Norwegian soldiers have embarked on the longest mid-winter training exercise in recent history, cutting all contact with the outside world for 100 days as they prepare for warfare behind enemy lines.

2025年1月15日 · NEWS ANALYSIS: From its strategic Arctic areas in the far north, to its border to Russia in northeastern Finnmark and vast offshore territory in the west and south: Norway is battening down the hatches. New defense and preparedness plans “will affect every one of us,” declared Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre while rolling out the […]

3 天之前 · Norwegian soldiers have embarked on the longest mid-winter training exercise in recent history, cutting all contact with the outside world for 100 days as they prepare for warfare behind enemy lines. It’s all part of Norway’s ongoing concentration on northern defense issues that also extend to its Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The Norwegian troops started […]

3 天之前 · Three masked men were reportedly seen running from the scene of a shooting inside an apartment in Oslo’s Grünerløkka neighbourhood Wednesday night. Their target was a man in his 20s, who was said by police to be critically injured but conscious when ambulance crews arrived. Police said there also were others in the apartment at […]

2025年1月10日 · Criminal networks from abroad and local gangs are among the biggest threats facing the Norwegian public and police. Now the latter have an extra NOK 600 million in state funding to help ward them off.

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2024年2月12日 · Norway’s national security- and intelligence agencies released their evaluations of threats against Norway on Monday, and they’re the highest and most serious in decades. China and Norway’s neighbouring Russia still pose the biggest threats, they claim, while the threat of terrorist attacks is “moderate.” The evaluations come from Norway’s foreign- and military intelligence agency ...

2024年12月26日 · UPDATED: Three passengers on board a bus bound for Lofoten in Northern Norway were killed and 11 sent to hospital after the bus ran off the E10 highway in stormy weather on Thursday. Several of the nearly 60 passengers on the bus were visitors from China, Singapore, India, Malysia, the Netherlands and France. That made […]

2024年10月22日 · The Norwegian government claimed it was boosting border control earlier this month and announced Tuesday that the stricter control will be extended until November 11. The reason is an ongoing assessment that the threat of a terrorist attack has risen. The government first announced higher threat- and security levels on October 8, mostly because of […]

2023年11月28日 · Norwegian government officials were back in court on Tuesday, trying to fend off another legal challenge to their refusal to stop searching for more oil and gas. On the eve of the next UN climate summit, they’re on the defensive after being sued by local environmental organizations demanding an immediate halt to the development of […]