Nobel winners: End sex abuse
OSLO, Norway -- Raped after being forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State group, Nadia Murad did not succumb to shame or despair -- the young Iraqi woman spoke out.
Category Archives: Norway
Corvus Energy Expands
Corvus Energy, manufacturer of energy storage systems for maritime applications, announced two production and R&D expansion plans underway in Canada and Norway. The new battery factories will be more modern and more automated than other similar factories, result in eight times the production capacity compared to today.
Nobel for Trump? Odds slashed after summit but awards committee may be wary
It did not take long for bookmakers to slash Donald Trump's odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of the historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. OSLO: It did not take long for bookmakers to slash Donald Trump's odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of the historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Growing chatter over Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize prospects
Now, President Donald Trump's supporters are pushing for him to be the next U.S. leader to win the Nobel Peace Prize - a move that's being met by smirks and eye rolls in Europe, where Trump remains deeply unpopular. But that's not stopping a growing list of champions from pushing the Nobel committee to consider Trump for the world's most coveted diplomatic prize.
Lift preconditions for peace talks, solons tell Duterte
Leftist lawmakers are asking President Rodrigo Duterte to do away with the preconditions he has set for the resumption of the stalled peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines . The Philippine Government and National Democratic Front opened the Fourth Round of Peace Talks ACT-Teachers Reps.
Return to the Future: Lillehammer explores another Olympics
The Norwegian ski r... . FILE - In this Feb. 12, 1994, file photo, Britt Pedersen, right, an Olympic medalist in 1984 and 1988, hands the Olympic Torch to ski jumper Stein Gruben, left, as Gruben prepares to ski down a ski jump during openin... .
We ignore the Violence of Radical White Populist Extremism at our Peril
We ignore the terrorist threat from right-wing extremism at our peril. But the main threat to democracy in our time is even more insidious.
300 U.S. Marines land in Norway, irking Russia
PanARMENIAN.Net - Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday, January 16 for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway's Arctic neighbour Russia , Reuters reports. Officials played down any link between the operation and NATO concerns over Russia, but the deployment coincides with the U.S. sending several thousand troops to Poland to beef up its Eastern European allies worried about Moscow's assertiveness.
NATO boss in autobiography: Obama backed my candidacy
NATO's secretary-general says his bid to become the alliance's chief was supported by U.S. President Barack Obama, who worked behind the scenes to make it happen. In an autobiography published Friday, former Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg wrote that Obama sent him an acknowledgement letter in late 2013 after Stoltenberg had resigned because his Labor Party lost parliamentary elections.