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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Pilots warned of GPS jamming in Arctic Norway
“Reasons to believe it could be related to military exercise activities outside Norway’s borders,” says the Civil Aviation Authority to
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Norway, Russia sign agreement on cross-border seismic mapping of Barents Sea
More than two years overdue, Norway and Russia sign the agreement that will allow them to map oil and gas
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Finland to upgrade Arctic border-crossing point to welcome more traffic from northern Russia
More than €11 million will be invested in brand new infrastructure facilities at the northernmost checkpoint between the countries. The
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Fearing issues at U.S. border, Canada’s western Inuit put stop to cannabis sales in Arctic town
Cannabis becomes legal across Canada on Wednesday, but unlike other large communities in the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), residents in Inuvik
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Barents region leaders dream of visa-free travel, but Schengen Agreement gives little hope
Regional leaders are on a crash course with national and international legislation as they call for the abolishment of the
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Finnish and Russian PMs talk environment, cooperation and money laundering probe in Helsinki
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä met with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Helsinki on Wednesday afternoon. The premiers held
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Finland’s interior minister dismisses proposal to bar dual citizens from Border Guard
Finland’s Minister of the Interior Kai Mykkänen said the ministry will not move forward with a proposal to parliament for
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