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Magdi Omar Ytreeide Abdelmaguid and Chirag Patel are the artists behind Karpe, a Norwegian rap duo whose latest hit "PAF.no," has gotten people across the country talking about Norwegianess and belonging. 

This Norwegian chart-topper speaks to Norway’s immigration story

Music

The song “PAF.no,” one of the biggest hits in Norway this year, features a chorus in Arabic that has everyone singing along — and also discussing what it means to be Norwegian. 

A caravan of migrants head north towards the US-Mexico border, as they depart from Tapachula, Mexico

Migrants set up camp under Del Rio bridge along US-Mexico border

Top of The World
People ride their bicycles at the marina port in Oslo, Norway

Norway has one of the world’s most ambitious climate change targets. But it’s also a major oil producer and exporter.

Environment
two women pose for a photo with a dog in the snow.

Tips to survive self-isolation from citizen scientists on a remote Norwegian island

Polar
Tromsø Norway aerial

Norway’s vanishing winter

Climate Change
The sun rises on the Statue of Liberty, in New York, November 2nd 2016

Norwegian statesman Jan Egeland critiques Trump’s reported vulgar remarks

Global Politics

Reports of vulgar, offensive outbursts by the president of the United States have real-world consequences. One is the impact on America’s reputation overseas and its ability to lead and influence world events — its “soft power.” That’s the argument from Norwegian statesman Jan Egeland.

Norway’s right-wing extremists have evolved

The targets of right-wing extremists in Norway have moved from immigrants to politicians.

Multiculturalism failed, say European leaders

European heads-of-state are openly questioning the wisdom of multiculturalism, a mainstay of European social policy for decades.

Ole Martin Juul Slyngstadli on Utoya Island five years after the Norway shootings. He says the biggest victory for survivors of the attack like him is that the summer camp remains open and a new crop of kids is arriving next month.

Your answer to mass shootings is to get bigger guns. To me that’s really strange.

Justice

Five years after the Norway shootings, a survivor reflects on Anders Breivik, the Orlando attack, and guns.

A Norwegian flag is placed amongst floral tributes outside the Oslo cathedral July 24, 2011. A right-wing zealot who admitted to bomb and gun attacks in Norway that killed 92 people on Friday claims he acted alone, Norway's police said on Sunday.

What can the US learn from Norway’s gun laws?

Justice

Since the Utoya massacre almost five years ago, there have been no mass shootings in Norway.