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| Taliban held secret talks in Norway to broker Doha deal | OSLO (Reuters) - The Taliban held secret negotiations in Norway over the past few months, helping yield a deal that allowed the radical Afghan rebels to open an office in Qatar, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Tuesday. "We have played a key role in this process," Barth Eide told state broadcaster NRK. "It has been a strictly confidential process but we can now reveal it." Barth Eide ... |
| Norway votes to extend conscription to women | Norway's parliament has voted overwhelmingly to conscript women into its armed forces, becoming the first European and first Nato country to make military service compulsory for both genders. |
| NORWAY GAS-Flows ease slightly on Oseberg outage | Norwegian pipeline gas exports to Europe eased slightly on Tuesday morning after an outage at the Statoil-operated Oseberg field shut flows through the Vesterled pipeline. Deliveries to Europe including ... |
| Soccer-Hoffenheim sign Norway international Elyounoussi | BERLIN, June 17 (Reuters) - Hoffenheim have signed Norway forward Tarik Elyounoussi as they prepare for another campaign in the Bundesliga following their narrow relegation escape last season. Hoffenheim, who needed a relegation playoff against second division Kaiserslautern in May to secure their top flight status for next season, have agreed a three-year deal with the player until 2017. No ... |
| Norway oil hub air link confirmed | A new flight will be launched this summer linking Aberdeen with a major oil and gas hub in Norway. |
| Norway Ready With Stimulus as Europe’s Recession Hurts | Norway is ready to add stimulus should growth cool further for western Europe’s largest oil exporter as it battles slumping European demand. |
| Norway votes overwhelmingly to adopt gender-neutral armed forces draft | OSLO, Norway, June 16 (UPI) -- Norway's Parliament voted overwhelmingly to install a policy of gender-neutral armed forces conscription, Norway's defense minister announced. |
| Red Cross, Norway raise questions about Canada bill banning cluster bombs | GENEVA - Norway and the International Committee of the Red Cross are raising concerns about pending legislation from the Harper government that would make Canada a full member of a treaty to ban deadly cluster bombs. |
| Norway's 'boring TV' trend attracts legions of fans | Norway has produced successful television programs centered on everything from a 7-hour train ride between Oslo and Bergen to an 18-hour live stream of salmon swimming up a river. Could you watch "boring television" for hours on end? |
| Lundin Norway Spuds Development Well on the Brynhild Field | Lundin Petroleum AB through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS is pleased to announce the commencement of the drilling of the first development well on the Brynhild field in PL148, located in ... |
