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Call in the HERO @ #COP15

Alexia Parks | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Net Zero, Carbon Tax, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, New Zealand, Norway, Coal, Barack Obama, Costa Rica, Green News

All hope is not lost in Copenhagen. The rudderless ship needs some direction though. Who better to provide that than leader of the free world?

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Being Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist Is the "New Anti-Semitism"

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 12.16.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, USS Liberty, Sweden, Gaza War, Aftonbladet, Stephen Walt, President Obama, Anti-Israel, Adl, Holocaust, Norway, World, Hannah Rosenthal, Palestinians, Human Rights, Gaza, Anti-Semitic, John Mearsheimer, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Finland, Racism, Zionism, Denmark, Jews, Richard Goldstone, Tzipi Livni, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, World News

I get pretty irritated hearing false cries of anti-Semitism against anyone who criticizes Israel, its human rights crimes, or its settler movement.

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Kai Eide: Top UN Official In Afghanistan Has Had Enough

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 12.12.2009 | World

Read More: Kai Eide, Un, United Nations, Afghanistan, Norway, Peter Galbraith, World News

KABUL — The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will step down early next year after a rocky two-year tenure marked by a fraud-marre...

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Nobel Prize Broadcast Rights: Intellect Meets Intellectual Property

AP | IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 12.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Intellectual Property, Nobel Prize, Broadcast Rights, Nobel Media AB, Nobel Foundation, Norway, Barack Obama, Sweeden, Media News

OSLO — When President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, a single Swedish company controlled the dissemination of his word...

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Obama's Peace Prize Visit Brings Guns, Snipers To Oslo

GlobalPost | Gwladys Fouche | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, Oslo Norway, Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, World News

OSLO, Norway -- Military and police helicopters buzzed the skies above Oslo, armed police officers stood at street corners and a ground-to-air missile...

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Presiding over age of war, Obama receives top peace prize

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 12.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Oslo-Norway, Norway, Afghanistan, Home News

Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize. Photo: Flickr user ActiviOslo As President Obama prepares to send 30,000 more Americans to war in Afghan...

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Sweden, Norway Slam Iran For Threats Against Nobel Winner Shirin Ebadi

AP | LOUISE NORDSTROM | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Prize, Sweden, Iran Nobel, Norway, Iran, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Nobel, World News

STOCKHOLM — Scandinavian officials said Thursday that the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma confiscated by Iran from laureate Shirin Ebadi hav...

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Obama Sends Predator Drone to Pick Up Nobel Peace Prize

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Northwest Airlines, Golf, Andy Borowitz, Norway, Sex, Nobel Peace Prize, Finland, Predator Drones, Barack Obama, Oslo, Comedy News

Obama's decision to have an unmanned bomber plane accept the Peace Prize raised eyebrows in diplomatic circles, as well as concerns about whether the plane was accurate enough for such a delicate mission.

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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Speech Notes Irony Of Award During Wartime

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel, Troop Increase, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Afghan War, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Barack Obama, Gitmo, Iraq War, Norway, Iraq, Guanatanamo Bay, Oslo, World News

OSLO — Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his pre...

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Norway Spiral: WATCH Strange Light In Sky Ahead Of Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech (VIDEO)

Posted 12.09.2009 | World

Read More: President Barack Obama Norway Speech, Video, Norway, Mysterious Norway Light, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech, Norway Sky, Norway Light, Norway Spiral, Obama Norway Speech, Norway News, Norway Lights, Norway Spiral Light, Strange Norway Light, Norway Spiral Video, World News

The Norway Spiral, a strange light that appeared in the sky across Norway last night, has Norwegian residents and international spectators baffled as ...

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UFO Over Norway: Residents Baffled By Mysterious Swirling Blue Light In The Sky (VIDEO)

Posted 12.09.2009 | World

Read More: Ufos, Aliens, Video, Norway, UFO Video, Science Fiction, Norway Spiral, World News

Residents in the north of Norway are mystified by a bizarre UFO that flashed over the sky. Pictures and video footage of the strange swirling blue li...

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Shirin Ebadi Nobel Medal Row: Iran Tells Norway To Stay Out Of It

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Norway, Iran, Nobel Prize, Shirin Ebadi Nobel Prize Medal, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran summoned Norway's ambassador Friday and said the country had no right to criticize the Islamic Republic for confiscating Nob...

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Shirin Ebadi: Nobel Laureate's Medal Confiscated By Iran, Norway Claims

AP | NASSER KARIMI and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of th...

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Arctic Security: The New Great Game?

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Halifax, Copenhagen, Norway, China, Japan, Russia, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Canada, Home News

Arctic Security: The New Great Game? In 2007, Russia laid claim to parts of the Arctic seabeda historic first and an act that has been challenged by ...

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Sultan Koesen, World's Tallest Man, Unveils Largest Cookie In Norway

AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Largest Cookie, Sultan Koesen, Ikea, Norway, Justine Bourdariat, World Record, Worlds Tallest Man, Biggest Cookie, Worlds Largest Cookie, Kelly Gerret, Guinness Book of World Records, Home News

OSLO — The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo. Guinness Boo...

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Norway university rebuffs motion for Israel boycott

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Norway, Israel, Home News

An academic boycott of Israel in Norway was averted on Thursday, when the executive board of the University of Trondheim unanimously decided to reject...

