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Norway recorded its hottest year ever in 2025, following a strong summer heatwave and an unusually mild winter that started late in the year, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said Monday.

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In another sign of climate change driven by human activity, the mercury hit 4 degrees Celsius in Longyearbyen, the main town of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, on December 22 — warmer than both Seville and Ankara, which recorded temperatures of three and one Celsius respectively on that day.

A man who supplied thousands of small boats and engines to people smugglers in the English Channel has been jailed.