The Guardian - Europe
Visit Norway makes shithouses ‘great again’ after Trump insult 29 October 2026 at 17:22

Visit Norway makes shithouses ‘great again’ after Trump insult

29 October 2026 at 17:22

Tourist board responds with toilet humour after US president’s ‘shithouse country’ jibe over failure to win Nobel peace prize

Some might find it decidedly incommodious to be dumped on by Donald Trump as a “shithouse country”. Not the Norwegian tourist board, which chose instead to lift the lid on some of the nation’s loveliest lavatories.

“Are these the world’s best shit houses?” asked Visit Norway on its website, days after the US president vented his fury once more over failing to win the Nobel peace prize by describing Norway as a “shithouse country” at a rally on Sunday.

The Hill
AI founders want to give shares to the public? Give them to Social Security. 29 October 2026 at 14:30

AI founders want to give shares to the public? Give them to Social Security.

The Hill

By: Eftychis Gregos-Mourginakis and Jan Jaro · opinion contributors

29 October 2026 at 14:30

Congress should build an independent fund that accepts contributed equity from any company, holds it in a diversified portfolio and dedicates the returns to the trust funds.

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AI founders want to give shares to the public? Give them to Social Security. 29 October 2026 at 14:30

AI founders want to give shares to the public? Give them to Social Security.

The Hill News

By: Eftychis Gregos-Mourginakis and Jan Jaro · opinion contributors

29 October 2026 at 14:30

Congress should build an independent fund that accepts contributed equity from any company, holds it in a diversified portfolio and dedicates the returns to the trust funds.

The Guardian - Europe
Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin 29 October 2026 at 12:55

Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin

The Guardian - Europe

By: Pjotr Sauer

29 October 2026 at 12:55

With no single European representative negotiating directly with Moscow, some leaders are establishing their own channels – with messy results

The Nordic countries rarely fall out in public over foreign policy, least of all over Russia.

But a 90-minute phone call this week to Vladimir Putin by the leaders of Finland and Norway drew an unusual rebuke from their Danish and Swedish neighbours.

The Guardian - World news
Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin 29 October 2026 at 12:55

Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin

The Guardian - World news

By: Pjotr Sauer

29 October 2026 at 12:55

With no single European representative negotiating directly with Moscow, some leaders are establishing their own channels – with messy results

The Nordic countries rarely fall out in public over foreign policy, least of all over Russia.

But a 90-minute phone call this week to Vladimir Putin by the leaders of Finland and Norway drew an unusual rebuke from their Danish and Swedish neighbours.

The Times of Israel
Norwegian auction of Nazi-defaced Holocaust-era Torah fragment sparks outcry, then intervention 28 October 2026 at 23:20

Norwegian auction of Nazi-defaced Holocaust-era Torah fragment sparks outcry, then intervention

The Times of Israel

28 October 2026 at 23:20

Israel's Foreign Ministry praises efforts to prevent sale of 'sacred manuscript looted by Nazis,' calfskin fragment to be donated to San Diego Holocaust remembrance organization

Norwegian auction of Nazi-defaced Holocaust-era Torah fragment sparks outcry, then intervention

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