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Paul Nicklen's Polar Obsession Photos

Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Photography, Leopard Seal, Slidepoll, Antarctica, National Geographic, Penguin, Polar Bear, Animals, Canada, Arctic, Narwhals, Norway, Paul Nicklen, Polar Obsession, Polar Ice Caps, Polar Bears, Bull Walrus, Environment, Green News

Renowned National Geographic extreme photojournalist Paul Nicklen has released a new book titled Polar Obsession, which chronicles his expedition unde...

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Sons of Norway will gather in Tabernash on Sunday

Sky Hi Daily News | SkyHi Daily | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

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Sons of Norway will gather in Tabernash on Sunday Staff Writer Circle Nov. 15 because on Sunday the recently established Sons of Norway, ...

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Boycott Israel? Norwegian University Must Decide

David Harris | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Norway, Academic Boycott, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bds, Israel Boycott, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Ntnu, Trondheim, World News

Later this month, Norway's second largest university will consider a proposed boycott of Israel for developing "Zionist ideology and renouncing Palestinian history and identity."

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U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers

Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

Read More: India, Aterciopelados, Summer Olympics Beijing 2008, U.N. Department of Public Information, Emmanuel Jal, U.N. Day Concert 2009 a Tribute to Peacekeeping, Humanitarian, Shankhar Mahadevan, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, The War Against War, Angelique Kidjo, Cnn International, Jayashri Wyatt, Sierra Leone, Global Citizens, Wyclef Jean, Lauren Saffa, U.N. Secretary General, Norway, Lang Lang, Salman & Samina Global Wellness Initiative, Earth Wind and Fire, Xian Song & Dance Troupe, Africa, Zahir Hussain, Senegal, Leonardo Dicaprio, Cotonou, U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operation, Oslo, Education Sans Mutilation, Wikipedia, Rwanda, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, South Asia, Berlin Philharmonic, Entwined Twins, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Pakistan, Isha Sesay, Culture Project, You Are Not Alone, Amnesty International, Blood Diamond, Shrinivas Uppalapu, Julianne Hoffenberg, John Mahavishnu McLaughlin, Benin, New York, Junoon, Barack Obama, Time 100, Colombia, Killing Me Softly, Ghatam, The First Time Ever, General Assembly, Salman Ahmad, Fisher Stevens, Interfaith Dialogue, Thought Leaders, Steven Lawrence, China, Bbc, Allan Buchman, National Geographic, Day-O, United Nations, Jim Luce, Harry Belafonte, Paris, Injustice, Vienna Philharmonic, Sudan, She Mama Africa, Selvaganesh Vinayakaram, Malaika, Cancion Protesta, John Lee, Sister Fa, Samir Chatterjee, Blue Helmets, Roberta Flack Singing, War Child Film, Berlin, Grammy-Award, Mridangam, Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Nile Rodgers, Indi-Jazz Fusion, Afghanistan, Kanjira, Eleanor Roosevelt, Freedom of Expression Award, Nobel Peace Prize, We Are the World, Alain Le Roy, God Grew Tired of Us, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, The Price of Silence, Two Sheps That Pass., Female Genital Mutilation, Emma McCune, Orphans International Worldwide, Haiti, New York Times, U.N. Peacekeepers, Swahili, Alicia Keys, Hutu-Tutsi Conflict, Sufi Rock, Remember Shakti, Michael Owen, USA for Africa, New York News

Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...

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Norway university to vote on boycott of Israel next month

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Norway, Israel, Home News

The university of Trondheim in Norway may become the first university in the West to adopt an academic boycott of Israel, if a majority of its board v...

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Pink Taxis, Quotas, and Global Gender Equality

Michael Kimmel | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Global Gender Equality, Pink Taxis, World Economic Forum, Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality, Women's Rights, Norway, Puebla New Mexico, Mexico Pink Taxis, Norway Cabinet, Mexico, Women in Business, Scandinavia, Gender Equality US, Feminism, Politics News

A fleet of 35 pink taxis recently debuted in Puebla, Mexico, a colonial city halfway between Mexico City and Veracruz. These taxis are driven only by women, and they do not stop for male passengers.

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Norwegian accused of skin-crawling snake smuggling

AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Hirtshals-Denmark, Denmark, Oslo, Kristiansand, Norway, Home News

OSLO — A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them under his clothes.

Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday the 22-year-old Norwegian citizen was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand after getting off a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. He said the man had 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.

Breilid said the non-venomous snakes – the smallest species in the python family – were hidden in stockings duct-taped to the man's abdomen. The geckos were in boxes taped to his thighs.

Customs officials found the reptiles, which are not endangered, Sunday during a search following the discovery of a tarantula in one of the man's bags.

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Norwegian Wins Monopoly Championship And $20,000

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Monopoly, Games, Monopoly-World-Edition, Norway, World News

A 19-year-old Norwegian is $20,580 (£12,200) richer - in real money - after sweeping the board at the World Monopoly Championships in Las Vegas....

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At Norway Prison, Inmates Lead The Good Life

GlobalPost | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Bastoey, Criminal Justice, Foreign Affairs, Norway, Europe, Prison, Norway Prison, Oslo Norway, World News

OSLO, Norway -- The first time I went to prison, it was to an idyllic place with lush woodland, bright-colored houses and the waters of the Oslo fjord...

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