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Former minister kisses and tells

Robert Eriksson wasn't at all happy about being replaced as Norway's Minister of Labour last winter. Now he's written a book about his short ministerial career and...

MP for the Liberals hit by hate messages

Abid Raja, an attorney and well-known Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party (Venstre), has become a target of hate messages sent from a mobile phone...

Opposition courts political alliances

Norway's political opposition is well underway in forming both new and renewed alliances among parties keen on government power after next year's parliamentary election. Christian...

Labour defiant as economy recovers

NEWS ANALYSIS: Thursday's decision by Norway's central bank to scrap another interest rate cut illustrates how the country is recovering from the economic shock...

Former hostage glad to be back home

Kjartan Sekkingstad, the man from Norway's west coast who was seized by a guerrilla group in the Philippines last year, landed back in Oslo...

Norway’s wolf hunt catches foreign flak

An announcement late last week that Norwegian authorities would approve the hunting of 47 wolves this autumn and winter has been met with a...

UDI cuts back as refugee wave ebbs

Norway's immigration agency UDI (Utlendingsdirektoratet) has been closing empty asylum centers and reducing staff lately, after last year's tidal wave of asylum seekers arriving in...

Still no change in key interest rate

Norway's central bank (Norges Bank) seemed to follow the advice of a vast majority of local economists on Thursday in deciding to keep its key...

Huge new county is born out west

Three large counties located along Norway's west coast have decided to merge to form one new "super county" called Vestlandsregionen from 2020. It will replace...

More sex-ed aims to curb assaults

Alarmed by a recent wave of sexual assaults among Norwegian youth, the City of Oslo's top official in charge of education, Tone Tellevik Dahl,...
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