The minister said that he was disappointed with the EU's handling of the visa issue, and that introducing restrictions to the Schengen system had proven difficult.

While crossings were up somewhat on Wednesday, their numbers were still lower than on a typical weekend.

Iltalehti's editorial demands accountability for Fortum's "unfortunate Uniper adventure", with the firm's deal with Germany resulting in the largest corporate loss in Finland's history.

President Sauli Niinistö is in New York at the United Nations General Assembly.

The sale of the troubled German gas giant will help limit Fortum's losses, allowing it to concentrate on its core business in the Nordic energy market, Finland's ownership steering minister says.

The group carried out two separate attacks on Finnish firms in July but their own websites have been down for weeks.

The Kremlin announced the partial mobilising of 300,000 reserves on Wednesday.

People should be wary of telephone calls or letters claiming to be from electricity sellers, police say.

The boosters will be administered to people above the age of 65 as well as those belonging to risk groups.

As part of the deal, Fortum will receive 0.5 billion euros for its majority stake in the German gas importer.

"Difficult times call for more diplomacy, not less," the Finnish President said while addressing the United Nation's General Assembly.

Left Alliance is in the hot seat after five of the party's MPs voted 'Nay' in the Patient Safety Act question on Monday.

A mail sorting system malfunction has affected a batch of up to 550 passports according to police.

The Finnish proposal that sanctions be placed on tourist visas for Russian citizens was submitted to a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made the comments during an interview with the US-based PBS News Hour on Monday.

Uniper's major shareholder Fortum, which is itself majority-state-owned by the Finnish state, confirmed to Yle that negotiations are ongoing but no deal has yet been reached as of Tuesday evening.

Holders of the bogus passports and residence permits likely paid several thousand euros for them, the Finnish Border Guard says.

There were 10,000 more employed men and 19,000 more employed women in August than a year ago.

The interpellation questions relate to rising electricity prices as well as the government's handling of the problems facing majority-state-owned energy firm Fortum.

"To paraphrase President [John F.] Kennedy, we intend to not only ask what Nato can do for us, but what we can do for Nato," Niinistö said in a video posted on Twitter.

Trafficking and importing of the illicit substance has intensified as demand increases.

"We're offering them an opportunity to come and chat a little, as well as the possibility to use a pen and paper," the hospital's union shop steward tells Yle.

Opposition parties in Finland want to follow the path laid out by the Baltic states and Poland, while the government says that would conflict with EU law.

"I thought, 'what on earth is going on?'" he told Yle.

Researchers from the state forest agency also found 15 fly species that have never been recorded in Finland before.

Healthcare workers' unions announced plans for a four-day strike of city employees who provide home care services for the elderly. 

Meanwhile a leading economic think-tank predicts that the Finnish economy will enter recession by year's end.

After attending Queen Elisabeth II's funeral on Monday, President Niinistö will address the United Nations on Tuesday.

Work has just been completed on a 30,000-cubic-metre gas tank in Hamina, which was intended to reduce Finland's dependence on Russian gas.

The Patient Safety Act will be passed into law by Parliament on Monday, according to media reports.