Kvelertak: A Long Way From Norway
Source: Aquarian
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-05-14 13:59:43 -0700 | travel-news
After the release of Meir this past March, high-energy Norwegian metallers Kvelertak are headed out with Cancer Bats and Black Tusk on their North American Tour. Following the self-titled debut album in 2010 that earned the band the title of...
Dutch won't charge company in Israeli barrier case
Source: The Boston Globe
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-05-14 08:51:18 -0700 | travel-news
Netherlands (AP) In a blow to pro-Palestinian activists, Dutch authorities said Tuesday they will not prosecute a company on war crimes charges for renting out equipment to construct Israel's West Bank separation barrier. Dutch human rights lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld, who...
NATO "will not increase presence" in Arctic
Source: B92
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-05-08 06:16:44 -0700 | travel-news
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the alliance "no plans to increase its presence in the Arctic," an area with vast natural resources. Far North," he said in Oslo, during his two-day visit to Norway. The Arctic is believed...
U.N. Accused of Playing Down Nuke Disarmament Conference
Source: Inter Press Service
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-05-06 14:38:06 -0700 | travel-news
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is one of the most vociferous advocates of a world free of nuclear weapons. The lack of publicity stands in contrast to the strong public stand taken by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has consistently called for the...
NPT: toothless in the face of real world dangers
Source: Open Democracy
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-05-04 00:52:25 -0700 | travel-news
The core purpose of the NPT was security and the prevention of nuclear war, but the esoteric diplomacy of the current regime has become too far removed from the dangerous and messy world of today's nuclear risks and ambitions. Rebecca...
Video: Helicopter balances on crash barrier in Norway
Source: The independent
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-05-02 03:36:26 -0700 | travel-news
Extraordinary footage has emerged of a rescue helicopter in Norway balancing on a crash barrier at the scene of an accident. The video, shows the chopper gently maneuvering onto a crash barrier on the road near the Storvasselva Hammar tunnel...
Passenger jets clip wings at New Jersey airport
Source: Fox
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-05-02 09:14:34 -0700 | travel-news
Published May 02, 2013 Associated Press Two airplanes taxiing while preparing for takeoff at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday night clipped each other, authorities said. No one was injured when the planes touched around 7:30 p.m. at one of...
Leak at BP platform could have caused "major accident"
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-04-29 07:44:44 -0700 | travel-news
A BP petrol station sign is seen at dawn in west London October 25, 2011. Oil major BP must review the way it handles risk and maintenance at its offshore oil platforms in Norway following a leak at a North...
Medical director, 38, lay down in slow lane of motorway before she was struck and killed by lorry
Source: Mail Online UK
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-04-24 12:03:14 -0700 | travel-news
24 April 2013 The horrific moment that a medical director lay down in the middle of a busy motorway as an HGV bore down on her was today described to an inquest. Dr Kaja Lerum Sammartino was struck by at...
Question Everything You Hear About the Boston Marathon Bombing
Source: Mother Jones
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-04-16 17:39:50 -0700 | travel-news
Shortly after Monday's bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, rumors began to fly about what exactly happened and who was behind it. The New York Post , citing an unnamed federal official, claimed 12 people were dead...
Budget airline Norwegian launches 12 new routes from Gatwick Airport
Source: Mail Online UK
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-04-16 07:43:49 -0700 | travel-news
16 April 2013 Norway is associated with many things fine Scandinavian scenery; chilly winters; a classy capital city in cosmopolitan Oslo but rarely sunshine trips to the Mediterranean. However, as of this month, the country's budget airline Norwegian will take...
Israelis re-arrest former hunger striker Thaer Halahela
Source: Scoop
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-04-11 17:38:29 -0700 | travel-news
Israeli Occupation Forces re-arrest former hunger striker Thaer Halahela UFree Network to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners condemned the re-arrest of the former-prisoner Thaer Halahela on Wednesday from his home in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank....
Feiglin: Israel misuses Holocaust for political reasons
Source: Jerusalem Post
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2013-04-08 08:06:30 -0700 | travel-news
Marc Israel Sellem Israel must stop using the Holocaust to score political points and should no longer bring foreign leaders and dignitaries to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum, Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin (Likud) told The Jerusalem Post Sunday....
Bouvet Island : Mystery all round
Posted by: ise7ven
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2012-04-30 05:15:43 -0700 | travel-news
Bouvet is the remotest island which can effectively be described with the phrase ‘out of nowhere’. It’s a piece of land emerging from the coldest sea water which is covered with nothing but ice and the centre of the island...
New Israel Plans to Grab More Palestinian Lands
Source: Palestine Chronicle
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-07-25 04:14:21 -0700 | political-news
19 04/11/2012 Recently released documents show that Israel's Civil Administration, part of the Defence Ministry, has long earmarked up to 10 percent of the West Bank for new settlements or the expansion of existing ones. This is in contravention of...
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