Europe Norway Indigenous Sami people recently protested against the government's decision to allow the construction of wind turbines on Sami grazing land, blocking the entrances to 11 ministries in Oslo last Friday morning and demanding to be heard by King Harald
Europe Norway The ban on cars with Russian license plate will come into effect at midnight on Monday; the provision taken by Norway has been shared with a number of European countries
Europe Norway Two opposition parties, the national-conservative and centre-right parties, won the local elections, defeating the centre-left Labour for the first time in 99 years
Europe Norway Sales of plastic bags in grocery stores have dropped by up to 40% since stores increased their price from NOK 3 (0,26€) to NOK 4,25 (0,37€), in line with EU and country guidelines to reduce plastic bag consumption
Europe Norway Electricity was said to be free in Norway's two largest cities on Monday, as power is produced almost exclusively from hydroelectric sources and a summer storm filled the dams
Europe Norway In Oslo - long been considered a safe city - youth crime is rising and becoming more violent, increasing by 18% since the end of the pandemic according to police reports
Europe Norway 30.000 young footballers from all over the world gathered in Oslo for the annual Norway Cup football tournament, the largest tournament of its kind in the world, with 2.350 teams from 35 countries
Europe Norway Northern regions of Finnmark and Troms are battling the largest bird flu outbreak the country has ever seen, after more than 10.000 dead birds were found in the Vadsø area alone
Europe Norway A new poll indicates that seven out of 10 Norwegians now support euthanasia, or what they call aktiv dødshjelp (literally, active help to die); to receive it, however, they still have to travel abroad, because euthanasia remains illegal in Norway
Europe Norway Norwegian data protection authorities have temporarily banned Meta from tracking users for the purpose of serving ads, and threatened the U.S. company with fines of 1 million kroner a day if it fails to comply
Europe Norway New rules will make it easier for gay men to donate blood in the country, who will soon have to follow the same quarantine times as heterosexuals after each change of sexual partner, until now twice as long
Europe Norway Minister of Finance Trygve Slagsvold Vedum made it clear that he will not follow the new Nordic Nutrition Recommendations, which warn against the consumption of meat and alcohol
Europe Norway An unusual case occurred in Oslo after emergency teams were called to a flat in Bøler where they found a teenager who had become seriously ill after spilling a poisonous substance he had prepared himself