UK’s defence secretary warns Russia poses ‘greatest threat to Arctic and High North security since the Cold War’ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A drone view of the Esmarkbreen glacier on Spitsbergen island in Norway HELSINKI (Reuters) -Russia accused Norway of militarising ...

On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...

The Bear Gap, a roughly 650-kilometer stretch between northern Norway and Svalbard, has become a sharper focus for NATO as ...

Alexey Fadeyev, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry added that Moscow views Oslo's efforts to build up militarily around the archipelago as a ...

The ministry noted that "contrary to the international legal regime established by the 1920 Svalbard Treaty, which provides for the exclusively peaceful development of the archipelago and prohibits ...

RUSSIAN mining company Trust Arktikugol is planning a wildcat on Svalbard, the Norwegian-flagged arctic islands that are jointly populated with Russia. The company wants to probe an onshore prospect ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago, a claim Norway denied in a comment to news agency NTB after Russia on Friday had summoned the Norwegian ambassador ...