Clinton tours Arctic as nations vie for resources

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere, right, talk together onboard the Arctic Research vessel Helmer Hanssen on a fjord, near the northern Norwegian city of Tromso, Norway,

Talks: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere talk together onboard the Arctic Research vessel Helmer Hanssen on a fjord, near the northern Norwegian city of Tromso.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sailed through a sliver of the Arctic Ocean on Saturday, where the world's big powers are vying for vast oil, gas and mineral deposits becoming available as polar ice recedes.

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