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  Norwaves Volume 4, Number 39, 1996
(Verdens Gang) - The Ministry of Justice is considering a reversal of its current policy on rescue operations.
NON-SOCIALIST IRRESPONSIBILITY, SAYS LABOUR (Verdens Gang) This year's budget debate is likely to raise the temperature of the autumn session of the Storting to fever pitch.
JAGLAND ISSUES WARNING TO STORTING (Verdens Gang) Labour party chairman Thorbjoern Jagland warns the Storting that it is pushing the Labour Party too hard with its budgetary excesses.
www.norwaves.com /norwaves/Volume4_1996/v4nw39.html   (4451 words)

  
 Norwaves Volume 6, Number 30, 1998
And with Verdens Gang writing in its leader that "we are fed up", and calling for a new Government, there is little doubt a change in Government is in the air.
(Verdens Gang) - Seepage into the Romeriksporten railway tunnel is lower than ever, but the Gardermoen shuttle railway division wishes to increase the flow go and install pumps inside the tunnel.
(Verdens Gang) Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has an ingenious plan that will save the Government, and he has discussed with Progress Party chairman Carl I. Hagen how his plan will be a nightmare for Jan Petersen and the Conservative Party.
www.norwaves.com /norwaves/Volume6_1998/v6nw-30.html   (4811 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Video of peacekeepers in Kosovo shooting dogs causes stir in Norway
The newspaper said the video was believed to have been recorded in March 2002 by peacekeepers from the elite Telemark Battalion, which has since returned to Norway.
Verdens Gang said it had identified and spoken to some of those shown in the video, but did not report their names.
Verdens Gang also said soldiers were believed to have wounded an elderly Kosovo Albanian man in the hand while shooting at dogs and then paid him to remain silent.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040220-0850-norway-dogsshot.html   (386 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Women fined $71,000 for drunken driving   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The woman, whose name was withheld in court documents, was arrested in August 2003 after she crashed into three parked cars in the capital, Oslo.
Police gave her a breath test and found her blood alcohol level was 0.2 parts per million, or 10 times the legal maximum in Norway, Verdens Gang newspaper reported.
Verdens Gang, citing police, said the woman had been out drinking and had as many as 11 glasses of wine.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/07/06/women_fined_71000_for_drunken_driving?mode=PF   (290 words)

  
 BreakingNews.ie: Dog-shooting video angers Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Outrage was so intense that the leader of the Parliament’s defence committee, Marit Nybakk, said she would demand an explanation from Defence Minister Kristin Krohn Devold next week.
The newspaper said the video was believed to have been recorded in March 2002 by peacekeepers from the elite Telemark Battalion, who had since returned to Norway.
Verdens Gang said it had identified and spoken to some of the former soldiers in the video, but did not report their names.
breaking.tcm.ie /story.asp?j=95380600&p=9538y3x6&n=95381360&x=&fs=3   (447 words)

  
 Largest Scandinavian media group makes plans to deal with economy, changing production needs
Schibsted owns Scandinavia’s largest daily newspapers: Verdens Gang in Norway, a stitched tabloid newspaper with a circulation of 387,508, and Aftonbladet in Sweden, a broadsheet newspaper with a circulation of 401,500.
Bernt Olsufsen, editor-in-chief, Verdens Gang in Oslo, Norway.
At sister publication Verdens Gang, “We want to use maximum time for making the paper and minimum time for producing and distributing it,” said Bernt Olsufsen, editor-in-chief of the 500,000-circulation tabloid.
www.newsandtech.com /issues/2002/12-02/nt/12-02_scanda.htm   (1598 words)

  
 Ådne Søndrål
That show wind tunnel tests initiated by Olympiatoppen, the Norwegian Olympic committee, and the Norwegian skating union.
Verdens Gang believes that he may have lost until 0,9 of a second each lap.
So much worse the Norwegian Olympic suits were, compared to ones from the USA, considering the air resistance.
www.sondral.com /cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?newsid1062660767,8721,   (401 words)

  
 Labour regains lead in the polls
The trend is mirrored in Norsk Gallup's poll for Verdens Gang and TV2.
Labour is shown with a result of 27.5 percent, while the Conservatives are just behind on 26 percent.
"Voters are starting to understand that Høyre's tax awards have a downside that would hit ordinary people," he said to Verdens Gang.
www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article180182.ece?service=print   (208 words)

  
 Guardian | Two die in 'internet suicide pact' claims   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Verdens Gang, Norway's largest newspaper, said a 19-year-old woman contacted police on Tuesday to say that the two victims had agreed via the internet to jump together.
She said she knew because she had also been in contact with the man.
The 19-year-old told Verdens Gang that the man contacted her after she posted a message on an internet news group seeking someone to die with.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3966854-103681,00.html   (251 words)

