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Norwegian holidays darker this year

More Norwegians than usual are hoping for brighter days after the winter solstice this year because of a new, unfamiliar situation: relative poverty. Inflation,...

Football Cup attracted few fans

Just under 20,000 Norwegian football fans turned up for their country's annual "cup final" that ranks as the Norwegian Championships with the monarch in...

Fires, heat, drought can spoil summer

Millions of Norwegians are starting summer holidays in the midst of high fire danger, water restrictions and a heat wave. Bans have already been...

17th of May, Bergen style

UPDATED: Millions of dressed-up Norwegians were out celebrating their constitution, freedom and democracy, or just having a good time on their 17th of May...

Wrapped up and ready for 17th of May

Norwegians all over the country were ironing bunad shirts, practicing speeches and rehearsing patriotic songs as they prepared for the country's Constitution Day celebrations...

Troubled Labour led Labour Day parade

UPDATED: Oslo's Labour Party led Monday's traditional Labour Day parade in the Norwegian capital on the 1st of May, along with its city government...

Thousands take off for Easter holidays

Fully one-third of all Norwegians are taking off for Easter holidays next week, according to a new survey, but the vast majority of them...

Sami mark 30th national day in the cold

Norway's indigenous Sami people have their own Parliament and are in the midst of a cultural reawakening. On the 30th anniversary of their national...

Busy New Year’s Eve for the police

Police in Oslo had to deal with everything from illegal and dangerous use of fireworks to a shooting and, in Haugesund, even someone biting...

King Harald: ‘We need one another’ in a troubled new year

Norway's 85-year-old monarch defied illness and a recent hospitalization to once again address the nation on New Year's Eve, during what he repeatedly referred...
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