Tag: embassies
US ambassador to leave amid drama
Less than two weeks after the US Secretary of the Navy, Richard V Spencer, was in Norway to visit top Norwegian officials, he finds...
Police unprepared for weekend riot
The US Embassy had managed to warn its own citizens in Oslo of potentially violent demonstrations outside the Turkish Embassy on Saturday. Local police,...
Embassy car in fatal crash
A car belonging to the Russian Embassy in Oslo crashed into the metal railings of a tram stop in the Norwegian capital's Frogner/Skillebekk district...
Diplomats cleared of some wild driving
Police thought for several hours on Thursday that they needed to subdue a dangerous diplomat. Someone, at any rate, was behind the wheel of...
Diplomatic dispute hits ‘Barnevernet’
A diplomatic dispute that's erupted between Norway and Poland is expected to force new debate over Norway's child protection agency (Barnevernet), which itself has...
Norway and Poland in diplomatic duel
Years of new and rising tension between Norway and Poland seemed to reach the boiling point this week, after Norway expelled Poland's consul and...
‘Super diplomat’ heads for Syria
Geir O Pedersen is known as a "super diplomat" from Norway with high standing at the United Nations. It's therefore no great surprise that...
NATO meets some more confrontations
Russian officials announced on Monday that they plan some military exercises of their own this week, not far from where the huge NATO exercise...
Russia suddenly turns agreeable
Norwegian and Russian negotiators have shaken hands on new fishing quotas in the Barents Sea, agreeing on how much cod, halibut and other fish...
Israeli ambassador challenged on NRK
Israel's ambassador to Norway, Raphael Schutz, agreed to an exclusive interview with Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on its national nightly newscast Dagsrevyen on Wednesday. Schutz...
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