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Consular corps turns 40

Corps Consulaire de Norvége, the organization representing all foreign consuls in Norway, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this week with a seminar and traditional...

Cancer claims renown diplomat

Hans Wilhelm Longva has been called Norway's most important diplomat in the Middle East, and certainly among its most fearless. Colleagues and journalists alike...

Gay colours nag Russian Embassy

Someone painted the crosswalks outside the Russian Embassy in Oslo in the colours of the rainbow during the night. The stunt is believed to...

Ministry launches ‘Team Norway’

Norway's foreign ministry, which has assembled all its ambassadors and station chiefs in Oslo this week, unveiled a new program to them that aims...

Most new top diplomats are women

For the first time ever, Norway's foreign ministry has named more women than men to head the country's embassies and general consulates around the...

Manning nomination delivered

An American author and activist delivered 4,500 pages with more than 100,000 signatures to the Nobel Institute in Oslo on Monday. The petitions support the...

Military blocks Apple’s photo plan

Norwegian security authorities, backed by the country's defense minister, have blocked plans by US computer and communications giant Apple to take special aerial photos...

Norway closes 15 embassies to public

Norwegian authorities changed their minds on Monday and announced that 15 embassies in North and East Africa and the Middle East would be closed...

Refugees ‘spied on and threatened’

Refugees in Norway are regularly spied on and threatened by agents of the governments they fled, confirms the acting leader of the counterespionage unit...

Telenor poised to ‘rebuild’ Burma

Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor is ready to play a major role in helping Burma catch up with the rest of the world. Telenor chief...
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