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| Norwegian company names Indian firm for global cyber offensive? |
| [Norwaynews] [23.05.2013, 05:28pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Oslo—Security researchers have uncovered what appears to be a sophisticated targeted attack launched from India and designed to steal information from a range of government and private enterprise victims in Pakistan, China and elsewhere. What began as an investigation into an attack on Norwegian operator Telenor soon uncovered evidence to show attackers probably hailing from India had been lifting info from business, government, political organisations for as long as three years. |
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Politics
| Norway opposition stretching lead over Stoltenberg's government: poll |
| [Norwaynews] [10.01.2013, 07:05pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Norway's opposition Conservatives have increased their lead over the ruling Labour Party, indicating Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's government may be on course for defeat in an election this September, a poll showed on Thursday. The Conservatives had 33 percent support among decided voters in January, up from 30.7 percent in December while Labour's support rose to 28.5 percent from 27 percent, a poll by state broadcaster NRK showed. |
| | | | Nobel Prize season kicks off with medicine award |
| [Norwaynews] [08.10.2012, 09:13am, Mon. GMT] |
Some of the world's top scholars will be thrust into the global spotlight this week as award committees in Stockholm and Oslo announce the 2012 Nobel Prizes, starting with the medicine award Monday. The prestigious prizes, created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, were first awarded in 1901 to honor ground-breaking achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace work.
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| | | | Socialist Left elect new leaders |
| [Norwaynews] [12.03.2012, 05:55pm, Mon. GMT] |
| The National Assembly of the Socialist Left Party (SV) on Saturday elected former Minister of Children and Equality, Audun Lysbakken as their new leader. The votes were 192 in favour, while 15 handed in a blank vote. I am humble, touched and proud, the new SV leader said when the result was announced. There had been much controversy around Lysbakken's candidature, following his resignation from his post as government minister due to breach of protocol, but in the end there were no opposing candidates in the running, and no nominations from the floor. |
| | | | 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. |
| | | | 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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| Washing machine gift for Nobel winner |
| [Norwaynews] [21.10.2012, 09:05pm, Sun. GMT] |
| Japanese ministers are pooling together money to help purchase a washing machine for Shinya Yamanaka, who was recently awarded the $1.2 million Nobel prize along with a British researcher. Yamanaka joked that he was fixing a rumbling washing machine when he received a call from Oslo saying that he and Britain’s John Gurdon were jointly honoured with the prize for their discovery in stem cell research. |
| | | | Calls for Stoltenberg's and Eskil Pedersen resignation |
| [Norwaynews] [14.08.2012, 09:57am, Tue. GMT] |
| Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and AUF Leader Eskil Pedersen are coming under increasing pressure to resign after the publication of a report that slammed the state for its failure to prevent Anders Behring Breivik from killing 77 people last July. The almost 500-page report by an independent commission concluded that the bomb attack in Oslo that killed eight people could have been hindered, while the suspect should have been arrested much earlier during his murderous shooting spree on the island of Utøya. |
| | | | ‘They died for the freedom of Norway’ |
| [Norwaynews] [20.02.2012, 08:53am, Mon. GMT] |
| A NORTH-EAST soldier who died moments before he was due to help liberate Norway is to be formally commemorated for the first time. Private Thomas Laycock was only 26 when the Stirling LK147 he was on board crashed 1,500 metres south of the Gardermoen airport, near Oslo, in Norway, killing him and other 19 men on May 10, 1945. There were no survivors. Although the men’s remains were exhumed shortly afterwards and buried in an Oslo cemetery, the crash site was forgotten for 64 years until civic leaders and the Ullensaker Historical Society turned the site into a memorial garden. |
| | | | 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 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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