December 5, 2023
Norway announced Friday that it will start barring Russian-registered passenger cars from entering the Scandinavian country starting next week, mirroring sanctions imposed by the European Union against Moscow over its war on Ukraine. Norway, which is a member of NATO but not of the EU, has a 123-mile-long border in the Arctic with Russia. The
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Norway’s data regulator will refer the fine it has imposed on Meta Platforms to the European data authority, it said on Thursday, a move that could make the fine permanent and widen it to the European Union. The owner of Facebook and Instagram has been fined one million crowns ($93,000) per day since Aug. 14,
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A former Wagner Group commander who fled to Norway in January in hopes of claiming asylum has been arrested on suspicion of trying to get back across the border into Russia, his lawyer says. The reported arrest of ex-mercenary Andrey Medvedev comes after he was sentenced in April to 14 days in jail for disorderly conduct and
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Norway said Russian forces have pulled back from its border in the Arctic, claiming the number of soldiers Moscow has there now is “20% or less” compared to the start of the Ukraine war. “On our border, our region’s border there is maybe 20% or less forces, less than before Feb. 24, 2022,” Norwegian Chief
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In line with Norwegian law, both Bore and the landowner will receive a reward although the sum has not yet been determined. A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewellery using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery archaeologists said on Thursday was Norway’s “gold find of the century”. “At first
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Meta Platforms can be fined for breaching users’ privacy, a Norwegian court ruled on Wednesday, stopping an attempt by the owner of Facebook and Instagram to halt a fine imposed by the Nordic country’s data regulator. Meta has been fined one million crowns ($93,200) per day since Aug. 14 for harvesting user data and using
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Receive free Climate change updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate change news every morning. The writer is professor of energy and climate change and deputy director at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources The unprecedented heatwaves ravaging the US, Mediterranean and China demonstrate some of the fallout
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They are more expensive to build. Norway inaugurated the world’s biggest floating wind park in the North Sea on Wednesday, an emerging technology considered promising for the transition from fossil fuels to green energy. The Hywind Tampen field is made up of 11 turbines producing up to 8.6 megawatts each, providing five neighbouring oil-and-gas platforms
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OSLO: The head of Norway’s mammoth sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday it would be “quite difficult” to bring down global inflation due to persistent upward pressure brought on by climate change and global market trends. Central banks around the world have struggled to rein in inflation despite numerous interest rate hikes since the end
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All traffic across the bridge was halted a week ago out of fear that it might collapse because of the large volume of water. A railway bridge in southeastern Norway that ran across a river swollen by torrential rain collapsed on Monday, authorities said. ADVERTISEMENT BaneNOR, a government agency in charge of the Norwegian rail
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