Tag: crime

Telenor’s former CEO: ‘I have not lied’

Jon Fredrik Baksaas, the former chief executive of Oslo-based Telenor, launched a new salvo Thursday in the ongoing conflicts over the troubled telecoms firm. Now...

More face charges in fire at planned asylum center

A man in his mid-30s who's originally from Eastern Europe is among two suspects now charged with setting fire to a hotel in Western...

More stabbings, all unrelated

Police in Oslo claim they've never dealt with so many stabbings as during this past week. Two more plus one threatened attack were reported...

Police seek to reassure public

UPDATED: Two fatal stabbings on the streets of Oslo Wednesday morning set off a massive response by police and resulted in the arrest of...

Simultaneous stabbings set off alarms

Police in Oslo were mounting a massive response Wednesday morning after two people were reported stabbed at separate locations within a half-hour. Both victims,...

Police crack down on ‘julebord’ prostitution

More Norwegian men are likely to buy sex during the annual julebord (Christmas party) season than otherwise during the year, according to Oslo police...

Child brides pose new challenge in ongoing refugee crisis

The case of a pregnant 14-year-old refugee girl from Syria, who also already had an 18-month-old child when she arrived in Norway with her husband...

Widow sentenced to 21 years in jail for murder

The widow of a Norwegian shipping executive was sentenced on Friday to Norway's longest prison sentence of 21 years, after an appeals court found...

TV2: ‘Krekar wanted to burn Parliament’

Norwegian television channel TV2 has reported that Mullah Krekar, the Muslim cleric now facing new terror charges, wanted to set fire to the Norwegian flag,...

Threatened school reopened after all

UPDATED: Authorities in Oslo had considered keeping the Grünerløkka elementary school closed for as long as 10 days, after receiving what TV2.no reported were more "concrete...
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