Demonstrators to greet Obama
December 7, 2009
Air Force One is now due to land at Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen at the end of the morning rush hour on Thursday. US President Barack Obama, heading for Oslo to collect his Nobel Peace Prize, may take a helicopter into town, where a busy program awaits along with demonstrators from around the world. [...]
Tamil living in Norway peggedas new militant leader of LTTE
August 12, 2009
Tamil activists residing in Norway demonstrated throughout the winter and spring, protesting the civil war in Sri Lanka and pleading for a separate homeland on the island off southern India. Now one of them allegedly is poised to take over as a new militant leader of the separatist group LTTE. Calls were made Thursday for [...]
Protesters target Iranian Embassy
June 22, 2009
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the Iranian Embassy in Oslo through the weekend, demanding an end to the violence in Teheran. They also want Norwegian authorities to react with more than words against the Iranian government. The Norwegian government already has summoned Iran’s top diplomatic representative in Norway to the Foreign Ministry, to file an [...]
