Norway’s Jehovas Witnesses have lost their legal effort to regain the state financial support that’s offered to all religious organizations. Their’s was cut after the state determined that the Jehovas Witnesses don’t comply with rules that members must freely be allowed to join them or leave. The Jehovas Witnesses sued in an attempt to regain […]
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Norway’s accident investigation board (Havarikommisjonen) suspects technical failure is behind the fatal accident last week that ended with a helicopter landing in the cold waters of the North Sea and then sinking. One person was killed and five others injured. Equipment that was supposed to keep the helicopter afloat wasn’t released. The helicopter was registered […]
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Norwegian security officials have been “sharpening routines” after a packet addressed to Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre made it though screening equipment and was delivered to his office. It contained cannabis. The unwelcome delivery just over a month ago set off what newspaper Dagens Næringslviv (DN) called “an exchange” between the Office of the Prime […]
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They’re part of the largest NATO military exercises since 1952, and the first with new Nordic members: More than 20,000 soldiers from 13 countries will be taking part in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland alone, as hopes rise that ongoing military expansion in the region will also boost the hard-pressed local economy. The recent expansion […]
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