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President Trump declared on Sunday that Norway “sucks” after he was not selected to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norway-based selection committee honored Navi Pillay, a former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge, instead. “I said to our great first lady, ‘First lady, I get the Nobel Prize in two weeks, and it'll be an...

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is considering loosening its limits on investing in companies that build nuclear weapons.

Norway dismissed Donald Trump’s slurs made at a weekend election campaign event, pointing out the US president’s anger over not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was misplaced.

The president’s outburst against Norway comes a few weeks after human rights lawyer Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor Trump has repeatedly claimed he deserved.

Norway sees the European Union’s new Arctic strategy rewarding its intense lobbying efforts over polar oil drilling.

Translated into English at last, this portrait of a man appalled by modernity and desperate to get back to nature is brimming with Nordic weltschmerz T-O-M. The initials of Tomas Olsen Myrbråten, the narrator in Thure Erik Lund’s The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch, spell out the Norwegian word for “empty”. Approaching 38, he’s already a relic. He spends his days slumped at the kitchen table or staring out of the window, convinced that the ceiling is about to fall and crush him. He sobs about the state he’s in and the state of society around him. Of one thing he’s sure: “It is no longer me who cries, but the world, the world crying, in me.” Nordic weltschmerz: you’d have to be a saint not to giggle. Lund has been described by Karl Ove Knausgård as the “greatest Norwegian contemporary writer”; this novel, originally published in 1999, is his first to be translated into English. In it, Tomas describes himself, over and over and over again, as a “life-of-the-mind individual”. Cursed as much as blessed, life-of-the mind individuals have a keen and unconsoling sense of how things are (“one is a wretched, contemptible, and unworthy being”) and how things will end for them (“in the sewers of society, at nature’s nadir, incessantly ground down into the mud and the mire so that one day, millions of years from now, they become oil, life-of-the-mind oil, at the very bottom of life itself”). Is he making fun of himself? In 2026, he seems closer to an eco-prophet. Continue reading...

As glaciers melt and permafrost thaws, Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic islands of Svalbard, faces climate-induced problems from tap water to housebuilding to landslides • Heavy metals make Norwegian village’s tap water toxic On a rugged mountain plateau of snow-dusted rocks, in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a glaciologist, Andy Hodson, points out the “ears” of ice, white against the rock, that gave Foxfonna glacier its name, after the arctic fox. The small glacier, on a mountain 8 miles (15km) outside the Norwegian village of Longyearbyen, is a popular summer hike for tourists who come here seeking the Arctic experience. Continue reading...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was to meet Tuesday with U.S. envoys in Oslo, Norway, as tensions grew with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Russia unleashed another missile and drone blitz of civilian areas in Ukraine, killing at least nine people.

US envoy Steve Witkoff will fly to St. Petersburg to meet Russian leadership on Wednesday after talks in Oslo to get peace talks to end the war in Ukraine back on track, Norway Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said on Tuesday.

U.S. officials will take part in crucial talks on Russia's war in Ukraine, held in Norway. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio reports.

President Trump's envoys will hold meetings Tuesday in Norway with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with the leaders of Norway and Finland, the Norwegian government said, as Trump pushes for an end to Russia and Ukraine's nearly five-year conflict. Trump on Monday told reporters, "All I want for Russia and Ukraine is for them to...

Russia unleashed another missile and drone blitz of civilian areas in Ukraine, killing at least seven people, officials said Tuesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy scrambled to ensure more American and European help during a visit to Norway.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is traveling to Norway for new peace talks as US pressure mounts for concessions from Kyiv to reach a deal with Russia.