Real estate mogul emerges as Norway´s wealthiest
Publisert: 13:53 12-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
An 84-year-old real estate developer is now being viewed as Norway´s richest citizen, after recent stock market turbulence cut into share values for other business tycoons. |
 
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Norwegian seafarers not welcome on US land
Publisert: 11:41 12-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Thanks to ever-strengthening anti-terror laws, Norwegian seafarers are finding themselves stranded on their ships while they are in US ports. |
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Norway alone on rocket shield opposition
Publisert: 11:36 12-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s opposition to the US´ plans to set up a rocket shield in Europe seemed to fall on deaf ears at last week´s NATO meeting. |
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Norway wins support for Afghanistan strategy
Publisert: 11:36 12-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s government, which has been urging a more civilian-oriented and less combative NATO presence in Afghanistan, thinks NATO´s new strategy for the country is now much more in line with Norwegian politics. |
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Embassy hit by bomb threat
Publisert: 10:13 12-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s embassy in Kabul remained indefinitely closed and evacuated on Tuesday, after intelligence agents reportedly received "unusually concrete" information that terrorists planned to bomb it. |
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´Pocket Man´ suspect held
Publisert: 09:12 12-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A man charged with sexually assaulting young boys by luring them to put their hands in his trouser pockets was ordered held in remand custody for at least another four weeks on Monday. |
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StatoilHydro upsets environmentalists, again
Publisert: 15:37 11-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian state oil company StatoilHydro is majority owned and controlled by a country intent on maintaining a strong environmental profile. Now StatoilHydro risks marring that image by engaging itself in a growing list of controversial projects. |
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Biathlon ´hero´ takes a break
Publisert: 14:26 11-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Ole Einar Bjørndalen, who won yet another gold medal at the World Championships over the weekend, retreated from a press barrage on Monday and planned to pass on Tuesday´s mixed relay. |
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More money to Kenya
Publisert: 13:49 11-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The Norwegian government is contributing up to USD 1 million to support negotiations for a settlement to the political crisis in Kenya. |
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No release for ´Pocket Man´
Publisert: 12:59 11-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A man charged with sexually assaulting young boys by luring them to put their hands in his trouser pockets was ordered held in remand custody for at least another four weeks on Monday. |
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Ex-Lyn director pleads ´not guilty´ in Obi Mikel case
Publisert: 12:36 11-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Morgan Andersen, the former director of Oslo soccer club Lyn who oversaw the controversial sale of young player John Obi Mikel to Manchester United, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of falsifying documents in the case. |
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Nobel laureate shot
Publisert: 11:01 11-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian officials called an assassination attempt against East Timor´s President Jose Ramos-Horta on Monday "tragic," saying the Nobel laureate continues to play a critical role in the future of the newly independent country. |
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Embassy in Kabul evacuated
Publisert: 10:21 11-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The Norwegian Embassy in Afghanistan, which closed over the weekend because of a terrorist threat, has now been evacuated but foreign ministry officials are mostly staying mum. |
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StatoilHydro’s Alaska plans irk environmentalists
Publisert: 20:51 08-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian energy group StatoilHydro has drawn widespread environmental protests in response to its plans to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea. |
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Samis don’t want to be ‘Lapps’
Publisert: 20:15 08-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The Norwegian indigenous people officially known as Sami
are upset about the use of what they call the "derogatory" terms Lapp
and Lappland
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More foreigners become Norwegian
Publisert: 19:10 08-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Some 14,400 people were given Norwegian citizenship in 2007, a huge leap from the year before, when just 11,000 became citizens. |
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Spying in Norway reaches ‘all-time high’
Publisert: 19:07 08-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Russian agents in Norway have reached levels as high as during the Cold War, warns the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST). |
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Oslo stocks keep dropping
Publisert: 19:00 08-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The Oslo Stock Exchange started out on a hopeful note, but followed a downward trend later in the day, only to make somewhat of a comeback in the late afternoon after US markets opened. |
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Best ski conditions for Norway in 20 years
Publisert: 16:43 08-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
January was a fantastic month for downhill skiers, reports Skiinfo.no. |
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Roller-coaster ride skids to lower level
Publisert: 17:37 07-02-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
After the fall in US markets, the Oslo Stock Exchange followed suit, but a last-minute surge saved it from a colossal setback. |
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