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| Jan Egeland new Secretary General of NRC |
| [Norwaynews] [14.06.2013, 11:18pm, Fri. GMT] |
Jan Egeland has been appointed new Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the largest humanitarian organization in Norway. Egeland was UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2003-06), and currently holds the position as Europe Director of Human Rights Watch. “As Secretary General of NRC, Egeland will be a courageous spokesperson for the displaced people in the world. Through his career, Egeland has built experience and expertise that make him uniquely qualified to lead the organization towards its vision of ’Rights Respected and People Protected’.
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| Norwegian official sets Romania visit on Roma crimes in Oslo |
| [Norwaynews] [18.06.2013, 08:07pm, Tue. GMT] |
| A top Norwegian official says she will travel to Romania next week to find out why foreign aid to help improve conditions for the Roma people is not being used. The announcement came as Oslo police said seven out of 10 people arrested on theft-related charges in the past year were from Romania, The Norway Post reported Tuesday. The Norwegian government set aside $23.4 million last year to aid the Roma people in Romania. Thousands of Romanians are reported to travel to Oslo every summer to beg. |
| | | | Couple in Norway get 17 years for incest |
| [Norwaynews] [17.05.2013, 07:09pm, Fri. GMT] |
A Norwegian court sentenced a couple to 17 years in prison for violence, rape and incestuous relations with their three sons, calling it the country’s worst sexual abuse case. A 39-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man had been accused of physical and sexual violence over two years, from a very young age, against the two boys born of their union and the third boy from a previous relationship by the mother.
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| | | | Two confirmed dead in Norway bridge collapse |
| [Norwaynews] [10.05.2013, 03:33pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Rescue workers on Thursday pulled a second body from the rubble of an under-construction bridge that collapsed in central Norway a day earlier, police said. The victim, a construction worker, was excavated in the early morning from a mountain of debris at the accident site near the city of Trondheim, according to police. "The last missing person after the bridge collapse has now been retrieved from the area and is confirmed dead," police said in a statement. The other fatality was a person driving a car under the bridge when it collapsed on Wednesday, while five others were hospitalised. |
| | | | New Norwegian Laws to Block Pirate Sites |
| [Norwaynews] [01.05.2013, 01:24pm, Wed. GMT] |
| In an effort to block sites such as The Pirate Bay, Norway has taken another step towards a legislation that should enable authorities to battle online copyright infringement as new amendments are well received in the Parliament.Politicians have proposed several amendments to the Copyright Act, which makes it easier for them to monitor file-sharers and have sites that break the law blocked at the ISP level, TorrentFreak reports. The new legislature received broad support in parliament and it will most certainly pass into law. |
| | | | Two sentenced for stealing Otumfuo's gold |
| [Norwaynews] [06.04.2013, 05:12pm, Sat. GMT] |
| The two Peruvians who stole the crown jewels of the Asantehene,Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, have been sentenced to a total of 44 months imprisonment by a Oslo District Court. The convicts, Luis Angel Acosta Barrios, 44, the man seen on CCTV carrying the suitcase which contained the gold ornaments, and Jaime Benigno Valverde Figueroa, 41, the driver during the operation, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit crime and stealing. While Barrios will serve one year six months, Figueroa will spend two years two months in jail. |
| | | | Murderer sad at mum's death |
| [Norwaynews] [25.03.2013, 04:30pm, Mon. GMT] |
| Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has said he would like to attend the funeral of his mother, his lawyer says. Breivik and his mother Wenche Behring Breivik met earlier this month at Ila Prison where Breivik is being held, Tord Jordet said. She died on Friday after a long illness, according to her lawyer Ragnhild Torgersen. She was 66. |
| | | | Norwegian kidnapped in Egypt |
| [Norwaynews] [23.03.2013, 05:59am, Sat. GMT] |
| Armed Bedouin tribesmen in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Friday kidnapped two tourists, an Israeli man and a Norwegian woman, as they traveled between two beach resorts, police said. Six gunmen intercepted the tourists’ car and forced them into their truck, the officials said. The pair had been travelling between the southern resort of Taba, on the border with Israel, and Dahab. |
| | | | Norway cooperates with INTERPOL to stop fisheries crime |
| [Norwaynews] [02.03.2013, 08:18pm, Sat. GMT] |
| This week Norway participated in an international enforcement conference related to fisheries crime organized by INTERPOL. At the conference INTERPOL launched its international collaboration effort Project SCALE. The project is intended to raise awareness of fisheries crime, assess the needs of vulnerable countries, establish national security groups and conduct operations to combat criminal activities at sea. |
| | | | Parliament in HD at Stortinget |
| [Norwaynews] [01.03.2013, 04:43pm, Fri. GMT] |
With the addition of more cameras, a new switcher, router and intercom system, Megahertz Broadcast Systems and Video 4 has completed the second phase of an upgrade in the television facilities at Stortinget, the Norwegian parliamentary buildings in Oslo. All proceedings are now available in HD, and automated using software control from LSB. The first phase was installed in 2010, based on Shotoku robotics with Sony cameras.
