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NORWEGIANS TO TRUMP: WE DON'T WANT TO MOVE TO THE US
A NATO ally, Norway has long enjoyed good relations with the United States... READ MORE›
WHO'D PREFER THEIR COUNTRY TO TRUMP'S US? NORWEGIANS WOULD
STAVANGER, Norway AP -- Norwegians generally live longer than Americans... READ MORE›
'THANKS, BUT NO THANKS' - NORWEGIANS REJECT TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION OFFER
On behalf of Norway Thanks, but no thanks, tweeted Torbjoern Saetre, a politician representing Norway's Conservative Party in a municipality near Oslo... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENTALISTS LOSE LAWSUIT OVER NORWAY'S ARCTIC OIL LICENSES
Norway's oil policy is the business of the parliament, not the judicial system, Tommy Hansen, spokesman for the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, said on Thursday... READ MORE›
NORWAY POWERS AHEAD (ELECTRICALLY): OVER HALF NEW CAR SALES NOW ELECTR
Christina Bu, head of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association which represents owners, said the 2025 goal meant that Norway should stick with its incentives for electric cars... READ MORE›
PLASTIC FOUND IN MUSSELS FROM ARCTIC TO CHINA -- ENTERS HUMAN FOOD
Plastics may be getting swept north by ocean currents and winds from Europe and America, before swirling around the Arctic Ocean, NIVA researcher Amy Lusher said... READ MORE›
SAMI ARTIST DRAWS ATTENTION TO NORWAY'S REINDEER CULL
In a display outside the country's parliament in Oslo, Maret Anne Sara has hung a curtain made of 400 bullet-ridden reindeer skulls... READ MORE›
NORWAY REVEALS CASES OF RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SPANNING DECADES AMONG MINORITY IN LAPLAND
Norwegian police said Tuesday they had uncovered 151 alleged sexual assaults, including child rape, in a small community in Lapland, sending shock waves ac... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S $1 TRILLION WEALTH FUND STEPS UP `NO' VOTES ON CEO PAY
Photographer Krister Soerboe Bloomberg When Norway's 1 trillion sovereign wealth fund said it wanted companies to curb excessive and opaque top-management pay, it meant business... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S $1 TRILLION WEALTH FUND WANTS OUT OF OIL GAS STOCKS
The 1 trillion fund that Norway has amassed pumping oil and gas over the past two decades wants out of petroleum stocks... READ MORE›
NORWAY IDEA TO EXIT OIL STOCKS IS 'SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD'
But the debate, she said, underscores that climate change has made fossil fuels increasingly risky investments... READ MORE›
NORWAY IDEA TO EXIT OIL STOCKS IS 'SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD'
But the debate, she said, underscores that climate change has made fossil fuels increasingly risky investments... READ MORE›
WORLD'S SECOND YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE AND NORWAYS RICHEST WOMAN IS FINEDA A?23,000 FOR DRUNK DRIVING
Katharina Andresen is reportedly Norway's richest woman, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at 1.23 billion... READ MORE›
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NORWAY FACES CLIMATE LAWSUIT OVER ARCTIC OIL EXPLORATION PLANS
Campaigners say decision to open up the Barents Sea violates the nation's constitution and threatens the Paris climate agreement... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S PUSH FOR ARCTIC OIL AND GAS THREATENS PARIS CLIMATE GOALS - STUDY
Norway's current plans for fossil fuel production, expansion, and exploration are dangerously out of line with these budgets... READ MORE›
BYPASSING THE RISKY SEA REFUGEES REACH EUROPE THROUGH THE ARCTIC
On Wednesday, 73 asylum seekers crossed into Norway from Russia at Storskog, a record for a single day... READ MORE›
NORWAY HAS A NEW PASSION GHOST HUNTING
Along with a group of like-minded young friends, he travels around the region hunting for traces of ghosts and then posts videos of their findings -- always invisible -- on the Internet... READ MORE›
NORWAY RANKED WORLD'S HAPPIEST COUNTRY; JAPAN PLACES NO. 51
Income in the United States has gone up over the past decade, but happiness is declining... READ MORE›
SYRIANS FLEEING WAR FIND NEW ROUTE TO EUROPE VIA THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
Intriguingly, in 2013 a Facebook group which advises Syrians about how to reach Europe suggested that Norway's border with Russia was impenetrable... READ MORE›
HUNDREDS OF NORWEGIAN MUSLIMS FORM HUMAN SHIELD TO PROTECT JEWISH SYNAGOGUE IN OSLO
Hundreds of Norwegian Muslims have formed a human shield around a Synagogue in the countrys capital as a symbol of solidarity with the citys Jewish community... READ MORE›
