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| Nigeria: Govt Imports N109 Billion Fish From Norway Annually |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 01:38pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Nigeria imports fish worth about N109.2 billion ($700 million) annually from Norway, the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Kjell Lillerud has said. He said this yesterday in Abuja when he visited the Minister of state for Trade and Investment, Dr Samuel Ortom.Lillerud said that though he does not have the tonnage of fish that gets to Nigeria, there are three categories with stock fish taking the lead. |
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| 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? |
| | | | Mother drowns baby in Norway as boyfriend watches on Skype |
| [Norwaynews] [06.01.2012, 06:22pm, Fri. GMT] |
| A Norwegian woman, separated from her Pakistani husband, drowned her one-year-old baby in a bucket while her boyfriend watched it live on Skype, a media report said. Yasmin Chaudhry, 26, killed her baby girl by plunging into a bucket of water during a 3 a.m. Skype video call with her British partner, Daily Mail reported Friday. She said she wanted to discipline her baby for "disobeying her". She told paramedics the baby had fallen into the bucket by accident. The girl was pronounced dead next day. |
| | | | Norwegian Tourist dies following Canaries hotel blast |
| [Norwaynews] [24.11.2011, 06:25pm, Thu. GMT] |
| A female Norwegian tourist has died from burns after a gas explosion at a hotel on the Spanish Canary island of Gran Canaria. Anita Berget, 55, was one of six people seriously injured in the blast on Wednesday at the Cordial Mogan Playa hotel in the south-west of the holiday island. The other five are hotel employees. One was in critical condition in hospital. |
| | | | German honored for saving lives in Norway attack |
| [Norwaynews] [04.10.2011, 02:33pm, Tue. GMT] |
| The German president has given the country's highest award of service to Marcel Gleffe, a 32-year-old roofer who saved at least 20 people from the shooting in Norway in July. A German roofer who saved at least 20 youths from the massacre on the Norwegian island of Utoya was honored with Germany's highest award of service in Berlin on Tuesday. |
| | | | Norwegian boy kidnapped in Spain |
| [Norwaynews] [28.09.2011, 04:40pm, Wed. GMT] |
| A Spanish newspaper reported the kidnapping of a Norwegian boy on Tuesday from the Norwegian School of Albir in Spain. According to police, the ten years old boy allegedly was abducted from the playground at 0915 in the morning. Guardia Civil is currently monitoring airports, ferries and border crossings in the country. Based on experience, the Spanish newspaper believes close family members are behind the kidnapping. |
| | | | Norway confirms death of citizen in attack |
| [Norwaynews] [27.08.2011, 02:46am, Sat. GMT] |
| Norway on Friday said one of its citizens was among the 18 people killed in a suicide bomb attack on the United Nation‘s headquarters in Nigeria, which the Nordic country strongly condemned. ”I condemn with the greatest firmness the attack against the UN offices in Abuja today,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere in a statement. |
| | | | Father of murdered Norwegian socialite pleads with Arab suspect to face justice in Britain |
| [Norwaynews] [25.12.2010, 03:22pm, Sat. GMT] |
Martine Vik Magnussen, 23, had been drinking and taking cocaine in the hours before she was murdered in March 2008, her inquest heard yesterday. Her semi-naked and battered body was found buried in rubble in Farouk Abdulhak’s basement after the pair were spotted leaving a nightclub together in the early hours of the morning. |
| | | | Four Norwegians among Five NATO soldiers killed |
| [Norwaynews] [28.06.2010, 07:45am, Mon. GMT] |
Four Norwegian soldiers were killed Sunday in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan, Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang reported in its online edition. The soldiers were deployed in Faryab Province, the report quoted a Norwegian military spokesman as saying in Oslo. The spokesman said the attack had been launched by Taliban militants. If the latest deaths are officially confirmed, the death toll of Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan will rise to nine.
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| | | | Norwegian girls drowned in sea |
| [Norwaynews] [08.03.2010, 09:26am, Mon. GMT] |
 Two nine-year-old Norwegian girls playing on slippery coastal rocks near Kristiansund in Norway fell into the sea on Sunday. Both were found, but died later at the local hospital. Hospital officials tried to resuscitate the girls, one of whom was believed to have been in the ice-cold water for around an hour, but gave up efforts late Sunday night. The girls reportedly were playing on the large rocks, called svaberg, that slope into the sea at a park area at Karihola, north of the city on Norway’s northwest coast.
