


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The decision came at a crisis meeting called by President Nicolas Sarkozy, organised after the attack on the police station in the village of Saint-Aignan and the riots in Grenoble.


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There are about 300 illegal camps or overrun houses in the country, according to Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux.


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[45] [46] 28 July — Scouts of Finland 6.


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Finnjamboree, Kilke started at Evo, Hämeenlinna.


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On 29 July − Joensuu Airport in Liperi measured Finland's all-time heat record of +37.2 degrees.


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A very warm air flow from Russia had spread to Eastern Finland.


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The previous record was 35.9 degrees and had been measured in Turku on 9 July 1914.


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The 36.8 degrees measured in Linnunlahti in Joensuu also exceeded this old record.


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The day before, 35.0 degrees were measured in Lahti.


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Prior to this, temperatures had risen to 35 degrees only twice.


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[47] 30 July − The record-breaking stove was followed during the night by a strong plunge flow and thunderstorm, Asta, which caused great material destruction, especially in the Savonlinna region.


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Strong wind gusts toppled trees on roads and railways and on top of buildings and cars.


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July 31 − Chelsea Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky.


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August 4 August — Finland was hit by storm Veera.


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5 August − 2010 Chilean mining accident: 34 mine workers were trapped in a small mine in northern Chile when the mine roof caved in.


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[48] The number of Mainers was later confirmed to 33.


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6 August − Premiere of the first Finnish 3D film Moomin and the Red Tail Star.


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7 August − One man died and another was taken to hospital for severe burns at the Saunominen World Championships in Heinola.


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8 August — Fidel Castro returned to the Cuban Parliament for the first time in four years.


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Castro delivered a 12-minute speech in which he warned the United States would seek a nuclear strike on Iran.


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[49] 8 August — Storm Sylvi: a strong plunging flow struck the Sonisphere Festival, which began in Pori.


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At least 40 were injured, one seriously injured died later in hospital.


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Mötley Crue was unable to perform at the festival because its stage and instruments were destroyed.


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[50] August 16 — Newsweek compared the living conditions of citizens in 100 countries.


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Finland was selected as the best country in the world.


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[51] 19 August — The last US combat troops left Iraq on 20 August and 21 August — the U2 band in Finland on their 360° tour.


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On August 21, their new song, Every Breaking Wave, was heard for the first time.


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Finns were the first to hear it in the world!


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August 21 — Iran's first nuclear power plant, the Bušehr Nuclear Power Plant, is inaugurated.


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21 August — Parliamentary elections were held in Australia.


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The election involved the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament and half of the Senate.


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[52] Early elections after the change of prime minister, Julia Gillard, was allowed to continue in the position with the support of the Uncommitted and the Greens, although the Labor Party did not win a majority in the House of Commons.


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22 August — Contact was made with the 33 men trapped in the stove of a gold mine that collapsed in Chile on 5 August.


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They are in a mine safe room 700 feet below.


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[53] 25 August — Motorway between Maksniemi — Kemijoki was introduced for traffic use.


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The motorway is now accessible from Maksniemi to Tornio.


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On 29 August — the volcano Sinabung, which has been dormant for 400 years, erupted in the northern part of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia [54] on 31 August — Lapland Gold manufacturing ceased in Tornio.


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Beer was brewed in Tornio from 1873.


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[55] 31 August — Eero Huovinen, Bishop of the Diocese of Helsinki, preached for the last time before his retirement at the Helsinki Cathedral Evening Mass.


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September 1 − President Barack Obama declared U.S. military action in Iraq ended.


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1 September — Irja Askola, successor to Bishop Eero Huovinen of Helsinki, takes office.


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September 1 — Data collection for the Agricultural Census 2010 began.


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The study celebrates its centenary.


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The data is collected online or by phone for the first time.


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The September 4 − 7.0 Richter earthquake struck off the east coast of New Zealand's South Island near Christchurch, the country's second largest city.


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4 September − The world's largest sauna with 150 people was opened in Haaparanda.


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[56] 6 September − Matti Vanhanen, MP and former Prime Minister of the Centre of Finland, received his requested resignation from Parliament when he took over as CEO of the Association of Family Businesses.


