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In the Nobel Institute’s list of nominees for this year’s peace prize, there is probably a fake nomination for USA’s President Donald Trump. The police are investigating…
The research company, ‘PT Scientist’, together with ‘Vodafone’ and ‘Nokia’, are to create a mobile data network on the moon. Elon Musk’s ‘Space X’ will send parts from…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron welcomes the invitation of Prime Minister Erna Solberg. He says he would like to visit Norway. Solberg repeated her standing…
The Norwegian Environment Agency reports that the last known group of wild reindeer of Zone 1 in Nordfjella has been felled. Now the area is to be searched to make sure…
Turkey’s Embassy warned that asylum seekers from Turkey may be terrorists posing a threat to Norway. Last autumn, the government opened the doors for all Turks who are…
The war in Syria, the fate of the Rohingyas, South Sudan and Israeli settlements will be the central theme of the UN Human Rights Council this year. Norway promises more…
Coming 2019; € 500M are slated for disbursement within EU member states towards an overall EU defense equipment upgrade. As thus drafted, the EU defense funding scheme’s…
HRH The Crown Princess of Norway Mette-Marit was greeted with an enthusiastic welcome at Monday’s Sex and Society event in Oslo. The society operates Norway’s largest…
Sales and suppliers in central Norway are completely out of wood in the midst of a cold wave in progress. Hordaland is also about to run out. At present, a powerful…
A man is dead after a violent altercation in Ålesund’s city center Monday afternoon. The police have arrested a 29-year-old male who is charged with the intentional…
A German court has ruled that cities in Germany can introduce a ban on diesel cars in city centers. The ruling was made in a court in Leipzig on Tuesday and initially…
The war in Afghanistan has driven nearly 20,000 people away from their homes so far this year. On average, 385 Afghans try to escape the country every day, most of them…
40% believe Erna Solberg of Høyre (H) is best suited to be prime minister, while only 14% believe that Arbeiderpartiet (Ap) leader, Jonas Gahr Støre is best suited,…
Both Ullevål Hospital in Oslo, and Drammen Hospital, reported very low blood supplies, and called for more donors. The blood bank needs new blood donors at all times,…
It is not the tourists, but frost from Sibiria that visited Rome’s famous tourist attractions on Monday. Snow for the first time since 2012, has led to chaos in the…
Swedish cross-country expert apologizes to Bjørgen Commentator Tomas Pettersson in the Swedish newspaper Expressen apologizes to Marit Bjørgen after stating that her…