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Norway Asks Sweden To Rent Vacant Prisons
Sweden has closed some prisons as incarceration rate has fallen
Norwegian Wins World Chess Championship
Magnus Carlsen, 22, dethrones Viswanathan Anand
Norway Fights Divorce With ‘Date Night’
A campaign to cut the nation’s 40 percent divorce rate
Conservatives Triumph In Norwegian Election
Norway’s Conservatives won elections in a landslide on Monday but faced tough coalition talks with the populist Progress Party, which wants to curb immigration and spend more of the country’s accumulated oil riches, Reuters reports. Led by 52-year-old Erna Solberg, the Conservatives promise to diversify the economy, which is heavily …
Norway’s Far Right May Come to Power Despite Memory of Anders Breivik’s Killing Spree
Prableen Kaur has arrived at Grorud Naersenter, a drab shopping mall on the outskirts of Oslo, armed with hundreds of red roses and an unshakable faith in Norway’s democracy. The roses are an easy sell. “It’s an icebreaker …
Norwegian Prime Minister’s Taxi Stunt Involved Paid Actors
Updated: Aug. 13, 2013.
It appears Prime Minister Stoltenberg’s taxi stunt may have been a little less incognito than previously thought. The Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) revealed Monday that five of the 14 passengers …
Norway’s ‘Slow TV’ Movement: So Wrong, It’s Right
When Bergensbanen, a television show that broadcast live the seven-hour train journey from Oslo to Bergen, literally became the Norwegian sleeper hit of the season in 2009, the national broadcaster NRK followed it up with more of …
Algeria’s Hostage Crisis: What Was Behind a Shadowy Militant Leader’s Plot?
As the Algerian hostage drama neared day four confusion remained high, information tight, and speculation about multiple motives behind the terror strike emerge
The Nanny Who Was a Princess: How a Kindness Turned Controversial
Norway’s Princess Mette-Marit went incognito to India to care for the twins of a gay courtier. She returned home to a controversy over surrogacy
Why Norway Is Satisfied with Breivik’s Sentence
The sentence preserves the country’s image of possessing a rehabilitative rather than a retributive justice system. And if Anders Behring Breivik is not fully reformed, his term in prison can be extended in five-year increments …
Trying to Forget Breivik: One Year After the Norway Massacre
The events in Aurora, Colo., appear to echo the meticulously planned crime that devastated Oslo almost a year before. The Norwegians are still trying to figure out how to deal with the legacy of that mass murder
The Breivik Trial: Is Norway’s Mass Murderer Really Insane?
Prosecutors in the case of Anders Breivik, the man responsible for one of the worst massacres in Norwegian history, asked he be consigned to psychiatric care rather than prison. But the debate over Breivik’s sanity will only grow.