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He was replaced in parliament by the Reverend Seppo Särkiniemi, who fell in the 2007 elections.


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September 10 − Canadian Stephen Elop was elected as the new CEO of Nokia.


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He will start in his post at 21.


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on Sept.


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[57] 12 September − 26 amendments to the country's constitution written after the 1982 military coup were approved in Turkey by referendum.


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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan assured the additions would strengthen the country's democracy and bring it closer to the European Union.


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The changes change the makeup of constitutional law and the highest bodies of the judicial system, which have caused problems for the ruling Islamic-conservative Justice and Development party.


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In addition, immunity from prosecution for the leaders of the 1980 coup d'état was removed.


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[58] 12 September − Hossein Alizadeh, a high-ranking official at the Iranian Embassy in Helsinki, resigned from office in protest at the policies of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and positioned himself to support the Iranian opposition.


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After receiving threatening messages due to the issue, he pleaded for political asylum in Finland.


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14 September − President Tarja Halonen and the Government's Ministerial Committee on Foreign and Security Policy (UtVA) authorised Finland to participate in the so-called. Operation Atalanta off the coast of Somalia.


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15 September − Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft, visited Helsinki Airport.


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The main purpose of the visit was to test the suitability of Helsinki-Vantaa Airport as a backup field for possible technical stopovers.


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[59] On 15 September − an explosion occurred at the Arizona Chemicals plant in Oulu, leaving one person dead and several injured.


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[60] 17 September − The first of three rescue shafts is underway in a collapsed mine in Chile.


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Next, the narrow gap needs to be widened from 30 cents to 70 cents to get the miners up.


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[61] 17 September − Attorney-General Jaakko Jonkka considered that Matti Vanhanen, during his time as Prime Minister, had been hindered by the government in deciding on the distribution of subsidies to the Slot Machine Association.


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In particular, it was RAY's support for the Youth Foundation, which was close to the Finnish Centre, which had supported e.g.


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Vanhanen's presidential campaign in 2006.


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September 17 − Sony's PlayStation Move motion controller appeared on the PlayStation 3 console on September 18 — Afghan parliamentary elections, only 40% went to vote and 14 people were killed in the violence.


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[62] 19 September — Swedish Riksdag elections.


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The right-wing Alliance received 49% of the vote, while the red-green opposition was allowed to settle for 43%.


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The Social Democrats' result remained their worst since 1914, although the party remained the single largest.


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The only ones to increase their delegate numbers were the Moderate Coalition, the Environmental Party Greens and the immigration critical Sweden Democrats, which first rose to the Riksdag with 20 delegates.


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September 21 — Planet Jupiter is in opposition and on its course closest to Earth for the first time since 1963.


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[63] 22 September − The Ostrobothnia District Court sentenced Coalition MP Petri Salo to fines of just under €3,800 for aggravated traffic endangerment.


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Salo had been driving at 138km/h in Vöyr in May in the 80km/hr restricted zone.


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The court dismissed a charge against Salo for bribing an authority.


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The prosecution appealed the decision to the Court of Appeal.


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25 September — In honour of his 70th birthday, Veikkaus draws the largest pot in the history of Lottery, EUR 7.2 million.


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26 September − Norwegian judicial authorities decided that the case of Arne Treholt, a former official at the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, should be re-examined.


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The new investigation had been requested by Treholt himself.


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Treholt had in 1985 been sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage for the Soviet Union and Iraq and had since been pardoned on health grounds.


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One of the police officers involved in the investigation of Treholt's case at the time had revealed that evidence against Treholt had been partially fabricated.


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27 September − Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu resigned from office.


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The Constitutional Court had previously ruled that Sejdiu violated the constitution when he failed to resign the position of party leader of the LDK party when he rose to the presidency.


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28 September − Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov from his post.


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After nearly 20 years as mayor, Lužkov, a critic of Kremlin policies, had refused to resign voluntarily.


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[64] 28 September — North Korean Party Conference.


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The previous equal was 1980, when Kim Jong-il was appointed as Kim Il-sung's successor.


