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NEWS ANALYSIS: As security threats rise around the world, Norway continues to cement even closer ties with other NATO allies in Europe. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was back in Paris this week to sign another new mutual defense agreement with France, even though it set off some concerns over nuclear weapons issues from his […]

UPDATED: Members of one of Norway’s largest trade union federations, Fellesforbundet, could head back to work on Thursday after their hotel- and restaurant employers settled a lengthy strike. The strike continued  for around 350 members of another labour organization, Parat, but then it also was called off later on Thursday afternoon. The strike had entered […]

PHOTO FEATURE: There’s nothing quite like all the pomp and circumstance that surround Norway’s royal guards. They symbolically protect the monarch, standing on duty around the Royal Palace in Oslo, marching through the city on occasion and often winning awards at military tattoos around the world. Lately they’ve been on tour in the homeland, surrounded […]

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters formally awarded this year’s Abel Prize in mathematics on Tuesday to Gerd Faltings of the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany. Faltings won the prize “for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry” and solving historical mathematical riddles. The Abel Prize, often likened to a Nobel Prize in mathematics, [&...

Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon is a busy man, taking on many more royal duties when both his elderly parents and his wife are ill. He finally took time on Tuesday, though, to answer a few more of the many questions tied to Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s earlier relationship with the late financier and convicted sex offender […]