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 Finland begins providing children with
 bariatric surgery
 Turku University Hospital will start
 bariatric surgery, also known as weight
 loss surgery, for a small number of
 severely obese minors this autumn.
 
 Message in a bottle washes up on
 Finnish shore after 28 years
 In the summer of 1997, an 11-year-old
 girl dropped a message in a bottle near
 the western coastal town of Larsmo,
 hoping for a pen pal. In 2025, she got
 one.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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