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28 September − A working group set up by Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies and led by Master of Science Risto Siilasmaa tabled its report recommending that general conscription be maintained but reduced conscription time for cost reasons.


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29 September − The District Court in Lohja, West Uusimaa, sentenced a 24-year-old man who served as a fake doctor to one and a half years in prison.


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The man had worked as a doctor in Karkkila and Karja for more than a year, completely without medical studies.


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He was also sentenced to €125,000 in compensation to his employers.


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The court justified the harshness of the sentence by the fact that the act had been liable to pose serious danger to the lives and health of others.


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30 September − The driver of a passenger car was killed and 26 bus passengers were injured in a traffic accident on Highway 5 in Jorois, Etelä-Savo.


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The passenger car drifted into the oncoming lane for an unknown reason and collided with the bus, which derailed from the force of the collision across a ditch into a field.


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30 September — Jorma Huuhtanen, Director General of the Finnish National Institution, retired.


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October 4 — Hungary's poison spill was triggered when a sludge basin at an aluminium plant broke and nearly 1 million tonnes of rust-red silt containing heavy metals spilled into the environment.


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October 6 − Instagram opened.


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On 6 October − The motorway between Kemi — Simon Maksniemi was officially opened to traffic.


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The opening speech was given, among others, by Transport Minister Anu Vehviläinen.


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[65] 7 October − The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded by Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.


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October 8 − The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.


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The remuneration was announced by Thorbjørn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Grand Priorities.


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China condemned the award as “contrary to the principles of the peace prize.”


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Germany and France, meanwhile, demanded Liu's release due to “anti-state activity” from the 11-year imprisonment imposed on him in China.


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8 October − Parliament's Constitutional Committee called on the Prosecutor General to open a police investigation into former Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's recusal suspicions.


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Before its decision, the Constitutional Committee had consulted with Vanha and the Attorney General Jaakko Jonkka.


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October 9 − Rescue Tunnel “B” was the first to reach the trapped miners in the Chilean mine disaster around 8 a.m. local time.


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10 October − Due to the date (10 October — 10), many churches held a Wedding Night, where the wedding ceremony was received starting at midnight as long as the alerts were in order.


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10 October − Presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan.


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October 11 − The Nobel Prize in Economics, or Nobel in Economics, was awarded to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides for labor market analysis.


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[66] 12 October − More than 40 people were killed in the Marhanets level crossing accident in Ukraine.


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[67] On 12 October − Yle TV2's Aikinen kakkonen programme aired the Homo evening debate, which led to the separation of almost 10,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church over a few days.


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On 12 October − Asteroid “2010 TD54" passed Earth at a distance of only 51800km, being at its closest point above Singapore.


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[68] 13 October − The drawdown of trapped miners began in the Chilean mining disaster.


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October 14 − The lifting operation for miners trapped in the Chilean mining disaster was completed.


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14 October − Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad arrived for a visit to Lebanon.


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The visit sparked unease in neighboring Israel, whose destruction Ahmadinejad had openly called for.


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19 October − Runner Lasse Virén stood up to Parliament in place of Jukka Mäkelä, who took over as Mayor of Espoo.


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Virén had fallen out of parliament in the 2007 election.


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19 October − Islamist rebels carried out a suicide attack on Chechnya's parliament house.


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October 21 − Comet Hartley 2 at its closest distance of just 0.12 AU from Earth.


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26 October − Tariq Aziz, a former deputy prime minister of Iraq, one of Saddam Hussein's closest men, was sentenced to death in Baghdad for persecution of religious parties and Shiite Muslims during Saddam's reign.


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Two other former senior Iraqi figures also received the death sentence.


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On 26 October − Transparency International published a report on the corruptness of the public sector in 176 states.


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Denmark, Singapore, New Zealand and Finland were found to be the least corrupt countries in the world, Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Iraq as the most corrupt.


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27 October − The 2-day strike in the aviation industry ended when the parties to the labour dispute accepted a reconciliation proposal by the Reich Conciliator.


