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Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon visits Minnesota to highlight close ties
Published 3:25 pm Tuesday, October 7, 2025 MPR News Staff Minnesota is getting a brush with royalty this week as the crown prince of Norway visits the state to mark 200 years since the first organized Norwegian emigration to the U.S. Crown Prince...
Owner: Boone Family
Norwegian self-adjusting mooring buoy set to ease solar-hydro integration
Oslo-headquartered Fred. Olsen 1848 has unveiled its Tension Buoy concept, designed to maintain stable mooring tension for floating solar installations in reservoirs and hydropower dams with large water-level variations. Tension Buoy installed in...
Owner: Coert van Zijll Langhout
Two years after Hamas attack, Israel's economy weakened by its international isolation
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Modern Ghana
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Having long sold itself as the 'start-up nation', Israel is now in economic turmoil, with the war it is waging in Gaza resulting in the withdrawal of long-standing partners. Declining growth, a brain drain and diplomatic isolation are diminishing...
Owner: Kwame Owusu
Opinion – The Politics of Presence: Do High-Level Visits Matter in Preventing War?
At a Joint Summit of the Arab League (AL) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Riyadh on November 11, 2023, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Palestine, along with the...
Owner: Stephen Mcglinchey
Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, is visiting Minnesota. Here’s why.
On Oct. 9, 1825, 53 Norwegians arrived in New York via a ship called the Restauration, marking the beginning of Norway emigration to the United States. On Tuesday, almost exactly 200 years later, His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway,...
Owner: Randall D. Smith & Heath Freeman
Norway Pledges $1.2 Million to Support Mine Action
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Cambodianess
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Norwegian Ambassador to Cambodia Astrid Emilie Helle meets with Senior Minister Ly Thuch, first vice president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) on October 6. Photo from AKP PHNOM PENH – Norway has announced $1.2...
Owner: Mengly J. Quach
Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon in MN marking 200 years of organized emigration to the US
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon is marking the 200th anniversary of organized emigration from his homeland to the United States, highlighting the deep connections between the two countries with a visit to the heart of Norwegian...
Owner: Randall D. Smith & Heath Freeman
Denmark central bank publishes updated recommendations on payments resilience
Denmark’s central bank has updated its payments resilience recommendations for citizens and – for the first time – issued guidance for retailers on enabling people to continue paying for goods and services if common payment methods are temporarily...
Owner: Kevin Sorkin & Eva Torka
Norway Becoming West’s Quiet Arctic Battleground With Russia, Beyond Ukraine
Support SouthFront Click to see the full-size image As NATO conducts exercises off Norway’s coast and Washington deploys spy aircraft, Arctic tensions are reaching a breaking point. Moscow’s Arctic strategy, once centered on cooperation, is...
Owner: Russian Government
Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon marks 200 years of organized emigration to US
Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon is photographed outside of a NVIDIA office in Santa Clara, Calif on April 16, 2024. (AP) MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 7, (AP): Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon is marking the 200th anniversary of organized emigration from his...
Owner: Ahmed Al-Jarallah
Myanmar civil groups set to sue Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor
Myanmar civil society groups are set to sue the Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor for sharing customer data with the Southeast Asian nation’s ruling military, which reportedly allowed the junta to track, imprison, and kill civilians. According to...
Owner: Karnika Yashwant
Country Report of Norway for Food Consumption business data collection
Published: 7 October 2025 Approved: 9 September 2025 Abstract Analysis and mapping of national data flows and processes relevant to EFSA's business data collections is a long‐standing EFSA objective, originally launched with EFSA's SIGMA project...
Owner: European Union
Country Report of Norway for Prevalence of Zoonoses and Pathogens business data collection
Published: 7 October 2025 Approved: 9 September 2025 Abstract Analysis and mapping of national data flows and processes relevant to EFSA's business data collections is a long‐standing EFSA objective, originally launched with EFSA's SIGMA project...
Owner: European Union
Finnish researchers uncover gold-forming tree microbes
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OULU, Finland — A new study has uncovered a connection between bacteria living in Norway spruce needles and gold nanoparticles. This discovery, made by the research team at the University of Oulu and Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), Finland,...
Owner: Tim Fixmer
Norway forex snub leaves Gretchen Ho asking: ‘How will this influence our future travels?’
Broadcaster Gretchen Ho raised more questions after a family member’s experience with a money exchange service in Norway, which she reported to the Philippine ambassador to Norway. The TV personality earlier shared that a family member was denied...
Owner: Manuel V. Pangilinan
New financial blow to Israel: Dutch PME fund withdraws investments
The Dutch pension fund PME, with assets totaling $68 billion, has divested from investments in several companies linked to activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, after classifying these holdings as potentially connected to human...
Owner: Mohamed Alayyan
50 European corporates backing startups on the path to growth, innovation, and global impact
Across Europe, big companies are becoming strong backers of startup innovation, and corporate venturing is widely used as a buzzword these days. Beyond investing money, they open doors to customers, provide technical expertise, and create...
Owner: Thomas Ohr
Business of Football: The future is release clauses, the Bank of FIFA, and Leaders takeaways
Let us start with a riddle. I am illegal in France but routine in Spain. I am insanely high at Barcelona and Real Madrid, but was memorably too low at Borussia Dortmund and Ipswich Town. I am usually secret, but miraculously, everyone seems to...
Owner: The Ochs-Sulzberger Family
Myanmar activists to sue Norway’s Telenor for handing data to military
Published On 7 Oct 20257 Oct 2025 A group of civil society organisations in Myanmar plans to take legal action against Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor, accusing it of passing customer data to the country’s military government for use in...
Owner: Qatari Government
Princess Martha Louise of Norway hits back at claims that her marriage to a controversial bisexual shaman is a sham
Princess Martha Louise of Norway and her bisexual American Shaman husband have responded to claims they're in a 'lavender marriage'. Durek Verrett, 50, and Martha Louise, 54, who tied the knot last year, posted a joint Instagram video on Monday to...
Owner: Jonathan Harmsworth