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Norway urged to aid boat refugees

Norway, known as a leading maritime nation, is facing rising calls to offer more help in tackling the thousands of boat refugees who try to cross...

Political support for more Syrians

The Norwegian Labour Party signaled on Thursday that there's now a majority in Parliament for Norway to accept as many as 10,000 more refugees from Syria who can...

Norwegian ships often save refugees

The Norwegian Shipowners Association has been sounding the alarm in recent weeks, worried that some of its members are facing far too much responsibility...

Most refugees are now from Syria

After years of receiving most of its refugees from Eritrea and Somalia, Norway is now seeing the biggest increase among those fleeing the civil...

Syrian refugees rose by 177 percent

UPDATED: The number of people seeking asylum in Norway rose sharply in the first half of 2014, hitting a five-year high. Immigration agency UDI's...

Norway halts flow of Syrian refugees

Refugees from the Syrian civil war have finally started arriving in Norway, but now Norwegian authorities are hesitating to take in more. Many of...

Hopes conference can help South Sudan

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) made a plea for donors to come forward and dig deep, ahead of a United Nations pledging conference for...

Broad support for more Syrian aid

Norway's Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) wants to allocate an extra NOK 1 billion (USD 168 million) in aid to the crisis in Syria, because...

Asylum liars to be deported

The Norwegian government has tightened its refugee rules, meaning people who lie about having already sought asylum in other countries will be expelled. They...

State needs more asylum centers

A resurgence of asylum seekers arriving in Norway this year has created a need for as many as 40 new asylum centers around the...
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