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Norway said Tuesday it was repatriating from Syria two sisters who went there as teenagers as well as their three children, citing abysmal conditions in the displacement camp where they were housed. “The living conditions in the camps…
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Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg was twice detained during a demonstration in favor of Indigenous rights in Oslo on Wednesday, with police removing her and other activists from the finance ministry and later the environment ministry.…
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Norwegian police on Thursday banned a planned anti-Islam protest including the burning of a copy of the Qur'an this week for security reasons, hours after the Turkish foreign ministry summoned Norway’s ambassador to complain. A group of…
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The Arab League on Saturday welcomed Norway’s decision to label products from Israeli settlements with their place of origin. Saeed Abu Ali, the Arab League’s assistant secretary-general for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories,…
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This evening, Saturday, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs commented on the Norwegian government’s decision to label and distinguish products manufactured in settlements. And yesterday, Friday, the government in Oslo announced that…
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A suspect was arrested in Norway after at least three people were stabbed with a sharp object, leaving one critically injured Friday, police said. Police at first said the attack in the village of Nore as random, but later clarified that…
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Euro zone unemployment fell to a record low in February as the economy continued to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, even as energy prices rose sharply in the build-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The EU’s statistics office,…
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A probable case of the omicron variant has been identified in a crew member of a Norwegian Cruise ship that reached New Orleans on Sunday after detecting COVID-19 among some crew and guests, the Louisiana Department of Health said. The…
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Power-starved Iraq on Thursday signed a deal with a Norwegian-led consortium to build two solar power plants, officials said, a day after inking a similar agreement with the UAE. War-scarred Iraq is the second-largest producer in the…
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Norway’s center-left election winners meet on Thursday for three-way talks to determine whether they can form a majority coalition government, with oil, taxes and EU relations among the sticking points. Labour, the Socialists and the…
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