Sisters aim to uphold Norwegian customs
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The temperature hung below zero on the first day of the Norwegian II class at Kultur Hus, just the kind of weather that would have made the students' Scandinavian ancestors feel at home when they settled here a century and a half ago.
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Viewpoint: Politicians seeking to stop a small minority of Muslim women from wearing the veil in public are actually trying to send a harsh message to an embattled community
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OSLO, Dec. 4 (IPS) - Following the breakdown of UN negotiations, Norway  is launching its own push to ban cluster bombs that kill and maim  almost only civilians. The country is hoping to repeat the  unprecedented success of the anti-landmine campaign in the 1990s.
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Norway hosts a 40-nation meeting this week  to bolster support for a ban on cluster bombs which campaigners  blame for killing and maiming thousands of civilians, many of  them children.
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A German brother and sister who live as a couple and have children take their fight to be together to the courts.
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OSLO, Nov 20 (IPS) - An international initiative to battle corruption in  oil, gas and the mineral industries could relocate to Norway.
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A group of historians from Croatia to Turkey are trying to encourage reconciliation.
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OSLO -- A leader of one of Norway's most respected Islamic groups defended the use of suicide bombings in certain cases and stirred a debate yesterday in this Nordic country that sees itself as a beacon of peace and nonviolence.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Brotherly love was put to the test this week after two 18-year-old identical twins swapped their clothing and traded places so that one could escape jail.
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HVALER ISLANDS, Norway -- The frostbitten fishermen along this coast of broken clouds know that killing seals requires deft public relations.
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By TERRI THEODORE  VANCOUVER (CP) - Canadian environmentalists and aboriginal people have travelled to Norway to accuse one of the world's largest seafood companies of being more careful about the way it farms fish at home than it does in Canada.
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A Norwegian delegation, lead by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen is presently in Sri Lanka, to try to find out if it is possible to re-start the peace process in the island nation.
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Newer EU members are struggling to promote a more traditional morality.
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Lawyers for two elderly sisters begin a fight to get the same inheritance tax rights as married, gay and lesbian couples.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible.
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The talks between the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen and the LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in Kilinochchi on Thursday failed to break the stalemate on the question of resuming peace talks with the Sri Lankan government to end the ethnic
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By Kelley Chambers, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Dec. 14--When Marine Corps Col. Adele Hodges was stationed in Norway she was impressed with how far people there could travel by bicycle.   Wednesday the commanding officer at Camp Lejeune saw the same vision for Jacksonville.