Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has banned investment in G4S because of the risk of human rights violations being committed by the company in Qatar and the UAE, the Guardian...

Syrian refugees living in Norway have made a request to the local authorities and police to investigate the allegations of atrocities, war crimes and human rights violations committed by...

Oslo’s newly installed City Council is banning Israeli settlement goods and services from public contracts, reported the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee. Norway’s capital and largest...

This month, MEMO turns 10 years old. Here we look at our biggest stories of the decade.

The United States is preparing to send additional troops to the Middle East in response to mounting concerns over Iran, which Washington blames for attacks on oil tankers last...

Mohamed El Hassan Labba, the African envoy, announced, Thursday, that international network had been formed to support African mediation efforts in crisis in Sudan. Labba stated that the network...

The United Arab Emirates told United Nations Security Council members on Thursday that attacks on four tankers off its coast on May 12 bore the hallmarks of a “sophisticated...

US President Donald Trump issued a new threat to Tehran on Sunday, tweeting that a conflict would be the “official end” of Iran, as Saudi Arabia warned it stood...

The CIA has warned a Palestinian activist that there are potential threats against him from Saudi Arabia

Algeria’s state energy company Sonatrach wants to develop its partnerships with foreign firms to boost output and exports, its new chief executive said on Wednesday, comments that could reassure...

Sudan has established emergency prosecutors and courts nationwide, state news agency SUNA said on Tuesday, a day after President Omar al-Bashir announced sweeping new security powers to contend with...

The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Al-Sinwar, has refused to meet with Norway’s special envoy for the Middle East peace process Tor Wennesland, Anadolu Agency reported...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to dismiss international observers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron may breach the Oslo Accords, a Norwegian minister has said. “The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would eject a foreign force set up to help safeguard Palestinians in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank,...

A senior member of the Hamas Political Bureau said on Monday that “the worst is still to come” as far as the Gaza Strip is concerned. Mousa Abu Marzook’s...

Morocco arrested a Swiss national on Saturday in connection with the killing of two Scandinavian women, the counter-terrorism agency said. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland,...

Three men arrested by Moroccan authorities on suspicion of the murder of two Scandinavian women may have links to Daesh, a prosecutor told reporters yesterday. The brutal killing of...

The Norwegian police said as many as 30 Norwegian citizens who went to Syria to participate in hostilities there have been killed, while, Norwegian ABC Nyheter reported. The paper...

The US’ continued military support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE is prolonging the war in Yemen, leading human rights groups have said. In a joint statement, OXFAM, Care,...

Kristin Foss was shot twice by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. As she tells MEMO, for Palestinians this is daily life.

A Norwegian pro-Palestine activist has been left with two bullet wounds after being shot by Israeli soldiers on two separate occasions within the same week. Kristen Foss, a volunteer...

Swedish activists Charlie Andreasson and Divina Levrini, who were detained by the Israeli authorities on Monday while trying to break the blockade on Gaza, returned to their country on...

Norway has asked Israel to explain the legal grounds for detaining a Norwegian-flagged fishing boat seized while activists tried to sail with aid to the Gaza Strip, Norway’s foreign ministry said...

Yemen is close to famine after a 25-percent increase in levels of severe hunger this year and an offensive on the main port city of Hodeida, a lifeline for...

A leading Norwegian NGO has expressed its “outrage at the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza by the Israeli military, as they protest for their rights, on their land”,...

Hundreds of thousands of refugees are at risk of being pushed to return to Syria this year despite ongoing violence endangering the lives of civilians, leading humanitarian agencies warned...

Almost a dozen countries have agreed to advance their annual contributions to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to help it plug a major shortfall after a partial cut-off...

Norway’s representative in Palestine has denied claims that her government’s policy of funding Palestinian NGOs has been changed, Safa news agency reported on Wednesday. Hilde Haraldstad insisted that all...

US President Donald Trump called for Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to immediately allow humanitarian aid to reach the Yemeni people, suggesting Washington had run out patience with a Saudi-led...

Two new Palestinian schools in the occupied West Bank, funded by European governments, are under threat of destruction and seizure, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). An Israeli...

European institutions and official bodies continue to launch and support a number of intellectual, research and religious initiatives in the Middle East under the pretence of reforming Islamic thought...

Mordechai Vanunu Norwegian wife announced that Oslo has agreed to receive the former nuclear expert who revealed secrets related to Israel’s nuclear program. Christine Joachimsen told TV2 channel on Saturday...