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After a hectic overnight trip to Oslo in an effort to prod US-brokered peace talks with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received a warm welcome at the Norwegian Parliament on Wednesday.

Tuesday’s sudden peace talks in Oslo may result in more diplomacy and less bullying as efforts continue to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Norwegian air space over Oslo and the neighbouring region of Romerike was partially closing on Tuesday, after news broke of a high-level meeting in Norway’s capital aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Train service in southern Norway was getting back to normal during the weekend, after locomotive engineers and state train operator Vy agreed on a new labour pact.

Reaction was swift and furious after a state commission handed over its proposals on Thursday for changes in the ethical framework and management of Norway’s huge sovereign wealth fund, known as the Oil Fund.

Five Norwegians have been charged in an alleged swindle of NATO that’s been unraveling around Europe this week.

Norwegian football players are on a roll.

Oslo’s recently renovated Restaurant Schrøder has won lots of attention over the years, not least as the hangout for the main character in Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø’s books.

Norway is known for “caring” for those sentenced to prison instead of simply punishing them.

A new public health advisory council in Norway is calling for higher taxes and new age limits on the purchase of tobacco products, plus a ban on tax-free sales of tobacco and nicotine products at Norwegian airports.

After nearly a month of disruption on various train lines in Southern Norway, striking locomotive engineers were ordered into compulsory mediation this week.

Another Norwegian football team has made its mark in the top leagues, and it’s even called Viking.

Norway’s 89-year-old Queen Sonja was back on the job this week, right after the official mourning period for her husband, the late King Harald V, ended on October 9.

Of all the 357 municipalities in Norway, the country’s new monarch chose to make his first official visit this week to Narvik.

Norwegians woke up Saturday morning to hear the president of the United States on morning newscasts, publicly bashing their country.

Praise, criticism and some vicious reaction were all rolling in after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it was awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to human rights advocate Navi Pillay, a judge on the International Court of Justice.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee sent a message to national leaders around the world, not least in the USA, when it announced this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Norway’s state statistics bureau SSB reported on Friday that the country’s consumer price index rose to 3.4 percent from September of last year to September this year.

Norway’s state-owned telecoms firm Telenor was back on the defense Thursday after problems with its mobile phone network ended up shutting down the country’s entire train system.

Norway’s royal family and their staff will be “gradually” getting back to official duties when their mourning period for the late King Harald V ends on Friday.

The Norwegian Air Force and its “Quick Reaction Alert” program with NATO have been busy monitoring a boom in Russian aviation activity close to Norwegian air space this year.

Norway’s national football team lost its third Nations League match in a row Sunday night, in competition that can determine seeding in the next European Championships.

Nearly 700 train departures in southeastern Norway will be cancelled after an additional 26 locomotive engineers were called out on strike from Monday morning.

Police and maritime authorities have launched an investigation after three ships collided off Ålesund on Norway’s west coast during the weekend.

Stricter rules and more lobster preservation areas in the waters around Norway have raised hopes for more lobsters in the traps allowed this year.

Norwegian football star Erling Braut Haaland has been making a lot of money in recent years, and clearly wants to maintain control over his name, branding and image for financial gain.

Norway’s national football team was heading into another match against Portugal Sunday night, after losing to Portugal at home in Oslo last weekend and then to Wales in Cardiff.

The southern Norwegian municipality of Halden woke up Sunday morning to news of a fatal shooting at a local farm.

PHOTO FEATURE: The annual and highly ceremonial opening of Norway’s new parliamentary session took on historic dimensions on Friday.

Former Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen apologized earlier this week for the close ties he had for many years to the late billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

It’s being called everything from “embarrassing and tragic” to simply “very serious” for Norway’s foreign- and foreign aid ministries: All their top political leaders over the past 20 years were being questioned by the Norwegian Parliament’s disciplinary…

After months of joy and victory, the Norwegian men’s national football team lost to mighty Portugal Sunday night, largely because of a mistake made by its otherwise revered goalkeeper.

The warnings of melting sea ice and glaciers have been coming for years.

Norwegian government ministers just had a busy week at the United Nations, and share concerns that it’s caught in crisis.

UPDATED: Norway’s train system has been plagued by problems for years, much of it caused by inadequate maintenance of railroad infrastructure and the challenges that poses for various train operators.

The Norwegian men’s national football team scored again on Thursday night, three times against Denmark and enough to win their first match in Nations League action.

Officials at Norway’s gateway airport at Gardermoen (OSL) have been posting warnings in baggage claim areas about taxi swindle.

The dwindling use of cash in Norway may leave the country’s new King Haakon VIII as the first Norwegian monarch in a thousand years who’s not depicted on a Norwegian coin.

Only 12 percent of businesses and organizations that have suffered digital attacks actually report them as data crime, according to a new survey conducted for Norway’s business security council NSR (Næringslivets sikkerhetsråd).

Police in Oslo were investigating two separate shootings in the greater metropolitan area during the night.

A need for “a somewhat tighter monetary policy stance” prompted Norway’s central bank to boost its key policy rate by another quarter-point on Thursday.

UPDATED: Norway had to conduct its second royal funeral in just two weeks on Wednesday.

It’s that time of year again, when Norwegian peace advocates, researchers and historians publicly speculate over who or what may win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

A Norwegian appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision to sentence a former guard at the US Embassy in Oslo to prison for spying.

Norwegians and tourists in Norway were suffering through more train trouble this weekend, after locomotive engineers for train company Vy went on strike.

Henriette Jæger seemed to be as surprised as everyone else, when she set a new record in London heading into the weekend.

It’s enough to set off new screams: The City of Oslo’s popular but problematic museum devoted to Norwegian artist Edvard Munch has undergone budget cuts, layoffs and the loss of its director in the past few months.

New warnings have been literally pouring in about melting ice on and around Svalbard.

Funeral services for Norway’s Princess Astrid, older sister of the late King Harald V, have been set for September 23 at a local if large church near her family’s longtime home in Oslo.

Oslo-based Telenor’s former operations in Myanmar came back to haunt the large telecoms firm once again on Tuesday, when it was raided by Norwegian police and formally charged with possible crimes against humanity.