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[69] 27 October − Charges of aggravated fraud were filed in the Helsinki District Court against three former managers of the Finnish Ski Federation − former sport managers Pekka Vähäsöyrinki and Jari Piiraista and former head coach Antti Leppävuori − and skier Jari Räsää.


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The prosecution considered the case against the Finnish Information Agency between 1998 and 2000 to have been wrongly committed.


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On October 27 − Volcano Merapi began erupting in Indonesia.


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28 October − The ST1 gas station chain announced the purchase of all Shell gas stations operating in Finland.


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31 October − The second round of the Brazilian presidential election was won by Dilma Rousseff receiving 56% of the vote (47% in the 1st round).


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Opponent Jose Serra received 44% (32.7%).


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31 October − Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden arrived for a 4-day visit to Finland.


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As visiting cities, they had Helsinki, Espoo and Lahti.


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November 2 — U.S. Congressional midterm elections on November 2 − Japan summoned its ambassador home from Moscow after President Dmitry Medvedev visited the disputed Kuril Islands.


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The Soviets had annexed the four southernmost islands of the group of islands formerly belonging to Japan into their own territories after World War II and Japan had repeatedly demanded their return ever since.


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November 4 − 61 passengers and seven crew members were killed in the crash of a passenger plane in Cuba.


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November 7 — Myanmar elections.


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[70] 78% of the vote was collected by the USDP party led by Thein Sein, which was formed as the successor to the military government USDA mass organization.


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The NUP, founded on the basis of the former Socialist Party BSPP, and the NDF, founded by members of Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD, received 2—3%.


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7 November — Second round of Guinea's presidential election.


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The Supreme Court confirmed Alpha Condé as the winner of the election in early December.


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November 10 − Microsoft's Kinect motion detection system appeared in the EU for the Xbox 360 console.


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12 November − The Satakunta District Court sentenced Anneli Auer, an Ulvilan, to life imprisonment for the slaying of her spouse Jukka S. Lahti.


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Auer's lawyer announced he would appeal the decision to the Vaasa Court of Appeal.


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On 13 November − Left Alliance MP Eski-Juhani Tennilä announced that he would leave parliament in the 2011 elections.


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Tennilä had been a Member of Parliament since 1975 and was the longest-serving MP with the Coalition Ilkka Kanerva.


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Both had been involved in 36 Riksdag.


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On 14 November − the 2010 Formula One season ended with the Abu Dhabi race at the Yas Marina circuit.


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The race and at the same time also the championship was won by Sebastian Vettel.


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14 November − Mona Sahlin, president of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, announced that she would leave her seat.


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14—15 p.m.


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November — Parish elections of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland.


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The turnout became about 17%.


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[71] In 16—18 year olds who were allowed to vote for the first time, turnout was 14.5%.


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[72] November 16 — Prince William and Kate Middleton announce their engagement.


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19—20 p.m.


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November — NATO organises a two-day summit in Lisbon.


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The meeting agreed to build a missile shield in Europe.


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The meeting also approved a secret plan to defend the Baltics against Russia.


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[73] There were e.g.


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Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev joining the ISAF mission Hamid Karzai, Tarja Halonen, Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb and Defence Minister Jyri Häkämies.


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Border officials blocked entry to more than 100 peace activists.


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[74] On 22 November − an explosive fire broke out at the pizzeria Juliet in the centre of Tampere, killing three people.


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The act later turned out to be arson, the motive for which an attempted insurance fraud was suspected.


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The offenders were later sentenced to prison terms of between 9 and 11 years.


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On 22 November − A light construction footbridge collapsed onto a road in Laajasalo, Helsinki, when it was hit by a crane from a truck driving underneath the bridge.


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The bridge was crushed as it collapsed by a van coming against a lorry, the driver of which was killed.


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There was also an invasion left under the collapsed bridge.


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The driver of the lorry, as well as the driver and passenger of the disabled taxi, were injured.


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On 23 November − North Korean artillery shelled an island belonging to South Korea off the west coast of South Korea.


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Two soldiers and two civilians were reported to have been killed, as well as twenty people injured.


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South Korea responded to gunfire.


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The incident was roundly condemned worldwide and described as one of the most serious clashes between the two countries since the Korean War.


