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A large Scandinavian hotel chain is to banish pork from breakfast at the behest of the group owner’s wife — a globally active climate change campaigner. With over 150 hotels and resorts across Norway and Sweden, Nordic Choice Hotels is

In coordinated raids involving simultaneous arrests in several European countries, counter terrorism forces arrested 13 alleged jihadists at the crack of dawn Thursday, on charges of conspiracy for purposes of international terrorism. In a press conference Thursday morning at the

The Norwegian government has launched a new Facebook campaign called “Stricter Asylum regulations in Norway” aimed at providing “factual” information for migrants regarding changing asylum laws. Human rights organisations have accused the page of fostering racism. “This Facebook page is

Terrorists from the Abu Sayyaf Philippines-based jihadi group, an affiliate of the Islamic State, have demanded over $60 million dollars for three Western hostages who were kidnapped at the country’s resort island of Samal.

Norway’s bishops have given the go-ahead to gay church weddings after a poll described by campaigners as an “historic breakthrough”. The vote will need to be ratified by the church synod next spring, but paves the way for the first gay weddings to

Norwegian media on Friday blasted a Justin Bieber concert in Oslo as a “fiasco” after the Canadian pop star walked off the stage after just one song, leaving his teenage fans stunned and in tears. The 21-year-old put an abrupt

Radical Islamists have been caught infiltrating migrant reception centres in Norway and trying to recruit new arrivals to their cause, the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has warned. The extremists have been so visible that some migrants have asked whether or not

OSLO, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Norway may have to spend an extra 40 to 50 billion crowns ($4.9 billion-$6.2 billion) over the next five years to cope with a rising number of people seeking asylum, Prime Minister Erna Solberg (pictured above)

The Norwegian embassy in Israel has condemned a comic strip in the Dagbladet newspaper that compared Israel to Nazi Germany and North Korea as a “nation of murderers.”

Anders Behring Breivik, who went on a killing spree at a left-wing political youth training camp in 2011 has told media he intends to kill himself in prison, because the government has restricted his ability to take a degree while incarcerated.

When European elites speak of their fears surrounding the migrant crisis, it isn’t demographic change or rising crime they mention – but the political right wing which offers an alternative. Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday, European Commission vice president Frans

A recently released memoir revealed new details about the former Director of the Nobel Institute and his regret for agreeing to hand over the famed Peace Prize to President Barack Obama during his first days in office.

Norway’s Green Party has floated proposals to open up a migrant reception centre – in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, where polar bears outnumber people. The idea was first mooted by Norway’s anti-immigration People’s Party, but they quickly made

The latest issue of the ISIS online magazine, Dabiq, includes photos of two men it claims to have taken hostage, and provides a telegram number for “whoever would like to pay the ransom” for their release.

The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) has ruled against the nation’s oldest mosque providing emergency aid in the country. The 1974-vintage Islamic Cultural Centre, Oslo, had offered accommodation to some of the 700 mostly Syrian refugees accepted by Norway, remarking “We have

Armed forces in Norway have prepared transportation, barracks and sleeping arrangements for 3,000 migrants in preparation for a “mass arrival”. The country is said to be braced to receive a large number of migrants as the number of people leaving Syria

It has taken two years but Norwegian security services have finally confirmed a Norwegian man of Somali descent was one of the terrorists who attacked a Kenyan shopping mall in 2013. On 21 September 2013, a group of terrorists attacked the Westgate Mall, an

A Norwegian bank has issued a credit card featuring an anti-Semitic cartoon. The bank allows customers to design their own card and suggested that in this case their system failed to detect and reject the insulting image. But the customer

A Norwegian documentary film festival has rejected an Israeli documentary charting the lives of disabled children, telling the director that it supports the cultural boycott of Israel and will only show films that deal with “discrimination against Palestinians.” “The Other

Norwegian prisoners have a constitutional right to unlimited porn to watch in their cells – but now the police union is calling for curbs. Claiming that free access to pornography can harm the “peace, order and security” of the prison

Norway’s newest bishop has said he would refuse to officiate at gay weddings, but would support a service blessing couples who have already wed in civil ceremonies. The Local reports that Per Arne Dahl, Bishop of Tunsberg in the Lutheran

A Norwegian golf course is having to take extraordinary steps to tackle a problem the owners must never thought they’d face: a serial pooper. Stavanger Golf Club has tasked their groundskeeper Kenneth Tennfjord with trying to catch, or at least

Norwegian killer Anders Breivik has been accepted onto a political science course at the University of Oslo. Breivik, who killed 77 people in Oslo and at a Labour Party youth summer camp on the island of Utoya in 2011, will

One of Israel’s most experienced and respected diplomats has attacked the Norwegian media for its “one-sided” pro-Palestine “activist journalism.” Raphael Schultz, who was sent to Norway last year, wrote in an open letter citing what he called “a large selection

Both Sweden and Norway have a problem with STDs, with Sweden deemed the STD capital of Europe and Norway right up there. RFSU, a Norwegian sex education charity, has attempted to spread a message to their citizens about the importance of protection — by hiring a man to dress in a penis costume to go around spraying unsuspecting bystanders with “confetti.”

As Norway’s exposure to home-grown jihadis grows, a 24-year-old Norwegian faces up to nine years in prison for “support for a terrorist organisation” having been accused of pledging allegiance to one or both of Islamic State (IS) and an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria. Some

Almost 58 per cent of Norwegians would be unhappy about welcoming a Muslim son-in-law or daughter-in-law into the family according to an annual survey of attitudes in the country. The Local reports that the 2015 survey by Norway’s Directorate of Integration

A Norwegian MP has come under fire after she posted a picture of a penis on her Instagram account. Labour MP Jette Christensen snapped the picture of a man preparing to urinate off a balcony in the early hours of

The Norwegian government demanded Moscow explain why and how Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin visited the Svalbard Islands.

WASHINGTON (AP)—The board of the Clinton Foundation said Wednesday night that it will continue accepting donations from foreign governments, but only from six nations, a move that appears aimed at insulating Hillary Rodham Clinton from controversies over the charity’s reliance on millions of dollars from abroad as she ramps up her presidential campaign.

The New York Times profiled the small town of Lisleby in Norway. However, it is not just any old small town. At least seven young men left the cozy town for Syria to join terrorist groups. Seven does not appear to be a large number, but it is for Lisleby, considering the town consists of only 6,000 residents.

Following the now-debunked media hoax that many within Norway’s Muslim community linked arms and formed a 1000-strong “peace ring” around an Oslo synagogue over the weekend, the Times of Israel revealed that the event’s organizers hold extremist views when it comes to the root causes of Islamic terrorism in Europe.

The weekend’s feel-good story about a Muslim “ring of peace” formed to “protect” Jews at an Oslo synagogue turned out to be a complete fabrication by the mainstream media, according to an eyewitness report, local officials, and attendees’ photos.

A group of young Muslims in Norway wants to answer the Copenhagen attack, in which jihadi Omar El-Hussein opened fire on a free-speech conference and a synagogue, by demonstrating against violence at a synagogue in Oslo. The organizers describe the event, planned for this weekend after the Shabat celebration at the Bergstien Street synagogue, as a human “peace ring” of protection.

Norway’s TV2 interviewed Norwegian 14-year-old Hussein Abbas in Iraq to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). His father Abbas al-Asadi leads the Shia militia.