300,000 have not paid the road tax
Pay road tax or lose number plates Car owners owe the state more than NOK 700 million. Now the tax administration sends out payment notice…
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Facebook hires more to weed out videos depicting murder
Facebook to remove videos depicting murder Facebook will employ 3,000 people who are to be tasked to remove videos depicting murder and suicide. The…
Cabin up for sale without owners knowledge
Cabin for sale – family flabbergasted A family were extremely surprised at discovering that their cabin was up for sale without their knowledge. A woman…
Labour wants service numbers to prevent violence
Service numbers instead of name tags Labour (Ap) fear that prisoners can take revenge on employees in Norwegian prisons, they have therefore suggested that the prison…
Weapons sale to Brazil was not reported
Sloppy work in major weapons sale A significant weapons sale from Norway to Brazil in 2015 was not included in information that was relayed to…
Dark Room – Policeman appeals getting fired
Dark Room –Policeman in Bergen sacked A policeman in Bergen loses his job after he was indicted in the so-called ‘Dark Room’ case and fined….
The EU Commission asks Norway to phase out border control
Border control The EU Commission believes Norway must phase out the temporary border control on ferry carriers over the next six months. Norway is…
Fewer than 10,000 asylum seekers in Norwegian reception
Decline in queue of asylum seekers For the first time since June 2008, there are now fewer than 10,000 asylum seekers in reception centres in…
Man stopped with Mannequin as passenger
Mannequin as passenger A man was stopped by the police on E18 in Bærum on Thursday morning because he drove in the priority lane with…
Trump and Putin discussed cooperation on terror in Syria
Telephone meeting The war in Syria was one of the themes that Presidents Donald John Trump and Vladimir Putin talked about in a telephone meeting…
Reiss-Andersen new Chairwoman of the Nobel Peace Prize
Labour Politician Leader of Nobel Peace Prize Berit Reiss-Andersen was on Tuesday elected as the Chairwoman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee after Kaci Kullmann Five…
Continued majority support for change of Government
6 month support for a change of Government The opposition would get 91 mandates and a clear majority in Parliament if it had been elections…
The Oil fund worth more than NOK 8,000 billion
Oil fund has never been bigger Both the fiscal politicians in the Parliament, Minister of Finance Siv Jensen (Progress Party) and the Norwegian people can…
Solberg opened a new knowledge centre in Hardanger
Solberg opened the Folgefonna Centre Cooperation and water were among the topics Prime Minister Erna Solberg (Conservatives) emphasized in the speech when she opened the…
Courts shall determine citizenship
The parliament’s municipal committee issued Thursday a proposal that the courts should decide on the recall of citizenship, reports TV 2. Thus, it is no…
End of ID Control between Denmark and Sweden
Temporary border control will be tightened Sweden abolishes ID controls on buses, trains and ferries between Denmark and Sweden. Instead, the scheme of temporary border…
Almost half want a referendum on the EEA
One in five is against a referendum On the 25th anniversary of the signing of the EEA Agreement, a new poll shows that 47 per…
Care for minor asylum seekers must become law according to UDI
Wants to legislate the care for minor asylum seekers The Directorate of Immigration (UDI), wants to legislate the care that unaccompanied minor asylum seekers are…
South Korean police investigate ‘Norwegian’ oil platform accident
South Korean police investigate crane collision Six workers died and 25 were injured when two cranes collided during the construction of an oil platform…
US Department of Foreign Affairs warns against European travel
Terrorist threats The United States Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has issued a warning to Americans who either live in, or travel to Europe,…
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