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Arrests as Arctic storm forces activists off oil rig

Four Greenpeace activists who had clung to a Scottish firm’s oil rig off Greenland have been arrested after an Arctic storm forced them to abandon their protest.

The four men -- from the US, Finland, Poland and Germany -- now face charges of violating a 1650-feet security perimeter around Cairn Energy’s Stena Don rig and trespassing by climbing on to the installation.