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A highly sensitive COVID-19 test, developed by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), relies on magnetic nanoparticles to extract viral RNA. More than 5 million NTNU …

US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Keith Krach has urged Germany to support NATO by expelling the Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G mobile network. The statement comes …

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has initiated construction of the Hywind Tampen floating offshore windfarm. She did so in a ceremony at Kværner Stord, where elements of the windfarm are …

50 Ambassadors from around the world, including Norway and representatives of international organisations, have expressed support for LGBT rights in Poland. 50 Ambassadors of countries from all corners of the …

The governments of the United Arab Emirates, Norway, and Somalia, in coordination with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and the …

Norway and the United Kingdom have today signed a new framework agreement on fisheries cooperation. It allows the parties to agree to on the exchange fishing quotas as well as …

The Estonian Centre for Defence Investment (ECDI) signed a Joint Procurement Agreement with the Dutch authorities to procure a total of seven THeMIS unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) from Milrem Robotics, …

The United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, through its Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (Doalos), and Norway, have entered into an agreement to provide support …

The Swedish and Norwegian wind industry argue that proposals for an end to the countries’ shared electricity certificate system could create uncertainty and reduce profitability for developers and investors. Both …

Norway will have access to just a fraction of the 1.4 gigawatt (GW) export capacity of a subsea power cable connecting it with Germany once it starts operating in early …

In a Government White Paper to the Norwegian parliament submitted today, the Government proposes to launch a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Norway. The project has been named …

The government today presents the annual white paper on the management of the Government Pension Fund. The paper reports on results in the management of the Government Pension Fund Global …

Norway is providing assistance to Greece after the devastating fire in the migrant camp Moria on Lesbos. An emergency medical team from Norway will now be sent to the region. …

‘The normalisation of Israel’s bilateral relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will increase the space for dialogue and cooperation between Israel and the Arab world. It is positive …

‘According to the UN, Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is proving extremely difficult. There are reports of increased infection rates and there is …

U.S. and other NATO forces are practicing how to fend off an attack in central Europe, bringing together B-52 bombers, fighters and missile defenses for a drill simulating a large-scale …

The United States plans to impose sanctions on those who violate a UN arms embargo on Iran, which Washington says will now stay in place instead of expiring in October …

Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru has written to EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson noting common ground in the way the European bloc and the Norwegian Government see …

The 75th session of the UN General Assembly opened on 15 September 2020 at the UN Headquarters in New York.  This year, delegates from capitals around the world will not …

“Multilateralism now faces greater risk than at any point since the end of the Cold War,” said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan, addressing the High-Level Meeting to commemorate the 75th …

Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO has said the Peshkabir Gas Capture and Injection Project in its Tawke license in the Kurdistan region of Iraq is onstream and has reached …

Militant group Hezbollah has stored chemicals that can be used to make explosives in several European countries, a senior US State Department official said Thursday as he appealed to countries …

Two NATO F-16s scrambled into the air on Monday to identify Russian military planes, as the number of such QRAs (Quick Reaction Alerts) in the High North has already surpassed …

Volvo’s Wrocław plant will deliver 31 electric city buses to Norway’s northern city of Bodo. The buses, together with charging and servicing infrastructure, are to be delivered by July 2021. …

In the latest of a growing number of incidents, a Russian diplomat was caught while Harsharn Singh Tathgar, a Norwegian citizen originally from India, was turning over classified information in …