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Commission to examine attacks

As Norway starts the healing process after last Friday's terrorist attacks, the government announced it was forming a special commission to examine exactly what...

Premier hopes for a stronger Norway

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Wednesday that he hopes last week's attacks on the government and a Labour Party summer camp...

Labour may draw sympathy vote

The Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) is likely to enjoy a new boost of support following the recent terrorist attacks in which it was...

Government gets back to work

Around 2,000 government employees in Norway are beginning to work out of hastily arranged new quarters, after their offices were destroyed in Friday's bombing...

National Theater’s rehab costs rise

It may cost Norwegian taxpayers nearly NOK 700 million or more to rehabilitate the country's 112-year-old National Theater in Oslo. Debate is already underway,...

Norway boosts aid to famine victims, seeks talks with Al-Shabaab

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced that Norway would be sending more aid to famine victims in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, after also telling...

Worried premier gathered the troops

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg interrupted his summer holidays and those of several others to host an emergency session on the debt crises in Europe...

Labour’s summer camp opens

NOTE TO READERS: This story was written before a massacre at the camp on July 22 killed 69 persons. See our coverage here. Around 1,000...

Professionals also now against EU

Now even a majority of professionals who are members of the large labour organization Akademikerne are opposed to membership in the European Union (EU)....

Funds to save rainforests pile up

Norway has committed billions in funding to help preserve the world's rainforests but much of the money remains sitting in bank accounts, reports Oslo-based...
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