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By Reuters Staff (Adds finmin quotes, GDP forecast, detail) OSLO, May 11 (Reuters) - Norway should spend a record amount of cash from its $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund this year as it continues to battle the pandemic’s economic impact, the centre-right minority coalition government told parliament on Tuesday. Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner now proposes withdrawing 402.6 billion Norwegian crowns ($48.66 billion) from the wealth fund in 2021, up from 331.1 billion crowns seen last Novem...

Universities see sharp rise in applicants from abroad Eight out of 10 Norwegian universities are experiencing strong growth in the number of applicants from abroad, with demand at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) rising as much as 184% for international programmes. While OsloMet had 1,454 applicants last year for studies in international social welfare and health policy, international education and development, and applied computer and information technology, this year’s figure is 4,134...

Norways Second Biggest City Bans Naming Streets For Men -       With 9 out of 10 current streets in Bergen, Norway honoring men, the city council has decided that every new street name will be a womans. 2021-05-03 The southern Norwegian city of Bergen has approved a ban on naming future streets and public spaces after men. Norwegian daily Dagbladet reported last week that the decision came after a years-long debate over histo...

Farmers demand billions in support April 28, 2021 Norwegian farmers’ two major lobbying organizations have handed over demands for NOK 2.1 billion in taxpayer support for the year ahead, spread over cost coverage, higher prices for their products and direct subsidy from the state budget. It would amount to income growth of nearly NOK 50,000 a year, more than triple what most other workers are getting. Farmers like this one harvesting his field in Nittedal have lofty expectations for state s...

The Latest: Modis Defeat, Cryptocurrency Spikes, Colosseums New Floor Inter Milan supporters are celebrating outside the Duomo di Milano after the Italian soccer team won the Serie A title for the first time in 11 years, ending Juventus nine-year reign in Italy. - Alberico/ROPI/ZUMA Press       2020-05-03 Welcome to Monday, where Modi loses a key state after COVID backlash, a different cryptocurrency record is broken and the anc...

38-year-old Japanese national Hiroyuki Ogu is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and is being sought by police in Laos in relation to a murder enquiry linked to the death of his Norwegian girlfriend in January 2020. Efforts to locate the man by his family involving a former UN police chief in Norway have suggested he has been living in Thailand either in Ko Phangan where the couple first met or in Bangkok. However, some recent reports suggest the killer may have absconded to Cambodia. A form...

+ SPEECH DELIVERED BY HON. DR. OWUSU AFRIYIE AKOTO ON THE OCCASION OF THE 2021 RE: AKOTO MEMORIAL LECTURES The Chairman of the Council of State, Nana Otuo Siribour II, Juabenhen; The Chief Justice, My Lord Kwasi Anin-Yeboah; The Former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Michael Aaron Ocquaye; The Director of the Ghana School of Law and Faculty; The Vice Chancellor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Faculty; General Secretary and Regional Chairmen of the New Patriotic ...

Seren Selvin Korkmaz By pledging to draft a civilian constitution and further imagining Turkey’s future in the European Union, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his cabinet have recently sent out ‘pseudo-reform’ signals to the rest of the world. At the same time, the government has bluntly intensified its repression at home. Indeed, just before the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the European Council president, Charles Michel, visited Ankara in Mar...

Green light for new northern train line April 20, 2021 UPDATED: A majority in Parliament has overruled the Norwegian government and voted Tuesday to start working on an extension of the Nordlandsbanen train line to Tromsø. Transport Minister Knut Arild Hareide called the vote “irresponsible” because of the huge costs involved. The new line would finally extend train service in Norway north to Tromsø, through some spectacular scenery but also areas of rough weather and terrain. Plans ha...

Latest Corona-related news in brief: April 21, 2021 CORONA INFECTION LEVELS IN NORWAY HAVE DECLINED by nearly half since they peaked in mid-March, according to new data from public health institute FHI. That raises prospects that the government will be able to proceed with its cautious reopening program in May and restrictions may be eased even Oslo, which has had the highest infection rates. Last week’s 3,717 new confirmed cases of the Corona virus are down 43 percent from the same time la...