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Clinton hails US-Norwegian ties

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't spare her praise for Norway or downplay the close relations between the US and Norway during...

Clinton dodges striking workers

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received a warm welcome to Oslo on Friday despite unseasonably cold weather and a strike by state workers...

Clinton landed amid protocol conflict

UPDATED: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton landed in Oslo Thursday night and planned to stay into the weekend with a trip up...

Mediation may resume to end strike

UDATED: Both sides in the major strike that's spreading around Norway agreed to meet with the state mediator (Riksmekleren) again Thursday evening, in an...

Unions split over Oslo’s partial pact

As striking public sector workers rallied in the Norwegian capital and elsewhere around the country, many of them were anything but pleased with a...

Major strike spreads to the capital

UPDATED: Several hundred workers for the city of Oslo were called out on strike on Wednesday, after extended negotiations and mediation between their unions...

Strike tests Labour’s ties to labour

NEWS ANALYSIS: With tens of thousands of state and municipal workers now out on strike in Norway, the country's Labour-led government is suddenly at...

Nearly 50,000 pulled out on strike

After a long holiday weekend with no reported negotiations, thousands more Norwegian public sector workers were being called out on strike on Tuesday. Nearly...

Solheim faces rejection, again

Erik Solheim, the veteran politician and diplomat who lost his ministerial post earlier this spring, now seems to have also lost his bid to...

Official farewell to a ‘real hero’

Norway's most highly decorated hero, resistance fighter Gunnar Sønsteby, was hailed with the gratitude of an entire nation when King Harald, Prime Minister Jens...
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