Tag: politics

Progress Party leaders under fire

Criticism from within their own ranks continued to assail leaders of the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) during the weekend, with some party veterans calling...

Bombing makes Norway a terror goal

Norway's participation in the bombing of Libyan targets likely will make the country a terrorist target itself if dictator Moammar Gadhafi continues as Libya's...

Norway’s F16s bomb Libyan targets

UPDATED: Norwegian fighter jets bombed new targets in Libya during the weekend, as they took part in additional rounds of armed assaults that started...

Immigrants’ language lessons doubled

The required hours of Norwegian language and social studies lessons for immigrants will be doubled from 300 to 600 hours in 2012, the Norwegian...

Progress Party sinks into crisis

Leaders of Norway's most conservative party, the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp), were trying to fend off crisis on Friday following the alleged sexual misconduct...

More fighter jets join Libyan action

UPDATED: The first Norwegian fighter jets to be sent into combat in the UN-backed military operation against Libya took off from their base on...

Calls rise for journalists’ release

Scores of Norwegian journalists and foreign correspondents working in Norway gathered outside the Norwegian International Press Center in downtown Oslo on Thursday to protest...

Sex scandal threatens Progress Party

Leaders of one of Norway's biggest political parties,  the conservative Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp), were huddling in crisis meetings as a sex scandal involving...

Fighter jets put under US command

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told the Parliament on Wednesday that Norway's fighter jet fleet assigned to the UN military operation in Libya became...

Ministers disagree on NATO’s role

Two of Norway's leading government ministers don't agree on whether NATO should lead the international coalition that's attacking Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime on...
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