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| | | | Norway remembers victims of 'meaningless' hostage drama in Algeria |
| [Norwaynews] [04.02.2013, 04:49pm, Mon. GMT] |
| Norway has paid tribute to five Statoil workers killed in what the country's oil minister called a "meaningless" terror attack on a gas field in Algeria. Speaking at a memorial service Monday in the west coast city of Bergen, Oil and Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe said last month's hostage drama had brought Norwegians together in their rejection of violence and terror. Statoil CEO Helge Lund's voice cracked as he remembered the five Norwegians as "innocent victims of brutal terrorism." |
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| Norwegian couple rescued by Navy 160 miles off south coast |
| [Norwaynews] [23.05.2013, 05:27pm, Thu. GMT] |
| A Norwegian couple, who were found on a dismasted yacht 250km off the south coast early yesterday morning, are being towed back to shore by the Navy. The couple, aged in their late 60s, were expected to reach dry land in Castletownbere by 6.30pm. The couple were en route from the Azores to the Shetlands Island when the mast on their 30ft yacht, the Alice 2, broke. They were initially found by a French fishing vessel who saw their distress flare after a day without the mast. |
| | | | Statoil confirms raid at Norway headquarters |
| [Norwaynews] [14.05.2013, 06:12pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Statoil has confirmed a raid took place at its headquarters in Stavanger, Norway, earlier today. Statoil said the inspection was carried out by the EFTA Surveillance Authority with the assistance of the Norwegian Competition Authority. A statement on the firm's website said the inspection was carried out "on request of the European Commission". |
| | | | Bulgarians, Roma, French ‘Banned in Norway’ |
| [Norwaynews] [03.05.2013, 04:55pm, Fri. GMT] |
Norway’s populist right-wing party has called for keeping out of the country Roma, Bulgarian and French nationals, arguing these are prone to criminal activities. Per Sandberg, a Norwegian politician, currently Member of Parliament and deputy leader for the Progress Party, has suggested "three immediate steps to stop the flow of begging and crime” in a text distributed online.
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| | | | Norwegian jailed 6 weeks for beating up taxi driver in Singapore |
| [Norwaynews] [01.05.2013, 01:19pm, Wed. GMT] |
| A Norwegian man who grabbed a cabby by the neck, shoved him across a hotel lobby and hurled him into a lift, was jailed for six weeks yesterday. All because Christian Myhrhagen Sindre, a ship charterer who earns $10,500 a month, had initially refused to pay the cabby a $4 midnight surcharge. The 27-year-old was also ordered to pay compensation of $1,699 to part-time cabby Lee Chin Chye, 49, for his medical expenses and loss of earnings. |
| | | | Egyptian kidnappers release Norwegian, Israeli tourists |
| [Norwaynews] [26.03.2013, 05:47pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Kidnappers released a Norwegian woman and an Israeli man held in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula following negotiations mediated by Bedouin leaders between authorities and the group that seized the tourists four days ago, security sources said on Tuesday. The tourists had been kidnapped on Friday while driving between the resort towns of Dahab and Taba on the Red Sea coast. The sources said the kidnappers' aim was to put pressure on Egyptian authorities to release two of their relatives held for alleged drug dealing. The police had agreed to review the case. |
| | | | Massive Cyber-attack Strikes Telenor |
| [Norwaynews] [23.03.2013, 05:34pm, Sat. GMT] |
According to local media, Telenor the telecommunications giant of Norway has been struck with an advanced cyber-attack; thus reported softpedia.com dated March 18, 2013. It's perceived that cyber-criminals may've filched significant volume of information stored on computers that the executives of the major organization used. Also, according to representatives of the company, experts have been prompt in identifying the breach following which they've taken extra precautions for stopping similar incidents in future. But, as there can be severe impact from the intrusion, Telenor has lodged a complaint with the cops.
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| | | | 5 youths arrested for teasing Norwegian woman |
| [Norwaynews] [21.03.2013, 08:07pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Five youths who allegedly teased a woman tourist from Norway in a private bus were arrested in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh, the police said on Tuesday. The accused, aged around 25, who were drunk teased the Norwegian woman on Monday night while the bus was passing through Nizamabad district and even threatened the bus-driver Jamaluddin Khan and fellow passengers when they tried to intervene, they said. |
| | | | Norway mulls decriminalising heroin smoking |
| [Norwaynews] [01.03.2013, 04:55pm, Fri. GMT] |
The Norwegian government said Friday it wants to decriminalise the inhalation of heroin, a method considered less dangerous than injecting it, to reduce the number of overdoses in the country. The move would make smoking heroin an offense on par with injecting it, which is illegal in Norway but tolerated. Oslo's municipality already operates a site where heroin addicts can inject drugs under safer, more hygienic circumstances than they would have had access to otherwise.
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| | | | Horse meat scandal spreads to Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [16.02.2013, 01:29am, Sat. GMT] |
| Horse meat has now been found in some food items collected from a number of Norwegian supermarket chains including Coop, Norwegian media reported on Friday. Coop said that horse meat had been discovered in frozen lasagne, which were withdrawn from shelf last week when the scandal broke out in other European countries. Consumers can return the lasagne and get a refund, said the grocery chain. |
| | | | Breivik files complaint over "aggravated torture" |
| [Norwaynews] [02.02.2013, 05:00pm, Sat. GMT] |
| Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year jail sentence for killing 77 people, has complained to the Norwegian government over prison conditions akin to “aggravated torture”, his lawyer said today. In his complaint to Justice Minister Grete Faremo and the Governor of the Ila high security prison, Knut Bjarkeid, Breivik complained over being kept in isolation for too long. |
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