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Culture shock hits refugees in Karasjok

Karasjok in Northern Norway is known as a capital of Sami culture with long cold winters, equally long light summer days and wide open spaces. Not...

SAS, other airlines, lift US travel ban

After several days of confusion and chaos, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) was among airlines notified by the industry organization IATA during the weekend that US...

Foreign minister upholds Trump criticism

Foreign Minister Børge Brende addressed the Norwegian Parliament on Wednesday with a promise to maintain the government's criticism of US President Donald J Trump's...

Immigration tests the welfare state

Norway has not succeeded in ushering refugees and many other immigrants into the workforce, notes the leader of a commission that's been studying the...

Former ministers ‘shocked’ by Trump

Three former Norwegian foreign ministers, including one who also served as Norway's ambassador to the US, are urging the government to directly and more strongly...

Calls rise to help US-banned refugees

As outrage piles up over the US Trump Administration's sudden ban on asylum seekers and citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries, some Norwegians want to offer alternative...

Norway slams US’ refugee, travel ban

The Norwegian government, which often has called the US its "most important ally," was as upset as many others around the world this weekend after new US...

Christian Democrats help rein in UDI

Norway's Christian Democrats party has gone along with forming a majority in Parliament that will stop state immigration agency UDI from revoking citizenship granted to immigrants...

Alarms ring over rejected refugees

UPDATED: Never before has so much concern been expressed over the fate of mostly teenage boys who have fled Afghanistan, made their way to...

Turkish officials seek asylum in Norway, embassy in Oslo dismisses their fears

UPDATED: Scores of Turkish military officers and diplomats who've been serving at embassies and with NATO in Europe have defected and sought political asylum, including several now...

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