Norway

27 August 2022; AA: Anders Breivik, who killed nearly 80 people in Norway in 2011, is again suing the Norwegian government for human rights violations to end his solitary confinement in prison.

His lawyer, Oystein Storrvik, announced Thursday that a notice that states that no one must be subjected to "torture" or "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" was sent to the Norwegian Justice Ministry.

OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said while there was room for a European-level debate on banning Russian tourists, it was important not to make life harder for Kremlin opponents to flee Russia.

"What is important for us is that we understand there are a lot of people fleeing from Russia because they disagree with the Russian regime," he said following a meeting with leaders of the Nordic countries in Oslo on Monday.

20 July 2022; MEMO: People in Norway and Canada have launched crowdfunding campaigns to help buy Turkish combat drones for Ukraine's war effort against Russia's invasion, following on from efforts made by some other countries.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — The suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting during an LGBTQ festival in Oslo has agreed to be held in pretrial custody for four weeks and will therefore not appear in court on Monday, a Norwegian court said.

Zaniar Matapour, a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, was arrested shortly after the predawn shooting in Oslo’s nightlife district and was held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and terrorism. Two people were killed and more than 20 were wounded in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act.”

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norway’s prime minister and members of the royal family joined mourners at a memorial service in Oslo Cathedral Sunday for the victims of a shooting in the capital’s nightlife district.

A gunman opened fire in central Oslo’s bar area early Saturday, killing two people — a man in his 50s and and another in his 60s — and wounding more than 20 in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act” during the capital’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival. A suspect is in custody.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Two people were killed and more than a dozen injured early Saturday in a mass shooting in Norway’s capital, Oslo, police said, as the city was gearing up for an annual Pride parade.

The shooting happened outside a downtown Oslo bar that is popular among the city’s LGBTQ community, witnesses and local media said.

A suspect was arrested and police don’t believe any other people were involved, police spokesman Tore Barstad said.

KIRKENES, Norway, May 11 (Reuters) - Kirkenes, a Norwegian town a stone's throw from Russia, was for over three decades a symbol of cross-border harmony in the Arctic. That came to a crashing end when Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then people have been adapting to the new realities.

One is the prospect that neighbouring Finland could join Norway in NATO, with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto expected to say on Thursday it should apply to the military alliance. 

OSLO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A Norwegian court has rejected mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's parole application, it said in a ruling on Tuesday, ordering that he must stay in prison.

Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, killed 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp.

OSLO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - British nature broadcaster David Attenborough, the World Health Organization and Belarusian dissident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya are among the nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize after being backed by Norwegian lawmakers who have a track record of picking the winner.

Also among the candidates for the accolade were Greta Thunberg, Pope Francis, the Myanmar National Unity Government formed by opponents of last year's coup and Tuvalu's foreign minister Simon Kofe, last-minute announcements showed.

OSLO, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The fate of two missing women’s rights activists in Afghanistan was raised in talks with the Taliban in Oslo on Monday.

In comments to the Norwegian broadcaster NRK, a Taliban representative said the Islamists had not arrested the women and were not holding them captive.

The UN mission in Afghanistan had expressed concern on Twitter on Saturday about the disappearance of the activists, who were reportedly abducted from their homes in the middle of the week.