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Norway population tops five million


Norway will today break the five million inhabitants barrier, the country’s statistics bureau predicts. Read the full story

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Remains found at Norwegian plane crash site


Rescue workers have found bodily remains on the slopes of Sweden’s tallest mountain, near where a Norwegian military plane went missing on Friday with five people on board. Read the full story

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Oslo hospital reported for trafficking nurses


Oslo University Hospital (OUS) has been reported to the police for allegedly exploiting Filipino nurses. Read the full story

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Breivik charged under terror laws


Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of killing 77 people and injured hundreds more in dual attacks last year, has been officially charged with terrorism. Read the full story

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Norwegian arrested for Thai girlfriend murder


A Norwegian man has been arrested in Thailand for the murder of his former girlfriend who went missing three years ago. Read the full story

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Scream sale set for jaw-dropping price


Edvard Munch’s famous masterpiece The Scream is set to go under the hammer at New York auction house Sotheby’s, with an estimated selling price of EUR 59 million. Read the full story

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Boys, not bombs, destroy historic church


A 116 year-old Norwegian church, which survived a bombing in WWII, has been burnt beyond repair by two boys playing with a cigarette lighter. Read the full story

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Birkedal acquitted of sexual assault but guilty of secret filming


A former Norwegian politician has been acquitted of sexually assaulting under-age boys, but convicted of secretly filming naked young men in his bathroom and using a false online identity to obtain naked pictures of boys. Read the full story

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New Icelandic Coastguard ship having whole new engine fitted in Norway


An inspector from Lloyd’s Register, who has technical oversight on coastguard patrol ships, says that one of the main engines aboard the Icelandic Coastguard’s newest cruiser, Þór was broken when the ship was handed over last autumn. Read the full story

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Iceland ‘mackerel war’ negotiations end in failure


This week’s Reykjavík mackerel fishing negotiations between Iceland and the Faroe Islands on one side and the EU and Norway on the other have ended without agreement and with the EU’s fishing chief blaming Icelandic and Faroese unwillingness to properly engage in negotiations. Read the full story

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