Richard Orange

1 day ago | thelocal.dk | Richard Orange

How does Denmark's visa system work? Visitors require a visa to enter Denmark unless they come from one of the Nordic, EU or EEA countries, or hold a residence card or residence permit from one of these countries. On top of this, there is a long list of countries which enjoy visa-free entry, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the US and UK, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.

1 day ago | thelocal.no | Richard Orange

Language learning podcasts  Norsk for beginners  This podcast was started by Marius Stangeland back in 2020 when he was 22 and studying to be a history and English teacher. Now 27 and working on a PhD at the University of Oslo, he's still at it, with nine seasons of ten or more episodes in the bag. The most recent episode, on the Norwegian Viking-era explorer Eirik Raude, was released this January.

2 days ago | thelocal.se | Richard Orange

Just a few hours after Thyberg was named as the government's new national security adviser, he turned down the position – after the Dagens Nyheter (DN) asked questions about a picture they had found of Thyberg, which they described as being of a "sensitive" nature. "These are old pictures from an account I previously had on the dating site Grindr. I should have informed [the government] about this but I didn't.

3 days ago | thelocal.se | Richard Orange

These people may have been injured or killed because they were relatives of gang members, were mistaken for a gang member, or were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. "This is a consequence of the fact that many of the people carrying out these crimes are not parties to the actual conflict," August Knutsson, an operative coordinator for the police, told the reporters. "Many of the perpetrators are young people who take on various missions.

3 days ago | thelocal.no | Richard Orange

Norwegians have rejected EU membership twice, despite both of the leading parties on the centre-right and centre-left—the Labour Party and the Conservative Party—campaigning strongly in favour of joining during the 1972 and 1994 referendum Rather than give up, though, successive governments have responded by signing three other agreements - none of which were put to a referendum - which have entwined the country as closely with their European neighbours as possible.