Asked by the Barents Observer, the Joint Headquarters near Bodø, however, confirms that the planes were inside Norwegian airspace before flying out over international airspace in the Barents Sea.
“The activity included both Norwegian and international airspace,” says spokesperson Reidar Flasnes.
“We cannot detail the activity,” Flasnes says and points to the United States as in charge of Sunday’s flights. He adds that the flights are “approved by Norway’s Ministry of Defense.”
Norway is a major donor to UNRWA. Currently, some countries have paused their aid to the Palestinian people through UNRWA in this situation. Norway has decided to continue its funding. While I share the concern over the very serious allegations against some UNRWA staff, I urge other donors to reflect on the wider consequences of cutting funding to UNRWA in this time of extreme humanitarian distress. We should not collectively punish millions of people.
We must distinguish between what individuals may have done and what UNRWA stands for. UNRWA has 30,000 staff across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. 13,000 of these work in Gaza to distribute aid, save lives and ensure the population’s essential needs and rights. The people of Gaza urgently need humanitarian assistance and must not pay the price for the actions of others.
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Fourteen Eyes agreement countries
Fourteen Eyes (or 14 Eyes) refers to the intelligence group that consists of the Five Eyes member countries plus:
– Belgium
– Denmark
– France
– Germany
– Italy
– The Netherlands
– Norway
– Spain
– Sweden
These countries participate in SIGINT sharing as third parties. The official name of the Fourteen Eyes is the SIGINT Seniors of Europe (SSEUR), which has existed in one form or another since 1982. Similar to the UKUSA Agreement, its original mission was to uncover information about the USSR.
A SIGINT Seniors Meeting is attended by the heads of the SIGINT agencies (NSA, GCHQ, BND, the French DGSE, etc.) and is where they can share intelligence and discuss related issues. While this group has many of the same members as the “Nine Eyes”, it is a different group. According to leaked documents, the Fourteen Eyes is not a formal treaty but rather an agreement made between SIGINT agencies.
(August 15, 2022)
The Five Eyes (FVEY) surveillance alliance includes the following countries:
– Australia
– Canada
– New Zealand
– United Kingdom
– United States
(…)
The Nine Eyes countries include:
– 5 Eyes countries +
– Denmark
– France
– Netherlands
– Norway
(…)
The 14 Eyes surveillance countries include:
– 9 Eyes countries +
– Germany
– Belgium
– Italy
– Sweden
– Spain
(12 July 2023)
A coalition of 11 nations decided during the recent NATO summit in Lithuania to start training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets in August in Denmark. A training center will also be set up in Romania for the same purpose.
NATO members Denmark and the Netherlands have been leading international efforts to train pilots as well as support staff, maintain aircraft and ultimately enable the supply of F-16s to Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to Reuters.
(11.07.2023)
The Ministry of Defence of Denmark reported that Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and the UK agreed to start the training of Ukrainians on the F-16 fighters.
The training is expected to start at the end of the summer and will be conducted in Denmark.
(Mar 27, 2021)
In the short term, Europe may be able to shrug off the illegality of its data-sharing practices under the GDPR, and please privacy advocates with adequacy reviews, but in the long term the violation of Europe’s own data privacy crownpiece is sure to harm its international credibility.
The Ukraine crisis will also be an important topic during the visits of senior Chinese officials to Europe, as it is a geopolitical event that has affected global security governance and the global situation, analysts said.
Der Sprecher des chinesischen Außenministeriums, Wang Wenbin, gab am Montag bekannt, dass Staatskommissar und Außenminister Qin Gang vom 8. bis 12. Mai Deutschland, Frankreich und Norwegen besuchen wird.
In July 2017, France, Germany and the European Union, along with the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched the Sahel Alliance, an international cooperation platform to do more and better in the Sahel region. Since its launch, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, the European Investment Bank, Norway, Sweden, the United States and Canada have joined the initiative as full members.
The Sahel Alliance has also 9 observer members: Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, the International Finance Corporation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Ireland and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
(August 15, 2022)
The Five Eyes (FVEY) surveillance alliance includes the following countries:
– Australia
– Canada
– New Zealand
– United Kingdom
– United States
(…)
The Nine Eyes countries include:
– 5 Eyes countries +
– Denmark
– France
– Netherlands
– Norway
(…)
The 14 Eyes surveillance countries include:
– 9 Eyes countries +
– Germany
– Belgium
– Italy
– Sweden
– Spain
(Mar 27, 2021)
In the short term, Europe may be able to shrug off the illegality of its data-sharing practices under the GDPR, and please privacy advocates with adequacy reviews, but in the long term the violation of Europe’s own data privacy crownpiece is sure to harm its international credibility.
(August 15, 2022)
The Five Eyes (FVEY) surveillance alliance includes the following countries:
– Australia
– Canada
– New Zealand
– United Kingdom
– United States
(…)
The Nine Eyes countries include:
– 5 Eyes countries +
– Denmark
– France
– Netherlands
– Norway
(…)
The 14 Eyes surveillance countries include:
– 9 Eyes countries +
– Germany
– Belgium
– Italy
– Sweden
– Spain
Leaders of Poland and Denmark and experts have raised concerns that the leaks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline were sabotage.
