Tag: crime

Hushovd cuts off former chief

Norway's best-known cyclist, Thor Hushovd, told reporters Wednesday that he doesn't think he wants to have any more contact with the man who's been...

No tax amnesty for embassy agents

Eight former Norwegian police officers hired by the US Embassy in Oslo to carry out controversial surveillance on behalf of the embassy are now...

Violent weekend in the Oslo area

Police in Oslo were faced with two murders and several stabbings over the weekend, in a wave of violence that police officials themselves called...

Man arrested in crown jewels theft

UPDATED: Swedish police arrested a man at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport as he was leaving the country earlier this week, and charged him with the...

Court convicts former politician

A Norwegian appeals court in Bergen, known as Gulating lagmannsrett, has convicted a former top politician for the Progress Party, for having sexual relations...

Law protecting elected officials from being fired ‘should be changed’

A Norwegian law that prevents elected officials from being fired during their terms of office should be changed, according to some professors, Members of...

Kidnapping, murder case highlights domestic violence in Norway

A police investigation into the apparent abduction of a woman and her infant son in Telemark on Sunday ended Monday with the arrest of...

Jens also dumps embattled mayor

UPDATED: Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has personally joined the rising calls for a Labour Party mayor who's battling sexual assault charges to step down....

Mayor ‘shameful’ but denies any illegalities, fights to clear his name

A prominent Labour Party mayor who's accused of sexual assault of an underage girl admitted in court on Thursday that he's "shameful" he "crossed...

King from Ghana claims jewels were stolen in Oslo

King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, of the Ashanti Empire in what later became the West African country of Ghana, has filed a report with...
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