Newsletter Historic Football Match and the World's Largest Warship
The historic match at Bodø/Glimt's football stadium, Aspmyra, based in Bodø in the county of Nordland in Northern Norway. (Photo: Hilde Bye).
Dear reader. The North is where it is all happening. To be more precise: In Northern Norway. This week, High North News takes you on board the world's largest aircraft carrier and to see the first Arctic football team to make the Champions League.
After a longer period of training in the High North, the world's largest aircraft carrier sailed southwest of Norway in connection with the NATO activity Neptune Strike. Join HNN's Hilde Bye aboard an exclusive visit to an unknown location in the North Sea aboard 'the floating city.'
On Thursday night, the Danish Police, defense, and intelligence organized a press conference. The topic was the recent drone incursions at Danish airports and defense installations.
“Neither the uniforms nor the dark suits could hide the fact that Denmark is entirely lost in regard to what hit them earlier this week," writes Arne O. Holm in one of this week's perceptive comments.
Russia has violated Norwegian airspace in the North three times this year, in addition to several other NATO countries.
Last week, journalist Astri Edvardsen and Holm participated in the Arctic Security Conference in Oslo, and travelled northward again with new insights and news.
“Trump destroyed the trust and interest from Greenland," says Ulrik Pram Gad, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies.
Russia and preparedness
The EU countries continue to fill Putin's money bin. The European Union countries spent 30 percent more on Russian gas during the first half of 2025 than in 2024.
Exercises are still frequent in the North.
Last week, the Police, Armed Forces and civil actors practiced countering a terror attack in the Barents Sea. (Norwegian only)
On Tuesday, the rescue exercise Rescue Borealis started in Oulu, Northern Finland.
And from October 1st, the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority will take over the operations of an air filter station near Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard.
Research news
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will shut down this month after having its funding slashed earlier this year. “It illustrates the tense situation among US Arctic researchers”, says researcher Michael Walsh.
The football club Bodø/Glimt
Now, over to this week's gold:
The first-ever Champions League match above the Arctic Circle was played Tuesday night as Bodø/Glimt faced Tottenham at home.
It's like Holm says:
Read all this and more at High North News. Stay tuned as we will be reporting from Finland next week, which has the longest Nordic border with Russia.
Arctic greetings from Editor-in-Chief Trine Jonassen