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When the going gets tough in Norway, the tough often disappear on sick leave. That’s happened again, with trade union ...
Norway has become known internationally for producing football stars from Ole Gunnar Solkjær in the 1990s to, more recently, Erling Braut Haaland and Martin Ødegaard. Now the spectacular success of a ...
Climate activists on Svalbard were not happy when one of the world’s largest yachts, owned by one of the world’s richest men, was seen sailing around the Arctic archipelago this week. They carried ...
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre led Oslo’s annual May 1 parade on Thursday, right after he’d been heckled by ...
A proposed law that could have given the Norwegian government more power over Parliament in times of crisis has been rejected ...
They don’t want schools to fly pride flags, considered limiting the numbers of refugees allowed into Norway, urge tax cuts ...
Norwegian diplomats and politicians have been mounting what commentators call a “charm offensive” in the US for months, to ...
After years of decline, the largely state-funded Church of Norway is attracting record numbers of new members. Most are young ...
Norway’s Queen Sonja had another medical emergency this week, but now seems to be on the mend. The Royal Palace announced on Tuesday that she was released from the national hospital in Oslo ...
There’s a shortage of prison staff in Norway and a recent wave of violence isn’t likely to help recruitment efforts. Another attack on guards at the main prison in Oslo last week left two employees ...