As the ministers discussed the increasingly difficult security situation in the region, a F/A 18 Hornet fighter jet crashed ...

In addition to salmon, exports of Arctic king crab have also shown strong growth this year. According to the Norwegian ...

The Afanasii Ivannikov and Polyarny will be the first minesweepers of the Aleksandrit class (Project 12700) that become part of the Northern Fleet, Russia’s most potent naval force. The Afanasii ...

The Ukrainian attacks on the far northern region come as Moscow prepares to celebrate May 9, the country's victory day in the ...

Australia will train air and missile defense operations against unmanned air and surface systems, subsonic, supersonic, and ...

"It is a kind of market acrobatics we seldom see in the serious part of the international LNG-fleet," Norvald Kjerstad says. The Norwegian professor in ice navigation pays a close eye to shipping in ...

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While authoritarian regimes often dominate the headlines for violence against journalists, McCarren points out that threats to press freedom are not confined to faraway autocracies. In the United ...