As the commander of a Cold War submarine tracking the Soviets, John Jeanette’s dresses were stashed away in a locker reserved for top-secret documents. Soon, this former Norwegian navy captain will be recognised as a woman born in a man’s
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week confirmed that the Palestinian Authority is continuing its policy of paying salaries to jailed terrorists, despite having previously claimed that it ceased to do so.
Newly surfaced video footage reportedly released by the Filipino jihadist group Abu Sayyaf purportedly shows three hostages pleading for their life and the decapitation of a fellow captive.
Thousands of ‘asylum seekers’ are leaving Denmark and Sweden and returning home, as they tire of waiting for applications to be processed or realise they have little chance of being granted welfare or the right to work. In Denmark, 279 migrants have withdrawn
“The children are afraid when there’s a knock at the door. They fear they’ll be taken away again,” says Jaquline tearfully in broken Norwegian, recounting her battles with Norway’s child welfare services which have been accused of unduly tearing families
The Norwegian immigration office is giving hundreds of ‘asylum seekers’ a bonus 10,000 kroner (£822) to leave the country voluntarily – on top of the thousands already offered in expenses. The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (Utlendingsdirektoratet – UDI) has announced they will pay
Norway’s Immigration Minister has been ridiculed after floating in the Mediterranean to see “what it feels like to be a refugee”. Sylvi Listhaug donned an orange survival suit while in a boat off the island of Lesbos before jumping into
Some child brides are living with older husbands in asylum centres in Scandinavia, triggering a furore about lapses in protection for girls in nations that ban child marriage. Authorities have in some cases let girls stay with their partners, believing
Norwegian authorities have violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s human rights by holding him in solitary confinement in a three-cell complex where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise, a court in Oslo ruled Wednesday. In a written
Two Canadian hostages have surfaced in a video to make a “final urgent appeal” for their government to save them from imminent decapitation by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked jihadist group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines.
A left wing activist has bared all to a Norwegian documentary crew about his rape at the hands of a Somalian migrant, and his despair at seeing the man deported. An active member of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party (SV)
On September 21, 2010, the Secretary of State announced the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) at the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (GCI)—with the Clinton Foundation being one of the “Strategic Partnerships and Alliances.” By November 2014, more than $400 million had been raised for the project.
For the first time in its recorded history, the number of Norwegians who say they do not believe in God has topped the number of those who do believe, with atheism reaching a national record well up in the double
Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik goes to court on Tuesday to accuse the Norwegian state of inhuman treatment, in a case that is raising questions about how to deal with a man who killed 77 people in 2011. The militant
In a dark snowy forest, two military vehicles thunder by, the wailing sirens waking those who have just dozed off. Exhausted, the group must quickly pack up camp and resume their night march. This is not a scene playing in
(Reuters) – Norway’s $830 billion (£584 billion) sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, does not see the prospect of Britain leaving the European Union as a significant risk to its investments, its chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday. The comments
In northern Norway only one percent of migrants who crossed the border from Russia have been granted asylum. Norwegian media VG reports just 67 who made the journey across Russia to the northern most border of Norway were accepted as legitimate
The mysterious alt-right “Soldiers of Odin” vigilante group has warned Norway could “get dangerous” as local Islamists reveal they have formed a vigilante gang called the “Soldiers of Allah” to patrol Nordic streets adorned with the black flag of Islamic State
The European Union’s (EU) Enlargement Commissioner has claimed Russia is working to destabilise the continent by flooding it with migrants from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Speaking in an interview with Germany’s Zeit, EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn articulated his view that it was “no coincidence”
Tesla’s just-released annual 10-K for 2015 acknowledges that sales in China tanked by 33 percent, and the market value for environmental credits has plunged by 49 percent, since last year.
Child brides being brought to Europe by their often considerably older migrant husbands are to be separated in Denmark, but one high profile Imam is urging the government to accept “that it is a different culture”. A number of recent cases
Official figures have shown that last year dozens of married child brides arrived as migrants applying for asylum in Norway, with the youngest being just 11 years old. Data from the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs (Bufdir) seen by the Norwegian Broadcasting
More than 800 so-called asylum seekers have withdrawn their applications in Norway and left the country, apparently deciding that the Scandinavian haven wasn’t as nice as they expected. In total, 31,145 people sought asylum in Norway last year. One in
When the Leave.EU campaign saw that Erik Oddvar Eriksen, the director of Oslo University’s Brussels-funded Centre for European Studies, was telling the British press that being like Norway was “the worst thing that could happen” to the UK, they were
A “Refugees Welcome” campaigner has been arrested in Norway for trying to take away migrants scheduled to be deported. “I have not done anything illegal,” Merete Eriksson told Norwegian news VG after she attempted to whisk away migrants who were in
The commencement of group deportations of failed asylum seekers from Norway to Russia has prompted dozens to abscond from the low-security migrant camps in which they have until now been housed. Norway is one of the northern European nations which has been
“She kissed him — it’s an invitation to have sex.” The asylum seeker’s answer hangs in the air. The instructor’s smile falters, and an explanation is required. In Norway, migrants are being given courses to prevent violence against women, especially
A three-year-old migrant has allegedly been raped by multiple people at an asylum centre in the Norwegian city of Stavanger. Police are investigating the incident amid claims the boy was abused in the shared common area of the asylum centre,
The head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has traveled to Sweden and warned counterparts in the largely liberal, pro mass migration nation that Muslim immigrants are resistant to integration and can cause “problems” for the host nation. “A
As Europe’s migrant crisis deepens, Norway is considering passing a new law to stop its citizens fighting for Islamic State. Anders Anundsen, Norwegian Minister of Justice, said current laws were too lenient and that more must be done to punish
Norway is offering classes to newly-arrived migrants telling them that “to force someone into sex is not permitted in Norway, even when you are married to that person.” The five-hour programme involves group discussions on sex and rape and has
Norway’s Prime Minister has appointed a politician from the anti-mass migration Progress Party as the country’s first ever immigration minister. In a reshuffle of her cabinet this week, Prime Minister Erna Solberg appointed Sylvi Listhaug to the new post in
Hundreds of migrants entering Norway have images of severed heads and executions on their phones, police have admitted. Norway has seen an “explosion” of migrants crossing into the country in recent months, meaning that police are finding it increasingly difficult
Parents at a Norwegian school were left astounded when the school asked permission for their children to take part in a Christmas ritual in which children dance around a tree singing carols. Some questioned just how much further schools will
An Iraqi national who is believed to have smuggled jihadists into Europe has been arrested as part of a wider anti-terror sweep after being heard planning further terror attacks. Majid Muhamad, a 45-year-old kebab shop owner, was arrested in the Italian city of
Nearly one thousand migrants who have not found Europe to be quite as nice as they hoped have applied for government funding to go home again through a voluntary repatriation scheme. The Norwegian government offers voluntary repatriation to unwanted migrants
The Norwegian government has dropped requirements for religious buildings housing migrants to remove crosses after a national backlash. The requirement by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) had been directed at Churches hoping to house asylum seekers, to ensure the buildings
Norway last week changed their asylum rules so refugees who had previously resided in safe-state Russia would be sent back, but they aren’t wanted there either — leaving a large number of migrants stuck at the frozen Russia Norway Border crossing
Norway has taken out a front-page advertisement in a major Afghan newspaper warning would-be migrants that potential asylum seekers “will be returned by force”, while the Belgian asylum secretary has written directly to migrants asking them not to come. The headline
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