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| Norway could shut China out of Arctic Council after diplomatic snubs |
| [Norway] [27.01.2012, 10:44am, Fri. GMT] |
| Norway could shut China out of the Arctic Council if Beijing does not stop a campaign of diplomatic snubs imposed after the Nobel peace prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a Norwegian newspaper has reported. If confirmed, Oslo's move would mark a bold confrontation with the world's fastest rising economic power and highlight the growing importance of the Arctic, which is opening up for navigation and mineral exploitation as it melts due to global warming. |
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| Norway kids row: 'Children were living in sub standard conditions' |
| [Norwaynews] [27.01.2012, 10:50am, Fri. GMT] |
| As the Indian couple in Norway inches close to the end of 7-month ordeal for the custody of its children, the Norwegian authorities said that they are always committed to finding a solution that will be in the best of the children. In a press release issued by the Child Welfare services, Norway, the authorities denied the case to be based on cultural insensitivity or prejudice. |
| | | | Norway Offers Gas to Ukraine |
| [Norwaynews] [27.01.2012, 10:46am, Fri. GMT] |
| Norway is considering supplying natural gas to Ukraine as an alternative to Russian natural gas supplies, a Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy expert said on Thursday. “If our potential partners from Ukraine turn to us for immediate aid, we’ll no doubt render it. Export prices of gas transported form Norway will be calculated on maximally privileged terms for Kiev,” Ingmar Sundstrom said in an interview with the Ukrainian news agency GolosUA. |
| | | | Norway says UN worker kidnapped in Yemen released |
| [Norway] [27.01.2012, 10:40am, Fri. GMT] |
| A Norwegian UN employee kidnapped in Yemen earlier this month by members of a tribe in the restive Marib province has been released following negotiations, the Norwegian government said Friday. "I am very pleased and relieved that the Norwegian who was kidnapped in Yemen has been released and that he is unharmed," Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a statement. |
| | | | Norwegian inks firm orders and MoU for 222 narrow bodies |
| [Norwaynews] [25.01.2012, 09:12am, Wed. GMT] |
| Low cost carrier Norwegian has unveiled plans to purchase 222 new aircraft: it has placed a firm order for 100 Boeing 737 Max and 22 737-800s and signed an MoU with Airbus for 100 A320neos. The deal is worth Norwegian kroner 127 billion ($22 billion), the carrier said in a statement. The deal includes purchase rights for an additional 100 737 Max and 50 A320neos. |
| | | | Norway may hand over Indian kids to grandparents |
| [Norwaynews] [25.01.2012, 07:18am, Wed. GMT] |
There seems to be an end to an Indian couple's fight for their children in Norway. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna took up the matter at the highest level and sources say a solution may be in sight. The two children may possibly be handed over to their grandparents in India, sources said.
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| | | | Indian diplomat in Norway asked to ensure release of children |
| [Norway] [24.01.2012, 02:14pm, Tue. GMT] |
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today instructed Indian Ambassador to Norway R K Tyagi to speak to Norwegian Foreign Ministry to ensure the release of two children, who were separated from an NRI couple by the Norwegian Childcare Services. The Minister is also likely to speak to his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store tomorrow demanding the release of the two children, official sources said. |
| | | | Norway companies ‘readying for Burma’: FM |
| [Norway] [24.01.2012, 02:11pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norway’s foreign minister will head to Burma soon to continue to push for reform in the country, and says the changing landscape there could turn looming Norwegian investment into a constructive force that can integrate Burma into the global economy. The government in Norway announced last week that it would drop sanctions on Burma, although it continues to align itself with remaining EU sanctions on the country. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told DVB in an interview that the country would now push for “normal relations” with Naypyidaw. |
| | | | Unemployed Europeans End Up on Streets in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [23.01.2012, 08:25am, Mon. GMT] |
| A growing number of unemployed Europeans come to Norway to find a job. But, they end up without jobs and have to live on streets. According to NTB, Tax Administration reported that there is a 33% increase in the number of Spanish citizens entering in Norway to work. The number of Greeks who are applying for tax card to work also increased by 82 percent from the year before. Italians have also increasingly flowed in Norway. But not everyone gets a chance to use their tax cards. Many are generally unemployed for several months. |
