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Finnish Foreign Minister to meet with U.S. Secretary of State in Washington

13 November 2018 Yle News 0 Comments defence, diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, security, Timo Soini, Washington

Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini heads to Washington this week for talks with his US opposite number, Secretary of State

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Finland, Sweden and US building three-way defence ties

8 May 2018 Yle News 0 Comments cooperation, defense, europe, Finland, international, military, military exercises, security, Sweden, trilateral, United States, Washington

Defence Ministers from Finland, Sweden and the United States are scheduled to meet in Washington to discuss military cooperation between

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Edward Itta, Inupiaq whaling captain and prominent Arctic Alaskan politician, dies aged 71

7 November 2016 Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments indigenous, Inuit, North Slope, traditions, Washington

Former North Slope mayor and Inupiaq whaling captain Edward S. Itta died on Sunday, his family said. He was 71.

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Do Arctic villages need oil? Some Alaska tribal leaders say ‘no’

20 May 2016 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Arctic Slope. BOEM, Beaufort, Chukchi, Cook Inlet, Murkowski, Point Lay, politics, Washington, whaling

If oil companies are ever going to return to drill for oil in federal waters of the Arctic, they will

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NSA former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden via video link from Russia at a parliamentary hearing on 'Improving the protection of whistleblowers', on June 23, 2015, at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Snowden, who has been granted asylum in Russia, is being sought by Washington which has branded him a hacker and a traitor who endangered lives by revealing the extent of the NSA spying program. (Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images)

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Snowdon ceremony shouldn’t take place in Barents Arctic: official

23 June 201525 June 2015 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Bjørnson Award, CIA, Russia, United States, Washington

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is winner of this year’s recognized Bjørnson Award, but Norwegian authorities are unlikely to guarantee his safe

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Al Grillo, AP)

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Alaska Senate passes bill establishing an official state Arctic policy

8 April 20159 April 2015 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments ANWR, environment, indigenous, Obama, resources, Washington

The Alaska Senate on Tuesday passed a bill establishing an official state Arctic policy that, in large part, calls for more natural-resource

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