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Refugee crisis rolls into Norway

Hundreds of refugees, mostly from Syria, have made their way through Europe after hazardous travel and are now overwhelming police in Oslo who are in...

Solberg: ‘Norway is not in crisis’

Prime Minster Erna Solberg held firm on Wednesday that Norway's economy is still not in any crisis, despite this week's market turbulence and the...

Public defenders stay off the job

Norwegian lawyers who serve as state-paid public defenders were refusing to answer calls to duty this week, after years of frustration over relatively low...

Solberg must answer for disputed video

Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Erna Solberg has reportedly been too busy preparing for this week's state budget conference to answer questions about a...

Minister blasted for ‘propaganda’

Justice Minister Anders Anundsen is once again the target of harsh criticism, after spending NOK 50,000 of taxpayers' money to produce a half-hour video that...

Foreign and defense ministers traveled to Iraq

Norway's incessantly globe-trotting foreign minister, Børge Brende, turned up in Iraq on Monday along with Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide, where they met with...

Police charged with ‘gruesome, racist’ treatment of Roma, ‘African’ homeless

A new report issued this week by Norway's new National Institute for Human Rights has concluded that Oslo police discriminate against Roma and migrants from...

Refugee crisis stirs debate and emotion

Just weeks after Norwegian government minister Vidar Helgesen experienced the misery of refugees landing on a Greek island first hand, a Norwegian vessel was berthing...

Skeptics emerge around new concert house plans

"There's no such thing as a free lunch," the mayor of Tønsberg, Per Martin Aamodt, reminded his political colleagues in Oslo after two hotel developers...

Health minister promises more resources for hospitals

As Norway's election campaign heats up, politicians are making promises about everything from more funding for schools to cheaper housing. Health Minister Bent Høie promised...
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