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The suspect in the Oslo shooting that left two dead at a local gay bar is said to have had direct contact with an Islamist group.

A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s night-life district early Saturday, killing two people and leaving 10 seriously wounded.

38-year-old Andersen Bråthens defence lawyer said that his client “had delusions with religious and magical content.”

Princess Martha Louise, the daughter of Norway´s King Harald, is engaged to her American boyfriend Durek Verrett, the palace said Tuesday.

A man charged with killing five people in Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows plead guilty to murder on Wednesday.

A man who killed five people and wounded four others in Norway was charged Friday with murder and attempted murder.

Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre announced that his country will not block Russian state media, stating he is against censorship. 

Four U.S. Marines were killed Friday when the Osprey aircraft they were operating during a NATO military exercise crashed in Norway.

OSLO, Norway (AP) – The prime minister of Norway says four U.S. service members have died in a plane crash during NATO drills.

A group of New Hampshire middle school students launched a miniature GPS-tracked boat into the Atlantic Ocean in October of 2020, and it was recently recovered 462 days and over 8,300 miles later in Norway. The miniature boat project began

Norway says it is lifting almost all remaining COVID restrictions as it doesn’t see a major health threat to citizens any more.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Wednesday demanded “wealthy countries” pay them $16 billion in cash up front to drive coronavirus schemes in developing countries, including mass vaccination rollouts.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will take over as Norway’s central bank governor at the end of the year, officials said Friday.

The Taliban backpedaled on Thursday after FBI-wanted terrorist and Afghan “Interior Minister” Sarajuddin Haqqani threatened the United States if Washington did not recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government.

Norway said it would press the Taliban with “tangible demands” during talks on Tuesday, the last day of the Islamists’ visit to Europe.

The Taliban’s Anas Haqqani was reported to Norwegian police for war crimes over the weekend amid a Taliban delegation visiting the country.  

Representatives of Afghanistan’s unelected Taliban government continued talks in Norway on Monday trying to build support for their rule while gaining access to billions in funds they say are needed to help ward off starvation.

Ted Heath signed the treaty on this day in 1972, although the ceremony was delayed by a protester throwing a bottle of ink in the PM’s face.

A Taliban delegation will travel to Norway for talks with representatives of the Norwegian authorities and several allied countries.

The results come after the Norwegian postal service released an annual Christmas video showing Santa Claus falling in love with another man.

COPENHAGEN (AP) – At least 50 people in and around Norway’s capital have been infected with the omicron coronavirus variant and the cases are connected to a Norwegian company’s Christmas party in an Oslo restaurant, officials said Thursday.

It appears “polar bears are being forced to change their eating habits” thanks to global warming, climate alarmists at Euronews announced Sunday.

The Norwegian postal service Posten has released an annual Christmas video featuring Santa Claus falling in love with another man to mark the anniversary of Norway’s decriminalisation of homosexuality.

A 33-year-old Russian national who was shot in Oslo on Tuesday after attempting to carry out a knife attack on random bystanders was also behind a similar attack that took place in 2019.

A Norwegian newspaper editor and the country’s Climate Minister have both criticised Swedish climate activist Great Thunberg.

Norway’s women’s volleyball team has won the fight against the fine they were handed for refusing to wear the skimpy “sexist” Olympic uniforms

Police have confirmed that the man suspected of having killed five and injured two with a bow and arrow in Kongsberg, Norway, was a convert to Islam who had been flagged by authorities over radicalisation concerns before the attack.

Norwegian police have confirmed that at least five people have died after a man armed with a bow and arrows went on a rampage in Kongsberg, with investigators refusing to rule out a possible terror motive.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) took to Twitter following the bow and arrow attack in Norway to claim that attacks stem from people, not certain weapons.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said Tuesday she will step down as head of a three-party, minority centre-right government after a left-leaning bloc won last month´s parliamentary election. The leader of Norway´s Labor Party, Jonas Gahr Stoere, is expected to take over later this week.

The people of Norway celebrated the end of coronavirus restrictions on Sunday after an abrupt announcement from the prime minister.

Monday´s result means that currently all five Nordic countries now have left-leaning governments.

“God has raised up a prophet in Greta Thunberg in a way that no one could predict,” former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has claimed. “She has said things no one else could have said. Thank God for her!”

President Joe Biden’s failure to control the spread of the coronavirus has allowed Norway to surpass the United States in rankings of best places to be during the pandemic.

Pop singer Pink offered to pay the fines for the Norwegian female beach handball team after they wore shorts in defiance of a league rule requiring the ladies to wear bikini bottoms during games.

Members of the Norway beach handball team are speaking out after they were fined by the sport’s governing body for wearing shorts instead of the required bikini bottoms.