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The results come after the Norwegian postal service released an annual Christmas video showing Santa Claus falling in love with another man.

It appears “polar bears are being forced to change their eating habits” thanks to global warming, climate alarmists at Euronews announced Sunday.

The Norwegian postal service Posten has released an annual Christmas video featuring Santa Claus falling in love with another man to mark the anniversary of Norway’s decriminalisation of homosexuality.

A 33-year-old Russian national who was shot in Oslo on Tuesday after attempting to carry out a knife attack on random bystanders was also behind a similar attack that took place in 2019.

Norway’s women’s volleyball team has won the fight against the fine they were handed for refusing to wear the skimpy “sexist” Olympic uniforms

Police have confirmed that the man suspected of having killed five and injured two with a bow and arrow in Kongsberg, Norway, was a convert to Islam who had been flagged by authorities over radicalisation concerns before the attack.

Norwegian police have confirmed that at least five people have died after a man armed with a bow and arrows went on a rampage in Kongsberg, with investigators refusing to rule out a possible terror motive.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said Tuesday she will step down as head of a three-party, minority centre-right government after a left-leaning bloc won last month´s parliamentary election. The leader of Norway´s Labor Party, Jonas Gahr Stoere, is expected to take over later this week.

The people of Norway celebrated the end of coronavirus restrictions on Sunday after an abrupt announcement from the prime minister.

Monday´s result means that currently all five Nordic countries now have left-leaning governments.

“God has raised up a prophet in Greta Thunberg in a way that no one could predict,” former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has claimed. “She has said things no one else could have said. Thank God for her!”

President Joe Biden’s failure to control the spread of the coronavirus has allowed Norway to surpass the United States in rankings of best places to be during the pandemic.

Pop singer Pink offered to pay the fines for the Norwegian female beach handball team after they wore shorts in defiance of a league rule requiring the ladies to wear bikini bottoms during games.

Members of the Norway beach handball team are speaking out after they were fined by the sport’s governing body for wearing shorts instead of the required bikini bottoms.

Norway’s Telenor is selling its subsidiary in Myanmar, where it is one of the major operators, as a result of the military coup.

A Norwegian court has sentenced a Syrian teenager to five years in prison for planning an act of terror in Norway.

The University of Oslo in Norway has agreed to a four-year agreement with the Chinese controlled Fudan University.

Norway on Friday reached a trade deal with Britain following the country’s departure from the bloc last year.

Denmark’s intelligence services are alleged to have worked with the Obama administration to spy on German leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to a report shared with top European news agencies.

An Afghan migrant accused of going on a stabbing rampage in Sweden first tried to claim asylum in Norway and claimed to be a minor after applying for refugee status in Sweden a year later.

After initially blocking a U.N. Security Council meeting on Friday to discuss “the situation in Israel and Gaza,” the Biden administration agreed to participate in such a meeting on Sunday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hoped the delay would “give time for diplomacy.”

A man has been charged in Norway for his alleged role in plans to carry out three extremist attacks in Denmark and in London.

Despite heavy seas, a salvage operation has managed to get an abandoned Dutch cargo ship under control off the coast of Norway.

Authorities are concerned by the high numbers of infections from migrants returning to Norway after travelling to their home countries on holiday, with as many as one in four arriving aircraft carrying passengers infected with the Wuhan virus.

The Norwegian national football team donned shirts for their first World Cup 2022 qualifying match to criticise host nation Qatar over alleged human rights abuses, as Norwegian clubs call for a boycott.

A professional ski jumper is in serious condition after crashing to the ground and rolling down the side of a mountain during a competition.

Ireland’s National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) has recommended that use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is temporarily suspended after Norwegian regulators reported “serious blood clotting events”.

Norway saw a 19% drop in marriages in 2020 compared to the previous year, which had already seen the lowest figure since 1927.

A leftwing Norwegian lawmaker on Monday nominated Stacey Abrams, progressive activist and failed Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate, for a Nobel Peace Price. 

Norway has upped its estimate of the number of people who have died after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to 29, Bloomberg reported this weekend.

A few days after attempting to dismiss disappointing test results from Brazil on China’s Sinovac vaccine candidate for the Chinese coronavirus, Chinese state media turned to attacking Sinovac’s American competitors Pfizer and Moderna, calling for a worldwide ban on Pfizer’s vaccine after 23 elderly Norwegians died, ostensibly from reactions to the Pfizer shots.

Norway’s health authority reported Thursday that at least 13 people have died from complications after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

Sweden took nearly three times as many asylum seekers as its Scandinavian neighbours Norway, Finland and Denmark combined.

The University of Michigan (U-M) released a gloomy report about growing Internet censorship on Tuesday, warning that even countries with high liberty ratings from human rights advocates like Freedom House are censoring Internet content with increasingly heavy hands.

Joe Biden was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday by a British anti-Brexit campaigner and Labour MP who claimed the Democrat is a “calming influence” in U.S. politics. 

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Norway’s 83-year-old King Harald V was admitted to the main hospital in Oslo on Friday, the Norwegian palace said, without giving any further information about his condition.