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		<title>New alarms ring for the royals</title>
		<link>https://www.newsinenglish.no/2026/06/05/new-alarms-ring-for-the-royals/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Norway’s Royal Family was in crisis mode again heading into the weekend, after Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s health worsened. She’s officially been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant, just days after her husband and daughter rushed back to Oslo from abroad. Crown Prince Haakon was on a long-planned official trip to Japan that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Parliament agrees on new defense plan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All nine political parties in the Norwegian Parliament came together on Wednesday to present a new long-term defense plan. It involves an extra NOK 11 billion on defense spending after all the top politicians involved managed to set priorities. There&#8217;s been broad agreement on the need for enhanced defense even after all the inceased allocations [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Social media restrictions hard to impose</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian government has been keen to restrict social media access to those under age 16, but that&#8217;s proving more difficult than expected. A new law proposal has reportedly been watered down, and the tech companies may not face fines after all if they fail to make sure all of their social media customers are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More alcohol restrictions loosen up</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Norway is known for its strict rules around the purchase and consumption of alcoholic beverages, from high taxes to the state monopoly on retail sales. They&#8217;ve been loosening up in recent years, though, and now the government is proposing that both Norwegian wine, bubbly and spirits can be sold directly from the farms where they&#8217;re [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ice hockey heroes joined football send-off</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Norway&#8217;s national ice hockey team avoided a meltdown at the world championships in Switzerland over the weekend, and ended up with the bronze medal after beating mighty Canada. They celebrated with thousands of Norwegian football fans back in Oslo on Monday, who&#8217;d gathered for a World Cup warm-up match against Sweden that Norway also won. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;Narvik Agreement&#8217; on joint Norwegian-French defense wins support</title>
		<link>https://www.newsinenglish.no/2026/05/31/narvik-agreement-on-joint-norwegian-french-defense-wins-support/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anti-nuclear activists in Norway are unhappy with their country&#8217;s new defense agreement with France, named after the northern Norwegian city where French allies helped fight back against Nazi invaders. Others, though, have been praising the pact and giving Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre credit for being &#8220;politically brave&#8221; in a &#8220;completely new security situation.&#8221; The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Football stars excused from match against Sweden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Neither the captain of Norway&#8217;s national men&#8217;s football team, Martin Ødegaard, nor Norway&#8217;s football superstar Erling Braut Haaland will be playing in an exhibition match against Sweden in Oslo on Monday. That&#8217;s just the day before the entire team heads for the World Cup in North America, and head coach Ståle Solbakken thinks they need [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Security boosted around princess</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Australian police have heightened security around Norway&#8217;s Princess Ingrid Alexandra, who&#8217;s studying at the University of Sydney. They&#8217;ve also issued a restraining order around a man who&#8217;s reportedly believed to have been threatening her. The Daily Telegraph newspaper has reported that a &#8220;suspicious&#8221; letter had been sent to the princess, the contents of which were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Man charged in disappearance case</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 12:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been nearly eight years since Anne-Elisabeth Hagen disappeared from her home in Lørenskog, northeast of Oslo. Now a man in his 50s has been charged in the case, but he claims he had nothing to do with it. Hagen, married to wealthy Norwegian businessman Tom Hagen, is believed to have been kidnapped or murdered [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gaza activists claim they were abused</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 11:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three Norwegians, among those arrested by Israeli forces in international waters off Gaza in May, returned to Norway last week. They claimed they were among those suffering abuse while in Israeli custody, while a fourth Norwegian living in Wales reported being beaten and held in a dark container on board a cargo ship, while others [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Security threat prods new defense pact</title>
		<link>https://www.newsinenglish.no/2026/05/28/security-threat-prods-new-defense-pact/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS: As security threats rise around the world, Norway continues to cement even closer ties with other NATO allies in Europe. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was back in Paris this week to sign another new mutual defense agreement with France, even though it set off some concerns over nuclear weapons issues from his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hotel- and restaurant strikes over</title>
		<link>https://www.newsinenglish.no/2026/05/28/hotel-restaurant-strike-over-for-most/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 13:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: Members of one of Norway&#8217;s largest trade union federations, Fellesforbundet, could head back to work on Thursday after their hotel- and restaurant employers settled a lengthy strike. The strike continued  for around 350 members of another labour organization, Parat, but then it also was called off later on Thursday afternoon. The strike had entered [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Royal guards on tour</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 07:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PHOTO FEATURE: There&#8217;s nothing quite like all the pomp and circumstance that surround Norway&#8217;s royal guards. They symbolically protect the monarch, standing on duty around the Royal Palace in Oslo, marching through the city on occasion and often winning awards at military tattoos around the world. Lately they&#8217;ve been on tour in the homeland, surrounded [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Abel Prize goes to &#8216;a towering figure in arithmetic geometry&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://www.newsinenglish.no/2026/05/26/abel-prize-goes-to-a-towering-figure-in-arithmetic-geometry/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 17:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters formally awarded this year&#8217;s Abel Prize in mathematics on Tuesday to Gerd Faltings of the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany. Faltings won the prize &#8220;for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry&#8221; and solving historical mathematical riddles. The Abel Prize, often likened to a Nobel Prize in mathematics, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Crown prince meets the press, and then King Harald did, too</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 16:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: Norway&#8217;s Crown Prince Haakon is a busy man, taking on many more royal duties when both his elderly parents and his wife are ill. He finally took time on Tuesday, though, to answer a few more of the many questions tied to Crown Princess Mette-Marit&#8217;s earlier relationship with the late financier and convicted sex [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Two wolves spotted south of Oslo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 15:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two young wolves believed to be looking for partners were observed Tuesday on either side of Oslo Fjord at Vestby and Hurumlandet. One resident saw a wolf under one of the apple trees in his garden, while the other wolf was seen swimming west over the nearby narrow portion of the fjord and going ashore [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MP faces jail term after drunk driving</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 14:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Morten Wold, a Member of Parliament for the conservative Progress Party, is back at work after being pulled over by police during Easter for drunk driving. He has relinquished his post as one of the parliament&#8217;s vice presidents, but he&#8217;s legally bound to serve out his four-year term and may spend some of the summer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ex-industry chief sentenced to jail for corruption</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 16:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stein Lier-Hansen, once one of Norway&#8217;s most powerful men, now faces five years in prison and large compensation claims after being found guilty of serious corruption. It&#8217;s all tied to his long career representing industrial employers in labour negotiations over nearly two decades, and how the national employers&#8217; organization NHO failed to uncover misappropriation of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queen Sonja on sick leave again</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Norway&#8217;s 88-year-old Queen Sonja has had to pull out of a long-planned royal tour to Vestlandet next week, after she once again experienced heart trouble. &#8220;The queen needs rest, care and medication,&#8221; staff at the Royal Palace announced during the long holiday weekend. Queen Sonja was on the balcony of the palace during the recent [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hundreds of petrol stations shut down in Norway</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 11:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Norwegians have long led the world in replacing fossil-fuel vehicles with electric ones, and that&#8217;s having more consequences than just a decline in emissions. The numbers of petrol/gasoline stations are declining dramatically nationwide. News service Nettavisen reports that 430 stations have shut down since 2020, raising predictions that Norway will only have 730 left by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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