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Bawer: Oslo Car Fires Highlight Threat to Norway’s Future

Taken together, two seemingly unrelated news stories from Norway paint a grim picture of that city’s future. First, you need to know that Oslo is a sprawling, low-lying city, more of a small-scale Los Angeles than a small-scale New York.  … Continue reading

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Journalists in Norway, Russia get WikiLeaks files

A Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, now claims to have the full cache of over 250,000 State Department cables originally obtained by WikiLeaks. It's not clear how Aftenposten got the documents, which presumably were not provided directly from WikiLeaks. "We have no … Continue reading

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'One of the Greatest Setbacks Since World War II'

Norway’s foreign minister has described the group of the 20 most important industrialized and developing nations, which will meet this weekend in Toronto, as the “greatest setback” for the international community since World War II. In an interview with SPIEGEL … Continue reading

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