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Arctic drilling plans called ‘immoral’

Environmental organizations were quick to vent their fury over new plans, announced Tuesday by Norwegian oil company Statoil, to dramatically expand oil exploration activity...

Pressured premier issues an apology

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg formally apologized Tuesday on the floor of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) for Norway's lack of preparedness when a home-grown terrorist...

Majority backs court, not government

Eighty percent of Norwegians questioned support the jail term handed down to confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik last week, and a solid majority also...

Latest oil find boosts stocks

Norwegian oil company Det norske oljeselskap was among those seeing even more investor interest on Monday, after state oil company Statoil confirmed the discovery...

Terror aftermath forces Stoltenberg to drop huge oil exhibition

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was supposed to be the keynote speaker at the opening of the huge oil industry exhibition Offshore Northern Seas (ONS)...

Labour parties, to fend off crisis

NEWS ANALYSIS: Some commentators claim that Norway's Labour Party is in its worst crisis since World War II, but party leaders put on broad...

Ministry tunes out Flagstad prize

Organizers of an annual festival in honor of Norway's pioneering opera singer Kirsten Flagstad wanted to draw extra attention to it by awarding a...

Police chief quits, ‘lacked support’

State Police Director Øystein Mæland has become the first casualty of this week's scathingly critical report on how Norwegian police failed to efficiently respond...

Stoltenberg vows improvements

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has promised major improvements to Norway's emergency preparedness, after receiving official confirmation on Monday that the country was poorly prepared...

Parliament to re-open more securely

Norway's Parliament building in Oslo has been boarded up most of the summer, undergoing what posted signs describe as general renovation. In fact, the...
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