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Jens also dumps embattled mayor

UPDATED: Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has personally joined the rising calls for a Labour Party mayor who's battling sexual assault charges to step down....

Mayor ‘shameful’ but denies any illegalities, fights to clear his name

A prominent Labour Party mayor who's accused of sexual assault of an underage girl admitted in court on Thursday that he's "shameful" he "crossed...

Most new jobs go to immigrants

Nearly 50,000 new jobs have been created in Norway during the past year and more than 35,000 of them have been filled by immigrants....

Legal group calls for Norway’s withdrawal from ‘au pair’ system

An independent organization that offers legal aid to women in Norway is proposing withdrawal from the international au pair system that brings many young foreign...

Jens presents his re-election team

Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg wants a third term as Norway's prime minister, and on Friday he revealed a new ministerial line-up aimed to...

Labour youth unhappy that Labour minister halted nursing home strike

Labour Minister Hanne Bjurstrøm intervened on Wednesday in an ongoing strike by workers at privately run nursing homes. She claimed the strike was imperiling...

Stoltenberg comes back swinging

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has responded to new challenges from opposition parties by warning that a change of government can threaten Norway's social welfare...

Plans for ‘New Utøya’ meet opposition

The Labour Party's youth organization AUF is running into strong opposition to its plans to redevelop the island where 69 persons were killed and...

New commission to evaluate collective bargaining

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, still shaken by a wave of strikes by public sector workers, has appointed a new commission to examine how pay...

Plans unveiled for a ‘new’ Utøya

As Norway's maximum prison term officially took effect for convicted terrorist Anders Behring Breivik just before the weekend, the leader of the Labour Party...

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