Tag: crime

Trials begin in major sexual assault cases

Two major cases involving multiple counts of sexual assault against children were getting underway in courtrooms in both Northern and Southern Norway this week. One...

More threats close Oslo school once again

An elementary school in Oslo was closed once again on Monday, after threats were made against it via social media. Police, city, and school...

Two police officers stabbed in Vennesla

Two plain-clothes police officers were stabbed and seriously injured outside a bank in the small southern Norwegian town of Vennesla Friday afternoon. They were...

Asylum seeker charged in fatal stabbing

An 18-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea was in police custody Friday, charged with fatally stabbing a 17-year-old Eritrean girl at an asylum center in...

Murder alarm on Hurtigruten ship

A man who was working on board one of the vessels in Norway's popular Hurtigruten coastal shipping line was found dead in his cabin Wednesday...

‘No reason to doubt’ executions

UPDATED: The Islamic extremist organization IS claimed on Wednesday that it has executed both a Norwegian and a Chinese hostage they'd captured earlier this year. Prime...

Parliament sets Telenor inquiry

The Norwegian Parliament's supervisory committee plans to grill three current and former government trade ministers and no less than 14 people who have served in top...

Terror defendant drops appeal after Paris attacks

An attorney for Norwegian terror defendant Ishaq Ahmed, age 24, told state broadcaster NRK on Tuesday that his client had dropped his appeal of...

Shipping company hit by price-fixing charges

One of Norway's biggest shipping companies, Wilh Wilhelmsen, is caught up in a price-fixing case involving two of its partly owned car carrier operations. The...

Telenor ‘ignored’ bribery alarms

Whistle-blowers reportedly met deaf ears among top management at Norway's state-controlled international telecoms firm Telenor, when they sounded alarms four years ago about suspected bribery...
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