| | | | Unsuccessful search for missing oil workers |
| [Norway] [22.01.2012, 03:39pm, Sun. GMT] |
| Chevron has called off the search and rescue activities for two contractors who were missing after Monday's fire aboard the "K.S. Endeavor", a drilling rig offshore Nigeria operated by FODE Drilling Nigeria Limited, according to a press release from the company. The jack-up rig was operating in a water depth of approximately 40 feet, about six miles (10 km) offshore and the well had been drilled to 12,945 feet at the time of the incident. "Initial indications point to the possible failure of surface equipment during drilling operations that led to a loss of well control," the company said in a statement. |
| | | | Norwegian Spies without permit in Pakistan, Says a Pakistani minister |
| [Norwaynews] [20.01.2012, 01:44pm, Fri. GMT] |
A Pakistani minister said, Norwegian spies were working with out permission of government of Pakistan. Talking at upper house of parliament in Islamabad, Interier Minister Rehman Malik did not give the detail including number of the spies. Pakistan and Norway on Thursday scrambled to contain the fallout of disclosure about presence of Norwegian intelligence operatives in Pakistan. “We have excellent relations with Norway and an ongoing cooperation in counter-terrorism.
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| | | | Srilankan asylum seeker kills herself and her child in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [20.01.2012, 08:33am, Fri. GMT] |
| A 24-year-old Srilankan asylum seeker has set fire to herself and her 20-month-old baby child Tuesday at an asylum camp in western Norway. The Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende reported Thursday that the mother succumbed to her injuries the same day and the son on Wednesday after doctors fought to save their lives. The future was very bleak for the victim, who was living in Norway since 2006 undergoing a lot of suffering. One week before her death, her 18-year-old sister was found dead in Jaffna, Srilanka. |
| | | | Norwegians on fact finding mission to Srilanka |
| [Norwaynews] [18.01.2012, 10:24am, Wed. GMT] |
| The Norwegian government has decided to send a team of officials from its aid agency NORAD and the Fisheries and Maritime Institute Department to Sri Lanka at the end of April on a fact finding mission. The logistics of the reconstruction of fisheries harbours in the North and East with Norwegian funds were discussed by Norwegian Ambassador to Srilanka Hilde Haraldstad when she called on Srilankan Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne at his ministry last Wednesday (14). |
| | | | Non-EU Norway 'almost as integrated in union as UK' |
| [Norway] [17.01.2012, 04:42pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norway has seen "extensive Europeanisation" in the past 20 years despite being outside the EU, a government-commissioned report says. In an analysis of Oslo's membership of the European Economic Area (EEA) the report says it is "an illusion" to consider Norway as outside the EU. "We are almost as deeply integrated as the UK," says report committee chairman Prof Fredrik Sejersted. |
| | | | Fight over fighter jet location |
| [Norwaynews] [17.01.2012, 01:12pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norway will invest €7 billion on 56 new F35 fighter jets. With new planes, the head of the armed forces recommends to move the mainbase from Bodø above the Arctic Circle to a more southern location. That triggers intense political debate about Norway's High North security policy. In the future Norway might have no fighter jets stationed in the northern part of the country, if the recommendations from chief of Norwegian defence, General Harald Sunde, are heard. |
| | | | Norway may ban smoking during work |
| [Norwaynews] [17.01.2012, 12:55pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Employers in Norway are likely to ban smoking for employees during work hours, says Minister of Health Anne-Grethe Strom-Erichsen. Tighter restrictions on smoking were discussed during a hearing in Norway's Parliament Friday, the Norway Post reported. Strom-Erichsen said the sale of 10-packs of cigarettes is likely to be banned. The government is also considering legislation that would ban students from smoking during school hours and make all entrances of public buildings smoke-free, Strom-Erichsen said. |
| | | | Anders Behring Breivik psychiatric report reveals 'kindergarten' prison life |
| [Norway] [15.01.2012, 09:13pm, Sun. GMT] |
Psychiatric reports on Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right extremist who killed 77 people last July, reveal new details about his comfortable life in prison, his UK links, and his total lack of remorse. Dr Randi Rosenqvist linked Breivik's "deviant statements" to his total absorption in a cult-like anti-Islamic movement based largely in the UK. "I interpret his deviant statements as an expression of an extreme ideology, not as a psychotic view of reality," she writes.
