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Hans Rustad

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Norway's Oil Fund CEO boasts that 40% of the staff are non-Norwegian
Hans Rustad 
CEO Nicolai Tangen posted a tweet bragging that 40% of the Oil Fund’s staff are from outside Norway. He was quickly slammed and heavily…

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Norway has voted to put Iran on a UN human rights committee – opposition leader outraged
Hans Rustad 
In near silence, Norway voted to admit Iran to the UN’s Committee for Programme and Coordination under ECOSOC. The Foreign Ministry defends the decision…

Editorials

The disinformation that threatens our security
Hans Rustad 
There is no learning curve for journalists and ‘experts’ covering Trump. The United States is at war. An alliance means solidarity — at the…

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Independent immigrant integration group LIM denied state funding
Hans Rustad 
LIM has been denied state funding and says it will have to shut down unless the decision is reversed. At a time of increased…

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New government HQ opens – With a staggering NOK 53 billion price tag
Hans Rustad 
What do you get for 53 billion kroner? Anyone who sees the new Government Headquarters might well wonder: Where did all the money go?…

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Vance is leaving Islamabad: -No deal
Hans Rustad 
JD Vance and his team has left Islamabad after concluding that the Iranians were not willing to concede on key demands. Vance was not…

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Cannes-bound ‘Fjord’ puts Norwegian child welfare scandals in the spotlight
Hans Rustad 
Norwegian child welfare services (barnevern) once again come under scrutiny in an international film. It is only three years since the Indian “Mrs Chatterjee…

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Ukraine war expands: Ukraine has 200 troops at three bases in Libya behind attack on Russian LNG ship
Hans Rustad 
On March 3, the Russian LNG ship «Arctic Metagaz» was hit by a drone off Libya. The crew was evacuated, leaving the vessel drifting…

Opinion

Europeans are beginning to realise that the split is deeper this time
Hans Rustad 
Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes says Europeans have realised that the NATO crisis is more serious than they assumed, and that there is a…

Editorials

The march of the psychopaths
Hans Rustad 
The media are no longer reporters — they are active players. If forced to choose between Trump and the ayatollahs in Tehran, they choose…

Opinion

Norway's state broadcaster: -Is Trump mentally fit?
Hans Rustad 
NRK’s newsreader asks Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide: ‘Is Trump mentally competent?’ NRK pathologizes the US president and asks Norway’s foreign minister for a…

Opinion

Ukraine is a laboratory for European drone production
Hans Rustad 
Europeans are being fed propaganda against the USA and Israel. It is not for nothing that Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant have been indicted…

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Defiant Iran says “No” to opening the strait of Hormuz
Hans Rustad 
Iran rejects Pakistan’s compromise proposal. This means a showdown between Trump and the ayatollahs is now looming. They lack air defence, and Israeli and…

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Historic cross burned on Good Friday in Warsaw
Hans Rustad 
A huge cross consecrated by John Paul II at Piłsudski Square in Warsaw during his first Mass in his homeland on 2 June 1979…

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MBS: Obama gave Iran $150 billion in sanctions relief
Hans Rustad 
Obama sent 1.7 billion dollars in cash to the ayatollahs, but the really big sums came from sanctions relief. No less than Saudi Arabia’s…

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Dramatic rescue operation
Hans Rustad 
It was a race to get there before the tribes hunting for the bounty on the missing pilot. The window of time was closing,…