The four Nordic nations have for decades all followed a "total defence" strategy – since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Finland has taken a lead and greatly strengthened the concept
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Armed robots take to the battlefield in Ukraine war
20 votes -
Overnight explosion at the US embassy in Oslo may have been an act of terrorism, Norway's police have said
10 votes -
Finland plans to lift its long-standing ban on having nuclear weapons on its territory – would align the country more closely with NATO's deterrence policy
9 votes -
UK Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election, pushing Labour into third place
15 votes -
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced early elections – hailing the next four years as "decisive" for her country
6 votes -
Rob Jetten becomes Netherlands' youngest ever PM
10 votes -
South Korea's ex-president jailed for life over martial law attempt
42 votes -
Kim Jong Un chooses daughter as heir, says Seoul
18 votes -
Russian general shot several times in Moscow
21 votes -
Number of British troops in Norway will double over the next three years as part of efforts to combat Russian threats in the High North
9 votes -
Sweden is moving forward with plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 in serious cases as it grapples with a growing number of children recruited into gangs
20 votes -
Police in Norway have opened a corruption investigation into the country's former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland over his alleged links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
14 votes -
BBC joins Colombian commandos fighting 'never-ending battle' against drug gangs
6 votes -
Syria's defiant Kurds vow to 'fight until last breath' despite government push
10 votes -
K-pop drum duet between Japan and South Korea's leaders caps off summit talks
13 votes -
UK Conservative party would ban under-16s from social media
18 votes -
US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military, says White House
43 votes -
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, in hiding for months, has told the BBC she knows "exactly the risks" she's taking travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize
12 votes -
UK and Norway have signed a defence pact that will see them operate a combined fleet to hunt Russian submarines in the North Atlantic
11 votes -
Benjamin Netanyahu seeks pardon from Israel's president
11 votes -
US President Donald Trump calls Democrat video to troops 'seditious behaviour, punishable by death'
38 votes -
Communist and far-right candidates head to Chile presidential run-off
12 votes -
US President Donald Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products
23 votes -
US judges say Donald Trump administration must continue food aid during shutdown
56 votes -
Donald Trump says nuclear weapons testing to resume in US after more than thirty years
21 votes -
Half of US states sue Donald Trump administration over halting food stamps
56 votes -
Israeli military's ex-top lawyer arrested as scandal over video leak deepens
24 votes -
Ukraine hits Russian chemical plant with UK-made Storm Shadow missiles
24 votes -
US kills three in second strike on alleged drug boats in the Pacific
18 votes -
Venezuela shuts its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
16 votes -
Denmark has announced $4.2bn of extra defence spending to boost security in the Arctic and North Atlantic regions, including Greenland
10 votes -
Drones seen over Danish military bases in latest air disruption
25 votes -
Russia's involvement in drone sightings [that closed Copenhagen airport for four hours] cannot be ruled out, Danish PM says: "the most severe attack on Danish infrastructure so far"
14 votes -
Former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to twenty-seven years in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup
62 votes -
Norway's Arbeiderpartiet under Jonas Gahr Støre has won a second term in general elections, ahead of a populist right-wing party that doubled its vote
16 votes -
Norwegians go to the polls on Sunday and Monday in a tight race to decide whether to continue with a Arbeiderpartiet-led government or turn to the centre right
12 votes -
Ukraine admits Russia has entered key region of Dnipropetrovsk
23 votes -
UK has secured a £10bn deal to supply the Norwegian navy with at least five new warships
15 votes -
Finland has sentenced a controversial leader of a Nigerian secessionist movement to six years in prison after convicting him of terrorism-related offences
8 votes -
China and India pledge to be 'partners not rivals'
14 votes -
Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times
19 votes -
Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year
11 votes -
UK voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election
27 votes -
US Congress passes Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' cutting taxes and spending
50 votes -
Denmark has come under international attention for its tough approach to immigration. And its Social Democrat prime minister is leading the charge.
9 votes -
Bill Gates to give most of his $200bn fortune to Africa
22 votes -
As Arctic ice melts, global powers seize new opportunities to extract oil, speed up trade and boost their military presence
8 votes -
Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe after its parliament adopted a law raising it to 70 by 2040
10 votes -
Two Israeli embassy staff killed outside Washington, D.C. Jewish museum
31 votes