Barth

Norway's foreign minister Espen Barth Eide told the same programme his country was "happy to contribute in one way or the other but we have not made choices".

However, “it is regrettable that the Israeli government shows no signs of engaging constructively,” Barth Eide said.

The foreign minister of Norway, Espen Barth Eide, told a news conference that the country’s representative office to the Palestinian Authority, which was opened in the West Bank in 1999, would become an embassy.

Johns Hopkins University, where Barth was an emeritus professor of English and creative writing, confirmed his death in a statement.

John Barth, who, believing that the old literary conventions were exhausted, extended the limits of storytelling with imaginative and intricately woven novels like “The Sot-Weed Factor” and “Giles Goat-Boy,” died on Tuesday.