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| | | | 'Anti-Islamic' band nominated for Norway's top music prize |
| [Norway] [14.01.2012, 10:04am, Sat. GMT] |
| A notoriously "anti-Islamic" band has been nominated for Norway's top metal prize. Taake are one of six nominees for a prestigious Spellemann award, despite a song that declares: "To hell with Muhammad and the Muhammadans!" "Norway will soon awaken!" read the lyrics to Orkan (Hurricane), on Taake's album Noregs Vaapen. The Spellemanns are Norway's equivalent of the Brits or the Grammys, and Noregs Vaapen is nominated for best metal album. Elsewhere on Orkan, singer Ørjan Stedjeberg refers to Muslims' "unforgivable customs" and calls for a new "kingdom" to "shine through [the] bad years, shame and Christian times". |
| | | | Norway Supports The Sovereignty Of Cyprus |
| [Norwaynews] [12.01.2012, 12:44am, Thu. GMT] |
| Norway continues to support the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus, and sincerely hopes that it will be possible to find a solution in the not too distant future that will end the separation of the communities in Cyprus, the new Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway, stationed in Athens, Sjur Larsen said on Wednesday, presenting his credentials to President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias. |
| | | | What Mugabe was thinking |
| [Norwaynews] [07.01.2012, 08:21pm, Sat. GMT] |
| President Robert Mugabe was looking for a graceful exit, on his own terms, that preserved his legacy, Norway’s deputy director general for Southern and Western Africa in the Foreign Office, Kare Stormark, said just over a month after the formation of the inclusive government. Mugabe was therefore not likely to stand as party president at the congress scheduled for December that year. |
| | | | Norwegian official: 'Absolutely no doubt' climate change is real |
| [Norwaynews] [07.01.2012, 09:27am, Sat. GMT] |
| Norway's minister of foreign affairs stood at a Petroleum Club lectern on Friday and delivered a few blunt words on climate change, about which, he said, "there can be absolutely no doubt." "If you want to see evidence, go to the Arctic," Jonas Gahr Støre said. His resource-rich country borders the polar region, where melting ice has expanded shipping lanes and cut sailing time on certain routes from Asia to Europe by 40 percent during parts of the year. Last year, Støre said, 34 ships used this "northeast passage," up from six in 2010. |
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| Norway-Russia Arctic technology bid |
| [Norwaynews] [27.01.2012, 10:48am, Fri. GMT] |
| Norway has launched a Nkr16 million ($2.7 million) bilateral project with Russia to develop new technology for exploitation of oil and gas resources in the environmentally sensitive Arctic region, including the Barents Sea. The initiative, named Russian-Norwegian oil and gas industry co-operation in the High North, is backed by industry players including Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, US supermajor ConocoPhillips and Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, as well as diverse private and public sector bodies from both countries. |
| | | | Indian anger as Norway removes children |
| [Norway] [27.01.2012, 10:42am, Fri. GMT] |
INDIA and Norway are embroiled in a diplomatic row after social workers took two Indian children into care because they shared their parents' bed and their mother fed them with her fingers. The parents were told the children will remain in foster care in Norway until they are 18 and that they will have only occasional contact with them. Norwegian officials resisted calls for the children to be reunited with their grandparents in India pending an inquiry and India's external affairs minister has called for the children to be repatriated.
