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Kashmir’s Saqib Naseer to play for India at Homeless World Cup in Norway
Srinagar, Aug 14: In a story of perseverance and passion, 23-year-old Saqib Naseer from Dalgate, Srinagar, has been chosen to represent India at the Oslo 2025 Homeless World Cup, to be held from August 23 to August 30 at Rådhusplassen (City Hall...

Trump told Norway's Stoltenberg he wants Nobel Peace Prize: Report
When U.S. President Donald Trump phoned Norway's finance minister last month to discuss tariffs, he also told him he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize, a report said Thursday. Several countries, including Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia, have nominated...
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Trump discussed Nobel Peace Prize and tariffs in call with Norway’s finance minister: Report
Several countries including Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia have nominated Trump for brokering peace agreements or ceasefires, and he has said he deserves the Norwegian-bestowed accolade that four White House predecessors received. US President...

Trump told Norwegian minister he wants Nobel Prize, newspaper says
OSLO (Reuters) -When U.S. President Donald Trump called Norway's finance minister last month to discuss tariffs, he also told him he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian business daily Dagens Naeringsliv reported on Thursday. Several countries...

Breach Roundup: Russian Hackers Attacked Norwegian Dam
Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Also: Spain Defies Pressure to Eject Huawei, Hackers Leak North Korea Kimsuky Data Anviksha More (AnvikshaMore) • August 14, 2025 Image: Shutterstock/ISMG Every week,...
Music Festivals Have a Lot They Can Learn from Norway’s Øya Festival
Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Queens of the Stone Age, Girl in Red and more illuminated the Oslo mega celebration, which had a lot of voices raised for Palestine Considering that its launching in 1999, Oslo’s Øya Festival has actually progressively...

Bitcoin Price Slid Down To $118,000 After Surpassing Google’s Market Cap
Bitcoin price experienced a significant pullback to $118,000 after briefly surpassing Google parent Alphabet’s market capitalization to become the world’s fifth-largest asset, highlighting Bitcoin’s growing institutional prominence despite...

Norwegian fund divests from Israeli defense firm, plans more sell-offs over Gaza war
Pro-Palestinian rally and march in the streets of central Oslo, Norway, November 17, 2023 (Photo: Jorge Mantilla/NurPhoto) The Norwegian $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund announced on Tuesday that it would sell its 2% stake in Bet Shemesh Engines,...

5 things to know about CP Radhakrishnan, the Maharashtra Governor named as Vice-Presidential candidate
The BJP on Sunday announced Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan as the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) pick for the upcoming Vice President elections.Born on October 20, 1957, in Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu, Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan...

'Could he be any more needy?' Trump mocked for call to Norwegian official over Nobel Prize
Last month, President Donald Trump unexpectedly contacted Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg to address both trade tariffs and his aspirations for the Nobel Peace Prize, Politico reported Thursday. Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv had...

Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister ‘out of the blue’ to ask about Nobel prize
Donald Trump cold-called Norway’s finance minister last month to ask about a nomination for the Nobel peace prize, Norwegian press reported on Thursday. The Norwegian outlet Dagens Næringsliv, citing unnamed sources, reported: “Out of the blue,...

Trump told Norwegian minister he wants Nobel Prize: report
When US President Donald Trump called Norway's finance minister last month to discuss tariffs, he also told him he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian business daily Dagens Naeringsliv reported on Thursday. Several countries including Israel,...

Israeli settler attacks in West Bank surge to record levels
BURQA, West Bank >> It was well past midnight when the masked arsonists sneaked into the hilltop Palestinian village of Burqa in the West Bank. Arriving from the direction of a nearby Israeli settlement, they crept inside a junkyard on the edge of...

The West Bank settlements at the heart of the Middle East conflict
Israeli settlement building, a point of contention at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has come back into focus after Israel's far-right finance minister revived a plan that would divide the West Bank and cut it off from East...

Trump inquires with Norwegian minister about the Nobel Prize
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images When U.S. President Donald Trump called Norway's finance minister last month to discuss trade tariffs, he also inquired about the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a report by Norwegian business daily...

Trump asked Norwegian minister about Nobel Prize
When US President Donald Trump called Norway's finance minister last month to discuss trade tariffs, he also asked about the Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian business daily Dagens Naeringsliv reported on Thursday. Several countries including Israel,...

Israel’s West Bank settlement plan could ‘bury’ the prospect of a Palestinian state. Here’s why
Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would “permanently bury the...
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79-Year-Old Norwegian Cruise Line Passenger Reportedly Went Overboard Near Canada Triggering 'Code Oscar' By Colson Thayer
NEED TO KNOW A 79-year-old Norwegian Cruise Line passenger reportedly went overboard on Aug. 12 The incident occurred while the Norwegian Star was sailing in the waters off Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada on its way to Greenland According to the...
‘He wanted the Nobel’: Trump cold-calls Norwegian minister about peace prize
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, London time, to highlight the European solidarity, ensuring media coverage of their meeting at 10 Downing Street. Loading Starmer and Zelensky did...

Media: Trump Called Norway's Finance Minister To Discuss Nobel Peace Prize
13 Each year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee selects the laureates from hundreds of nominees. Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly called Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg to discuss trade tariffs as well as his pursuit of...