  
 SIGHTINGS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After a two-year search Verdens Gang said it had uncovered the site in a forest a mile from Murmansk in northeastern Russia.
There would be damage up to 150 miles away," Verdens Gang said.
The paper quoted unnamed "international experts" who had studied the pictures as saying that "without doubt" chemicals were being produced at the plant.
www.rense.com /politics4/rusec.htm   (392 words)

  
 re:constructions - Norway and Sweden
To some degree, this has now turned to a closer look at how desperate and anxious Afghanistan families are attempting to flee from their homeland, fearing a possible American retribution.
Verdens Gang (Norway) publishes: Ahmad fled from Kabul, via Jahllabad.
I was there for only three days, yet it felt like three months.
web.mit.edu /cms/reconstructions/communications/norwaysweden.html   (561 words)

  
 Why Steal Munch's 'Scream'? - CBS News
As speculation abounds on a motive for the theft of the paintings, Oslo's Verdens Gang newspaper pointed out that the Munch masterpieces were stolen on the same date, Aug. 22, as when the "Mona Lisa" was stolen in Paris in 1911.
Oslo's Verdens Gang newspaper pointed out that the Munch paintings were stolen on the same date, Aug. 22, as "Mona Lisa" was stolen in Paris in 1911.
"If an armed gang came into the museum with machine guns, there's not a lot that can be done," she said.
uttm.com /stories/2001/08/20/world/main307333.shtml   (1020 words)

  
 Printed media (Norway - the official site in the United States)
Schibsted is the largest, and owns the daily tabloid Verdens Gang and broadsheet Aftenposten.
Next largest is the Orkla industrial conglomerate, and last is A-pressen, which was formerly the newspaper cooperative for the Labour movement.
Some of the larger newspapers, such as the national tabloids Dagbladet and Verdens Gang, have bought stakes in smaller local newspapers.
www.norway.org /facts/media/printed/printed.htm   (516 words)

  
 Norwegian Special Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
«Åsta-helt døde under anti-terrortrening», from Verdens Gang, October 6th 2005
«Spesialkommandoen skulle befri Ostrø» from Verdens Gang, September 23rd 2001
This page was last modified 15:27, 24 March 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FSK_(Norwegian_military_unit)   (349 words)

  
 VG
The average reader of VG is buying 3,5 copies a week.
VG is the shortening of the Norwegian Verdens Gang, i.e.
The newspaper was planned by the Resistant movement during the last part of World War II, and was founded as an independent daily shortly after the German capitulation in the springtime of 1945.
www.vg.no /vg/norway/vg.html   (611 words)

  
 Disarmament Diplomacy: - Norwegian Paper Alleges Secret Russian CW Site
On 15 July, the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang alleged that Russia possessed a secret facility for the production and storage of chemical weapons, in operation since 1984 and located near Murmansk in the Kola Peninsular, near the Norwegian-Russian border.
The Verdens Gang story was firmly refuted by Colonel General Stanislav Petrov, head of Russian armed forces' Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Service, on 19 July.
According to Petrov, the allegation could be exposed as a lie by an inspection conducted under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
www.acronym.org.uk /dd/dd39/39russcw.htm   (269 words)

  
 Planet Ark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
OSLO - For the last 15 years Russia has been operating a secret plant for producing and storing deadly chemical weapons just east of Murmansk on the Kola peninsula, the Norwegian daily Verdens Gang said yesterday.
After a two-year search Verdens Gang said it had uncovered the site in a forest two km (just over a mile) from Murmansk in northeastern Russia.
There would be damage up to 250 km (150 miles) away," Verdens Gang said.
www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=2112   (417 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | The press in Norway
Two Oslo-based tabloids, Verdens Gang and Dagbladet, are read nationally.
Originally a World War II resistance publication, Verdens Gang was founded by former resistance activists and has since grown to become Norway's largest-circulation newspaper.
As a morning tabloid, the paper showcases popular content and publishes an expansive sports and entertainment section favouring large colour photos and bold headlines on its front cover.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/4251111.stm   (807 words)

  
 The Fragile (Verdens Gang, Norway(www.vg.no) - Oct '99)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Fragile (Verdens Gang, Norway(www.vg.no) - Oct '99)
Unsurprisingly, it's a world on the verge of complete desintegration Trent Reznor presents when Nine Inch Nails releases an album for the first time in five years.
This article is provided courtesy Keith Duemling and Tracy Thompson from the collection previously located at SUS.
www.theninhotline.net /archives/articles/xrevw60.shtml   (159 words)

