Norway central bank cuts interest rates to 4%

Norway's central bank cut its policy interest rate by 25 basis points to 4% today, as widely expected, and said it plans to cut again in the next 12 months but not by as much as previously planned. The monetary policy committee had considered...

Gaza could be 'real estate bonanza', Israeli minister says

A controversial Israeli minister has said Gaza could be a "real estate bonanza" - and that a business plan for redeveloping it had been sent to the US president. Bezalel Smotrich, the country's far-right finance chief, told a Tel Aviv conference...

‘My Father’s Shadow’, ‘Lost Land’ & ‘The President’s Cake’ Among Pingyao Film Festival’s Crouching Tigers Entries 

China’s Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) has unveiled its full selection, including the titles for its Crouching Tigers competition, which will screen 11 films including Cannes award winners My Father’s Shadow and The President’s Cake....

New deputy forestry minister eyes emission cut, forest sustainability

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia’s newly inaugurated Deputy Minister of Forestry, Rohmat Marzuki, pledged to give his utmost in helping the country tackle challenges and advance programs linked to the forestry sector. During a position handover...

68th Theater Medical Command hosts 32nd Annual Multinational Military Medical Engagement in Portugal

LISBON, Portugal - More than 240 military and civilian medical experts from 23 NATO and partner nations, including senior Portuguese military medical officials, gathered in Lisbon, Portugal Sept. 8-12 for the 32nd Annual Multinational Military...

Rockefeller Foundation’s New U.S. $50 Million Initiative Finds Widespread Support for International Cooperation in Landmark 34-Country Survey

36,405 adults surveyed in U.S., China, Germany, Japan, India, UK, France, Italy, Canada, Brazil, and 23 countries in Africa, Asia & Oceania, Europe, MENA, Latin America Alongside the survey, The Rockefeller Foundation launched a new US$50 million...

ANALYSIS: Zapad 2025: Russia-Belarusian Military Drills Stoked Fears but Delivered Little Punch

The prospect of thousands of Russian and Belarusian troops taking part in the Zapad (West) military exercises earlier this month spooked people in some Western circles. Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was, infamously, carried out by...

Advancing geothermal energy in CEE – Q&A with Horia Ban, President of the Romanian Geoexchange Society

Horia Ban will be a panellist at the Budapest Geothermal Energy Summit on 26 September 2025. The Central and Eastern European region possesses significant geothermal potential, but the development and utilisation of this energy resource remain...

Politics in Norway and Europe

Nowadays, when votes are counted at elections in European countries, they usually end up with at least twenty percent for the ultra-conservative parties, sometimes towards a third, like in Italy, where Giorgia Meloni of the right-wing party...

Rockefeller Foundation's New US $50 Million Initiative Finds Widespread Support for International Cooperation in Landmark 34-Country Survey

36,405 adults surveyed in US, China, Germany, Japan, India, UK, France, Italy, Canada, Brazil, and 23 countries in Africa, Asia & Oceania, Europe, MENA, Latin America Alongside the survey, The Rockefeller Foundation launched a new US$50 million...

Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940): The Moscow Trials and the Dewey Commission

This is the first part of the lecture “Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940)” delivered by Fred Williams, Katja Rippert, and Alejandro Lopez to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the...

Netanyahu’s quest for political survival isolates Israel despite security and diplomatic warnings

While he continues to emphasize Israel’s economic strength and declares the country will withstand any boycott or sanctions, reality on the ground tells a troubling story: IDF operations in Gaza, lacking broad international backing, are driving...

Israeli military presses its new ground offensive on Gaza

Gaza, Sept. 18: Israeli forces pressed on with a new ground offensive in Gaza City Wednesday as strikes overnight across the Palestinian territory killed at least 16 people, including women and children, hospital officials said. Hundreds of...

Norwegian Scatec Consolidates Cameroon Solar Dominance with Second CFA25 Billion Investment

(Business in Cameroon) - Norwegian firm Scatec is investing CFA25 billion(€38 million) to expand the Maroua and Guider solar plants. The expansion will increase the plants' capacity from 35.8 MWp to 64.4 MWp. Despite significant potential, many...

“Baku” bus stop in Norway: A memorial to Baku oil – SPECIAL VIDEO

Stockholm, September 17, Nargiz Jafarli, AZERTAC Recently, Shervin Najafpour, President of the “CAN” Norway-Azerbaijan organization and a resident of Norway, shared a peculiar fact with me. In Nærsnes town, Asker municipality near Oslo, there is...

Norwegian Lawyer calls for release of Sahrawi political prisoners and accountability for abuses

Geneva (UN Human Rights Council) 17 September 2025 (SPS)– Norwegian Human Rights lawyer Ms. Tone Sørfonn Moe, called for the immediate release of Sahrawi political prisoners, in a statement to the Saharawi Press Service (SPS) today, reacting to...

As thousands flee Gaza City, Israeli minister flags ‘real estate bonanza’

“We paid a lot of money for this war, so we need to divide how we make a percentage on the land marketing later in Gaza,” he said. “And now, no kidding, we’ve done the demolition phase, which is always the first phase of urban renewal. Now we need...

Denmark moves toward P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft purchase, minister says 

BELFAST — Denmark’s defense minister said the military is open to a deal to purchase a fleet of Boeing-made P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, according to a local news report. Troels Lund Poulsen said on Tuesday that the government could...

Finland, Norway hold cross-border exercise on aid in medical crisis

Finland and Norway held a preparedness exercise on 15–16 September to prepare for serious accidents, crises and emergencies, said the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Ministry of the Interior in a joint press release Wednesday. The...

Norwegian Seafood Council UK Director Bjørn-Erik Stabell working to strengthen consumer connections between two countries

The Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) has named Bjørn-Erik Stabell its new U.K. director, who is planning on using his two decades of seafood experience to further strengthen seafood ties between the two countries. Stabell served most recently at...