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| Nigeria: Govt Imports N109 Billion Fish From Norway Annually |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 01:38pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Nigeria imports fish worth about N109.2 billion ($700 million) annually from Norway, the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Kjell Lillerud has said. He said this yesterday in Abuja when he visited the Minister of state for Trade and Investment, Dr Samuel Ortom.Lillerud said that though he does not have the tonnage of fish that gets to Nigeria, there are three categories with stock fish taking the lead. |
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| Azubalis meets with Norway's deputy president |
| [Norwaynews] [26.10.2011, 08:22pm, Wed. GMT] |
| Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis had a meeting with Second Deputy President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), Member of the Delegation to the Nordic Council, Per-Kristian Foss, reported BC the Foreign Ministry. |
| | | | Norway - Foreign Minister Støre welcomes ETA declaration |
| [Norwaynews] [24.10.2011, 08:31am, Mon. GMT] |
“Norway welcomes ETA’s declaration that it will definitively end its armed activity. This is a historic opportunity to close a European chapter of violence and terror, which has destroyed so many lives. Politics and dialogue must now take over in order to achieve lasting peace for the Basque region and Spain,” commented Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
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| | | | US movie about Norway attacks upsets next-of-kin |
| [Norwaynews] [09.10.2011, 03:58pm, Sun. GMT] |
| A US movie in the making of the July 22 shootings that claimed 69 lives in Norway has prompted Oslo police to urge the movie producers to pull a trailer from the internet, a news report said Sunday. |
| | | | The Speech from the Throne by His Majesty The King |
| [Norway] [04.10.2011, 01:41pm, Tue. GMT] |
The terrorist attacks on 22 July targeted Utøya and the government offices in Oslo, but it was the whole nation that was attacked. The Norwegian people responded by rallying to the cause of democracy. Out of our shock and grief emerged a collective determination to maintain solidarity, openness and public participation.
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| | | | Jagdish Gandhi honoured by Mayor in Oslo |
| [Norwaynews] [24.09.2011, 10:31am, Sat. GMT] |
| Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Renowned Indian Educationist and Founder-Manager of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India was honoured by the Mayor Torstein Winger in Oslo for his untiring effort, working for people’s amelioration, to find peaceful solution for people’s welfare and for his significant contribution to world peace at a function organized by the Indian Community in Oslo at 6.00 pm on 23 September 2011. |
| | | | Norwegian parliament reacts to Kashmir mass graves discovery |
| [Norway] [17.09.2011, 12:15pm, Sat. GMT] |
| Norwegian parliament has raised the issue of existence of unidentified mass graves in Kashmir and vowed that Norway will continue to monitor developments as the challenges of the human rights situation in Kashmir develops. In this regard Norwegian Foreign Minister Mr. Jonas Ghar Støre has called upon the state chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, to create a special commission for truth and reconciliation. |
| | | | Norway's anti-immigration party suffers election setback |
| [Norwaynews] [13.09.2011, 03:24pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norway's populist anti-immigration party was the big loser in Norway's local elections that were in the end influenced very little by the July 22 twin attacks, observers said on Tuesday. The Progress Party, of which killer Anders Behring Breivik was a member until 2006, saw its support fall by six percentage points from its score in the previous 2007 elections to 11.4 percent, near-definitive results published by the government showed. |
| | | | The politics of the school uniform in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [06.09.2011, 09:22am, Tue. GMT] |
Deputy Mayor of Oslo Aud Kvalbein thinks simple school uniforms would be most relevant to primary school aged children, drawing inspiration from her grandchildren living in Britain. “It can help you identify with and have pride in your school. Even girls that are quite young experience pressure to be fashionable. This type of measure would eliminate it,” she told Aftenposten, advocating the capital would be a good place for the experiment.
