Issues affecting circumpolar nations
COVID-19 and its effect on the military dominated discussions at the Northern Group meeting of defence ministers this week, said
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“We get port call cancellations to Longyearbyen every day now,” says Assisting Harbor Master Rikhart Olsen Ingerø. Norway’s ban on
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Norway has extended its leisure travel ban, implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until August 20, but said it
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Finland, Norway is up 27%, while Finland, Sweden is up 25%. The biggest concern, though, is the Tornio, Haparanda border
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Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg said the population’s cooperation helped contain COVID-19 and has well-positioned the country to continue reopening
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With Norway partially shutting down its borders for foreigners, Svalbard airport Longyearbyen can’t be used to shuttle people and supply
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Demand for air travel is essentially non-existent due to the coronavirus outbreak and airlines like SAS, Norwegian and Widerøe have
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More than 15,000 soldiers from nine countries will put down their weapons and start preparing to go home from their
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A woman from the north Norwegian town of Tromsø has tested positive for the coronavirus. The woman was tested after
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But in 2020 the number is again expected to rise as Norway now allows for dual citizenship 185 Russians were
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By Eilís Quinn Web editor: Mathiew Leiser
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The United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) have now been translated into the North Saami language, the most widely spoken
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Search-and-rescue efforts in the European Arctic will with the new helicopter base be strengthened as industry, tourism and military all
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The Arctic railway The Arctic railway Building a future… or destroying a culture? By Eilís Quinn An Indigenous nation divided
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Shrinking population also in cities like Tromsø, Harstad and Mo i Rana during first half of 2019. Population is down
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