Donald Trump’s wall could drain money from Alaska military projects
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to get money for a border wall that Congress refused
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GPS jamming latest thorn in once-cordial relations between West and Russia
A smiling Jens Stoltenberg, then Norwegian PM, got his border zone ID card to enter the Pechenga region five years
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Murmansk-Norway border traffic suffers major drop
Russian New Year celebrations, which run until mid-January, are normally a busy time for cross-border shopping. Not so this year.
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Russian visa applications in Norway hit 10-year-low
More than three times more Chinese were granted visa by Norway than Russians, in 2018. Cross-border traffic from Russia to
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GPS jamming jeopardizing public safety in Arctic Norway
Both police and rescue services in Northern Norway are deeply worried as GPS signals are interrupted. Public safety and life
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Cross-border traffic drops between Russia and Arctic Europe
Europe’s three northernmost border checkpoints to Russia all had a decline in traffic of about 4% in 2018. Less people
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Norwegian, Russian foreign ministers find common ground on northern issues at Italy meeting
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Søreide had bilateral talks in Milan on Thursday, but
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Will Congress put off building an icebreaker to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border?
U.S. President Donald Trump is in a stand-off with Congress. He said he’ll shut down the government if he doesn’t
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Avoid seismic surveys near marine mammals in Barents Sea: politician in Arctic Norway
Acoustic surveys for oil deposits beneath the seabed should be avoided if there are whales nearby, says Arne Liaklev with
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Finland summons Russian ambassador over GPS jamming
Russian Ambassador to Helsinki, Pavel Kuznetsov, was set to meet in Finland’s Foreign Ministry on Monday. Norway and Finland have
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Finland to talk with Russia about GPS jamming during NATO exercise
Finland is expected to launch diplomatic talks with Russia over suspected GPS signal-jamming that affected areas in northern Norway and
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Finland: Former PM trusts Norway’s assessment blaming Russia for GPS jamming
Norway’s defence ministry announced on Tuesday evening that it had traced recent GPS jamming in Norwegian and Finnish Lapland to a Russian
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Norwegian defence confirms GPS jamming came from northwest Russia
Civilian passenger planes lost GPS signals on flights over Finnmark, Arctic Norway. “The jamming in the period between October 16th
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Russia suspected of GPS jamming in northern Finland during NATO war games
On Tuesday Finnish air traffic control officials warned civil aviation about large-scale GPS signal disruptions in northern Finland. It was
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Moscow-based media pretends to bring “objective” environmental journalism to Barents region
The head of the ecological monitoring and consulting group POMOR, Timofey Surovtsev, wants to counter Norwegian media’s negative reporting on
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