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New fighter jets due to arrive

Norway can finally expect delivery of the first of its new F35 fighter jets from the US later this week. Three of the F35s...

Soldier killed during mine-clearing demonstration

Flags flew at half-mast at army  installations around Norway during the weekend, after a soldier was killed while demonstrating mine-clearing equipment on a shooting range...

Russians ‘trained to invade Svalbard’

UPDATED: A Norwegian website dedicated to preventing another invasion of Norway was reporting on Wednesday that Russian forces mounted a mock invasion of Svalbard...

Søreide leads ministerial speculation

Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide was topping speculation this week over who will replace Børge Brende as Norway's new foreign minister. Brende is...

Russians jammed flights’ GPS

Norway's military intelligence unit (Forsvarets Etterretningstjeneste) confirmed to state broadcaster NRK on Friday that Russian military training exercises taking place across the border from...

Peace Prize prods nuclear arms ban

The Norwegian Nobel Committee sent a powerful anti-nuclear weapons message on Friday, not least to its home country of Norway itself. Its decision to...

‘Norway needs a defense Plan B’

US President Donald Trump's fiery speech at the UN in New York this week was setting off some alarms back home in Norway on...

Norway downplays Trump’s tough talk

Neither Prime Minister Erna Solberg nor Foreign Minister Børge Brende were impressed by US President Donald Trump's debut at the United Nations this week....

Labour shifts position on Andøya closure

Several groups opposed to military restructuring in Northern Norway demonstrated in front of Parliament on Tuesday against looming cutbacks or shutdowns of the local...

NATO seeks troops for Afghanistan

NATO's Norwegian secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, wants his homeland to send more troops to Afghanistan. Norway has withdrawn most all its soldiers after years...
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