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The Norwegian government introduced stricter rules on Tuesday to limit the spread of COVID-19, including a cap on the number of visitors in private homes and shortening the hours bars …

Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa will fly to Oslo to collect the award in person, after a third court approved her application to attend Friday’s ceremony. Ressa, an …

The Norwegian Government is introducing national measures to keep the pandemic under control. The most important measure is offering people over the age of 65 a booster dose as soon …

Representatives of the Arab League, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Iraq, Jordan, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States met December 2 at the envoys-level in Brussels to discuss …

The United Nations on Monday (Nov 29) urged the Philippines to allow Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa to travel to Norway next month to accept the award. Ressa, the first Nobel laureate …

As the nation marks the Day of the First President on Deсember 1, the occasion carries more significance than usual this year, for Kazakhstan is also marking its 30th anniversary …

US special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West is set to visit Qatar next week to hold talks with the Taliban. “I can confirm that next week Special Representative for Afghanistan …

The United States rejects attempts by “other countries” to interfere in Lithuania’s relationship with Taiwan, U.S. Under Secretary of State Uzra Zeya told a news conference in Vilnius on Friday. …

Keeping the peace in space will only be achieved by cooperation between nations, according to the head of the US Space Force. But the pace at which China is developing …

Two journalists from Norwegian state television were arrested and held for over 30 hours by security forces in Qatar without explanation while reporting on the upcoming FIFA World Cup, before …

The world’s first fully electric and self-steering container ship, owned by fertilizer maker Yara, is preparing to navigate Norway’s southern coast and play its part in the country’s plans to …

A Lebanese national and a former senior Iranian diplomat at the regime’s embassy in Oslo have been accused of involvement in the assassination of a Norwegian publisher. The news is another grim reminder of the dangers posed by …

Oslo police officer had been injured when a shirtless man, brandishing a large knife, attacked residents of the Norwegian capital in broad daylight, before being shot and killed by law enforcement …

Germany’s president spoke on Thursday about Norway’s response to terrorist attacks, saying he admired the strength “with which Norwegians defy the hatred and violence that have shocked and saddened the …

KLP has stopped investing in companies with ties to nuclear and regular arms production. It’s not the first time the fund has made such a move on humanitarian grounds. Norway’s …

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (KONGSBERG) signed two contracts, valued at MNOK 1,426, with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (FMA). KONGSBERG will deliver a new batch of Naval Strike Missile …

Norway’s telecom company Telenor has just posted quarterly earnings that lagged estimates, citing the unexpected persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, and said it was still awaiting the Myanmar …

To Edvard Munch, they were his children. And like any doting father, he hated the idea of them straying too far from home.Now, more than 26,000 artworks from the master expressionist’s …

A trilateral agreement has been signed between the Republic of Armenia, the Kingdom of Norway and Moderna Company, Armenia’s Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan informs. Under the agreement, Norway will …

Bjørnar Skjæran, now a full-time Labour politician, replaces the Conservative Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen who has held the post for almost two years. Ingebrigtsen has impressed during his relatively short tenure, although he …

Police in Norway are treating a bow-and-arrow attack with five dead and two injured in the small town of Kongsberg as a possible terrorist act.  “The incidents in Kongsberg currently …

A Danish citizen ( Danish converts to Islam) Terrorist linked in his 30s has been arrested and charged after five people were killed and two others injured in attack using …

Kosovo agreed to withdraw police units from its northern border with Serbia to end a mounting dispute over vehicle licence plates that briefly escalated into violence and prompted NATO to …

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two journalists who were cited for their fight for freedom of expression. Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia …

UK engineering and consultancy firm Wood has entered into a framework agreement with Horisont Energi to support the Norwegian carbontech start-up in maturing its projects within clean ammonia and hydrogen. …