https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed EU countries have finally agreed to reopen their external borders on July 1st to visitors from 15 countries but American tourists will still not be allowed to travel to Europe because the US is still considered a risk due to the high number of Covid-19 cases. https://www.thelocal.no/20200629/eu-to-allow-visitors-from-14-safe-countries-but-not-the-us Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:17:02 +0200 eu-to-allow-visitors-from-14-safe-countries-but-not-the-us "Trust in Trump's America is gone." The coronavirus crisis has caused a dramatic deterioration in the European public perception of the US and left many believing the EU had become "irrelevant", new polling finds. https://www.thelocal.no/20200629/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-has-changed-europeans-views-of-the-us-and-the-eu Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:22:08 +0200 how-the-covid-19-pandemic-has-changed-europeans-views-of-the-us-and-the-eu American travellers look set to be denied entry to the EU when the bloc reopens its borders on July 1st, according to reports. While those from Australia and New Zealand will likely to be allowed to return. https://www.thelocal.no/20200623/will-americans-be-barred-from-travel-to-europe Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:28:46 +0200 will-americans-be-barred-from-travel-to-europe One of Norway's leading universities has been forced to change a message warning overseas students of the US's "poorly developed health services", after it was dragged into a storm of criticism on social media. https://www.thelocal.no/20200317/norway-uni-pulls-coronavirus-message-citing-poorly-developed-us-health-system Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:24:10 +0100 norway-uni-pulls-coronavirus-message-citing-poorly-developed-us-health-system Over half of Norway’s 5.5 million inhabitants plan to travel abroad sometime this winter, but fewer want to travel to the USA than in previous years. https://www.thelocal.no/20171114/terror-and-trump-have-transformed-norwegian-travel-habits Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:53:32 +0100 terror-and-trump-have-transformed-norwegian-travel-habits Norwegian foreign minister Børge Brende says that Norway “understands” President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Syria in the wake of gas attacks in the war-torn Middle Eastern country. https://www.thelocal.no/20170407/us-strike-on-syria-understandable-norwegian-foreign-minister Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:28:02 +0200 us-strike-on-syria-understandable-norwegian-foreign-minister Former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik was stopped by US border control agents at Washington Dulles Airport on Wednesday and questioned for roughly an hour before being granted permission to enter the country. https://www.thelocal.no/20170203/former-norwegian-prime-minister-stopped-by-new-us-entry-controls Fri, 03 Feb 2017 08:46:20 +0100 former-norwegian-prime-minister-stopped-by-new-us-entry-controls Some 300 US Marines arrived in Norway on Monday for a rotational deployment in the Scandinavian country, to neighbouring Russia's dismay amid rising tensions with the West. https://www.thelocal.no/20170116/us-marines-land-in-norway-for-contested-deployment Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:29:52 +0100 us-marines-land-in-norway-for-contested-deployment The Norwegian government has confirmed reports that the United States will deploy over 300 troops in Norway, in a move set to upset neighbouring Russia. https://www.thelocal.no/20161025/norway-confirms-us-plans-to-deploy-330-marines Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:40:24 +0200 norway-confirms-us-plans-to-deploy-330-marines Russia expressed surprise Friday about the mooted deployment of US troops in neighbouring Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20161022/russia-irked-by-talk-of-us-troops-in-norway Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:34:37 +0200 russia-irked-by-talk-of-us-troops-in-norway The US's Magnolia Pictures have bought the rights to the disaster movie The Wave, Norway's official entry this year for the Best Foreign Language film at the Oscar's. https://www.thelocal.no/20150917/norway-disaster-movie-the-wave-sold-to-us Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:12:27 +0200 norway-disaster-movie-the-wave-sold-to-us American radio legend Casey Kasem was buried last week in Oslo, six months after his death, it has emerged. The burial followed a long and bitter dispute between his widow and his children over the cause of his death. https://www.thelocal.no/20141223/us-radio-star-buried-in-oslo-after-family-row Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:50:54 +0100 us-radio-star-buried-in-oslo-after-family-row A much-maligned businessman nominated by US President Barack Obama to be ambassador to Norway has withdrawn his candidacy, saying: "It is over." https://www.thelocal.no/20141216/us-businessman-withdraws-norway-post-it-is-over Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:30:00 +0100 us-businessman-withdraws-norway-post-it-is-over Norway's constitution may be 25 years younger than that of the US, but according to a paper released to mark the bicentenary by two prominent academics, its greater flexibility gives it a greater chance of enduring. https://www.thelocal.no/20140516/norways-constitution-beats-us-rival-experts Sat, 17 May 2014 00:47:00 +0200 norways-constitution-beats-us-rival-experts Norway's Oil Fund has struck a $480m deal to buy stakes in office blocks in San Francisco and Washington DC, as it continues its push to increase the proportion of property investments in its portfolio. https://www.thelocal.no/20140114/oil-fund-in-480m-san-francisco-office-deal Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:50:00 +0100 oil-fund-in-480m-san-francisco-office-deal Former US and Egypt coach Bob Bradley was on Friday named as new manager of Norwegian club Stabaek. https://www.thelocal.no/20140103/former-us-coach-takes-over-at-stabaek Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:34:00 +0100 former-us-coach-takes-over-at-stabaek Low cost airline Norwegian is under attack from four major US carriers and the country’s largest pilots’ union, which are seeking to ban the company’s planes from landing at American airports. The row centres on the Nordic carrier’s plans to base staff in low-cost countries. https://www.thelocal.no/20131227/us-carriers-try-to-sink-norwegians-plans Fri, 27 Dec 2013 11:07:40 +0100 us-carriers-try-to-sink-norwegians-plans More than 200 passengers on a Dreamliner plane belonging to Norwegian have been stuck in Florida for the past two days due to technical problems. https://www.thelocal.no/20131223/breakdown-strands-norwegian-passengers-in-us Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:08:00 +0100 breakdown-strands-norwegian-passengers-in-us Up to twenty employees at the US embassy in Oslo face jail for tax evasion as a result of the embassy's continuing refusal to report salary information to Norwegian tax authorities. https://www.thelocal.no/20131125/us-embassy-employees-face-jail-for-tax-evasion Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:24:00 +0100 us-embassy-employees-face-jail-for-tax-evasion Norwegian secret services denied on Tuesday the US spy agency at the centre of an international row had monitored millions of phone calls in Norway, responding to accusations made in a local newspaper. https://www.thelocal.no/20131119/spy-agency-nsa-did-not-monitor-norway-calls Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:15:49 +0100 spy-agency-nsa-did-not-monitor-norway-calls