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Our guest: Pekka Haavisto, Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan.

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm. A secret Turkish government document obtained by Nordic Monitor reveals that Turkish intelligence and counterterrorism authorities conducted an intelligence-gathering operation targeting members of the Gülen movement in Norway, Finland and Denmark, identifying individuals who participated in peaceful demonstrations against the repressive government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and forwarding their personal information […]

This left bodies such as the Finnish government, Edinburgh council and the BBC to take pages offline. Finland has temporarily shut down the government's public web services.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Finnish President Alexander Stubb (not pictured) in Oslo, Norway, October 20, 2026.

EU governments, meanwhile, need to agree on the bloc's 2028-2034 budget this year before campaigns for elections next year in France, Italy, Poland, Greece, Estonia, Finland and Slovakia politicise the issue.

Those who did so included government agencies in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland, the Edinburgh City Council, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Witkoff went to Moscow after meeting Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as the leaders of Norway and Finland on Monday.

Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre, with Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre, right, and Finnish president Alexander Stubb.

He said Witkoff had briefed Putin on his talks the previous day in Oslo, where the American met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Norwegian prime minister and the Finnish president.

With reports that hackers were already exploiting the flaws to break into websites, government agencies in the Netherlands and Finland were among those that took sites offline as a precaution.

“Our first session, devoted to de-escalation, will offer an opportunity to explore practical ways forward,” said Pekka Haavisto, Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan, in a call to delegates to identify measures and use their “respective channels of engagement [to] build confidence and help create conditions conducive to a comprehensive ceasefire”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Finnish President Alexander Stubb (not pictured) in Oslo, Norway, October 20, 2026.

EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a statement: “Europeans should be able to book their holidays without fear of being scammed.”

Witkoff flew into Russia's second city on Wednesday morning a day after conducting what a US official called "constructive" talks in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the leaders of Finland and Norway and European and NATO representatives.

Witkoff arrived in Saint Petersburg early morning for talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin about Ukraine, a day after holding discussions with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the leaders of Norway and Finland.

“We’ve been very concrete, and the organisation was very positive,” Zelensky said alongside leaders from Norway and Finland, who also attended the talks.

The prime ministers of Norway and Finland also attended the talks in Oslo.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy hugs US envoy Steve Witkoff as Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb look on in Oslo, 20 October 2026.

It began changing course late September and eventually moved into the same orbit as ICEYE-X36, a satellite operated by Finland’s ICEYE under contract with the United States.