Amidst Arctic investment, Japan pledges G7 cooperation on fresh sanctions on Russia
Japan will make comprehensive decisions to ensure the country’s energy supply is stable while cooperating with the G7 group amid
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Navy commander defends Alaska military exercise against critics
The U.S. Navy will soon be participating again in Northern Edge, the massive training exercise that brings together different branches of
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U.S. report claims Trudeau told NATO Canada will never meet military spending target
By Alexander Panetta Washington Post report says Canadian allies fret over what they allege is chronic underfunding A massive leak
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Iceland authorizes U.S. submarine service visits
Iceland has authorized U.S. submarines to make service visits to the country, it said in a news release on Tuesday.
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U.S. air base in Greenland gets new name inspired by Inuit language
Thule Air Base in Greenland, the U.S.’s northernmost military installation, has been renamed Pituffik Space Base. U.S. officials says the
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“It’s about time” U.S. ambassador to Norway says of Sweden, Finland’s NATO bids
The U.S. ambassador to Norway, Marc Nathanson, says the whole northern flank of NATO has to be conscious of the
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Trudeau says flying objects brought down over the past week may be linked
‘Obviously, there is some sort of pattern in there,’ the prime minister says after Yukon visit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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Local company’s $3.95-billion U.S. arctic base contract “good news” says Greenland
The Government of Greenland says it welcomes news that local company Inuksuk A/S was awarded the new maintenance contract for
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U.S aircraft flew Norwegian airspace on mission outside Russia’s nuclear sub bases
Norway’s reassurance policy towards Russia has for the most followed a practice that allied intelligence missions to airspace outside the
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US Senate votes overwhelmingly in favour of Sweden and Finland joining NATO
Just after midnight Swedish time, the US Senate voted in favour of ratifying Finland and Sweden’s application to join the
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Could melting Arctic sea ice be responsible for U.S. wildfires?
Melting sea ice in the Arctic plays a significant role in the increase of wildfires in the United States, thousands
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Deb Haaland becomes first-ever Native American U.S. Cabinet secretary
WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Deb Haaland was confirmed on Monday as Secretary of the Interior, becoming the first Native American
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NATO’s new Atlantic command to keep watch over the European Arctic
NATO’s new U.S.-based Atlantic Command was declared operational in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia on Thursday, underlying the alliance’s
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Slowing Arctic warming called the only hope for polar bears in the long term
Just days before the inauguration of a new president who has dismissed climate change as a hoax, the Obama administration
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Papp hopes next president will carry on U.S. Arctic policies
A year ago, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to travel above the Arctic Circle. The president’s
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