Tag: politics

Professor helps melt diplomatic freeze

Diplomatic relations between Norway and China remain frozen, but the ice reportedly is melting, thanks to a Chinese professor who's an American citizen and based in Singapore....

Storm rises over ‘fetal reduction’ OK

Norwegian government officials have determined that the country's abortion law allows women pregnant with multiple fetuses to abort all but one if they so choose,...

Lunder still charged in VimpelCom case

Mobile phone company VimpelCom's admission on Wednesday that it violated corruption laws won't have any effect on Jo Lunder, claims the defense attorney for the former...

Oslo goes green, also at lunch

Norway's Greens Party (Miljøpartiet De Grønne, MDG), which won government power in Oslo last year and scored major gains nationwide, is continuing to make its...

Munch Museum’s fate back in doubt

New questions are flying around Oslo's major investment in a new museum to house the art of its most famous artist, Edvard Munch. Some...

Oslo promises more parking for locals

Residents of central areas within the Norwegian capital are being promised more preferential parking privileges, in an attempt to ease the impact that harsh new parking restrictions...

Car owners feel ‘bullied’ in Oslo

Oslo's new city government has been speeding up measures to make the Norwegian capital more climate-friendly, but some of its efforts are backfiring with residents. Sudden and harsh new...

Police may not enforce anti-diesel law

There may not be much teeth in a new local law approved by Oslo's new city government that will forbid owners of diesel-powered vehicles...

Solberg rejects Russian ‘rhetoric’

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has forcefully rejected what she called "Cold War rhetoric" from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev over the weekend. Just...

Jan Egeland coordinating Syrian aid

Veteran Norwegian diplomat Jan Egeland, a former UN special envoy who most recently has been heading the Norwegian Refugee Council, has been tapped to...
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