Tragic Loss at Gol Secondary School: Signe Slaatten Remembered as Fellow Students Mourn

Tragic Loss at Gol Secondary School: Signe Slaatten Remembered as Fellow Students Mourn

Gol secondary school is located in Ål’s neighboring municipality Gol – a little further east in Hallingdal than Signe Slaatten’s home municipality. Photo: Endre Ulsaker / Gol secondary school Signe Slaatten (18) should have been there. Instead, her fellow students mourned her loss. Tuesday 2 April at 22:54 It was a sad day at Gol … Read more

Birkebeiner Race in Danger: Petter Northug and Andreas Nygaard Call for Action

Birkebeiner Race in Danger: Petter Northug and Andreas Nygaard Call for Action

CLEAR SPEECH: Petter Northug, pictured here earlier this season. Photo: Ulf Palm/TT / TT Nyhetsbyrån / NTB Strong gusts of wind and snowy weather on the mountain await many thousands of excited Birkebeiner athletes. Now several of the long-distance profiles are asking the organizer to take action before it is too late. Thursday 14 March … Read more

Yulia Navalnaya, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, and Olena Zelenska: Three Women Standing up to Putin – A Global Movement for Freedom

Yulia Navalnaya, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, and Olena Zelenska: Three Women Standing up to Putin – A Global Movement for Freedom

Yulia Navalnaya, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Olena Zelenska. Three women, three big movements. They stand up for freedom. The women’s struggle gives Vladimir Putin nightmares. Per Olav ØdegårdCommentator Info Commentator in VG. Former foreign journalist and correspondent for VG in the USA. Writes mostly about international affairs. Drawing: Roar Hagen Friday 8 March at 13:55 The … Read more

Children Dying of Hunger in Gaza: Urgent Call for Aid and Ceasefire

Children Dying of Hunger in Gaza: Urgent Call for Aid and Ceasefire

Children are dying of hunger in Gaza. It is totally unacceptable. QUEUE FOR FOOD: Children in Gaza wait for food. The photo was taken in Rafah, on Tuesday this week. Photo: MOHAMMED ABED / AFP / NTB Wednesday 6 March at 10:18 It is disheartening to receive the news of increasingly worse conditions in Gaza. … Read more

Iran’s Ultra-Conservative President Ebrahim Raisi Wins Election Amid Record Low Voter Turnout

Iran’s Ultra-Conservative President Ebrahim Raisi Wins Election Amid Record Low Voter Turnout

Iran’s ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi casts his vote in the election for a new National Assembly and Assembly of Experts on Friday. Photo: Iran’s presidential office via AP / NTB A street musician plays for passers-by at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran the day after the election. Photo: Vahid Salemi / AP / NTB A … Read more

Helse Bergen Accountability: Parents Seek Justice for Newborn Deaths

Helse Bergen Accountability: Parents Seek Justice for Newborn Deaths

– We want Helse Bergen to be held responsible for Ole’s death at system level. We experienced a long series of mistakes and deviations from routines, laws and rules when Ole was born and during the aftermath, says Torkel Hofslett Thowsen, father of Ole who died on 19 January 2022. The son lived for five … Read more

Former Storting Representative and Oslo City Council Member, Erling Folkvord, Dies at 74: Remembering His Legacy

Former Storting Representative and Oslo City Council Member, Erling Folkvord, Dies at 74: Remembering His Legacy

Former Storting representative and city council member in Oslo, Erling Folkvord (R) has died, the family informs NTB. He lived to be 74 years old. Photo: Mimsy Møller / Samfoto Friday 1 March at 14:43 The 74-year-old died this morning, the family said. He was traveling in Stockholm in connection with a book project about … Read more