If you love beer, you could do worse than tour the UK to sample brews from the country’s 2000-odd breweries.…
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Norway’s deep sea mining plans sparks outrage
The Norwegian government last week announced it wants to open up Norway’s continental shelf for deep sea mining. Minerals found…
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25 June 2023 Sunday roundup from Oslo
I joined Tyler Brulé on Monocle on Sunday with the latest on how Norway has reacted on the Wagner rebellion…
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Nordic news roundup: Swedish Nato membership and Greenlandic independence
Big geopolitical changes are afoot in the Nordics, with Nato membership for Sweden finally within grasp while Greenland takes a…
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A Norwegian parliamentary truth and reconciliation commission has published a report on historical injustices against the country’s indigenous groups, including…
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Stoltenberg to Oslo amid Nato fighter jet drill
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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