UNITED NATIONS RELEASES LIST OF WORLD'S HAPPIEST COUNTRIES
In Western countries such as Australia, mental illness turned out to be the most important determinant of happiness - above income, employment or physical wellbeing... READ MORE›
GENEROUS WELFARE SYSTEMS ACTUALLY MAKE PEOPLE MORE KEEN TO WORK, EUROPE-WIDE STUDY FINDS
On the contrary, employment commitment was much higher in all the studied groups in bigger welfare states... READ MORE›
NORWEGIAN EBOLA PATIENT 'GIVEN LAST DOSE OF ZMAPP'
Please read our A Norwegian woman infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone is to be given the last remaining dose of ZMapp in the world... READ MORE›
MASS SHOOTINGS PREVENTABLE? THESE COUNTRIES HAVE TRIED
According to the Small Arms Survey 2007 Guns and the City, there are almost 32 firearms per 100 people in Norway... READ MORE›
NORWEGIANS LAUGH AT NEW FENCE ON RUSSIAN BORDER
Many local Norwegians travel into Russia to buy cheaper petrol and alcohol, while Russians travel into Norway to buy consumer goods like nappies and coffee... READ MORE›
'ISIS PLOT TO KIDNAP BRITISH DIPLOMATS' IS BUSTED
Among them was a 33-year-old from Handsworth, Birmingham, who is accused of being the British head of Ansar Al Islam... READ MORE›
MASS KILLER ANDERS BREIVIK ACCEPTED BY UNIVERSITY
Rector Ole Petter Ottersen said that all inmates in Norwegian prisons are entitled to higher education in Norway if they meet the admission requirements... READ MORE›
NORWAY VIOLATED RIGHTS OF ANDERS BEHRING BREIVIK MASS KILLER JUDGE RULES
Mr. Breivik sued prison officials last year, asserting that the government was slowly killing him... READ MORE›
RULING CONSERVATIVE-LED BLOC WINS NORWAYS NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Mr. Slagsvold Vedum also called for Norway to renegotiate its economic arrangements with the European Union... READ MORE›
NORWAY RAISES THREAT LEVEL AFTER OSLO BOMB SCARE
Norwegian police raised the country's security threat level following the discovery of an explosive device in central Oslo late on Saturday... READ MORE›
TEENAGE RUSSIAN ASYLUM SEEKER ARRESTED OVER EXPLOSIVE DEVICE IN OSLO
The security service head, Benedicte Bjornland, said it was unclear if the teen had plans to carry out an attack with the homemade device... READ MORE›
NORWAY PENSION FUND DIVESTS FROM DAPL AFTER PRESSURE FROM INDIGENOUS SAMI PARLIAMENT
The Sami live in the Arctic region of Sapmi in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia... READ MORE›
'AS COUNTRIES GO IT REALLY IS THE GOLDEN TICKET'
Norway recently overtook Denmark as the happiest country to live in according to World Happiness Report. But what are the reasons for people's happiness there?... READ MORE›
NORWAY VOTERS DELIVER BLOW TO PARTY OPPOSED TO ACCEPTING SYRIAN REFUGEES
The right-wing Progress Party had almost 10 percent of the votes with 87 percent tallied down from about 16 percent in a parliamentary vote in 2013... READ MORE›
AN ENTIRE COUNTRY JUST SWITCHED OFF THEIR FM RADIO
Norway becomes world's first country to switch off FM radio... READ MORE›
NORWAY HAS BEEN COMPLETELY BAFFLED BY A 100MM DELUGE OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR
More than a month's rain fell in 60 minutes and the precipitation more than doubled a record-breaking storm in Oslo the Norwegian capital last summer... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S ASYLUM POLICY IN CHAOS AMID RUSSIAN INTRANSIGENCE
The court condemned Russia in October for deporting three asylum seekers to Syria... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S PRIME MINISTER SAYS IT MIGHT GIVE FINLAND A MOUNTAIN
That's big, but not exactly huge Mount Everest is an eight-thousander... READ MORE›
REFUGEES ARE EXPLOITING A STRANGE LEGAL LOOPHOLE TO CYCLE THEIR WAY INTO NORWAY
It comes just two months after a senior member of the ruling Progress Party said failed asylum seekers should be jailed... READ MORE›
BRITS LOOK TO NORWAY FOR POST-BREXIT MODEL. NORWEGIANS URGE BRITS TO LOOK AGAIN.
But to this country's political and business leaders, Britain's flirtation with the Norwegian model is nothing short of baffling... READ MORE›
POLICY-MAKERS SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WORLD HAPPINESS RANKINGS
Norway tops the rankings in the World Happiness Report released Monday. Canada was ranked seventh. The U.S. was ranked 14th... READ MORE›
8,000 NATO TROOPS LAUNCH EXERCISE NEAR RUSSIAN-NORWEGIAN BORDER (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
The British and American troops took part in preparatory exercises to acclimatize them to the harsh Norwegian weather... READ MORE›
NORWAY VAULTS TO TOP OF WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT; U.S. IS 14TH
OSLO, Norway AP -- If you want to pursue happiness, grab a winter coat... READ MORE›