Norway stops a ship suspected of involvement in damage to a Baltic Sea cable

Police say a Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities suspect may have been involved in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been stopped off Norway. They say the Silver Dania was stopped on Thursday evening and brought into the port of Tromsø in northern Norway on Friday morning by a Norwegian coast guard vessel. Police said that followed a request from Latvian authorities and a ruling by a Norwegian court. Police said there is a suspicion that the ship, which was sailing between the Russian ports of St. Petersburg and Murmansk, was involved in serious damage to the cable in the Baltic Sea.