The young Norwegians taking their own country to court over oil
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Norway funds satellite map of world's tropical forests – funding for the project comes through its International Climate and Forests Initiative
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Norway's oil workers fear for future as rigs go remote – shift to operating oil rigs remotely from land, accelerated by lower crude prices, has rekindled concerns among unions
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An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon
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Norway has blamed Russia for a cyberattack on the email system in the parliament in August – Moscow has rejected the claim, calling it a serious and wilful provocation
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Strike by workers in the Norwegian oil sector could soon wipe out nearly one-quarter of the country's petroleum output
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Norway's King Harald to undergo surgery to replace a heart valve – 83-year-old monarch has been head of state since 1991
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How Dagny's luminous pop battles Norway's endless nights – Strangers/Lovers emerges as one of 2020's most assured debuts
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German startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has selected the Norwegian launch facility Andøya Spaceport for a 2022 maiden flight of the company's RFA One vehicle
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Wardruna - Lyfjaberg (Healing-Mountain) (2020)
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Norway will finance two-thirds of a large-scale project to capture and store carbon dioxide – carbon capture has long been highlighted as a way to reduce CO2 emissions
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Whale meat has seen an increase in sales this year in Norway – according to local whalers, demand has outstripped supply for the first time in half a decade
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Anders Behring Breivik now wants to be released on probation – he is also planning a new lawsuit against the state for violating his human rights
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Norway arrests suspect linked to 1982 attack on Jewish restaurant in Paris – man held on European arrest warrant issued by French authorities over attack in which six people died
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Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales
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Twenty-five people have been taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after attending an illegal rave in a bunker in the Norwegian capital, Oslo
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts
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Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
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Spectacular new step-bridge floats over Norwegian waterfall Vøringsfossen – the project, designed by architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk, has been over a decade in the making
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Magnus Carlsen fought back from the verge of defeat as the world champion clinched his seven-day, 38-game match against Hikaru Nakamura by four sets to three
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Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
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Norway's wealth fund loses £16bn in first half of 2020 after Covid panic – state support has restored investor confidence but fund expects more market turmoil
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Buried deep in the ice is the GitHub code vault — humanity's safeguard against devastation
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Kurt Maflin hopes his shock World Snooker Championship triumph in the first round will have Norwegian children swapping ski slopes for snooker cues
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Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen – traveling from port to port along Norway's western coast, the virus may not have been contained onboard
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Owners of a US B&B have removed a Norwegian flag from outside their business after being accused of promoting racism from people who thought it was a Confederate flag
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Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso
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A Norwegian man on Saturday set the new world record for singing Elvis Presley songs for fifty hours, fifty minutes and fifty seconds straight in an online competition
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eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces
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Aurora - Daydreamer (2020)
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One woman, four men bound for the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on a four-month expedition that covered more than 4,500 miles
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GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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Asylum seekers persecuted for being LGBT+ will be given priority under groundbreaking Norwegian scheme
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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See the light – why midsummer birding in Norway is life-affirming
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Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of public health app Smittestopp to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns
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Norway should add a number of restrictions to the kinds of weapons its $1 trillion wealth fund is allowed to invest in, a government-appointed commission said
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A Norwegian court has sentenced a gunman to twenty-one years in prison for killing his teenage step-sister and opening fire at a mosque
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What to do when you're stranded in Alaska by a global pandemic and are trying to get back home to Norway – with twenty-four dogs in tow
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Magnus Carlsen: ‘My emotions are usually outside my body and that's not what you usually connect to a chess player’
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Norway terror attack – prosecutors demand twenty-one year jail sentence for mosque shooting
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Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow
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At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband
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Australia joins ‘first movers’ group of nations that have kept coronavirus under control
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Norway mosque attack and murder trial begins in Oslo
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Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period
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A major project to transport natural gas from the North Sea to Denmark and Poland has taken a significant step forward
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Norway will slash its oil output from June to December of 2020 – the first time in eighteen years it has joined other major producers to shore up prices
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