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LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, remained hospitalized in Malaysia on Wednesday, in the country’s northern resort island of Langkawi, after falling ill while on vacation.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — King Harald V of Norway has been hospitalized with an infection while on vacation in Malaysia, the Norwegian royal house said in a statement Tuesday.
On February 27 – finally, almost two years after Sweden’s NATO application – Hungary, as the last member country, approved Sweden’s membership in the Western defense alliance.
A Norwegian cruise ship has been denied permission to dock in Mauritius over fears of a potential cholera outbreak on board.
Jens Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian Prime Minister and now Secretary General of NATO should be fired now, before it is too late. Heannounced he is giving Ukraine “permission” to use its soon to be delivered F-16s to launch attacks inside Russia.
Norway boasts the highest electric vehicle adoption rate in the world. Some 82% of new car sales were EVs in Norway in 2023, according to the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV). In comparison, 7.6% of new car sales were electric in the U.S. last year, according to Kelley Blue Book estimates. In the world's largest auto market, China, 24% of new car sales were EVs in 2023, according to the China Passenger Car Association."Our goal is that all new cars by 2025 will be zero-emission vehicles," said Ragnhild Syrstad, the state secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, "We think we're going to reach that goal."The Norwegian government started incentivizing the purchase of EVs back in the 1990s with free parking, the use of bus lanes, no tolls and most importantly, no taxes on zero-emission vehicles. But it wasn't until Tesla and other EV models became available about 10 years ago that sales started to take off, Syrstad said. Norway's capital, Oslo, is also electrifying its ferries, buses, semi trucks and even construction equipment. Gas pumps and parking meters are being replaced by chargers. It's an electric utopia of the future. Norway's grid has been able to handle the influx of EVs so far because of its abundance of hydropower."Electric cars are maybe a third of the price of gasoline because we have close to 100% hydropower. It's cheap. It's available and renewable. So that's a big advantage," said Petter Haugneland, the assistant secretary general of the Norwegian EV Association.
Former president Donald Trump has long made it clear that he deeply resents NATO, a 75-year-old military alliance that is composed of the United States and 30 other countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
