Tag: crime

Teen killer appeals lengthy custody

A 17-year-old girl with a history of violence who strangled and stabbed her therapist two years ago was sentenced on Friday to nine years...

Health minister wants to ease drug policy

Health Minister Bent Høie of the Conservatives would rather see Norway's public health system take care of drug abusers than the country's criminal justice system....

MP for the Liberals hit by hate messages

Abid Raja, an attorney and well-known Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party (Venstre), has become a target of hate messages sent from a mobile phone...

Former hostage glad to be back home

Kjartan Sekkingstad, the man from Norway's west coast who was seized by a guerrilla group in the Philippines last year, landed back in Oslo...

Police seize huge weapons stash

Norwegian police have seized more than 1,000 illegal weapons and charged as many as 20 people in one of their largest gun crackdowns ever. Nationwide...

Kirkenes man admits killing wife and stepson

A 59-year-old Norwegian man in Kirkenes has admitted to shooting both his wife and her son last month in a double murder that shook...

Bomb scare shut US Embassy site

Around 250 people working on the construction site of the new US Embassy in Oslo were evacuated Tuesday after a "suspicious item" was found in...

Hussain indicted for ISIL recruitment

The Norwegian Islamic extremist Ubaydullah Hussain has been indicted for allegedly having recruited foreign warriors for ISIL forces in Syria. It's the first time...

Hostage: ‘We were treated like a slave’

Freed Norwegian hostage Kjartan Sekkingstad, looking haggard and clearly exhausted after spending nearly a year in the clutches of an Islamic guerrilla group in...

Brende confirms hostage’s release

Foreign Minister Børge Brende could finally "set our joy free" on Saturday, after a week of intense work to secure the release of Norwegian...
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