Left-wing opposition party wins Greenland election

Greenland's main opposition party, which opposes a rare earth mining project, has become the biggest in parliament after securing more than a third of votes in a snap election, state broadcaster KNR said on Wednesday.

With nearly all votes counted, the left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party took 37% of votes, unseating the ruling social democratic Siumut party which secured 29% of votes, official data showed.

The election result, closely watched by international mining companies wanting to exploit Greenland's huge untapped minerals resources, casts doubt on a mining complex at Kvanefjeld in the south of the island holding one of the world's biggest deposits of rare earth metals.