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Tesla faces fresh Norway lawsuit over false advertising
Nearly 80 Tesla owners in Norway have sued the US automaker over misleading advertising, saying their electric car did not deliver the promised performance, Norwegian daily Dagens Naeringsliv (DN) reported on Thursday. The plaintiffs complained that the real power of their Tesla S P85D, a sedan with one of the fastest accelerations in the world, was 469 horsepower and not 700 horsepower as promised by the manufacturer.
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Top Norwegian Politician Steps Down as #MeToo Hits Norway
The #MeToo movement forced a top Norwegian politician to step down from his job as the deputy leader of the country’s biggest opposition party after allegations of misconduct. Trond Giske, 51, said late on Sunday that he will step down as deputy leader of the Labor Party and as its economic policy spokesman.
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Norway powers ahead (electrically): over half new car sales now electr
Sales of electric and hybrid cars rose above half of new registrations in Norway in 2017, a record aided by generous subsidies that extended the country's lead in shifting from fossil-fuel engines, data showed on Wednesday.
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Young Student Secretly Photographs People with Hidden Spy Cam in the 1890s
As a young student, mathematician Carl Størmer used a small hidden camera to photograph life on the streets of Oslo in the 1890s. The spy camera images are some of the earliest examples we have of street photography.
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Tesla becomes most popular automaker in Norway, where 32% of new cars are electric
Tesla becomes the new market leader in Norway, the country which holds more than 10% of electric cars. More than 1,860 Tesla vehicles have been registered in Norway this December with a week left in the quarter. It is to be noted that Tesla sold just 690 vehicles in December 2016. Norway is by far the is the world leader in electric cars and there is no surprise in Tesla dominating the market, experts say.
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Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time
Norway’s parliament has voted to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment to addicts instead. 133 seats out of 175 voted in favour of decriminalising illegal drugs across the country. According to Norway’s 2017 Country Drug Report, 266 people died from drug-related deaths this year.
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Norway has completely switched off its FM radios
Norway has become the first country in the world to completely switch off its FM radios. Listeners in the country will now have to choose between DAB (digital audio broadcasting) signal or not having the radio on at all. Except some rebellious radio stations, including Oslo’s Metro Group, have defied the order and are continuing to broadcast despite the government order.
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‘It Was a Blood Bath’: Freight Trains Kill 110 Reindeer in Norway
Animal advocacy groups urge speed limits, new fencing and digital tracking to prevent more accidents.
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Norway wants electric planes to take off next summer
Norway will have an electric aircraft from next summer. Airport operator Avinor says it wants Norway to become the first country in which electric powered airplanes take a significant market share, reports news agency NTB. The aircraft – an Alpha Electro G2 – has been ordered from the Pipistrel manufacturer in Slovenia and will primarily be used for demonstration purposes, according to the report.
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Norway’s Medieval Wooden Churches Look Plucked From a Fairy Tale
These historic churches feature elaborate carvings that mix Christian and Viking symbols. By Jennifer Billock.
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'Biggest Pile of Money on the Planet' To Dump Fossil Fuels Holdings
Environmental advocates on Thursday applauded the latest organization to shift away from continued support of the fossil fuel industry—Norway's national bank. In a move 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben called "astonishing," Norges Bank, which oversees the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, advised the Norwegian government to dump all of its shares in oil and gas companies, leaving those entities out of its $1 trillion fund.
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Norwegian billionaire given US$30,400 drunken driving fine
A 22-year-old Norwegian student has been handed a 250,000-kroner (US$30,400) fine for drunken driving -- but can still count herself lucky. Katharina G. Andresen is reportedly Norway's richest woman, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at $1.23 billion. Fines for drunken driving in Norway are based on the defendant's income. Newspaper Finansavisen reported that Oslo City Court said the penalty could have been up to 40 million kroner ($4.9 million) if based on Andresen's assets, but they "have not yielded any dividend yet" and she has no fixed income.
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund is now worth $1,000,000,000,000
Norway's giant pension fund is now worth over $1 trillion. Yes, 1 followed by 12 zeros. The fund's managers announced Tuesday that currency shifts had helped push its value above $1 trillion for the first time. "The growth in the fund's market value has been stunning," fund chief Yngve Slyngstad said in a statement. "I don't think anyone expected the fund to ever reach $1 trillion when the first transfer of oil revenue was made in May 1996."
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Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen
MEL Films
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Viking sword discovery: Hunter finds 1,100-year-old weapon on Norwegian mountain
The incredibly well-preserved Viking sword was found by a reindeer hunter on a remote mountain in Southern Norway. The Glacier Archaeology Program at Oppland County Council was recently notified about the sword, which was found in late August in the high mountains of the Lesja area. “It is a common type of Viking sword - what makes it special is the context and the preservation: It was found at 1640 m [5381 feet] above sea level,” explained Lars Pilø, an archaeologist at Oppland County Council, in an email to Fox News. “To my knowledge, a Viking sword has never been found at such a high altitude before.”
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Petition seeks to revoke Suu Kyi's Nobel over Rohingya crisis
Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the Nobel committee to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi's peace prize over the Myanmar government's treatment of its Rohingya Muslims.
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Norway tightens IT security to prevent ballot tampering
Norway is tightening security procedures ahead of a parliamentary election on Sept. 11 to prevent possible vote tampering, the government said on Friday.
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North Dakota's Norway experiment
Can humane prisons work in America? A red state aims to find out.
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Norway to become the first country in the world to ban the the use of oil for heating
Norway is set to become the first country in the entire world to ban the use of gas to heat buildings. The Scandinavian country, which is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside the Middle East, will wholly stop the use of both oil and paraffin to warm buildings from 2020 onwards.
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Norway-Russia relations to deteriorate following U.S. Marines' base extension: Russian embassy
There isn’t a day that goes by when black and brown people are not thinking about what oppression looks like. From the moment we’re brought into this world, we realize just how quickly racist institutions will render us nonexistent. With the acquittal of Philando Castile’s murderer and the killings of Charleena Lyles and Nabra Hassanen, these past two weeks have been unbelievably difficult. These senseless acts of violence – already setting the tone for the summer – make it easy to see how injustice is interconnected.
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