Erna Solberg

This is what Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg agreed on Wednesday in Oslo, the Serbian government announced.

During the meeting by which she started her first official visit to the Kingdom of Norway, Brnabic stressed that since 2000 to date, Norway has supported Serbia with more than EUR 250 million in grants and is one of its biggest donors.

NEW YORK - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic held a series of meetings with foreign officials in New York on Tuesday, including with Norwegian FM Borge Brende, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and leaders of several Balkan states.

Vucic met with Brende and Stoltenberg shortly before the start of a UN General Assembly meeting.

The European Court of Human Rights has received a "substantial" number of complaints from Turkish nationals targeted in Ankara's post-coup attempt crackdown over the past fortnight, a spokesman said Nov. 7.

"We have had 850 new petitions of late, of which 450 were filed in the past week," said spokesman Patrick Titiun.

Norway will dip further into its sovereign wealth fund next year to support the recovering economy but ministers facing a tight race for September elections warned the end of oil's "golden age" would mean spending curbs in future.

President Barack Obama sits down with more than 100 leaders at the United Nations on Sept. 29 to push ahead with the US-led campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group despite Russia's rival plan.

Some of the biggest names in music and politics from Beyonce to European prime ministers rallied on Sept. 25 in a concert aimed at mobilizing action to eradicate extreme poverty.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said on Sept.9 it was holding a Chinese and a Norwegian hostage and asked for an unspecified ransom for their release.

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said his country wants NATO to set up permanent bases on its territory to protect it against potential threats from Russia.