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DNB is among several banks that receive complaints from indigenous people in Australia due to loans for gas projects

A group of Australian indigenous people lodged a complaint with Singapore’s DBS Bank and 11 other international banks on Tuesday. The background is supposed to be that the banks are giving a loan of 1 billion dollars to a company that is building a controversial gas project which they believe threatens their traditional land and […]

Scientists in a race against time to “preserve the memory” of ice in the Arctic

Arctic scientists are to start drilling into old ice to analyse it before the frozen ice sheets melt away due to climate change. Italian, French and Norwegian scientists have set up camp on Svalbard, in what they call a race against time to preserve important ice samples for analysis of past environmental conditions, writes the […]

Slam for the greens: Berlin says no to stricter climate requirements

In a referendum in Berlin on Sunday, a majority said no to making the city so-called climate-neutral as early as 2030. Voters thought the proposal was unrealistic and would require far too large changes in a short time. Germany already has an official goal of becoming climate neutral by 2045, which will require huge changes […]

Turkey rages against the Koran verdict in Sweden: Compares it with Nazi Germany

Turkey’s authorities are frothing with rage after a Swedish court rejected a ban on burning the Koran. The Turks believe that Sweden may be heading towards pure Nazism, with concentration camps and mass murder. The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, vented furiously in his rage against Sweden, and used words and expressions rarely seen between […]

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband has been arrested

Scotland’s former first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, stepped down as leader of the Scottish National Party on 15 February 2023. Her departure came as a surprise to most. Sturgeon was a champion of an independent Scotland, a goal from which she never wavered. In her farewell speech, she said, among other things: “Since my very first […]

Sanna Marin resigns

Sanna Marin is stepping down as leader of the Social Democrats. She lost the election and faces the consequences. Sanna Marin was more popular abroad than she was at home. Under her leadership, Finland’s national debt has grown enormously and something must be done. The voters do not want higher taxes. She will not stand […]

White flight from Malmö is accelerating

So-called white flight has become a well-known phenomenon in a number of Western cities, where many Europeans move from areas dominated by non-European immigrants. The trend is also found in the Nordic countries and it seems to be intensifying. In Samnytt, Mats Dagerlind writes about how more and more Swedes are moving out of cities […]

Trump: We will not let them destroy America

Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla., after being arraigned earlier in the day in New York City. (Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Trump gave a half-hour speech at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night. It was […]

Støre to the national meeting: – You cannot have your cake and eat it

A number of Ap counties are pushing for the Labour Party’s national meeting to decide to increase child benefit and the lowest social rates. Party leader and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre warns, however, that some will be disappointed. There will always be a balance between cash payments and good services. It will be a […]

Communications advisor: – My Ramadan prayer this year is that Norwegian businesses compete to mark this year’s Eid celebration

Communications advisor at Sannum & Bergestuen, Muslim Umar Ashraf, is tired of being “The Muslim”. “Norwegian Muslims carry an extra layer of fear of being branded as opponents of freedom”, writes Ashraf in a column in NRK. He believes it is time to “update the image of our Norwegian community”, so that Muslims in Norway […]