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Canada is hiring dozens of researchers away from US universities, including top research institutions such as Harvard as its relationship with its neighbour continues to sour. More than three-fourths of the 64 professors who are moving to Canada from around the world will come from the US. Under a new government programme, they’ll receive funding […]

Greenland’s justice minister has said the government cannot conclude whether genocide was committed against the Inuit community after experts examined the use of forced contraception in the 1960s and 70s. “We cannot say, on behalf of the government, whether there was genocide,” Marianne Paviasen told reporters. “This is something we can continue to debate.” Two […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to avoid a direct military confrontation with Nato, despite increasingly hostile rhetoric aimed at the UK and other allies over their support for Ukraine, Western officials believe. Some reports have suggested the visit by CIA chief John Radcliffe to Moscow this week was, in part, to warn Russia against a […]

At noon, the Norwegian Armed Forces honoured Harald with a funeral salute of 21 shots from Akershus Fortress in central Oslo. Later on Friday, a procession left the chapel at Rikshospitalet, where Harald died, and headed to the palace. Norway has declared a period of national mourning until the day of his funeral, which has […]

Lilli Hollein, MAK general director, said “the theft of a highly valuable piece of jewellery… has hit us hard”. She said in a statement that MAK had developed a security plan with Van Cleef & Arpels specifically for the exhibition, adding: “Security issues were taken very seriously and all security measures were carefully prepared.” Hollein […]

Oslo’s Mayor Anne Lindboe has called off her wedding ceremony because of the death of Norway’s King Harald V. The wedding with her fiance Pål Sandvid was planned for Friday but was postponed after the king died early on the same day, her political adviser confirmed to the BBC. “It’s hard to imagine an Oslo […]

Drug dealing is happening in plain sight here. Only five minutes after I arrive, I witness a transaction. A buyer walks up to the seller, shakes their hand, and walks away with the drugs. Crack has become widely consumed amongst the poorest in this area of Brussels. “Things have changed in the past six months,” […]

Stargazers across the globe gathered to witness a near-total lunar eclipse on Thursday night and early Friday morning. Some parts of the world had a chance to see a rare ‘Blood Moon’, when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up in the night sky. It comes just weeks after millions of people witnessed the most […]

But in recent times, Haakon’s family has come under increasingly heavy public scrutiny and criticism. Marius Borg Høiby’s rape conviction hangs over the family. One of women was raped on Haakon’s estate at Skaugum outside Oslo. Høiby has always been treated as one of the family, although the royal house has repeatedly stressed he is […]

The BBC has seen widespread devastation on the way from Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu to Trishuli, one of the areas worst-hit by flooding on the Tibetan border. As well as ambulances, hearses were also seen along the route, where rescuers said entire villages had been washed away by floodwaters. South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri reports.