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Police have called in hundreds of people from immigrant backgrounds to submit voluntary DNA samples in the investigation of a brutal rape in Lillestrøm last year. aAmong…
Nine out of ten small municipalities without psychologist There is hardly any small municipalities in Norway with full-fledged psychologist deals. The Municipalities…
The US space agency NASA is examining whether potatoes from Peru are suitable for being grown on Mars. Out of 4,500 potato varieties, they have selected 100 to be tested…
There have been no more assisted returns to Afghanistan since February 18 due to corruption suspicions against the International Organization for Migration (IOM). UDI…
Working closely with the refugees leads to good results for their integration, according to the Minister of Immigration and Integration Sylvi Listhaug (FRP). Listhaug…
If you live south of Sogn and Fjordane, you can expect a nice ending to the winter holidays. But next week will be considerably grayer and wetter. – It’s not so terribly…
In June, the Oslo District Court will decide whether Mullah Krekar is to be extradited to Italy. He is accused of planning terrorist acts and for being part of an…
Exercise Cold Response 2016 is approaching full capacity. Next week some 15,000 soldiers from 14 countries will come to the area between Værnes and Namsskogan in…
Norwegian enters into the new airline alliance Airlines for Europe along with, among others, Ryanair. Other companies in the alliance include Air France-KLM, EasyJet,…
The Greek and Norwegian authorities have agreed to spend about NOK 31 million more of the EEA funds for Greece to handle the flood of refugees to the country. Totally…
More people than ever before are living with cancer that has metastatized, but still the chances of survival are low for patients where the disease has spread to other…
The incidents of the flu is moderate but increasing, but the Public Health Institute (Folkehelseinstituttet) also notices that influenza A is declining. While influenza…
Just under one in four of the convicted sex offenders in 2015 had an immigrant background, according to a survey made by the TV channel TV2 . 90 of the 399 people who…