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Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to a center-right coalition alternative including the anti-immigration Progress…
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As Norway goes to the polls in the first parliamentary elections since Anders Breivik’s 2011 terror attacks where he killed…
Read MoreUK Syria stance sounds echoes of Iraq invasion
For Deutsche Welle As the British government holds close talks with Washington on military intervention in Syria, critics in the…
Read MoreArctic Norwegian town welcomes Russian “invasion”
For decades they lived just minutes from a cold war frontline. But the people of Kirkenes in the Arctic north…
Read MoreNorwegian extremist arrest recalls Breivik case
Police in France are questioning Norwegian neo-Nazi Kristian “Varg” Vikernes over a suspected terror plot, but have yet to prove…
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