Tag: politics

PST downplays actual threats

Prosecutor Signe Aalling of Norway's police intelligence agency PST claimed at a press conference Thursday afternoon that neither Norwegian interests nor politicians have been the...

Krekar finally faces expulsion

UPDATED: Norwegian authorities who've been trying for years to expel Islamic cleric Mullah Krekar may finally be able to do so, after Italian authorities claimed...

Lunder fights to save reputation

Jo Lunder, the former Telenor executive now charged with corruption, spent his first day after being released from jail facing reporters on Wednesday. After refusing...

Hatred flowed through government’s Facebook page

The Norwegian government's attempt to spread the word via social media that it was clamping down on asylum seekers at its northern border to...

Tundra can turn into a catastrophe

With winter setting in, Norwegian government officials fear the Arctic areas around the Norwegian-Russian border could turn into an area more dangerous, and just...

Norway to halt refugee influx

The vast majority of refugees who've been streaming into Norway over its northern border to Russia don't qualify for asylum and will be sent back, either...

Lunder released from jail on appeal

Jo Lunder, the former Telenor executive charged in the corruption case around Telenor's partly owned mobile phone firm VimpelCom, was released from custody on...

Solberg struggles to stem refugee crisis

As another record number of asylum seekers streamed over Norway's border to Russia last week, Prime Minister Erna Solberg was visiting refugees not within...

Uproar over private school funding

Students feel cheated, the state auditor general is upset, the Parliament has called a disciplinary hearing and Norway's education minister, Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, is now fighting...

Telenor’s ex-CEO loses job, bonus

UPDATED: Norway's embattled telecoms firm Telenor was tipped off to possible corruption at its partly owned Russian mobile phone firm, VimpelCom, as far back...
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