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Migrants allowed to stay in gravel pit

City officials changed their minds on Tuesday and decided to withdraw an order to evacuate a camp set up in a gravel pit for...

Hostility rises against migrants

Tempers are rising against hundreds of migrants in Oslo, most of them Roma folk from Romania and Bulgaria, who continue to camp illegally in...

Roma campers land in new conflict

Around 200 migrants from southeastern Europe, who claim to be looking for work in Oslo but mostly resort to begging, have landed in yet...

75 percent support ban on begging

Three out of four Norwegians support a proposed ban on begging, according to a new survey, and only 18 percent are opposed. Meanwhile, a...

Calls rise for less oil sector activity

Unhappy oil rig workers aren't the only ones calling for a reduction in the tempo of oil exploration and production on Norway's continental shelf....

Homeless beggars settle around Oslo church

Around 150 homeless beggars, many from Romania who have traveled to Norway in the hopes of earning money, moved into a parking lot adjacent...

Government keeps oil and gas flowing

Labour Minister Hanne Bjurstrøm claims she had little choice but to step in during the night and head off an oil industry lock-out that...

Lock-out loomed at Norwegian rigs

Norway's oil and gas production faced shutdown this week, if oil industry officials went through with their threat to lock out all workers from...

Rig workers slam threatened lock-out

Leaders for oil rig workers who are striking over lost pension benefits were furious on Thursday after their employers threatened to shut down all...

New oil resources fuel skepticism

As the oil and gas industry eyes new resources in Norway's offshore Arctic, and celebrated another new discovery in the North Sea this week,...

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