Tag: defense

Ukraine crisis brings Brende home

Foreign Minister Børge Brende cut short a trip to the US and Mexico on Sunday after violence broke out again in eastern Ukraine and...

Nordic countries condemn Russia

Ukraine, political security in Europe and the path towards the NATO summit in September were up for discussion when the Nordic countries' defense ministers...

Stoltenberg’s road to NATO

Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg, who'll be taking over this fall as the next secretary general of NATO, could finally offer some insight this...

WWII mines exploded in Oslofjord

Norwegian and Swedish defence mine sweepers blew up five unexploded World War II-era mines outside Nesodden in the Oslofjord on Wednesday. It's estimated more...

Stoltenberg wins top NATO job

Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's highly popular former prime minister, has been chosen as the next civilian head of NATO, and politicians in Norway were already...

Stoltenberg ran into some critics

Some of the arguably harshest criticism to be lodged yet against the former government of Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg came just as speculation...

Intelligence agency lifts the veil

Norway's national military intelligence service (NIS, or Etteretningstjenesten) will be more open about its staff, operations and intelligence gathering, promises NIS Chief Kjell Grandhagen....

Britain backs Stoltenberg for NATO

British Prime Minister David Cameron has publicly announced his support for former Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg to take on the top job at...

‘Putin won’t care’ about defense snub

Russian President Vladimir Putin probably doesn't care that Norway is breaking off all military cooperation with Russia. It's mostly a "symbolic" move that won't...

Media slug it out over Stoltenberg

Norwegian media seemed more confident than ever Sunday night that former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg would become the next secretary general of NATO. After...
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