Topic: Norway

Political camp tradition resumes after Norway attack

TROMOEY, Norway (Reuters) - Record numbers of Young Liberals held Norway's first summer youth camp since last week's slaughter of 69 campers and the Oslo bomb that killed eight, but police were posted to guard the gathering.It is the first political party ...

Obama signs condolence book at Norwegian embassy

US President Barack Obama visited the residence of the Norwegian ambassador on Tuesday to personally offer his condolences after 76 people died in twin attacks.Obama and Vice President Joe Biden visited the ambassador's residence to sign a condolence registry after the killings ...

Norway PM Stoltenberg says attacker turned paradise into hell

OSLO (Reuters) An assailant who shot dead at least 84 people at a youth camp of Norway's ruling party turned a "youth paradise into a hell," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday."Many of those who lost their lives were persons ...

Norway PM Stoltenberg says cannot speculate on attack motive

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday he did not want to speculate on the motives for a bomb blast and a shooting that killed at least 87 people, mostly teenagers."Compared to other countries I wouldn't say we ...

Man held after Norway attacks right-wing extremist: report

OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian man detained after twin attacks in Norway on Friday that killed at least 17 people has links to right-wing extremism, independent Norwegian television TV2 reported on Saturday, without disclosing its sources.Police were searching a flat in west ...
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Norway's Field of Peace

The Nobel Peace Prize may be controversial, but you have to love the Nobel Peace Center where the winners are immortalized. US President Barack Obama is scheduled to receive his prize on December 10 during a ceremony at the nearby Oslo City ...

Obama gets no Nobel wake-up call

OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama did not get the customary phone call from the Norwegian Nobel Committee to tell him he had won this year's Peace Prize, the committee's chief Thorbjoern Jagland said Friday. "To wake up a president in ...