Cameroonian separatist leader Lucas Ayaba Cho arrested in Norway for his alleged role in the ongoing armed conflict in the Central African country ~society politics Article 560 words 5 votes
National security or legal niceties? Norway picks a path – closing down opportunities for members of the authoritarian axis is not always as easy as it looks. ~society politics Article 899 words 7 votes
Norwegian government has called off a plan to sell the last privately owned piece of land on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in order to prevent its acquisition by China ~society politics Article 381 words 30 votes
Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this. ~life Article 838 words 18 votes
The last remaining privately owned land on the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, "with significant environmental, scientific and economic importance" is on sale, for €300 million ~finance Article 728 words 7 votes
Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably ~enviro sustainability Article 751 words 25 votes
How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940) ~humanities.history Video 46:49 13 votes
In northern Ontario, a dozen First Nations have been left struggling. A court’s attempt to enforce treaty promises could see them getting up to C$126bn. ~news canada.on Article 2222 words 12 votes
Vladimir Putin signs bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty ~society politics Article 218 words 36 votes
Plastic overshoot day spotlights growing 'climate nightmare' of global waste ~enviro pollution plastics climate change Article 1775 words 19 votes
Norway's Supreme Court could set a legal precedent for control of the natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic ~enviro Article 446 words 4 votes
Why Denmark is voting on its defence relationship with the EU – and what it says about democracy in Europe ~society politics Article 931 words 5 votes
What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2? ~humanities.history Video 12:56 5 votes
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons takes effect, without the US and others ~society politics Article 515 words 12 votes
What an underground nuclear test actually looks like ~science Article 313 words, published Sep 9 2016 8 votes
Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic ~news norway.svalbard politics Article 302 words 4 votes
How Sweden and Germany plan to curb the threat of nuclear warfare ~society Article 879 words, published Nov 6 2019 6 votes
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requests a meeting with Norwegian authorities to remove limitations on Russian activity on Svalbard ~news norway.svalbard russia politics Link 4 votes
Svalbard: Minute By Minute – Norway's state-owned NRK is about to air its longest and most ambitious show yet ~tv Article 514 words 8 votes
Victorian treaty negotiations move closer as voting opens for First People's Assembly ~news australia.vic politics Article 613 words 6 votes
Cherokee nation takes up 1835 treaty right and names first delegate to US Congress ~news usa politics Article 725 words 18 votes
Sweden says it won't sign UN nuclear ban treaty – the treaty in its current form is not ready ~society politics Article 152 words 4 votes
The first Japanese man in America: A teenager shipwrecked on a Pacific atoll helped transform relations between Japan and the United States ~humanities.history Link 5 votes
Victorian Parliament to vote on negotiating Australia's first Aboriginal treaty ~news australia politics Article 732 words 11 votes