Finland is now the latest European nation to abandon a long-standing treaty that bans the use of anti-personnel mines.

A three-decade global effort to end the use of land mines appears to be over. Finland and other European countries are ...

GENEVA, April 4 (Reuters) - NATO members Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states have queued up over the past few weeks ...

HELSINKI - NATO member Finland plans to quit a global convention banning anti-personnel landmines and boost defence spending to at least 3% of GDP by 2029 in response to the evolving military threat ...

Finnish defence firm Insta has expressed interest in producing anti-personnel landmines following Finland’s decision to begin ...

The Ottawa Convention also provides that each member state has the right to withdraw from the convention. Other member states, the United Nations' secretary-general and the Security Council will be ...

The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said a fundamentally changed security environment in Europe prompted the decision by Finland -- a NATO member bordering Russia -- to pull out of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty.

The Finns ramp up defense spending and leave a land-mine pact. It’s a lesson for Trump.

On Tuesday, Finland became the latest country to announce it was withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention, the 1997 treaty banning the use, sale, and production of land mines. This follows an ...

One Russian political scientist claimed that Finland is "preparing for war". Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat covers the Russian ...

Finland and other European countries are leaving the Ottawa Convention, the treaty banning anti-personnel mines, as the risk of confrontation with Russia continues to rise. The 1997 pact has "come ...