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 Norway wins at the National Geographic Traveller Awards in the category “Best Ski Destination 2011.” It won’t be long until skiing and snowboarding is back, and the swishing sounds of raw powder in the beautiful Norwegian mountains are not far away. And it is not only Norwegians who love Norwegian winter adventures. Norway has [...]  Affitech tests exciting new anti-cancer drug candidate John Erik Stacy, 22 Feb 2011 Affitech has an exciting anti-cancer drug candidate, now known simply as r84, shown to fight cancer growth in animal trials. Like Avastin (Genentech), Herceptin (Roche), Erbitux (Merck) and other new anticancer drugs, r84 is a monoclonal antibody. This type of drug [...] “I am very pleased that Russia has now ratified the new START Treaty on strategic nuclear arms reduction,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The Russian Parliament approved the new treaty today. It has already been approved for ratification in the US. The treaty is the most important disarmament agreement to be [...]  “Agreement has now been reached between the Norwegian and the Russian negotiating delegations on the bilateral maritime delimitation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean,” said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. More photos from the Stoltenberg-Medvedev meetings on Flickr. Watch a web cast of the press conference. “This is a historic day. We [...]  Stoltenberg unveiled maps of where the new dividing line goes. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg held a press conference Tuesday afternoon, after earlier in the day surprisingly announced that he has reached an agreement on the delimitation line between Norway and Russia, with President Dmitry Medvedev. During the press conference, Stoltenberg unveiled a map that [...] Today the Government will present a white paper on nuclear safety cooperation with Russia in the High North. “Our efforts to ensure that Russian nuclear waste does not harm the environment or fall into the hands of terrorists have made Norway safer. The white paper gives an overview of the concrete [...]  Moscow: The Barents 2020 cooperation project on safeguarding petroleum activities in the Barents Sea was concluded today at a conference in Moscow. More than 100 Russian and Norwegian experts have worked together for close to three years on identifying common rules and standards for health, safety and the environment in the Barents Sea. Today they [...]  When Camilla Herrem arrived at the banquet, she was all smiles, even though she was in tears just two hours earlier. “Me on the All Star Team? This is absolutely indescribable,” said a sparkling Camilla Herrem as the party-clad women’s handball team arrived on the 55th floor at Shangmao Century Plaza. The Norwegian women’s [...] |
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