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Norway’s central bank followed other countries’ this week in keeping their key interest rates unchanged even as inflation rises. Raising rates could have stemmed price hikes, but also could have further weakened Norway’s currency, the krone. “Inflation is too high, and the rapid rise in business costs in recent years will contribute to keeping inflation [...

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Nearly 1.5 million Norwegians stayed up late Tuesday night to watch their national football team run over Iraq’s in its opening match at the World Cup in Boston. Once again, it was Norwegian superstar Erling Braut Haaland who stole the show, like he has so many times before. The match didn’t start until midnight in […]

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Norway’s Royal Palace announced on Wednesday that Crown Princess Mette-Marit has already undergone what her doctors call a “successful” lung transplant at the national hospital in Oslo, Rikshospitalet. She’d been put on the waiting list less than two weeks ago, but her waiting time was relatively short and her prospects are good. Both the palace […]

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Norwegian Defense Minister Tore O Sandvik has been a driving force behind Norway’s massive military build-up in recent years. Now he needs to defend not only the country but his ministry and himself as well, after reports of messy accounting practices in key defense purchasing units. The trouble first arose when the state auditor general […]

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Marius Borg Høiby, the 29-year-old son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, was slapped with a four-year prison term on Monday morning after being found guilty of two rapes, domestic violence and several other crimes. His sentence was just under half of what prosecutors had sought but more than double that which his defense attorneys thought he […]

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