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Støre closing in on Erna Solberg’s job April 16, 2021 Backed by more favourable polls both for his Labour Party and himself, Jonas Gahr Støre seems to be closing in on his goal over the past six years: to take over as Norway’s next prime minister. It’s looking more and more likely that Støre will be able to replace the Conservatives’ Erna Solberg and form a new left-center coalition of Labour, the Center Party and the Socialist Left (SV).  Jonas Gahr Støre, leader of the Labour P...

Labour bashed over drug reform rejection April 19, 2021 Left-wing parties in Parliament along with those in government were disappointed after the Labour Party rejected the government’s proposal to decriminalize use and possession of small amounts of narcotics. The rejection was met with both harsh criticism and vows to revive the effort. Labour leader Jonas Gahr Støre led the opposition to drug law reform and prevailed, but a large bloc of his own party faithful still support it. It was i...

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Commission hails Norway’s ‘resiliency’ April 14, 2021 Norway has survived the Corona pandemic better than most, according to a state commission that delivered its verdict Wednesday on how the country has handled it. Preparedness for a pandemic was poor, as it was in most other countries, but “Norwegian resiliency” based on the public’s trust in their leaders has carried the country through what the commission called Norway’s “greatest crisis since World War II.” Norway’s C...

Latest Corona-related news in brief: April 14, 2021 FACED WITH A LOOMING SHORTAGE OF VACCINE in Norway, the head of an expert group studying Corona’s economic impact is urging expansion of the period between the first and second shots. That would allow more Norwegians to get their first shot, and that can help prevent the spread of infection. Steinar Holden, a professor of economics at the University of Oslo, leads the government’s panel that’s evaluating the social and economic consequ...

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Sweden's former prime minister has enraged the country's neighbours by suggesting in a tweet that if Sweden had been invaded by Nazi Germany, it would have put up more of a fight than Denmark and Norway did.

Ultra-nationalist football fans in Istanbul Foto: SEDAT SUNA / EPA-EFE Turkish mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı has spent decades terrorizing rivals and those holding different political views than his own. As one of the leading figures of a right-wing extremist group called the Grey Wolves, which has focused its ire in the past on leftists, Kurds and Alawites, Çakıcı is thought to be responsible for at least 41 political murders. In 2004, a court sentenced him to 19 years in prison, in part...

April 9, 2021 The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Turkey’s main Kurdish political movement and the third-largest force in its parliament, is determined to fight a controversial bid to outlaw the party, boosted by the Constitutional Court’s provisional rejection of the charge sheet last week. The closure case against the HDP is the culmination of a long-running crackdown on the party. Scores of senior party members, including former co-chair Selahattin Demirtas, have landed in jail, while...

The distasteful historical description of the Ewe ethnic group: Another classic case of an unlearning Ghanaian politician Listen to article The politics of ethnocentrism predates our 4th Republic, has achieved nothing but the usual deep-seated division among the ethnic groups crippling social cooperation at schools, other corporate organisations and various work places ostensibly as a result of lack of trust it creates among people belonging to especially some specific ethnicity. Politicians ...