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Greenland, Ukraine and all that stuff
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/08/2025
» Last Wednesday, the Danish foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen to his office to complain that the United States is running a covert operation in Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the Danish kingdom.
Anti-migrant town has change of heart
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» For years, the small town of Herouxville in rural Quebec was the embodiment in the province of deep, nativist hostility towards immigrants.
Restrains credulity
News, Postbag, Published on 15/05/2022
» Re: "Kid car seats mandatory from Sept 5," (BP, May 9).
Curling fills idle days in Arctic outpost
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/03/2022
» Alison Lennie steps out of her house into 33 degrees below zero Celsius.
Greenland's big gamble on Chinese mining
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/08/2019
» From his purchase of New Jersey casinos to his proposed acquisition of Greenland, Donald Trump's real estate deals have always been plagued by bad timing. The United States could probably have bought Greenland from Denmark in 1917, but he's a century too late now.
Alaska's Eskimos feeling the heat of climate change
AFP, Published on 02/05/2019
» NAPAKIAK, Alaska: The cemetery has already been moved twice, the old school is underwater and the new one is facing the same fate as erosion constantly eats away at the land in Napakiak.
IWC vote backs aboriginal whale hunts -- with new quotas
AFP, Published on 13/09/2018
» FLORIANOPOLIS (BRAZIL) - The International Whaling Commission on Wednesday cast a rare strong vote in favor of whale hunting -- but strictly for small subsistence hunts undertaken by some communities, mostly in the Arctic.
Urinating tattoo artist charged with killing Frenchman
Online Reporters, Published on 03/05/2018
» A tattoo artist has been arrested and charged with killing a French tourist who intervened in a brawl between the urinating suspect and another Frenchman in Bangkok early on Thursday.
Urinating tattoo artist charged with killing Frenchman
Gary Boyle, Published on 03/05/2018
» A tattoo artist has been arrested and charged with killing a French tourist who intervened in a brawl between the urinating suspect and another Frenchman in Bangkok early on Thursday.
In search of the world’s most remote islands
Christopher Lombardi, Special publications, Published on 28/04/2017
» While most clock-punching 9-to-5ers will talk up the idea of a "nice quiet vacation", how many of us would actually delight in jetting off to a undeveloped, desolate destination with barely another person in sight? If you’ve just raised your hand, please read on.