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Labour gathers campaign troops

The Norwegian Labour Party's secretary Raymond Johansen opened the garden of his home in Oslo over the weekend to welcome party leaders and drum...

Store opening hours enter campaign debate

City leaders in the Conservative-run cities of Oslo and Bergen want to allow stores to open for business on Sundays, and the Conservative Party...

Military sends out terrorism warning

Norway's military intelligence unit known as E-tjenesten confirmed Sunday that it had sent out a warning of a possible terrorist attack to Norwegian government...

Election campaign cranks into gear

Norway's national parliamentary election is less than six weeks away, but only now are politicians returning from their summer holidays and getting into campaign...

Police charge Høyre politician

Tor Johannes Helleland, the Conservatives (Høyre) politician who hacked his way into young women's computer files and spread naked photos of them on pornographic...

New government may split oil fund

Norway's enormous sovereign wealth fund, known as the "oil fund," looks set to be split up into several different funds if a new, non-socialist...

Politicians frown on Cermaq bonuses

Trade Minister Trond Giske of the Labour Party wasn't the only state politician unhappy to hear that executives leading the state-controlled seafood firm Cermaq...

Politician resigns after spreading porn

UPDATED: Just as Norway's Conservative Party (Høyre) was launching its election campaign over the weekend came news that one of its elected city council...

UD faces claims of discrimination

Staff employed locally at Norwegian embassies around the world, all run by Norway's foreign ministry (Utenriksdepartementet, UD), claim they're often treated quite differently than...

More foreign aid abuse revealed

The Norwegian government has paid out tens of billions of kroner to fund foreign aid projects around the world since 2007. A new report...
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