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A car is reported to have driven up and to have fired fireworks against the Birkeli reception center in Vest-Agder county on Friday night. Around midnight the police was…
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A car is reported to have driven up and to have fired fireworks against the Birkeli reception center in Vest-Agder county on Friday night. Around midnight the police was…

Nordic countries need to agree on when and how the border controls between countries should cease, says Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Refugee crisis has led to Sweden,…

Two of the top executives of Snapchat have been having secret meetings with several Norwegian media houses in order to discuss Norwegian news content on the mobile app.…

The gymnasium will be turned into a courtroom, the library into a room for use in the intervals of the trial and the chapel into a room for the jury when Skien prison…

The number of reported hate crimes in Oslo were doubled in 2015 compared with the previous year, and the majority of the cases have to do with ethnicity and religion,…

Norwegian banks have ended up in conflict with several clients who claim they have been drugged and defrauded of several hundred thousand kroner while abroad. Banks will…

Singapore is still the world’s most expensive city to live in, but Zurich and Hong Kong are close behind. Oslo remains stable at 13th place. This is revealed in the…

Norwegians spent NOK 14.1 billion on trips abroad in 2015, according to figures from Statistics Norway. Norwegians 7.5 million trips abroad in total in 2015, 8 percent…

On Friday there was a minute’s silence all over Japan to mark that it has now been five years since the earthquake that triggered a tsunami in which 18,500 people were…

Prime Minister Erna Solberg received a new Norwegian prize, The Please Prize. The initiator believes she can play a crucial part in freeing Africa’s last colony, Western…

Crown Prince Haakon has completed the Armed Forces parachute course and this week he was approved as a military parachutist. The course was held by the Armed Forces…

-The number of asylum seekers who have given up on Norway and would rather go home, have increased since last fall. Many people choose to leave even before they have…