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Solberg a ‘happy’ and a ‘lucky’ premier

NEWS ANALYSIS: It was Mothers' Day in Norway on Sunday, and the woman who's increasingly viewed as Mor Norge (Mother Norway) was featured heavily...

State may transfer 5,000 jobs to the counties

A commission set up by the state ministry in charge of local government administration and modernization has proposed shutting down three state agencies and...

Pigs suffering at Norwegian farms

Agricuture Minister Jon Georg Dale has called the pork industry and its representatives in on the proverbial carpet, after terrible conditions have been revealed...

Giske fights on, as does his partner

The embattled Norwegian Labour Party's shamed star, Trond Giske, still isn't giving up his fight against all the sexual harassment charges that have piled...

NATO’s boss was ‘back home’ again

It was his older sister Camilla's 60th birthday on Monday but NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg was formally back in Norway on an official visit....

Climate concerns prompt an appeal

Environmental organizations Greenpeace and Natur og Ungdom  aren't accepting defeat in an Oslo city court, announcing on Monday that they will appeal for a...

Accused Norwegian spy feels ‘misused’

"I feel terribly misused," exclaimed Frode Berg, the retired Norwegian border inspector who was arrested in Moscow last month and charged with espionage. As...

Parliament gets back to business

NEWS ANALYSIS: After weeks of sexual harassment scandals that all but paralyzed parliamentary politics in Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg's newly expanded government and...

UD probes possible sanctions violation

Norway's foreign ministry (Utenriksdepartementet, UD) has confirmed that it's investigating complaints from Ukraine that ships have sailed from Norway with cargoes of metallic ore...

Støre rallies his ‘shamed’ troops

"It's time to close ranks," Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre declared at an extraordinary national board meeting on Monday, "time to find ourselves...
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