#Norway

Former Norwegian prime minister, Thorbjorn Jagland, was hospitalised last week after an apparent suicide attempt, according to media reports published Tuesday, days after authorities charged him with aggravated corruption linked ...

Norway biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid has apologised to his teammates and his ex-girlfriend following his sensational interview after his bronze medal-winning efforts in Tuesday’s Olympic men’s 20km individual ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Sunday reacted to Norway’s decision to lift its arms embargo on Cyprus by saying that “what is needed in this period is not ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has welcomed Norway’s decision to open applications for the export of defence equipment to Cyprus, saying on Friday that the decision was “an important step towards ...

The government of Norway and the European Economic Area (EEA) on Thursday announced the donation of €14.7 million worth of grants to Cyprus, aiming to promote the island’s green transition, ...

When Norway recognised Palestine as a state, Palestinian engineer Adam was thrilled by the show of support, little knowing the move would ultimately derail his family’s dream of winning ...

Norway’s Oslo Airport temporarily paused one or several landings early on Monday after a report of a drone sighting near the airport, its operator Avinor said. “One or more ...

Denmark said drones that halted flights at its main airport on Monday were the most serious attack yet on its critical infrastructure and linked them to a series of suspected ...

A Norwegian man woke up to find a huge Cyprus-registered container ship mere metres away from his home, international media reported on Friday.  The Cyprus-flagged cargo ship, the NCL Salten, ...

Norway will seek to negotiate with the United States regarding the tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told public broadcaster NRK on ...

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer behind the country’s worst peacetime atrocity, should not be released and remains dangerous, a prosecutor said, as Breivik appeared in court on ...

Norwegian police have issued an international search request for Rinson Jose, a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that exploded last week, ...

Israel on Thursday revoked the accreditation of eight Norwegian diplomats working as representatives to the Palestinian Authority, drawing a sharp response from Norway’s foreign minister who called it “an ...

Norway condemns Israel’s decision to “legalise” five settlement outposts in occupied Palestinian territory, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Thursday. Israel last week said it was going to ...

The Norwegian Embassy is organising a special event in the heart of Nicosia to mark 20 years of cooperation between the two states, it announced on Wednesday. The event will highlight ...

One person died and five were injured when a helicopter crash-landed in the ocean off western Norway, police said on Thursday, leading to a temporary halt in transport to and ...

Norway and Finland face record outbreaks of bird flu this year which have killed thousands of seagulls and other species, put livestock at risk and restricted travel in some areas, ...

Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday dropped charges against four people accused of aiding and abetting the 2017 kidnapping and subsequent transport abroad of a four-year-old girl from outside her Nicosia kindergarten ...

A Norwegian court has acquitted for the second time a man who abducted his four-year-old daughter outside a Nicosia kindergarten in 2017 on the grounds that his former partner had lied ...

Norway’s gas export system is set to deliver record volumes of energy to Europe and is committed to sending large amounts in the coming years, the head of pipeline ...

Norway plans to maintain its current high gas production level until the end of the decade as Europe plans to ditch Russian imports over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, its ...

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, made a record loss of 1.68 trillion Norwegian crowns ($174 billion) in the first half of 2022 as stocks and bonds were hit by ...

The Norwegian government on Tuesday intervened to end a strike in the petroleum sector that had cut oil and gas output, a union leader and the labour ministry said, ending ...

Norway on Friday pledged 1 billion euros ($1.04 billion) to help Ukraine defend itself, support people in need and for reconstruction in the wake of Russia’s invasion. Addressing a news conference ...