Nato’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg travelled to Oslo on 30 May for a two-day informal meeting of Nato foreign ministers.…
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Liverpool in the grip of Eurovision-mania
With just hours to go before this year’s Eurovision finale kicks off in Liverpool, the English city is in party…
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Norway’s fact checkers
We are living in an age of disinformation, where both inaccurate and deliberately misleading news spreads like wildfire. Luckily some…
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Why the BBC axed then brought back its top sports presenter
Should a hugely popular public broadcaster sports presenter be allowed to criticise the government on his personal Twitter account? The…
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Norwegian Sami Sandra Andersen Eira – From Arctic fisher to Ukraine combat medic
Aged 24 she became a commercial fisher in the high Arctic North of Norway. Ten years later she skippered her…
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Norway’s solution to car-choked cities
Cities around the world are trying to come up with solutions to reduce the number of cars clogging up the…
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Norway’s oil fund ponders future
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund hit a new record in February when its value reached a staggering 1.3 trillion euro. Also…
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Zelensky in parliament and a broadside from the Princess
I sum up a couple of the stories that have dominated the news in Norway in the past week, in…
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Norway proposes $7.3bn aid package to Ukraine
The Norwegian government has proposed a 5-year aid package worth $7.3 billion which is aimed at providing both military and…
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