Norway hosts 30,000 NATO troops for exercises

 

For a month from Thursday, troops from 27 countries including the US, UK, Germany and France will help practise the defence of Norway from air, sea, and land. The exercise is taking place throughout the Nordic country as well as in the Atlantic and North and Norwegian seas. Neighbouring Finland and Sweden, which are not part of NATO but where public pressure to join the alliance is rising, will also take part.