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| | | | Norway offers support in rule of law, energy, economy to Montenegro |
| [Norwaynews] [25.01.2012, 11:03am, Wed. GMT] |
| The Government of the Kingdom of Norway will provide significant financial support to projects in the areas of rule of law, energy and economy in Montenegro in 2012, Ambassador Nils Ragnar Kamsvåg told Montenegro Justice Minister Duško Marković at their meeting yesterday afternoon in Podgorica. The Government of the Kingdom of Norway will provide significant financial support to projects in the areas of rule of law, energy and economy in Montenegro in 2012, Ambassador Nils Ragnar Kamsvåg told Justice Minister Duško Marković at their meeting yesterday afternoon in Podgorica. |
| | | | CHILD WELFARE MODELS – CASE FOR UPHOLDING INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND CULTURAL SENSITISATION |
| [Norwaynews] [25.01.2012, 08:16am, Wed. GMT] |
| White paper on an Indian expat family’s incident with Child Protection Agency in Norway - The Barnevarnet (Child Protection Agency) in Stavanger, Norway has placed two minor Indian nationals under its protective custody after the lower court ruled in favour of The Barnevarnet’s proposal. The main outlines of the decision were: |
| | | | India and Norway in diplomatic spat over children taken into care |
| [Norway] [25.01.2012, 07:08am, Wed. GMT] |
India and Norway are embroiled in a diplomatic row after Norwegian social workers took two young Indian children into care because they slept with their parents and their mother fed them with her fingers – both widespread and normal in India.
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| | | | Norway: Average municipal services bill: €1,448 a year |
| [Norway] [24.01.2012, 02:12pm, Tue. GMT] |
| NORWAY HAS three levels of government; national, regional and local level (municipal). The municipalities administer domestic services such as water, sewage treatment, bin collections, recycling services and chimney sweeping/inspection services. In 2011, the average household paid 11,103 Norwegian krone (€1,448) for yearly municipal services. |
| | | | Norway custody row: Grandparents likely to get custody as compromise |
| [Norway] [24.01.2012, 02:07pm, Tue. GMT] |
| An NRI couple in Oslo fighting to win back custody of their children - currently in foster care - could receive some good news soon. Sources say that after the Indian government's intervention, Norway is likely to grant the custody of the children to their maternal grandparents, who live in Kolkata. They will have to submit an undertaking in court, stating they will take full responsibility of the children, sources add. |
| | | | Norway appreciates concerns over children in foster home |
| [Norwaynews] [23.01.2012, 08:23am, Mon. GMT] |
| The Norwegian government has expressed understanding for India's concerns over the matter related to the separation of three-year old Abhigyan and one-year old Aishwarya from their natural parents by the Norwegian Childcare Services which placed them under foster care last year. A statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs here said Oslo is understood to be trying to find a solution to the issue. |
| | | | India pursuing ‘actively’ issue of Norway separating NRI couple's from children |
| [Norway] [22.01.2012, 03:37pm, Sun. GMT] |
| India is ‘actively’ pursuing with Norway the matter of the separation of two children from their natural parents, an NRI couple, by the Norwegian Childcare Services which placed them under foster care. Ministry of External Affairs said the matter has been pursued actively with Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the strong demarches that were made in Oslo and here on January 5, 2012. |
| | | | “Nothing extraordinary” in Norway spy revelation: Pakistan |
| [Norwaynews] [20.01.2012, 08:52am, Fri. GMT] |
| Pakistan and Norway on Thursday scrambled to contain the fallout of disclosure about presence of Norwegian intelligence operatives in Pakistan. “We have excellent relations with Norway and an ongoing cooperation in counter-terrorism. There is nothing extraordinary about the revelation,” Mr Abdul Basit, who heads the Europe desk at the Foreign Office, told Dawn.com shortly after meeting the Norwegian ambassador to Pakistan Ms Cecilie Landsverk. |
| | | | Norway security chief quits in Pakistan agents row |
| [Norwaynews] [19.01.2012, 08:46am, Thu. GMT] |
| Norway's internal security chief resigned late on Wednesday after revealing confidential information that the country had intelligence agents in Pakistan, government officials said. Janne Kristiansen, already under fire for missing signs that a far-right extremist was preparing attacks that killed 77 people in July, said the small Nordic nation had operatives in Pakistan during a parliamentary hearing earlier on Wednesday. |
| | | | Child refugees from Libyan crisis in Norway for UN resettlement process |
| [Norwaynews] [17.01.2012, 04:47pm, Tue. GMT] |
