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| Deep concern about verdicts against NGO employees in Egypt |
| [Norwaynews] [14.06.2013, 11:16pm, Fri. GMT] |
| “I am deeply concerned about the severe sentences handed down against local and international representatives of NGOs in Egypt, including one Norwegian,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide. “The sentences and the trial show a very worrying trend for civil society in Egypt. Civil society is playing an essential role in the process of democratisation in Egypt,” said the Foreign Minister. |
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| Suspected Norwegian drug smuggler killed by police |
| [Norwaynews] [07.01.2013, 04:29pm, Mon. GMT] |
| Some 250 kilograms of cannabis were found in the boat used by suspected drug smugglers who shot at police in a bid to escape arrest.A suspected drug smuggler was killed last night after an exchange of fire with police who were waiting to apprehend them in a small northern Jutland harbour. The police had received a tip-off that the three smugglers were going to use the harbour and, as the men arrived at around 9pm, moved in to arrest them. |
| | | | Norwegian dies in tsunami buoy accident |
| [Norwaynews] [22.10.2012, 12:01pm, Mon. GMT] |
| The installation of the tsunami buoy at Pulau Sipadan has been halted due to a fatal accident involving the leader of the team. In a statement yesterday, the Malaysian Meteorological Department announced that the accident occurred on Thursday while team leader Stig Erik Lyng and other team members were installing the buoy aboard the ship MV Pendamar. Lyng, 53, an expert with more than 30 years' experience in the buoy system, was rushed to the Semporna Hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival. |
| | | | Spain Police probe into death of Norwegian businessman |
| [Norwaynews] [04.10.2012, 06:21pm, Thu. GMT] |
Spain National police are investigating the mysterious death of a Norwegian businessman in Estepona. The man, aged 43, had been staying in an apartment at El Presidente Urbanisation in spain for two days when residents heard screams for help. A witness who met the man’s family in the street claim they said he was “out of control,” and that his wife had fled from the apartment and hidden with their young son. Urbanisation security guards found the man screaming, aggressively banging into apartment walls, running around the gardens and then jumped naked into the pool.
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| | | | Missing teenager found dead in Norway, 2 men arrested on suspicion of murder |
| [Norwaynews] [04.09.2012, 06:37pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norwegian police say they have found the body of 16-year-old girl who went missing a month ago and arrested two men suspected of killing her. The search for Sigrid Schjetne had been making headlines in Norway since she disappeared on Aug. 5 on her way home from a friend’s house in Oslo. Police confirmed Tuesday that a body found in a forest outside the capital a day earlier was that of Schjetne. They did not release the cause of death. |
| | | | B-gang member shot dead at Oslo petrol station |
| [Norwaynews] [14.08.2012, 10:03am, Tue. GMT] |
A 31-year-old B-gange member was shot and killed at a petrol station in Oslo on Monday night. Police confirmed that the victim died at Ullevål hospital shortly after he was shot at a Shell station in the Ensjø district at 10.15pm. The shooting is thought to have been gang-related, newspaper VG reports. Police officers who happened to be in the area at the time said they heard a shot and drove immediately to the petrol station.
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| | | | Norwegian, Filipino dead in plane crash |
| [Norwaynews] [04.03.2012, 07:20am, Sun. GMT] |
A Norwegian tourist and her Filipino pilot were killed and three other foreigners injured in a plane crash in the central Philippines on Sunday, police said. A Norwegian family of three were flying to the resort island of Camiguin by private plane when the aircraft crashed, said regional police duty officer Eduardo Mandalunin. "The plane was about to land when the pilot lost control and the plane hit some coconut trees and fell to the ground," he told AFP. |
| | | | Norwegian hid woman's body for two years |
| [Norwaynews] [01.03.2012, 06:44pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Police in Thailand say they have arrested a Norwegian businessman who admitted killing his Thai girlfriend and keeping her rotting body hidden in his luxurious villa for two and a half years. Police Colonel Sirisak Wasasiri said that 50-year-old Norwegian Stein Havard Dokset confessed late Wednesday to killing the woman by pushing her down the stairs after an argument at his beachside home on the resort island of Phuket. |
| | | | Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik 'had hit-list of 30 targets' |
| [Norway] [20.02.2012, 05:39pm, Mon. GMT] |
| Anders Behring Breivik had a death-list of 12 Norwegian "traitors" and his "Plan A" was to attack 30 targets including Norway's Royal Palace and the HQ of Amnesty International, according to leaked police documents. The right-wing Norwegian extremist, who has admitted killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks last year, told police that his initial plans included senior politicians and organisations he blamed for allowing Muslims to "colonise" Norway. |
| | | | Norwegian tourist found dead in India |
| [Norwaynews] [09.02.2012, 09:02pm, Thu. GMT] |
| A 35-year-old Norwegian tourist was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his hotel room here onThursday, police said. Oystain Hodne was staying in a hotel on Sikar Road here along with his Indian wife Jasvindar and three children. "He had come to Jaipur from Norway a few days ago. The family had been to many tourist places in the city," said police inspector Kushal Singh. "The hotel staff told us that he had consumed alcohol excessively on Wednesday night. He had been demanding liquor from the hotel staff till wee hours Thursday," said the officer. |
| | | | The Norway town that forgave and forgot its child killers |
| [Norway] [02.02.2012, 12:14pm, Thu. GMT] |
| In 1994, in Trondheim, five-year-old Silje Redergard was beaten to death by two little boys. Today, the girl's family still suffers and one of the boys is in trouble again – the echoes of the Bulger case are clear. So why has the public reaction in Norway been so startlingly different? |
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| Swine flu kills 11-year old boy in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [29.12.2012, 04:38pm, Sat. GMT] |
An 11-year old boy from the southern Norwegian county of Telemark has died of a swine virus infection, the Norwegian-language newspaper Aftenposten reported on Friday. The boy had been seriously ill for two weeks before being transferred on Christmas Eve from a local hospital in Porsgrunn to the Riks Hospital in Oslo, capital of Norway, said Bjoernar Nyen, a doctor in the boy's hometown.
