Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, met with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo on Wednesday to discuss NATO's future and Norway's involvement in the Ocean Shield Operation.
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The Norwegian government is to provide NOK 26 million for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The funds will be used to fight crime at the global level.
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Severe forms of terror can be punished with up to 30 years in prison when the government implements the coming changes to the current criminal law.
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The Scandinavian Police Emergency Response Units will in future cooperate closer in order to coordinate the fight against terrorism and in other national emergencies.
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Norway welcomes the historic Global Arms Trade Treaty adopted by the UN General Assembly by a huge majority. The aim of the treaty is to control the trade in conventional arms...Read more...
The Government's evaluation report following the terrorist attack on the BP/Statoil gas plant in Algeria concludes that the Norwegian authorities handled the crisis In Amenas in a good way...Read more...
Three Norwegian Statoil employees who survived the terror attack in In Amenas, Algeria in January, has told about how a series of coincidences saved their lives during the attack.
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The government coalition and the opposition parties on Tuesday joined in a unanimous vote in Parliament, acccepting the report which criticised all that failed on July 22nd 2011.(Photo: Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg)
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The British Islamist extremist, Anjem Choudary, claims to be a mentor for the Norwegian Islamist group, Profetens Ummah (the Prophet's Ummah).
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Norwegian energy provider Statoil has decided to conduct an investigation following the In Amenas terrorist attack in Algeria, in which five Norwegian Statoil employees were killed.
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The head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), Marie Benedicte Bjørndal, says that the national security situation in Norway is not satisfactory.
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People working for the various ministries in the government headquarters in downtown Oslo, worry that bureaucracy is holding up planned security measures after the July 22nd bombing.
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In his foreign policy address to Parliament (Stortinget), Foreign Affairs Minister Espen Barth Eide said that we are living in a time of transition, a time of global changes in terms of power and influence.
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The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) confirms that there is a conflict between the military and the police when it comes to who should have the lead in in the fight against terror in Norway.(Photo: Head of PST Benedicte Bjørnland)
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The Norwegian Defence Command on Thursday strengthened the level of preparedness at all Norwegian military installations to level Alfa (lowest level), following intelligence information from NATO.
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