| A group of 33 unaccompanied children who spent months in a refugee camp in Tunisia after fleeing last year’s turmoil in Libya have arrived in Norway for a resettlement process spearheaded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The children, who left for Norway on Sunday, were among 90 youngsters who arrived in Tunisia from Libya unaccompanied, with some having lost their parents or were separated during their flight from the chaos that engulfed Libya during the military campaign to oust the regime of Muammar al-Qadhafi. |
| | | | Norway police chief believes Islamists still main threat, not far right |
| [Norwaynews] [17.01.2012, 02:09pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Radical Islam remains the most serious threat faced by Norway despite the attacks by an islamophobe extremist who killed 77 people last summer, the chief of the security police said on Tuesday. Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway’s Police Security Service, said her agency would focus on broad-based dangers from homegrown Islamic extremism even though threats against public officials have risen since the July attacks, which targeted Norway’s left wing. |
| | | | Norway authorities take away Indian couple's kids, say feeding with hands wrong |
| [Norwaynews] [17.01.2012, 12:59pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya - an Indian couple from Kolkata are living a nightmare in Norway. Their children - a three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter - were taken away from them by Norway's child protective services and placed in foster care eight months ago. The drastic measure was taken because, according to the child protective services, the couple were not bringing the children up properly. What did they do wrong? They fed the children with their hands and the infants slept in the same bed as the parents. |
| | | | Norway's TV 2 sold to Egmont |
| [Norwaynews] [15.01.2012, 09:16pm, Sun. GMT] |
| Danish media group Egmont has become the sole owner of Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV 2, Egmont and Norwegian media group A-pressen said, Norway Post reported. Egmont bought A-pressen's 50% stake in TV 2 for 2.1 billion Norwegian crowns ($348 million) in cash, the groups said in a joint statement. Egmont said that through acquiring TV 2, it makes a strategic leap towards more TV in its business. ”As TV is a key element in our strategy, it was an obvious choice for us to purchase. |
| | | | Norwegian UN worker kidnapped in Yemen |
| [Norwaynews] [15.01.2012, 01:45pm, Sun. GMT] |
| A Norwegian man who was working for the United Nations was kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday, officials said. Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesman Frode Overland Andersen said the ministry was informed the 34-year-old Norwegian man was abducted early Sunday, but wouldn't give any more details. |
| | | | Norway supports training program for women in India |
| [Norwaynews] [13.01.2012, 01:46am, Fri. GMT] |
Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Liv Signe Navarsete is in India from 10 to 13 January to follow up the partnership agreement between Norway and India on local administration and democracy. Strengthening the role of women in local politics is an important goal for the program. "More than one million women are represented in local politics in India, the world's largest democracy. Many of them can neither read nor write. Yet they play an important force for change and in local decision-making. It is important to help them receive good training when they start in politics," says Navarsete.
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| | | | Norway police cut traffic fine for 'lower-income' Swede |
| [Norwaynews] [08.01.2012, 06:32pm, Sun. GMT] |
| Police in Norway cut in half a traffic fine for a Swedish trucker on the grounds that Swedes earn less than Norwegians, Oslo newspaper VG reports. Ulf Ander Andersson, 61, was driving a lorry for his Norwegian employer in March when he was stopped by police, who found his brakes were not in order. He was fined £857 ($1,323) but last month got a letter saying the sum had been reduced due to his nationality. |
| | | | Norwegian Muslims invited to visit churches |
| [Norwaynews] [07.01.2012, 11:21am, Sat. GMT] |
| Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Centre Party) says Norwegian Muslims should visit churches during the Christmas holiday, in order to understand Norway and Norwegians better. He says Norwegian Christian traditions are part of the Norwegian history and culture that immigrants, including Muslims, would be better off knowing. Vedum also emphasized that ethnic Norwegians should visit the mosques and ceremonies of other religions. |
| | | | Norway agency won’t return kids |
| [Norwaynews] [07.01.2012, 09:25am, Sat. GMT] |
| The Norwegian childcare agency that forcefully took away an Indian couple's two children refused to return them despite the intervention of an Indian diplomat. On Friday, Anurup Bhattacharya, who works as a geoscientist, went to the office of the childcare agency along with his lawyer to discuss the fate of the children, Avigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1). "The agency officials asked me to submit my passport along with those of my children, as my visa will expire in March. They told me that it was my responsibility to get the visa of my children extended. |
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