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The effects of global warming could lead to new shipping lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans (Photo: David Lundy)

MEPs stranded in Greenland

Members of a European Parliament fact finding mission to Greenland have found themselves caught in the midst of a domestic airline strike, leaving the MEPs and staff stranded some 200 kilometres north of the polar circle at the foot of the Arctic island's biggest glacier.

Air Greenland, which has a monopoly on domestic flights across the world's biggest island, went out on a sudden strike only a day after the six MEPs from the parliament's leftist GUE/NGL group's arrival to the north-e...

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The effects of global warming could lead to new shipping lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans (Photo: David Lundy)

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