A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was nearly hit by a drone while taking off from Moldova en route to Oslo for King Harald V's funeral, according to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Zelenskyy's office later disputed the characterization of the danger.
Norwegian authorities seized the Russian vessel Professor Molchanov in Svalbard on September 2, 2026, at the request of Ukraine's Naftogaz. The seizure is part of a global effort to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award over Ukrainian assets Russia appropriated following its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Norway expanded its recently created Arctic military brigade on Thursday, while Canada's Chief of Defence Staff promised to incorporate Inuit feedback as military presence grows in the region. Both moves reflect NATO nations strengthening their Arctic defense footprint following the Ukraine war.
AI company Anthropic has secured a six-year, $10 billion computing capacity contract with Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud infrastructure startup less than a year old that is backed by Nvidia and supported by a $1.3 billion JPMorgan credit facility. The deal will utilize a Norwegian data center powered by hydroelectric energy and equipped with Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips.
Erling Haaland struck two late goals to lead Norway past five-time champions Brazil 2-1 in the World Cup round of 16, sending the Scandinavian nation into the quarterfinals for the first time in their history. Brazil suffered their earliest World Cup exit since 1990.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup group stage began with star performances from football's biggest names: Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick as Argentina defeated Algeria 3-0, Kylian Mbappé netted twice in France's 3-1 win over Senegal, and Erling Haaland scored two goals on his World Cup debut as Norway beat Iraq 4-1.
An Oslo court convicted Marius Borg Høiby, the 29-year-old stepson of Norway's Crown Prince Haakon, of two counts of rape, domestic violence, and other crimes, sentencing him to four years in prison after a seven-week trial.
A Norwegian appeal court has rejected Marius Borg Høiby's request for release from custody while awaiting a rape verdict, despite his plea citing his mother Crown Princess Mette-Marit's worsening health condition and recent placement on sick leave by the Royal House of Norway.
The UK, Australia, Canada, France, Norway, and New Zealand announced joint sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and entities involved in violence in the occupied West Bank, including a far-right Israeli cabinet minister. However, human rights groups and Palestinian campaigners criticized the measures as insufficient, arguing they fail to address systemic Israeli state complicity in what Amnesty International has characterized as ethnic cleansing.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has been added to a lung transplant waiting list after significant deterioration of her pulmonary fibrosis condition, with doctors estimating she had only about a year to live without the surgery.
A Swedish non-profit filed a class action lawsuit against Norwegian telecom company Telenor, accusing it of endangering customers in Myanmar by sharing their data with the military junta. Telenor said it had no real choice at the time.
OpenAI's latest GPT-5.4 Pro model scored an IQ of 150 on the MESNA Norway standardized test, placing it above 99.96% of all human beings and marking a significant milestone in AI capability advancement.
Norwegian police opened an investigation into Telenor over suspected sanctions violations and possible complicity in crimes against humanity following Myanmar's 2021 military coup. Investigators are examining allegations that the company supplied customer information to the military authorities and transferred sanctioned surveillance equipment when leaving Myanmar. Telenor says it faced coercive orders and severe threats against its employees, is cooperating with investigators and denies that it had a viable alternative. No individual Telenor employees have been charged.
