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The tanker Agioi Fanendes, sailing under the Maltese flag, was located off Helsinki on Friday and indicated "New York" as its destination via its AIS transponder signal.

A 24-hour Finnish TV show dedicated entirely to the live progress of a dog and her six newborn puppies is drawing millions of viewers. This is the sixth season of the hit show by the broadcaster Yle. Pentulive has long attracted interest from outside Finland, but this year it is also being broadcast in Sweden. Yle recently announced that it had also sold the format to a broadcaster in the Netherlands.

A citizens’ initiative presented to the Finnish Parliament in 2017 gave the issue further momentum. Finland could not end the practice alone because it was regulated at EU level.

The talks come after Finland revised a law allowing nuclear weapons into the country — a decision that came as Japan weighs a similar shift in policy.

Six newborn puppies in Finland are captivating viewers worldwide through 'Pentulive,' a 24-hour livestream operated by the country’s national public broadcaster, Yle. The livestream follows the puppies’ development from birth until they leave for their permanent homes.

State IT centre Valtori shut down the government's public web services on Wednesday as "a precautionary measure." Valtori said it had not identified any attempt to exploit the flaws and that the outage was not the result of a data breach.

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Among those being considered as a key negotiator for the EU is Finnish President Alexander Stubb. According to European diplomatic sources, the Finnish politician has “the best relationship of all EU leaders” with U.S. President Donald Trump. He cited Finland’s long border with Russia as another factor.

Autumn colours in Finland’s Oulanka National Park. Visit Finland is participating in ITB Asia 2026 in Singapore to connect with international travel buyers. Visit Finland joins ITB Asia 2026 in Singapore to connect with international travel buyers, including those from Southeast Asia. Messuille Oy organises the Finnish stand together with Visit Finland. According to Visit Finland, more than 1,500 buyers joined the event’s Hosted Buyer programme in 2025. Visit Finland describes ITB Asia as a key meeting place for tourism professionals in Southeast Asia. The event’s participant list also includes Visit Finland and Visit Rovaniemi. ScandAsia also covered Finland’s participation in ITB Asia in 2025.

Sites and pages have been taken offline by the Finnish government, Edinburgh council and the BBC, with the Netherlands' cyber-security agency also pulling its website.

Meeri Pajala, an au pair from Finland who is living in Sydney, said she had never seen anything like this before.

Authorities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic also said they had shut down websites to apply a security patch to close the PHP loophole.

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.