The Latest Breaking News from Norway

Arne Treholt, a Norwegian diplomat who sold Western secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War and as recently as 2020 warned countrymen not to antagonise Russia, has died in Moscow aged 80, the Norwegian government said on Monday.

Arne Treholt, the former Norwegian Foreign Ministry official who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in what became Norway’s biggest Cold War espionage scandal has died in his Moscow home

Russia will seek to gather more intelligence about Norway's oil and gas infrastructure as part of efforts to put pressure on European energy supplies, the Nordic country's police security agency (PST) said in its annual threat assessment on Monday.

Iran has long been one of the world's most prolific executioners. But it seems to have taken the death penalty to a new level recently, with dozens of people executed in the last few weeks, according to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights. The UN has denounced what it calls…

Plug-in electric car sales in Norway significantly decreased in January to 1,419 (down 80 percent year-over-year).

The government of oil-rich Norway is looking to donate 75 billion kroner ($7.3 billion) in a multiyear support package to Ukraine

Norway's prime minister proposed on Monday that his country, a major petroleum exporter, should provide some 75 billion crowns ($7.3 billion) in aid to Ukraine over five years.

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland can improve by watching and learning from his Tottenham Hotspur counterpart Harry Kane, manager Pep Guardiola said before the Premier League champions travel to the north London club on Sunday. Norway's Haaland, 22, scored his fourth league hat-trick in City's 3-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers…

Six international envoys will arrive in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Wednesday on an official two-day visit to push forward the political transition. Envoys from the United States, France, Norway, Britain, Germany and European Union will meet with local officials to help bridge the divide between rivals, reported the state…

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund threatens to vote against boards on firms it holds investments with over lax climate and social targets

Norwegian police said on Friday they intend to continue to interrogate former Wagner mercenary group commander Andrei Medvedev, who fled from Russia to Norway last month after fighting in the war in Ukraine.