Tag: crime

Problems plague Progress Party

NEWS ANALYSIS: The conviction and jail term handed to one of its Members of Parliament on Friday is just the lastest in a long...

Hijacker charged with attempted murder

UPDATED: Drama played out on the streets of Oslo Tuesday after a 32-year-old Norwegian man crashed his car and then hijacked an ambulance in...

16 arrests as Oslo tackles violence

Police, state and city officials moved fast after an unusual spike in random violence on the streets of Oslo. Most of those behind the...

Supreme Court boosts Islamist’s jail terms for threats

Norway's Supreme Court has sentenced Islamic extremist Mohyeldeen Mohammad to two years and six months in prison for threatening the Liberal Party's Member of...

Politicians react to weekend violence

Oslo police logged more than 20 incidents of street violence in Oslo during the weekend, and that was topping the agenda of an already-planned...

Security tightened at business school

The Oslo campus of the Norwegian Business School BI beefed up security this week, after receiving threats against members of its own management. The...

White supremacist still in isolation

He complained in court on Monday that it was "boring" to sit in jail in full isolation. A court in Oslo nonetheless ordered that's...

Norwegians bemoan shooting in US

The gun culture in the US struck Norwegians at home on Friday, after hearing news that a 37-year-old Norwegian man was shot and killed...

Step-sister killed because she was Asian

An autopsy into the death of 17-year-old Johanne Zhanglia Ihle-Hansen in Bærum last month has concluded that she was killed with two shots to...

Progress Party MP faces jail term

Mazyar Keshvari, a Member of Parliament for the Progress Party, has now admitted to submitting false travel expense claims amounting to NOK 450,000. Keshvari...

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