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President Hichilema Welcomes Norwegian Minister for International Development, Highlights Strengthening Ties
Lusaka Times
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July 28, 2025
President Hakainde Hichilema hosted His Excellency Åsmund Grøver Aukrust, Minister for International Development of the Kingdom of Norway, along with his distinguished delegation, in a meeting that reaffirmed the growing partnership between Zambia...
Imperatives of strategic reforms in Nigeria’s quest for sustainable economic development (2)
New National Star
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July 28, 2025
Prof Mike Ozekhome INTRODUCTION In the inaugural edition of this treatise, we examined the challenges of the subject matter; the need for major reforms; the concept of sustainable economic development in such areas as agriculture, human capital,...
Skretting Norway names Mads Martinsen as its new CEO
Feed Strategy
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July 28, 2025
Mads Martinsen has been appointed CEO of Skretting Norway, after Håvard Walde became Skretting’s new managing director for the salmon business in Australia, Chile, North America and Norway. “I am filled with both joy and awe at being allowed to...
Trump’s Seabed Mining Plan Sparks Backlash
Oil Price
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August 2, 2025
United States President Donald Trump aims to develop the country’s seabed mining industry to access a supply of critical minerals, which are vitally needed across several industries, to reduce reliance on China. However, as seabed mining is an...
Iceland Is Currently Much More Expensive Than Norway
Reykjavik Grapevine
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July 28, 2025
The Icelandic króna is at one of its strongest levels in history, making Iceland considerably more expensive than Norway and raising concerns about the competitiveness of the country’s export sectors, RÚV reports. The currency has seen a sharp...
Zambia impressed the world with drought response, Norwegian Minister praises Hichilema
Zambian Observer
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July 28, 2025
Zambia impressed the world with drought response, Norwegian Minister praises Hichilema NORWEGIAN Minister of International Development Asmund Grover Aukrust has commended the Zambian government for demonstrating exceptional leadership during the...
Rainy summer continues in Czechia, tropical weather still elusive
Radio Prague International
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July 28, 2025
Central Europe, including Czechia, is experiencing unusually cold and rainy weather this summer, thanks to a high pressure area that has settled over northern Scandinavia. July temperatures in the country are even lower than currently reported...
River Cities Big Band performs Thursday in Norway
The Daily News - Michigan
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The River Cities Big Band performs Thursday in the bandshell in downtown Norway as part of Music in the Park. NORWAY — This week, Music in the Park will welcome a seasoned group of performers who are “back by popular demand,” as the River Cities...
Has Norway Become Too Rich for Its Own Good? When Abundance Threatens National Momentum
Tunisie Numerique
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July 26, 2025
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp With a sovereign wealth fund nearing $2 trillion—the equivalent of around $340,000 per citizen—Norway has long been regarded as a prosperous welfare state, built on the back of a lucky oil discovery in 1969. Yet...
Norwegian Cruise Line unveils its Northern Hemisphere spring/summer 2027 deployment
Travel Weekly
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July 25, 2025
Norwegian Cruise Line has unveiled its Northern Hemisphere spring/summer 2027 deployment, featuring nearly 500 individual voyages across 20 ships, departing from nearly 30 of the world’s top homeports. Departure homeports include Rome...
Huge sum Ed Miliband’s green policies will add to every family’s energy bills as PM’s pledge to cut costs in tatters
The Sun
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August 2, 2025
By Nick Timothy, Tory MP for West Suffolk Sitting next to the Prime Minister, Donald Trump said Labour’s taxes on North Sea oil and gas “make no sense” and he called Ed Miliband’s wind farms a “con job”. Keir Starmer looked like a rabbit in the...
Green transition: sustainable for whom?
Meer
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July 27, 2025
In January 2025, Amnesty International’s branches in Norway, Sweden, and Finland, in collaboration with the Saami Council, released a report1 uncovering human rights violations against the Sámi Indigenous People linked to the green transition. The...
Dublin weather: Azores high 'not playing' as 'big time' summer heat return forecast
Dublin Live
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July 27, 2025
Ireland is set to brace itself for a significant surge in summer temperatures as we edge towards August, forecasters have said. Multiple forecasts are reporting how the start of August will see a massive improvement in our weather, thanks to the...
‘Climate action is too costly’: how the far right and big business are weaponising social instability to block progress
Vox Europ
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July 24, 2025
Claim to be verified: "Climate policies are too costly," is a reiterated mantra in the context of political discourse in Europe aimed at framing the ecological transition as burdensome and undesirable. They carry an even greater burden for society...
Dutch hiker found alive after two days lost in Norway’s mountains
NL Times
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July 27, 2025
A Dutch man who went missing during a solo hike near the popular Trollstigen mountain route in Norway was found alive Saturday afternoon after more than two days in dense fog and difficult weather, NOS reported. The man, whose name has not been...
To Fight Climate Change, Norway Wants to Become Europe's Carbon Dump
Slashdot
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Liquefied CO2 will be transported by ship to "the world's first carbon shipping port," reports the Washington Post — an island in the North Sea where it will be "buried in a layer of spongy rock a mile and a half beneath the seabed." Norway's...
Climate Policy Support Tied to Attribution, Not Weather Exposure
The Energy Mix
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July 24, 2025
Experiencing extreme weather alone doesn’t boost support for climate policies—what matters is whether people connect those events to climate change, a new study published in the journal Nature reveals. Led by Viktoria Cologna at ETH Zurich, the...
The tiny island part of Europe dubbed the 'loneliest place on Earth'
Daily Express
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August 2, 2025
Scattered across the globe are a vast range of islands that belong to countries often thousands of miles away, ranging from the UK-owned volcanic island in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha, to the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, owned by...
Stellar Savings for the Solar Maximum - Save Up to 35% on Norwegian Coastal Cruises This Winter
Breaking Travel News
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July 27, 2025
With the eleven-year solar maximum cycle at its peak, this winter is set to offer more incredible showings of the Northern Lights. Havila Voyages’ coastal ships act like mobile observatories, travelling directly under the aurora zone, and can now...
Norway shares bottle recycling success with Vietnam
ScandAsia
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July 23, 2025
ShareSharePin ItShare Norway is offering to share its experience in plastic recycling with Vietnam, as part of broader cooperation on sustainability and climate goals. In a recent interview with VTV1’s Net Zero program, Chargé d’affaires a.i. at...