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| | | | English Defence League Cold Carry Out BREIVIK - Style Massacres |
| [Norwaynews] [14.08.2011, 08:08am, Sun. GMT] |
The English Defence League will carry out a Norway-style massacre in Britain unless the Government cracks down on the racist organisation, according to an expert. The far-right group should be monitored in the way terrorists are to prevent a mass killing on the scale of the atrocity carried out by Anders Breivik last month. |
| | | | Norway debate was “unpleasant” - Dutch Prime Minister |
| [Norwaynews] [13.08.2011, 06:45am, Sat. GMT] |
| Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the debate sparked by the Norway attacks was “extremely unpleasant and untimely. The Norwegians were still involved in grieving and funerals and we were already debating whether the bullet came from the left or from the right.” |
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| EU support in Norway at historic low |
| [Norwaynews] [24.10.2011, 08:39am, Mon. GMT] |
Support for Norwegian EU membership has never been lower, with just 18.6 percent of voters in favour of joining the European Union, according to a fresh Sentio poll published by daily Nationen. 70.8 percent said they were opposed to membership, while 10.6 percent were undecided. |
| | | | Solheim wants Lysbakken as new SV leader |
| [Norwaynews] [19.10.2011, 06:41pm, Wed. GMT] |
Erik Solheim said two years ago that party colleague Audun Lysbakken should get ready to be the new leader of the SV. Now he hopes the party’s leader-issue will be resolved quickly, with Lysbakken as the front-runner for the position. “Audun is by far the most talented politician of his generation, and I mean far beyond the SV.
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| | | | Prime Minister Stoltenberg congratulates the three winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize |
| [Norwaynews] [08.10.2011, 02:40am, Sat. GMT] |
| “I congratulate the three winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman. This is an important recognition of the role they have played in ensuring women’s safety and right to participate in peace-building work,” said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. |
| | | | Obama, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to meet at White House on Oct. 20 |
| [Norwaynews] [01.10.2011, 07:57am, Sat. GMT] |
| President Obama will meet later this month with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The White House says Obama wants to personally thank Stoltenberg for Norway’s contribution to the NATO mission in Libya when they meet Oct. 20 in the Oval Office. He also wants to discuss a range of issues, including Afghanistan, Middle East peace, the Arctic, global health, climate change, the famine in Somalia and support for emerging North African democracies. |
| | | | Norwegian Progress Party MP admits buying sex in Riga |
| [Norwaynews] [22.09.2011, 09:18am, Thu. GMT] |
| Member of Parliament for the right wing Progress Party (FrP), Bård Hoksrud, has admitted to buying sex from a prostitute in Riga. He has now offered to resign from all political positions. Since 2008 it has been illegal for Norwegians to purchase sex, both in Norway and abroad. Hoksrud may be fined up to NOK 25,000. |
| | | | Norway voters move to centre after attacks |
| [Norwaynews] [14.09.2011, 11:50am, Wed. GMT] |
VOTERS shunned Norway's far-right and far-left parties and piled into the political centre in local elections six weeks after a far-right militant killed 77 people in attacks targeting the centre-left Labour Party, early results showed. With most votes counted the centre-right Conservatives were surging some nine per cent over their prior local election result, a performance analysts said could presage a challenge to the dominant Labour Party in 2013 parliamentary elections.
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| | | | Conservatives is the big winners of municipal and county elections in Norway. |
| [Norwaynews] [13.09.2011, 06:39am, Tue. GMT] |
Norwegians voted yesterday in local elections for the first time since Anders Behring Breivik’s deadly rampage in July, in polls seen as a test of their commitment to the democratic system he detested. The Conservative Party (Høyre) and the Labour Party (AP) are the big winners of Monday's municipal and county elections in Norway. The right wing Progress Party (FrP) and the Socialist Left (SV) are the losers.
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| | | | John Lennon’s Peace Tower to be lit for Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [21.08.2011, 02:06am, Sun. GMT] |
| John Lennon’s Imagine Peace Tower will be lit up in Iceland later this month in honour of the victims of the recent Norway massacre. The country was plunged into mourning last month when right-wing extremist Anders Breivik killed 77 people with a car bomb in Oslo and a shooting rampage on the island of Utoya. |
| | | | Norway Police - ‘17-year-old survivor held for 17 hours jail after massacre’ |
| [Norwaynews] [13.08.2011, 06:47am, Sat. GMT] |
| After surviving the island massacre in Norway last month, the nightmare continued for a 17-year-old boy, who had endured horror in Chechnya, as police thought he might be an accomplice and locked him up, media reported yesterday. |
| | | | Swedish prime minister rejects terror outrage criticism |
| [Norwaynews] [07.08.2011, 08:05am, Sun. GMT] |
| Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt refused to respond to the criticism of his actions in the wake of the atrocities in Norway during his speech at the World Scout Jamboree on Saturday. The Swedish prime minister has come under fire from some quarters for keeping too low a profile in the days following the tragic incidents in Oslo and Utøya, and more specifically for not attending the memorial service in the Norwegian Church in Stockholm. |
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