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US blasts Norway’s anti-terror efforts, minister rejects criticism

Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget reacted strongly on Tuesday to critical remarks about Norway's anti-terrorism efforts made by the US ambassador to Norway and...

Aid agency gets new director

Norad, the Norwegian agency for administering foreign aid, has a new leader and she's not the traditional social anthropologist. Villa Kulild recently won government...

Stoltenberg fairly ‘alone’ in Cancun

Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, is the only government leader from western industrialized countries who has made the latest round of climate talks in...

Defense ministry on the defensive

Labour Party politician Espen Barth Eide has suddenly emerged as a powerful dealmaker in Norway's decision to buy new fighter jets from the US,...

Silence disrupts surveillance probe

A police investigation into controversial surveillance carried out by the US Embassy in Oslo has been stymied by the investigators' inability to question the...

More leaks test Nordic-US relations

A seemingly endless stream of revelations from US documents meant to be kept under wraps continues to stir questions and some bad feelings between...

Stoltenberg’s Twitter jeopardy

Security specialists are criticizing Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg for making himself an easy target for terrorists. Last April Stoltenberg "Twittered" his way through Europe...

Støre condemns document leaks

UPDATED: Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre downplayed revelations from leaked US diplomatic documents on Monday, and condemned that they'd been made public by...

Ministries attempt to steer research

Will more wind turbines reduce Norway's use of more climate-threatening energy sources? Probably not, concluded a team of researchers asked to find an answer....

Pension fraud suspects face prison

A state prosecutor asked a court in Oslo to jail two retired politicians, one for six months and the other for 60 days, claiming...
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