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Norway is not breaching a century-old treaty covering the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard by blocking Russian cargo to the islands, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday after Moscow threatened retaliatory measures. "Norway does not violate the Svalbard Treaty," foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt told AFP. "Norway does not try to put…

Longyearbyen (AFP) - With its ghost towns and armed men taking on a vast wilderness, one could almost mistake the Svalbard archipelago for the Wild West.

Longyearbyen (AFP) - Home to polar bears, the midnight sun and the northern lights, a Norwegian archipelago perched high in the Arctic is trying to find a way to profit from its pristine wilderness without ruining it.

Barentsburg (Svalbard) (AFP) - War may be far away but tensions from the Ukraine conflict are causing an unprecedented chill in a remote Arctic town where Russian and Ukrainian coalminers have worked side by side for decades.

Edward Jones was thrilled to spot what he thought looked like an otherworldly UFO off the coast of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard - but others weren't as convinced

Shoots cause stress for migratory species such as Svalbard barnacle goose, whose numbers are down 38%