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Several thousand Norwegians, who are celebrating their vacation in Greece, cannot fly back home after Greek air traffic controllers announced a strike at the airports.…
A new poll shows that 42 percent of the population wants to continue working after the age of 66 years, assuming they have a choice and their health is good enough. A…
A man is in Fredrikstad District Court was remanded for eight weeks charged with incest and rape of his daughter in her 20’s. The daughter claims she was punished with…
The escalation of the train drivers strike affects both the east and west, and both regional and commuter trains. The worst part yesterday was beyond Østfold trains, but…
Prime Minister Erna Solberg congratulated the Colombian president on the Peace Prize and commended his courage and great perseverance. – On behalf of the government I…
Save the Children say they hope the Nobel Peace Prize to the Colombian president will help ensure that future generations in Colombia can grow up in safety and peace.…
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health advises pregnant women to not travel to Thailand and the Philippines after the the increased number of reported cases of the…
Oslo police have identified one of the two men suspected of abducting a man on Ljan in Oslo on September 29th. The abducted man is still not found. According to NRK, the…
The Directorate of Immigration(UDI) and the Police Security Service(PST) believe the Norwegian-Russian neo-Nazis Yan Petrovskiy (29) is a danger to national security and…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2016. Nobel Committee grounds. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel…
The well-known Islamist Mohyeldeen Mohammad (30) from Larvik said in an interview with the newspaper Morgenbladet that he hates Norway and wishes to leave the country…
A man in his 40s, who was found in the sea in Lødingen municipality, was pronounced dead Friday afternoon. The man was pronounced dead by a doctor at the quay where he…
DSB increases forest fire preparedness in Eastern Norway after several forest fire incidents in Southern Norway in recent days, and warns against the use of open flames…
The government is proposing allocating 20 million NOK to create electronic health cards for pregnant women. Efforts to develop a national system for electronic health…
The Peace Prize to President Juan Manuel Santos is a recognition of the president and the Colombian people’s will for peace and an encouragement to continue the peace…
Despite the oil crisis, the value of the oil fund has increased to 1.4 million kroner per Norwegian. The newspaper VG has measured the development of the oil fund since…
A new round of peace negotiations between the Philippine government and communist movement, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), begins in Oslo on…
Officers from several NATO countries were gathered Tuesday at Værnes to plan the exercise Trident junctures in Central Norway in 2018. It is probably the largest…