The incidents overshadowed the inauguration of a long-awaited pipeline that will carry Norwegian gas to Poland in efforts to bolster Europe’s energy independence from Moscow.
(August 15, 2022)
The Five Eyes (FVEY) surveillance alliance includes the following countries:
– Australia
– Canada
– New Zealand
– United Kingdom
– United States
(…)
The Nine Eyes countries include:
– 5 Eyes countries +
– Denmark
– France
– Netherlands
– Norway
(…)
The 14 Eyes surveillance countries include:
– 9 Eyes countries +
– Germany
– Belgium
– Italy
– Sweden
– Spain
“I saw a man arrive at the site with a bag. He picked up a weapon and started shooting,” Roenneberg told NRK. “First I thought it was an air gun. Then the glass of the bar next door was shattered and I understood I had to run for cover.”
Norway experienced one of the worst mass shootings in Europe in 2011 when a right-wing extremist killed 69 people on the island of Utoya after setting off a bomb in Oslo that left eight dead.
Auch Norwegen gab indes die Lieferung von 22 Panzerhaubitzen an die Ukraine bekannt. Darunter seien auch Ersatzteile, Munition und andere Ausrüstung, wie das norwegische Verteidigungsministerium am Dienstag mitteilte. “Die norwegische Regierung hat mit der öffentlichen Bekanntgabe der Lieferung aus Sicherheitsgründen gewartet. Künftige Lieferungen dürfen nicht angekündigt oder kommentiert werden”, hieß es vom nordischen NATO-Staat.
(OctoberNorway is one of three Nordic nations that has scrapped all Covid-19 rules in the past few weeks – along with Sweden and Denmark. 20, 2021)
Norway will reopen society on Saturday, the government said, ending its coronavirus-curbing restrictions, which have limited social interaction and hobbled many businesses.
„Es ist 561 Tage her, dass wir die härtesten Maßnahmen in Norwegen in Friedenszeiten eingeführt haben. (…) Jetzt ist die Zeit gekommen, zu einem normalen Alltag zurückzukehren.“
Nach der Ankündigung Maduros folgten Wochen ohne verbindliche Reaktionen anderer Beteiligter. Die Stellungnahme des mexikanischen Präsidenten ist somit die erste gewichtige Bestätigung.
(25. Juli 2011)
Gestern am späten Abend veröffentlichte das Boulevard-Blatt „Verdens Gang“ (VG), zwei Tage nach den Norwegen-Attentaten von Oslo und Utoya, eine überraschende Meldung. Unter den Toten auf der Insel, so VG, sei auch ein Polizist. Dieser habe sich dort „außer Dienst“aufgehalten und sei dort als Wachmann eingesetzt gewesen. Unbewaffnet.
Heute nun meldet das „Dagbladet“ (1): es handelt sich bei diesem Toten um den Stiefbruder der Kronprinzessin Mette-Marit, den 51-jährigen Trond Berntsen. Dieser habe, als Polizist außer Dienst, „private Überstunden“ als Wachmann auf der Insel gemacht.
Folgendes wird nun durch das „Dagbladet“ berichtet: nach dem Attentat in Oslo sei am Freitag den Veranstaltern des Jugendcamps auf der Insel telefonisch mitgeteilt worden, daß ein Polizei-Vertreter auf der Insel erscheinen werde, um sie über das Attentat in Oslo zu informieren.
WAS?!!
(heute)
Breivik hatte am 22. Juli 2011 zunächst eine Autobombe im Regierungsviertel der norwegischen Hauptstadt gezündet und dabei acht Menschen getötet. Danach fuhr er auf die Insel Utoya, wo er sich als Polizist ausgab und das Feuer auf die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer des jährlichen Sommerlagers der Jugendorganisation der sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei eröffnete.
Die USA vergrößern ihren „Fußabdruck“ in Norwegen
The SDCA builds on the 1951 NATO Status of Forces Agreement to facilitate further development of opportunities for U.S. forces to train and exercise in Norway, promoting improved interoperability with Norwegian and other allied forces. This agreement reflects decades of close U.S.-Norwegian security partnership and our shared commitment as NATO Allies to Transatlantic security.
In einem weitaus größeren Maßstab werden die USA am 3. Mai die neueste Variante der Übung „Northern Edge“ in der Arktis in Alaska starten. (Das Pentagon bevorzugte in seiner Erklärung zu den Kriegsspielen den Begriff „High North“). An den Übungen werden 10.000 amerikanische Soldaten teilnehmen, die „üben werden, wie das US-Militär reagieren könnte, wenn die schwelenden Spannungen in der Arktis einen Siedepunkt erreichen.“ Seltsame Wahl der Metaphern angesichts des Schauplatzes.
It comes as Dutch voters deliver their verdict on the country‘s coronavirus response in the first of three days of voting in a snap election, weeks after a curfew prompted three nights of rioting across major cities.
