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German, Norwegian officials urge Canada to join ‘familiar family’ in buying new submarines

Murray Brewster, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 09:22 — Last Updated: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 09:25
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Officials pitch working with long-standing traditional NATO allies for military buildup Senior German and Norwegian defence officials say they’re confident

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Society Society (Norway) 

First fully electric garbage truck in Arctic Norway

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 30, 2025 at 13:51 — Last Updated: Friday, May 30, 2025 at 13:55
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By Elizaveta Vereykina “It’s more expensive to buy this car, but it’s much cheaper to drive”, recycling point manager says. “I

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Banned by EU, welcome in Kirkenes

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 30, 2025 at 10:32
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Only few days after Vitalii Orlov’s company Norebo was put on EU’s sanctions list, two of his trawlers made port

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Preparing for trouble, Norway erects fence at exposed border sections

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:28 — Last Updated: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:30
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Although in much smaller scale, Norway is now following Finland on building fences to hinder illegal crossing at border with

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* Featured * Business Business (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Norway still uncertain on port denials despite EU warnings of sabotage plans

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, May 26, 2025 at 11:13
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The foreign ministry in Oslo can’t give a clear answer to whether Norway will ban port access for the two

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Seaweed forests spreading, could change ocean chemistry in the Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 15:50 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 16:02
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The Arctic’s greening from a warming climate isn’t just happening on land—it’s unfolding beneath the ocean surface too. There, seaweed

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Russian strategic bombers carry out scheduled flight over Barents Sea, TASS says

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 13:46
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Two Russian TU-95M strategic bombers carried out a scheduled flight over international waters in the Barents Sea, which borders Norway,

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Landmark Nikel stacks fall in demolition

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2025 at 14:00 — Last Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025 at 14:03
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The sulphur dioxide pollution from the chimneys was a thorn in Norwegian-Russian cross-border relations for 30-years. Two of the three

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Swedish and Norwegian police to share unique border station next week

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 10:39
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Swedish and Norwegian police move in together next week, sharing a police station built on the actual border between the

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Countries Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Denmark takes over rotating Arctic Council chairship from Norway

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, May 12, 2025 at 15:48
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Denmark took over the Arctic Council’s two-year rotating chairmanship from Norway on Monday, pledging to work to keep the North

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Blog: Sámi call for inclusion in ‘total defense’ at Arctic security forum

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:58
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While the Nordic countries are preparing their citizens for the worst, they are neglecting to turn to those who are

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Politics Politics (Russia) 

Former energy minister charged for broken heating in naval infantry base Sputnik

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 14:40
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Aleksandr Kobytev was minister of energy and housing in Murmansk before he took over the lead of a regional utility

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Svalbard glacier once survived a warmer climate

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:22
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By Elizaveta Vereykina This may indicate that that future increases in snowfall could moderate glacier retreat in similar settings. A new study has found

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Society Society (Norway) 

Arctic tourism in Norway: “People crash into trees and get broken bones”

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 10:19
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By Elizaveta Vereykina The most famous hiking trail in Tromsø is not as harmless as it seems. One of the most

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Arctic Council to hold virtual chairmanship handover from Norway to Denmark on May 12

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:00 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:02
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The Arctic Council’s chairmanship handover from Norway to Denmark will take place virtually on May 12. In response to an

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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