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The bottomless pit
Roger Aamund 
Major democratic countries such as the USA, the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands are reducing aid to developing countries because it does not…

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A warm welcome, Satan
Lars Hedegaard 
Critics of the United States’ and Israel’s attempts to remove the man-eaters in Tehran are effectively trying to save a regime that competes with…

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Another mosque planned in northern Sweden – now the funding is being reported to the security service
Helena Edlund 
Plans to establish a large mosque on Frösön, just outside Östersund, have sparked debate in the local community. The municipality has now confirmed that…

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamists will flock to the West as they lose in the Middle East
Hans Rustad 
We are witnessing a major shift: Islamists are losing ground in the Middle East, but where will they go? They already have footholds in…

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Where is the Church of Norway heading?
Helge Rønneberg Mjelva 
What was long Norway’s seminary for priests has now appointed an imam from Islam Net. Where, then, is the Church of Norway heading? Should…

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The Return of History
Lars Hedegaard 
When today’s left condemns Trump rather than the mullahs, it echoes the Cold War era, when the Soviet Union was seen as good and…

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Iran bets on chaos
Hans Rustad 
To the outside world, it appears incomprehensible: Iran has attacked 12 countries in the region, even those with which it has friendly relations, such…

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Norway’s climate targets: A costly prestige project of political dreams
Thorstein Opsahl 
It is absurd that Norway should spend large resources on a green prestige project in which the rest of the world has little desire…

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Document journalist barred from covering Iran demo: – I'll sue you
Atle Hansson 
Foreign Palestine activists claimed full right to eject Document journalist Bente Haarstad from a public demo in Trondheim. Police actually said I provoked the…

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Norway FM Eide: USA abdicates its role as guarantor of the liberal world order
Editorial Team 
Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide delivers a foreign policy statement to the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, 3. March 2026.

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US immigrant on Nordic migration policy: “How can you allow this?
Helena Edlund 
A no-strings-attached Scandinavian immigration policy is an incomprehensible phenomenon. American Rosalia came to the United States at the age of nine. – How is…

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The strike on Iran is daring and may prove successful
Kasper Støvring 
The operation in Iran is not about attempting to export democracy, and it does not risk becoming a quagmire for the USA, as Iraq…

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I got banned from X!
Lise Sørensen 
After sharing a TikTok video with a sexualized comment directed at me and commenting on it on X, I was temporarily banned from the…

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Is the Gorton and Denton election a glimpse of Britain’s future?
Kathrine Jebsen Moore 
Hannah Spencer from the Green Party won the by-election in Gorton and Denton in Manchester by a landslide. But her party is less about…

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The Nordic countries must stop submitting to Ramadan
John Martin Johansen 
It must be fully acceptable to say, clearly and unapologetically: no thank you to Islam, no thank you to Ramadan, and no thank you…

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Norway PM concerned as Iranian people near freedom
Hans Rustad 
With their comments on the war against Iran, both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister have shown that they become concerned only when…