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‘Sensible’ Brende back in Russia

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende tried to dismiss his Russian counterpart's greeting on Wednesday as a joke, but the words from Sergey Lavrov lingered: Brende's first...

Oil minister ‘crazy’ to open oil fields

Fishing industry- and environmental advocates were reacting with disbelief on Tuesday after Norway's new Oil & Energy Minister Terje Søviknes announced plans to open up...

Oil enthusiasm fails to dip on price fall

Oil prices have fallen recently and so has the value of Norway's currency, the krone, but that's not dampening enthusiasm for those who still...

Journalist denied entry to Russia

UPDATED: Thomas Nilsen, editor of the highly acclaimed Independent Barents Observer in Kirkenes, seems to have become the latest symbol of tensions between Norway and Russia....

Norway boosts its relevance for Trump

NEWS ANALYSIS: Foreign Minister Børge Brende recapped his visit to Washington DC last week with some of the typical diplomatic rhetoric that stressed, for...

No one caught in latest Svalbard slide

Authorities on Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard could confirm Sunday evening that no one was missing or injured by yet another avalanche that slid...

Avalanche forced delay in orchid delivery

Norway's agriculture minister, Jon Georg Dale, had to cancel a trip to Svalbard with a delegation from Myanmar this week because of the "uncertain...

Another avalanche rams Longyearbyen

UPDATED: NVE, the state agency responsible for issuing avalanche warnings, admitted it made a mistake Tuesday after more tons of snow, ice, dirt and...

‘Goliat’ platform still struggling

Norway's pioneering offshore platform on the Goliat field in the Arctic was out of operation again last week. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported that...

‘The People’ won in mock trial over Arctic oil

Just days before a landmark legal challenge to oil activity in Norway's Arctic won a date in court, a mock trial on the controversial...
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