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| | | | US artist writes a song for Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [08.10.2012, 09:15am, Mon. GMT] |
American singer and songwriter James Rogers wrote a song dedicated to Norway that illustrates the American people's solidarity and support for the Norwegian people after July 22. "It is now our hope to share this song, this prayer, with as many people as possible, both in the USA and in Norway," the songwriter states on a website dedicated to the song. Just a week after the tragedy at Utøya, a retired US General and his wife visited their friends, a Norwegian General and his wife, in Norway.
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| | | | Norwegian man dies after bar fight in Thailand |
| [Norwaynews] [21.09.2012, 06:58pm, Fri. GMT] |
A Norwegian died less than 24 hours after suffering a severe skull fracture during a bar brawl at a popular Norwegian-owned Beer Bar in Central Pattaya in Thailand. The fight occurred in the early hours of Thursday at Kåres Party Bar in Central Pattaya. The altercation was reportedly between the victim, Mr. Jarle Nyegaard aged 43 and a man currently known only as “Bubu” thought to be aged between 35 and 40. Mr. Nyegaard was at the bar with friends when the altercation began and Mr. Nyegaard was knocked to the floor by the suspected attacker.
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| | | | Norway base jumper killed on mountain |
| [Norwaynews] [25.08.2012, 03:08pm, Sat. GMT] |
| Norwegian police said they were investigating a death that apparently occurred in a mountainside base-jumping accident. The victim was believed to be a Swedish man in his 40s who was killed on Kjerjag mountain in southern Norway on Friday. Police said the cause of the man's death was under investigation and his identification was still being confirmed even though a driver's license was discovered at the scene. |
| | | | Swede arrested in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [05.03.2012, 08:01pm, Mon. GMT] |
A 27 year old Swedish man has been arrested, suspected of beating a female door keeper to death outside a pub in south Norway. The man was very drunk and claims he does not remember much from the evening. The body will undergo an autopsy but it is already known that she got severe head injuries. Witnesses say she was punched in her face several times before she fell. Early reports suggested police were unsure whether the suspect had hit the victim, whom they initially believed may have suffered a heart attack or an epileptic fit.
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| | | | Sane or Insane – Professor of Law pressed to answer that Question |
| [Norwaynews] [03.03.2012, 07:14am, Sat. GMT] |
A defendant may not be sentenced to prison if he or she was psychotic, unconscious or mentally retarded at the time of the act. Professor Stigen noted that the initial diagnosis of Anders Behring Breivik as psychotic, made by two court-appointed psychiatrists, sparked debate among mental health professionals. A second two-person psychiatric team is now conducting a follow-up examination. If it agrees that Breivik is psychotic, the five-judge Oslo District Court panel will have little choice but to sentence Breivik to mandatory psychiatric care, assuming he is found guilty at trial. (It could conceivably order a third examination). |
| | | | Norwegian mother and child 'died of illness' |
| [Norwaynews] [20.02.2012, 05:40pm, Mon. GMT] |
| A Norwegian mother and her 9-month-old baby found dead in a flat in Arboga, in central Sweden, died "due to illness or as a result of it", local police said on Monday. “The baby died from exhaustion and starvation,” said police spokesperson Terje Lund to Swedish daily Aftonbladet. When the bodies of the deceased mother, Kjærsti Elida Guseck, and her baby, Verona, were found in January, police were unable to rule out foul play. |
| | | | Norwegian killed in Kenya car crash |
| [Norwaynews] [13.02.2012, 03:37pm, Mon. GMT] |
A Norwegian student was killed and another wounded in a car crash near Kisumu in Kenya on Sunday. Six others escaped serious injury. The students, from a Kristiansand high school, were in Kenya to work on a school project, installing a solar energy supply. The accident occurred when the students' minibus was hit from behind by a truck, NRK reports.
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| | | | Norwegian Royals Evacuated From Plane in Denmark |
| [Norwaynews] [05.02.2012, 11:47am, Sun. GMT] |
| A Scandinavian airlines flight with 135 people on board, including the Norwegian Crown Prince and Princess, has been evacuated at Copenhagen's main airport Kastrup after smoke was detected in the cabin. SAS spokesman Mikkel Thrane says the cabin was filled with smoke due to an engine problem, but that all passengers were evacuated safely early Sunday. He says the plane was bound for Oslo and that Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were among the passengers. |
| | | | Unsuccessful search for missing oil workers |
| [Norway] [22.01.2012, 03:39pm, Sun. GMT] |
| Chevron has called off the search and rescue activities for two contractors who were missing after Monday's fire aboard the "K.S. Endeavor", a drilling rig offshore Nigeria operated by FODE Drilling Nigeria Limited, according to a press release from the company. The jack-up rig was operating in a water depth of approximately 40 feet, about six miles (10 km) offshore and the well had been drilled to 12,945 feet at the time of the incident. "Initial indications point to the possible failure of surface equipment during drilling operations that led to a loss of well control," the company said in a statement. |
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