Category: International News
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‘In winter, if you surf for two hours, you can’t feel your fingers’
article sourced from TheLocal.no Far from the sun-kissed beaches of Rio de Janeiro and Ipanema, Brazilian surfer Gil Ferreira plunges into Norway’s icy waters to ride over the dark swells of the Arctic. Swapping shorts for a thick-skinned wetsuit and gloves, Ferreira braved freezing weather, rain and seals in the Lofoten Masters, the only surf competition held…
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New Year’s Resolution #1 – home-made lunch
I don’t know about you, but one of my resolutions this year is to make sure that I bring my own lunch to work every day instead of wasting money on take-away lunches (or drinking enough coffee so I’m just not hungry). Good resolution, yes? According to the below BBC article posted a couple of…
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BREAKING NEWS – Dual Citizenship bill being presented to Parliament.
article sourced from Norwegians Worldwide This is very good news for Norwegians living abroad. Hanne K. Aaberg, Secretary General of Norwegians Worldwide, about dual citizenship finally being presented to parliament. The Norwegian government will now present a bill to Stortinget (parliament) that will allow dual citizenship. This has great emotional and practical significance for Norwegian…
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Wolf campaigners boycott sheep meat in Norway
article sourced from The Local.No In the next step of an already controversial argument, animal rights activists in Norway have begun boycotting local sheep meat in protest at a new round of licensed wolf hunts planned for this winter.More than 800 Norwegians have joined the Facebook Page Boikott konfliktkjøtt (Boycott Conflict Meat), which aims to pressure farmers…
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Norway’s beerfully hot summer
Warm weather has coincided with record sales of beer and bottled water in Norway, but fewer soft drinks are being consumed. Sales of beer increased by just over three percent in the first half of 2018, Nettavisen reports. The most recent months in particular have brought figures up, resulting in “all time high” beer sales beating…
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Norway and other sovereign wealth funds pledge to help fight climate change
Six sovereign wealth funds pledged on Friday to fight climate change at a meeting hosted by Emmanuel Macron, as the French president pushes his “make our planet great again” message. The funds manage assets with a total value of $3 trillion and include that of Norway, the biggest in the world, valued alone at $1…
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Norway following Australia’s lead in banning branded packaging for tobacco products.
A law change that comes into effect on July 1st will require all packaging on cigarettes and snus in Norway to be entirely neutral. Selling the tobacco products in non-standardised packaging will be illegal under the new law. “This is an important step towards the long-term aim of a tobacco-free society. Protecting children and young…
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The first electric plane takes flight in Norway
Minister for Transport Ketil Solvik-Olsen will be on board as Norway’s first electric aircraft makes its first journey on Monday. Avinor, the owner of the aircraft and Norwegian airport operator, wants the Scandinavian country to be a world leader in electric aviation and has set a target for all domestic flights in the country to…
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Geothermals for Gardermoen?
While almost every other news provider is freaking out about Russia threatening Norway over an increase in US troops on Norwegian soil, yours truly thinks that it’s better to have a curiosity piece – and so here we are. In a pilot project in Norway, the operator of the Gardermoen airport in Oslo under…
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Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”…artworks of passion and loss.
While it comes as no real surprise to anyone that there are more than 4 versions of Munch’s “The Scream” given that there are already 4 completed and well-known versions using different media types (oils, pastels, tempera and crayon); when over 7,600 sketches of Munch’s work were made available freely to the public in March,…