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Another Norwegian hostage saved

UPDATED: Norwegian state oil company Statoil reported Saturday that two more of their eight Norwegian employees being held hostage at a gas plant in...

Statoil caught in own ‘nightmare’

Norwegian state oil company Statoil, like international companies all over the world, took a calculated risk when it decided to do business far from...

One Norwegian rescued, eight missing

After two full days of chaos and uncertainty, Norwegians woke up Friday to news that one more of their countrymen held hostage at a...

Ministry confirms counterattack

Norway's Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday afternoon that the Algerian military had launched a counterattack on radical Islamists who'd been holding hostages, nine of them...

Statoil had braced for lengthy crisis

Helge Lund, chief executive of Norwegian state oil company Statoil, was the one to go live on national TV in Norway Thursday morning, to...

Norwegians held hostage in Algeria

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg went on national television Wednesday evening to say, at that point, that 13 Norwegians were caught in a hostage...

Statoil gas plant hit by terrorists

Employees of Norwegian state oil company Statoil and two oil industry partners were the targets Wednesday of an attack on a gas production plant...
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