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24 November − The Paper Union decided to put Chairman Jouko Ahonen aside for the time being due to statements that have defended the large remuneration of the directors of pension companies.


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November 28 — The website Wikileaks published the first of the secret U.S. diplomatic telegrams.


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Meanwhile, material was published by magazines The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Guardian and El Pais.


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Wikileaks was immediately the target of denial-of-service attacks.


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December 2 − The City of Helsinki Transport Department ordered 40 new trams from rail manufacturer Transtech Oy.


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The order was estimated to secure employment for the plant in Kajaani for 10 years and was valued at €110 million.


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2 December − Russian-born Belgium resident Nikita Boriso-Glebsky won the 10th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in order.


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Second place was Finnish Petteri Iivonen.


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2 December − Writer Mikko Rimminen received the Finlandia Prize for his novel Nenäpäivä.


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2 December − The Finnish Parliament approved guarantees of 740.7 million for the EFSF loan to Ireland.


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The entire opposition opposed the loans and one centrist MP.


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[75] [76] 2 December − The International Football Federation FIFA awarded the hosting of the 2018 World Cup Final tournament of football to Russia.


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December 2 − A devastating forest fire broke out in Israel.


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3 December − Japan and the United States began their historic, largest-ever joint military exercise, to mark the 50th anniversary of the security pact between the two countries.


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[77] 4 December − Two people were killed and dozens injured in the failed emergency landing of a Russian passenger plane just outside Moscow.


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Dagestan Airlines's Tupolev Tu-154 plane had moments earlier taken off into the air from Vnukovo airport when two of its three engines stalled and the pilots decided to land at Domodedovo field.


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The plane derailed while descending off the runway, crashed into airport buildings and was badly crushed.


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9 December — A strike by the Finnish Association of Air Attendants and Stuerts SLSY ended with a settlement proposal for collective bargaining.


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10 December − Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was arrested in Austria, where he had travelled the previous day a few hours before Parliament's decision to lift his immunity from prosecution.


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December 11 — Stockholm bombing: A suicide bomber blew up a car and himself on Stockholm's Drottninggatan at 5 p.m. on Saturday.


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Only bomber Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly was killed and two people were injured.


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Of the six pipe bombs the man was carrying, only one exploded.


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14 December − Silvio Berlusconi's government won a vote of confidence in the Italian parliament by a majority of just three votes.


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The vote result was followed by fierce riots in Rome.


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17 December − Tunisian higher-education unemployed Mohamed Bouazizi committed an incineration murder in the town of Sidi Bouzid, after police had confiscated, for lack of permits, his vegetable cart and scales.


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The incident soon led to riots that spread throughout the country, [78] [79] and led to the exodus of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who ruled the country for twenty years, on 14 January.


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18 December − German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time publicly acknowledged that Germany was at war in Afghanistan when she visited German troops in the country.


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19 December − Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko was elected to a fifth term in office.


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He was reported to have received about 79% of the votes cast.


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Already during the elections, fierce riots began in Minsk, the capital of the country, in which injuries were injured.


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two of the nine candidates of opposition parties involved in the election.


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Foreign observers saw the elections as flawed for democracy in many ways.


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21 December − The Forest Group UPM announced the acquisition of the heavily indebted Myllykoski Plc.


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23 December − The main building of Soukanpohja Manor, built in the 1830s, was destroyed by fire in Souka, Espoo.


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The man who lived in the house managed to get out of the building at the last minute.


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On 23 December − Hong Kong Department Store was destroyed by fire in Kuningala, Vantaa.


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The blaze caused millions of euros in damage.


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Smoke spread from the fire hampered traffic on Ring III.


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26 December — A fierce blizzard raged across southern and southwestern Finland and the storm in question caused a large number of outbreaks.


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After the storm, the height of snowdrifts was uncommonly large for the time.


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Two people were killed in a collision between a passenger car and a truck on Highway 4 in the municipality of Sikalatva.


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29 December − Danish police arrested four people on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.


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Of those arrested, three were Iraqi- and Tunisian-born Swedish nationals and one was an Iraqi asylum seeker who lived in Denmark.