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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) speaks with former KGB agent Vladimir Strzhalkovsky when he was Norilsk Nickel CEO on January 14, 2011. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / POOL / ALEXEY DRUZHININ – MANDATORY CREDIT – (Photo credit should read ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP via Getty Images)

Former KGB agent’s superyacht can’t sail out of Norway because no one will sell it fuel

By Jill R. Shah, Lars Erik Taraldsen, and others

Sissel Stormo Holtan poses next to a reindeer outside her home in Namdalseid, part of Troendelag county, Norway, on December 7, 2021. – On a gusty mountain crest, the Jama brothers weave between wind turbines that stretch as far as the eye can see, on what used to be their animals’ winter pasture. Climate emergency or not — for these reindeer herders, the turbines have to go. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Norway’s green energy drive isn’t going as planned. The issue? Reindeer

By Lars Erik Taraldsen, Lars Paulsson, and others

A cat is pictured in front of its owners house after it was bombed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on May 20, 2021. – Israel and the Palestinians are mired in their worst conflict in years as Israel pounds the Gaza Strip with air strikes and artillery, while Hamas militants fire rockets into the Jewish state. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Mammoth Norway wealth fund cuts off firms tied to West Bank developments

By Lars Erik Taraldsen and Bloomberg

Will Ferrell will star in GM’s upcoming Super Bowl commercial

Spoiler: Norway to star in one of this year’s buzziest Super Bowl ads—yes, Norway

By Lars Erik Taraldsen, Craig Trudell, and others

Nicolai Tangen is pictured during a press conference on his employment contract, as he has been appointed new general manager of Norges Bank Investment Management, on May 28, 2020 in Oslo. (Photo by Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB Scanpix / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo by HAKON MOSVOLD LARSEN/NTB Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

Tech rally drove $123 billion return in 2020 for world’s largest sovereign wealth fund

By Ott Ummelas, Lars Erik Taraldsen, and others

BERLIN, GERMANY – JANUARY 18: A medical worker holds a tray with a syringe that contain the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the vaccine center at the Messe Berlin trade fair grounds on the center’s opening day during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on January 18, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. The center is the third to open in Berlin. Three more are to open in coming weeks once shipments of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines pick up pace. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

No direct link between the COVID vaccine and a recent string of deaths in the elderly, Norway finds

By Lars Erik Taraldsen and Bloomberg

Svein Andersen, 67 years-old resident of ‘Ellingsrud home’ and first in Norway to receive the vaccine is given the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 corona virus vaccine by Nurse Maria Golding in Oslo, Norway, on December 27, 2020. – The European Union began a vaccine rollout, even as countries in the bloc were forced back into lockdown by a new strain of the virus, believed to be more infectious, that continues to spread from Britain. The pandemic has claimed more than 1.7 million lives and is still running rampant in much of the world, but the recent launching of innoculation campaigns has boosted hopes that 2021 could bring a respite. (Photo by Fredrik Hagen / NTB / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo by FREDRIK HAGEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

Sick patients over 80 could be a COVID vaccine risk, Norwegian health officials warn

By Lars Erik Taraldsen, Naomi Kresge, and others