Tag: terrorism
Police armed during Easter holiday week
Norwegian police were ordered to carry firearms during the Easter holiday week after domestic intelligence agency PST issued a new terror evaluation. It warns...
State reopens right-wing extremist’s case
Court-appointed psychiatrists have now concluded that convicted right-wing extremist Philip Manshaus was psychotic when he murdered his step-sister because she was ethnically Chinese and...
Mass-murderer claims prison violates his human rights
The young Norwegian man who bombed Norway's government headquarters and then gunned down scores of young Labour Party members on the island of Utøya...
Terrorist sought asylum in Norway
A Tunisian terrorist who gunned down two Swedish football fans and wounded another in Brussels earlier this week had earlier sought asylum in Norway...
NATO chief paid his respects to homeland’s own terror victims
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was present once again at annual memorial ceremonies in Oslo on Saturday for victims of the terrorist attack on...
Pride shootings ‘an attack on us all’
Justice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl addressed Parliament on Wednesday, in an effort to stress that the Norwegian government is taking last year's attack on...
PST wins right to store what Norwegians write online
The Norwegian government has decided to allow the police intelligence agency PST to store all comments written on public platforms for five years and...
Commission recommends arming police
Norwegians seem to reluctantly be accepting that their police carry arms. Norway long prided itself on having generally unarmed police, but threats of terrorism...
Government invites Taliban to Norway
Norway's foreign ministry announced Friday that the Norwegian government has invited representatives of the Taliban to Oslo early next week for "conversations" about the...
12-year jail term for terrorism
A 25-year-old man from Skien, southwest of Oslo, has once again been found guilty on several counts of terrorism and sentenced to 12 years in...
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