Tag: politics

Russia ‘surprises’ Norway up north

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende got what he called a "positive surprise" on Thursday when his Russian counterpart, Sergej Lavrov, told him that Russia was...

UN climate chief: ‘Let the oil lie’

Christiana Figueres, the UN climate chief who earlier has called for an end to coal mining on Svalbard, is reluctant to criticize Norway for...

More aid efforts to Syrians in Jordan

UNICEF and Norwegian Air are sending an aircraft filled with humanitarian aid and what they all a "school in a box," which they say provides...

Female wolf shot in east Oslo forest

A female wolf believed to be the mother of pups born earlier this year was shot and seriously wounded by a moose hunter in...

NATO boss back home in Norway

Jens Stoltenberg was briefly back home in Norway this week, right when he could celebrate his first year as NATO's secretary general. He's busier than...

Solberg warns of high refugee cost

UPDATED: Prime Minister Erna Solberg was warning the Norwegian Parliament on Tuesday that the influx of refugees arriving in Norway will be a drain...

Minister optimistic about climate talks

Tine Sundtoft, Norway's often-criticized minister for the environment, insists she'll be heading to the UN's climate talks in Paris with plenty of funding and measures...

Norway and Russia met for own talks

Two high-ranking politically appointed officials from Norway and Russia met for talks in Oslo on Monday, a bilateral meeting that caught attention in Norwegian...

UDI desperate to house refugees

Norway's immigration agency UDI continued to desperately seek temporary homes for refugees over the weekend as the asylum seekers continued to stream into the country....

Defense budget sees ‘real’ increase

A Norwegian military expert is calling the defense portion of the new state budget proposal "dramatic," because it shows the government is taking new tensions...
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