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The views from a hilltop called Prekestolåsen on the Hurum peninsula south of Oslo are stunning, as they are from several other peaks in the area. Farmland surrounds the forested area known as Hurummarka, but more than four square kilometers of it is now targeted as the site of a new explosives plant that pits […]

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Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide was quick to challenge a new 12.5 percent tariff imposed Friday by US President Donald Trump on a majority of what the US imports from Norway. Eide claimed that Trump’s reasoning behind the tariff is simply wrong, and that “we strongly disagree” with Trump’s decision. The new tariff took […]

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COMMENTARY: Many in Oslo remember exactly where they were when the bomb went off on Friday afternoon, July 22, 2011. I had just taken a dear old friend visiting from California and her daughter on a tour of downtown, and we were walking from Parliament to the Akershus Fortress when the sudden deafening blast shook […]

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Norwegian government officials, Norway’s king and queen and not least survivors of a right-wing extremist’s deadly attacks on July 22, 2011 gathered once again on Wednesday. They don’t want anyone to forget the terror that hit Norway 15 years ago, especially following a documented increase in hatred and extremists’ threats. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre...

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At a time when rowing has become part of Norway’s national identity, one of the Norwegian champions of the sport suddenly collapsed and died this week. Olaf Tufte, who’d even led a recent public session of simulated rowing in Oslo to cheer on the national football team, was rushed to hospital but died on Tuesday […]

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