The Netherlands is the fifth country to pause its roll-out, following Ireland, Denmark, Iceland and Norway. Italy and Austria stopped using one particular batch of the jab.
(15.01.2021)
The reports suggest that common adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines, such as fever and nausea, may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients, says Sigurd Hortemo, chief physician at the Norwegian Medicines Agency.
The large studies on Comirnaty (BioNTec/Pfizer) did not include patients with unstable or acute illness – and included few participants over 85 years of age.
(15.01.2021)
Norway’s Adevinta has won the auction to buy the bulk of eBay’s classified ads unit for nearly $9 billion, with the U.S. e-commerce firm planning to keep a minority stake, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
24.6.2020 Head of Norway‘s Joint Operative Headquarters Rune Jakobsen leads the delegation that on the 24th June attends war victory celebrations in the north Russian city.
This is the first time that American strategic long-range bombers are exercising in Swedish airspace, Dagens Nyheter reports.
Norway’s Defense command says Wednesday’s exercise is “one of the largest of its kind, and several allied and partners trained along with the US B-1.”
Die norwegische Regierung drängt trotz Pandemie auf ein neues Überwachungsgesetz. Der Geheimdienst soll Metadaten aus Telefon- und Internetnutzung für 18 Monate speichern dürfen.
Die EU-Behörden hatten offenbar auch kein Interesse daran, die Menschenrechtskrise innerhalb der Freihandels-Neuverhandlungen mit Mexiko zu thematisieren. Am 28. April, am Tag nach dem Gedenken des Doppelmordes, gab die EU-Kommission bekannt, dass sie die vierjährigen Verhandlungen zum Freihandelsvertrag erfolgreich abgeschlossen hat.
Die norwegische Regierung hatte am 12. März strikte Maßnahmen gegen die Corona-Ausbreitung eingeführt. Unter anderem sind die Grenzen für Ausländer geschlossen. Norweger, die in ihre Heimat zurückkehren, müssen 14 Tage lang in Quarantäne. Schulen und Kindergärten sind ebenso bis einschließlich Ostern geschlossen wie Kirchen, Unis und weitere Einrichtungen. Die Regierung will am Mittwoch entscheiden, ob die bisherigen Maßnahmen verlängert werden.
The government’s goal was for each infected person to infect a maximum of one other person.
– Now new figures from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health show that every Corona infection in Norway is likely to infect an average of 0.7 other people. This means that we have got the Corona epidemic under control, says Høie.
(19. Januar 2017)
A new coalition to prevent epidemics was launched Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with the aim of creating vaccines and other measures to preclude the spread of infectious disease.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), backed by the governments of Germany, Japan and Norway with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will commit an initial $460 million to “outsmart epidemics,” the coalition said in a statement.
In co-operation with other Nordic intelligence services, the defence minister, Trine Bramsen, has warned that foreign powers are willing to use to the coronavirus crisis to cause damage to Denmark.
In an interview with Jyllands-Posten newspaper, Bramsen said that the pandemic makes Denmark more vulnerable, and there are already examples of negative-impact campaigns being aimed at the Danes.
A ‘veto’ against the railway by the Sami herders could be the final nail in the coffin for the project. It is unlikely that the Governments of Finland and Norway would invite for a new big conflict with the indigenous peoples up north.
(12.12.2019)
France and Qatar signed an agreement allowing France to deploy and station military forces within Qatar.
The Netherlands said on November 25 that it would join Denmark and France in the European naval mission, reported the NLTimes. The Netherlands said it would deploy a navy ship to the Persian Gulf for six months but said it would play an “observing” role. Belgium, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden are also expected to join the European coalition, the Tehran Times reported.
Norway’s Foreign Ministry urged the two sides to show “discretion” in comments after the talks, so as not to damage any further process that may happen. The US-backed opposition was quick to start issuing statements, however.
US-Regierungsvertreter haben sich ebenfalls gegen die Osloer Gespräche ausgesprochen, indem sie darauf bestanden, dass es mit Präsident Maduro nichts zu besprechen gibt, und brachten ihre Verwunderung darüber zum Ausdruck, dass Maduro immer noch glaubt, er sei Präsident, nur weil er als solcher gewählt wurde.
Norwegens Regierung vermittelt. Opposition um Guaidó lehnt Dialog weiterhin ab. Stattdessen Treffen mit militärischem Kommando der USA geplant
in Norwegen möchte man derzeit die Reaktoren zurückbauen, die in den 60er Jahren Teil des norwegischen Atomprogramms waren. Zuerst hatte man angenommen, es handele sich insgesamt um zwei Reaktoren, doch nun hat man in der Ortschaft Kjeller zwei weitere Reaktoren gefunden, die seit den 60ern außer Betrieb sind, aber von denen man dachte, sie seien bereits komplett entfernt worden.
An agreement on citizens‘ rights has been reached between the EEA EFTA States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the United Kingdom should the UK leave the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
Norway‘s minority center-right government has struck a deal with the small Christian Democratic Party to form a four-party majority coalition government after weeks of negotiations, broadcaster TV2 reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.