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First Syrians win asylum in Norway

Around 300 Syrian refugees have been granted asylum in Norway, the first of the thousand refugees from the Syrian civil war that Norway initially...

Terror threat still rising

Norway's military intelligence service (Etterretningstjenesten, or E-tjenesten) has repeated earlier predictions that the threat of a terrorist attack continues to rise, also with the return...

‘Freezing’ child campaign goes viral

A campaign to see how many people would stop to help a young boy freezing in the Oslo winter has gone viral on the...

Norwegian charged over Syrian terror

A 22-year-old man from eastern Norway was arrested over crimes allegedly committed in Syria including terrorism and murder, after he returned to Oslo last...

Norway sets terms for Syrian refugees

Norwegian authorities are willing to take in refugee families with children when they start granting asylum to another 1,000 displaced Syrians later this year,...

Norway offers more aid to Syria

The Norwegian government has decided to donate another NOK 460 million in humanitarian aid to Syria, an amount that Foreign Minister Børge Brende says...

Disarmament wins Nobel applause

Ahmet Üzümcü of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons formally accepted the Nobel Peace Prize "with great humility" in Oslo on Tuesday, on...

Nobel Peace Prize winner ‘optimistic’

The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, landed in...

Norway won’t destroy Syria’s weapons

The Norwegian government has decided that Norway lacks the technical facilities needed to take in and destroy chemical weapons from Syria, but has promised...

Labour ‘surprised’ by Frp’s UN rebuff to Syria’s weapons

Labour Party politicians have said they're surprised that some top Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) counterparts hope their own government will turn down a request from...
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