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Energy
Huge Phosphate Discovery Could Fully Charge the Electric Vehicle Industry
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With geologists hunting high and low for battery materials, an enormous new discovery of phosphate rock could have huge implications for the electric vehicle industry.
The reserves, discovered in Rogaland, southwest Norway by Anglo-Norwegian firm Norge Mining, are equivalent to...
Greek News
Where is Greece Ranked in the World Happiness Report
Finland is a happy place! For the sixth year in a row, the country has been named the happiest in the world in the annual World Happiness Report 2023.
The Nordic country and its neighbors Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway...
Diplomacy
Russian Church Buys Properties Close to NATO Bases in Norway
Dozens of Norwegian properties are passing one after the other into the hands of the Russian Orthodox Church. The properties are also getting closer and closer to NATO military bases.
The Russian Orthodox Church seems to be particularly interested in...
Education
Greek Students Sweep Medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad
Six high school students from Greece excelled at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) that took place recently in Oslo, Norway winning five medals, namely two silver and three bronze medals.
The annual competition brings together the brightest mathematical brains from...
Europe
NATO Chief Says Turkey’s Concerns on Finland, Sweden are Legitimate
NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that the concerns expressed by Turkey on the accession of Finland and Sweden to the alliance are legitimate.
Speaking alongside Finnish President Niinistö, the Secretary General said that Ankara has "legitimate concerns....
Crime
Suspect in Deadly Norway Attack is Radicalized Muslim Convert
The suspect in the bow-and-arrow slaughter of five people in Norway on Wednesday is being treated as a terrorist suspect. Norwegian police have named him as 37-year-old Espen Andersen Bråthen, a Dane who had converted to Islam.
The police said they were treating...
Business
Energy Giant Proposes Massive Floating Wind Farm in the Aegean
Norwegian energy giant Equinor, formerly the state-owned company Statoil, has made a proposal to the Greek government to create a floating wind farm. The project would be located in the center of the Aegean Sea and would be capable of...
Europe
Norwegian Ship Sinking After Ramming by Greek Tanker
Norway has evacuated the entire crew of one of its warships after it collided in a fjord with a Greek-managed oil tanker.
Seven people were slightly injured in the collision in Hjeltefjord, near Bergen, in the early hours of Thursday,...
Europe
Orthodox Church of Scandinavia Establishes New Parish in Bergen, Norway
His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia made his first archpastoral visit to Bergen on the weekend of October 28-29, 2017 to preside over the establishment of the parish of the Holy and Glorious Holy Martyr Chrysostom...
Cyprus
A Warm Hug as Kidnapped Girl Reunites with Cypriot Mother
This is the moment when four-year-old Marie Eleni Grimsrud jumps into her mother’s arms for the warmest hug of all.
Marie Eleni was reunited with her Cypriot mother after she was abducted by her Norwegian father last April in Nicosia,...