Tag: defense

Several charged with espionage

UPDATED: Norway's police intelligence agency PST has confirmed the arrest of a Chinese woman suspected of espionage tied to satellite launching on the northern...

Parliament probes defense spending

The Norwegian Parliament's disciplinary committee has launched a probe into whether the sharp rise in defense spending is complying with purchasing regulations within the...

Russian rocket lit up the nighttime skies over Norway

Residents of central- and northern Norway who were up late last week witnessed strange lights in the nighttime skies that were both stunning and...

Zelensky welcomed back to Oslo

Helicopters whirred overhead and security was high when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to Oslo on Tuesday for an overnight visit. It was his...

Russian fighter jets pose challenges

Norwegian fighter jets were reportedly sent out more than 40 times last year to identify and document a total of 53 Russian fighter jets...

Norway, UK fend off Russian submarines

Norwegian officials confirm that both Norway and the UK mounted "a coordinated military operation" in recent weeks to fend off three Russian submarines suspected...

Norway urged diplomacy in Mideast, calls ceasefire ‘fragile’

UPDATED: Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has distanced himself from what he called US President Donald Trump's "brutal" messages to Iran, and called...

Updated defense plan draws flak

Government leaders and military brass rolled out Norway's updated national defense plan on Friday with an extra NOK 115 billion in funding. Several major...

Warm relations at NATO’s Cold Response

Despite all the uncertainty, threats and hostilities stirred up by US President Donald Trump, also against his own allies, it's been business as usual...

New Arctic alliance takes shape

Faced by threats not only from Russia in the east but now also the US in the west, the leaders of all five Nordic...
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