Criminal networks from abroad and local gangs are among the biggest threats facing the Norwegian public and police. Now the latter have an extra NOK 600 million in state funding to help ward them off.

2025年1月15日 · NEWS ANALYSIS: From its strategic Arctic areas in the far north, to its border to Russia in northeastern Finnmark and vast offshore territory in the west and south: Norway is battening down the hatches. New defense and preparedness plans “will affect every one of us,” declared Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre while rolling out the […]

2 天之前 · Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre issued an appeal to the country after presenting his new minority Labour government on Tuesday, the first in 25 years made up of just one party. It only represents 26.3 percent of voters in the last national election, but Støre is keen to show that it can rule responsibly. […]

2024年12月26日 · UPDATED: Three passengers on board a bus bound for Lofoten in Northern Norway were killed and 11 sent to hospital after the bus ran off the E10 highway in stormy weather on Thursday. Several of the nearly 60 passengers on the bus were visitors from China, Singapore, India, Malysia, the Netherlands and France. That made […]

2025年1月10日 · Criminal networks from abroad and local gangs are among the biggest threats facing the Norwegian public and police. Now the latter have an extra NOK 600 million in state funding to help ward them off.

2024年2月12日 · Norway’s national security- and intelligence agencies released their evaluations of threats against Norway on Monday, and they’re the highest and most serious in decades. China and Norway’s neighbouring Russia still pose the biggest threats, they claim, while the threat of terrorist attacks is “moderate.” The evaluations come from Norway’s foreign- and military intelligence agency ...

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2023年3月1日 · Lots of unhappy Norwegians have been yelling at their government this winter. Several nurses even went so far as to organize a public uproar outside Parliament this week, to protest budget cuts in the health care sector, especially at hospitals and nursing homes. It’s all part of what commentators and government critics are calling a […]

2024年12月12日 · Abdel Fattah Al Sisi became the first state leader of Egypt to visit Norway this week, but he didn’t attract much public attention. His visit coincided with the annual fanfare around the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize, which hails human rights and democratic values that can be hard to find under Al Sisi’s authoritarian rule.

2024年4月26日 · Much of the airspace over Northern Norway was closed down Friday afternoon, reportedly because of a torn fiber cable in Bodø. The air traffic disruption follows another one just the day before, when air space was closed over Southern Norway, and investigations are underway. The so-called fiberbrudd affected air travel from Bodø and northward, including […]