The man who slaughtered 77 people on an island in Norway in 2011 went back to court on Monday to sue his country for disregarding his human rights in detention, the Associated Press reported. Anders Behring Breivik has spent the past 12 years in isolation while...
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Norway on Tuesday approved deep-sea mining exploration, becoming the first country to do so, even as it has received harsh criticism from environmental groups and the fishing industry over the potential damage such extraction can cause marine ecosystems, the Financial Times reported. Norway’s minority center-left government...
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Norwegian officials warned Thursday that smoke and haze from Canada’s large wildfires are expected to permeate into the Scandinavian country in the coming days, the Associated Press reported. The Norwegian Climate and Environment Research Institute used a forecasting model to estimate how smoke would travel through...
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Norwegian officials recently warned their citizens to avoid Hvaldimir, a beluga whale that swims around the coast wearing a harness that can mount cameras. As CNN explained, the officials suspect that the Russian military trained the cute white cetacean to act as a spy. “The harness...
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A Norwegian artist unveiled the life-sized sculpture of a walrus named Freya in the capital of Oslo this week, in memory of the marine mammal that was killed by authorities last year over safety concerns, the New York Times reported. Artist Astri Tonoian created the bronze...
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Norwegian authorities recently detained a Russian carrying two drones, photos and videos as he tried to return home via the far northern border, CBS News reported. The arrest followed sightings of drones flying off the Norwegian coast near oil and gas drilling platforms that make...
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Norway has become a key supplier of energy as Europe seeks out alternatives to Russian oil and gas. As the Financial Times explained, the EU imported 40 percent of its gas supplies from Russia before the war in Ukraine erupted. Now that rate has dropped to...
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