Source: BBC News Norway is proposing a ban on the Muslim full face veil and other face-covering clothing because it says it hinders communication between pupils and teachers. The ban, […]
Source: Time BY JENNIFER DUGGAN / SPITSBERGEN Deep in the bowels of an icy mountain on an island above the Arctic Circle between Norway and the North Pole lies a […]
Source: BBC Norway is taking radical steps to try and make a hazardous stretch of coastline safer, by building a tunnel big enough for ships. Original Story
A Muslim organisation in Norway has been criticised for hiring a communications officer who wears a full-face veil, or niqab.Norway’s parliament is expected to ban the niqab in schools later this year The culture minister, Muslim MPs and other Muslim organisations have condemned the Islamic Council of Norway’s move. It […]
NTB/The Local news@thelocal.no 6 January 2017 Police did not reveal what led them to suspect arson. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB scanpix Police suspect that a fire at an asylum centre in Gibostad in Troms county in the early morning hours of Thursday was arson. The fire broke out in […]
Source: Time (OSLO, Norway) — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his efforts to end a civil war that killed more than 200,000 Colombians. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the award should also be seen “as a tribute to the Colombian people who, despite […]
Source: Yahoo News Oslo (AFP) – Norway’s right-wing government on Wednesday announced plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil from classrooms and university lecture halls. Education Minister Torbjorn Roe Isaksen, […]
Malika Bayan sits in a in court in Stavanger Norway Thursday Sept. 8, 2016. A Norwegian court STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian court has found a hairdresser guilty of […]
August 29, 2016 | by Nasir Ahmad | Rabwah Times Muslims from across Norway gathered on the island of Utøya to pray for victims of the Norway attacks. Six years ago in 2011 34-year-old Anders Breivik shot and killed 69 people on the very same island. The Island is owned […]
POST-BREXIT SOLUTIONS By Simon Bradley JUN 28, 2016 – 17:42 An awkward day for British Prime Minister David Cameron, in Brussels for the first post-Brexit EU meeting (Keystone) Post-Brexit Britain is likely to opt for a Swiss-style solution – rather than a Norwegian model – to oversee relations with the […]
Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – PHILIP HAMMOND Today, the UK will co-host the conference “Supporting Syria and the region 2016”, with Germany, Kuwait, Norway and the United Nations. It will take an ambitious new approach to provide longer-term support for refugees through concrete action on livelihoods and jobs, and […]
Norway’s Minister of Immigration and Integration Sylvie Listhaug. (AP) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published — Wednesday 30 December 2015 STOCKHOLM: Norway’s center-right government on Tuesday proposed tightening the country’s asylum rules to avoid what the immigration minister described as “violent consequences” for the country’s welfare system. ADVERTISING 2 The measures, which […]
December 18, 2015 At least 43 unaccompanied refugee children have gone missing from various asylum centers in Norway this year alone, and 25 have died since 2006. Several of those missing were as young as nine years old, and the numbers of refugee children in Norway are now increasing dramatically. Around 4,000 refugee children are […]
Huff Post: After weeks of news of hatred around the world against Jews and Muslims, Norwegians have shown humanity what it truly means to love your neighbor. On Saturday, hundreds […]
Huff Post: After weeks of news of hatred around the world against Jews and Muslims, Norwegians have shown humanity what it truly means to love your neighbor. On Saturday, hundreds […]
Rappler.com: OSLO, Norway – Norwegian Muslims organized a peace vigil in Oslo Saturday, February 21, in a show of solidarity with Jews a week after fatal shootings in Denmark targeted […]
26 Sep 2014 09:22 GMT+02:00 A foundation fronted by Conservative Party politician Aamir Sheikh wants to build a Muslim art centre on the current site of the Munch Museum in Tøyen, Oslo after the museum moves to Bjørvika in 2019. Aamir Sheikh unveiled his plans which included building a small […]
hopenothate.org.uk: A group of Norwegian Muslims will be forming a circle around Oslo synagogue after the celebration of Shabat this Saturday in a solidarity gesture called the Ring of Peace. […]
BBC.com — Norway is the best place to grow old, according to an index of the quality of later life in 96 countries. HelpAge International’s Global AgeWatch Index measures the social and economic welfare of those over 60. Published on the UN International Day of Older Persons, it ranks Australia, […]
Associated Press, Stockholm: Norway’s prime minister and other politicians have joined Muslim leaders and thousands of other people for a demonstration in Oslo against radical Islamists. READ MORE…
