Norway arrests Russian man over suspicion of espionage
The man was detained at Oslo airport Friday evening by the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) on suspicion of illegal
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Alaska wouldn’t be affected by U.S. Supreme Court’s restriction of abortion rights, says anti-abortion lawyer
With the nomination of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh pending in the U.S. Senate, many Americans are hoping —
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Offender who stabbed man in heart in Northern Canada to be released from prison
A man from Kimmirut, Nunavut (Northeast Canada), will be released from prison in a couple of weeks, about four years
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Indigenous chef in Canada willing to go to court to serve country food
An Indigenous chef in Ontario (southern Canada) says he’s willing to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to fight
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Senator Murkowski still hiding her cards after meeting Trump’s Supreme Court pick
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski met Thursday with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. They smiled for the cameras, but Murkowski is
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Russia’s military lead on Arctic shelf mapping stands trial for fraud
The top official from the Ministry of Defense reportedly stole 90 million rubles earmarked mapping of the Russian Arctic shelf.
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Alaskans set stakes on Senator Murkowski for U.S. Supreme Court nomination
Lisa Murkowski isn’t ready to say yet how she’ll vote on President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. The
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Will Alaskan Senator Murkowski block Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee?
On Monday night, just after President Trump announced his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, an abortion-rights
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US Gov casts doubt on Indigenous Alaskans’ right to seek land-in-trust
A new legal opinion from the solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior throws doubt on whether Alaska tribes
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Bill would allow Russia to tag journalists as “foreign agents”
It is another crackdown on the Russian media, and it will make it even harder for Russian journalists to engage
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Canada’s federal police faces $1.1B lawsuit over bullying and harassment claims
Canada’s national police force is facing a mammoth $1.1-billion lawsuit — believed to be the biggest in the force’s history
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Finland suspends twenty councillors in Lapland town before trial
Twenty Kittilä councillors have been suspended by central government until the conclusion of their trial on charges of abuse of
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Will Sweden scrap state pensions for thousands now living in Finland?
If Sweden decides to halt payment of state pensions to people living abroad, the move would have repercussions in other
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Police officers in Alaska villages hired despite criminal record: report
Recent reporting in the Anchorage Daily News has exposed a long-standing problem in Alaska of rural communities hiring village police
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Appeal challenges Alaska’s exclusion of village residents from juries
The Alaska Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in a case that could have huge implications for how Alaska village
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