  
 Who   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After working for several years on the staff of Norway’s largest daily newspaper Verdens Gang (VG), Jan moved to Stockholm in 2002.
He still has a connection to VG but, in addition, he has connections with several other publications including the Stockholm daily Aftonbladet, the largest newspaper in the Nordic countries.
Espen Hansen is a staff reporter for Verdens Gang (VG), Norway’s largest daily newspaper.
www.norwegianfootprints.com /who.html   (211 words)

  
 BigSoccer - Danes get shirty after Norwegian Mermaid stunt
Norway, where winter sports are extremely popular, responded with media attacks ridiculing Denmark as a dull, flat nation of sausage-eating, beer swillers where no one can ski.
One Norwegian tabloid, Verdens Gang, handed out bananas to Danish journalists in response to an article describing Norwegians as "mountain monkeys" because of their love for snow and skis.
04 Jun 2003 04:17 PM The Norwegian newspaper Verdens gang: Danes, are a people brought up on beer and porn.
www.bigsoccer.com /forum/printthread.php?t=52994   (352 words)

  
 Rival apologises to Carrigan - Breaking News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Norwegian cyclist Anita Valen has apologised to Australian gold medallist Sara Carrigan for a newspaper article implying that the Olympic road race winner was a drug cheat.
The Norwegian Olympic Committee (NOC) ordered Valen to apologise to Carrigan after quotes attributed to her in Norway's biggest newspaper Verdens Gang questioned the Gold Coast rider's win on Sunday.
Verdens Gang quoted her talking about "the secret room in their sports facility" and questioning Carrigan's buildup to Athens in which she did not compete for two months.
www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/19/1092889276486.html   (450 words)

  
 Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Sport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"We have an agreement with Lyn, have followed John Obi Mikel for three years and still want him to come to Manchester United," daily Verdens Gang quoted Ferguson as saying on their website.
Midfielder Mikel, 18, signed for Manchester United on April 29 but the deal was thrown into doubt when Mikel said that he had been put under pressure to sign a deal newspapers said was worth about 4.0 million pounds ($7.21 million).
Verdens Gang said that Lyn and Manchester United, who negotiated Mikel's transfer, were cooperating on the case in preparing arguments for Fifa.
www.gulf-times.com /site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=53476&version=1&template_id=49&parent_id=29   (483 words)

  
 CNN.com - Norway attacks Australia over ship - September 2, 2001
"It is the headline in every paper and on every news broadcast," Harald Saevereid, a foreign correspondent with the daily tabloid Verdens Gang, told CNN.
The Norwegian press coverage has been almost unanimously critical of the stance taken by the Australian government in refusing to allow the freighter Tampa to dock.
Another daily paper, Dagbladet, carried the headline, "A week of shame for Australia," while Verdens Gang has carried a series of articles castigating the Australian authorities.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/31/norway.reaction   (680 words)

  
 The Norway Post : Weekend Feature: Norwegians understand Nordic languages best   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This contention has been often discussed in modern times usually resulting in one side agreeing to disagree with the opposite opinion.
However, the above assertion is now a proven fact, Verdens Gang writes.
In 2002 the Nordic Language Council began a study of the language comprehension of matriculation students.
www.norwaypost.no /cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=15037   (685 words)

  
 Norwegian: I Was Pisa Tower Jumper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Norway, a daredevil stepped forward to say he was the mystery jumper.
``People were stunned and then there was total chaos,'' Oslo's Verdens Gang daily quoted Arne Aarhus as saying.
Photo Courtesy of VG Nett © 2000 Verdens Gang AS This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
www.endex.com /gf/buildings/ltpisa/ltpnews/2000/ltpap020400.htm   (211 words)

  
 Sissel - Dropping USA Album
Therefore, all signs point to the album, which was recorded in the USA in 1998 and took two years to complete, never reaching album buyers.
"The project is for the time being on ice," said Sissel's manager, Arne Svare to Verdens Gang.
Then it had been two years since she began working on the album which has now been put on ice, in all likelihood dropped.
www.sissel.cc /drop.html   (551 words)

  
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ad-rag.com /120062.php   (309 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Woman shoplifter
flees in wheelchair
  (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
According to Norway's Aftenposten, the woman put her motorized wheelchair in high gear to escape from the market, crashing through a glass door and shaking off pursuers along the way.
After Nes gave up the chase, three other employees continued the pursuit, which moved from the parking lot to a busy city street.
"She was driving like a maniac," Asle Hellvik told Verdens Gang.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30273   (428 words)

  
 Sissel News
VERDENS GANG -- According to an article in the 30.
July 2000 issue of the Norwegian newspaper VG, Sissel's new album, now being recorded in Norway, will be released in November 2000 -- if everything goes according to plans.
April) to the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang that Sissel will in fact dump her album recorded in the USA.
www.sissel.cc /2_7news00.html   (1861 words)

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