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| | | | Norwegian Dies in Room After Motorbike Accident in Pattaya |
| [Norwaynews] [29.01.2010, 08:32pm, Fri. GMT] |
| A middle aged Norwegian national has been found dead in his room shortly after having been involved in a motorbike accident. At approximately 6:00pm, police Lieutenant Colonel Warayut Milai (Pattaya Police Investigator) was notified that a foreign man had been found dead in the Aruno building, Soi Arunothai, Pattaya. A team of police and rescue officers from the Sawang Boriboon Foundation went to the scene to investigate. |
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| 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. |
| | | | Norway's Mass Murderer Declared Insane, May Not Go To Prison |
| [Norwaynews] [29.11.2011, 02:16pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Anders Behring Breivik had been delusional for a long time and was insane on July 22 when he killed 77 people during two horrific attacks in Norway, two psychiatrists reported today. He should be put in a psychiatric ward, not a prison, they conclude. In a 243-page report for the court handling the case against Breivik, the psychiatrists describe a "paranoid schizophrenic" governed by delusions, Norway's TV-2 reports. |
| | | | Philippines Court orders arrest of cop in killing of Norwegian |
| [Norwaynews] [06.10.2011, 02:07pm, Thu. GMT] |
A Quezon City court in Philippines has ordered the arrest of a Manila policeman accused of murdering a Norwegian national after a bar brawl last July. Judge Henri Jean-Paul Inting of the Regional Trial Court Branch 95 in Philippines issued an arrest warrant for Philippines Police Officer 1 Harold Meneses for allegedly shooting Mikael Troy Rasay, 18, in the wee hours of July 31, the same day he was to fly home to Norway. |
| | | | 10 weeks on, “Norway's Killing Field” |
| [Norwaynews] [04.10.2011, 09:25am, Tue. GMT] |
| Utoya, where Norway's mass murderer Anders Breivik massacred 69 people at a youth camp, has been reopened to the media. Norway opened the island of Utoya to journalists yesterday for the first time since confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik massacred 69 people at a youth camp in July, with the ruling Labour Party vowing to ensure its idyllic retreat transcends tragedy. |
| | | | Norwegian missing in the Atlantic |
| [Norwaynews] [21.09.2011, 06:09am, Wed. GMT] |
| Another yacht has gone missing, this time a Norwegian yacht in the Atlantic. A wide-spread search is underway, co-ordinated by the Irish Coast Guard off the south-west coast for a yacht with two crew on board, a New Zealander and a Norwegian. They are missing on a voyage from Bermuda to Crookhaven in the County of Cork in Ireland. |
| | | | Swede dies in avalanche in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [24.04.2011, 08:35am, Sun. GMT] |
| A 33-year-old Swedish skier died Saturday after he was carried away by a snow slide in Breidalen in western Norway. "Unfortunately it ended tragically," Edmund Tofthagen, operation leader with Gudbrandsdal Police, told newspaper Expressen. |
| | | | Norwegians missing on Greenland |
| [Norwaynews] [09.08.2010, 09:48pm, Mon. GMT] |
| A search is underway on Greenland for three Norwegian tourists missing on the Arctic island since Friday. The three men went on a hike in the Søndre Strømfjord area, but did not return. Helicopters were used in the search on Sunday, but without result, according to the Greenland police. |
| | | | Another police officer killed on duty |
| [Norwaynews] [22.04.2010, 11:19am, Thu. GMT] |
A policeman was killed in Mo i Rana Wednesday evening, when he was in the process of entering the apartment of a psychiatric patient. The officer was attacked and died from knife wounds. The patient then barricaded himself in his apartment, and a large armed police force was sent out and they surrounded the apartment throughout the night. There was fear that the man was armed.
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| | | | Norwegian found murdered in Denmark |
| [Norwaynews] [02.03.2010, 08:06pm, Tue. GMT] |
| A Norwegian 42 year flight attendant was found dead at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Copenhagen, which says that she works for SAS flight. It is now apparently also now been confirmed by the police that the Norwegian woman was murdered and crime experts also examine the subsequent scene to find out tracks on here death. |
| | | | Norwegian died on Gran Canaria |
| [Norwaynews] [29.01.2010, 08:28pm, Fri. GMT] |
A Norwegian born 1987, died in Playa The family is notified, "said press officer and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry, Ragnhild Imerslund, to Dagbladet. Playa des Ingles is a city on the east coast of Gran Canaria and a popular destination.
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