Norway's necessary corrective to our post 9/11 terror myth | Matthew Harwood
Source: The Guardian
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2011-09-27 05:36:48 -0700 | disasters-news
Norway's necessary corrective to our post 9/11 terror myth A fixation with the jihadist threat makes Americans blind to the insidious menace of a rightwing extremist like Anders Breivik The Oklahoma City bombing, 1995: 19 of those killed were aged...
Blast in Oslo Government Buildings
Source: Newyork Times
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2011-09-27 23:05:01 -0700 | political-news
A huge explosion wrecked government buildings in central Oslo Friday including Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters journalist said from the scene. The cause of the blast was unknown but the tangled wreckage of a...
The Quislings of Norway
Source: Canadian Free Press
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2012-11-01 20:45:41 -0700 | political-news
Klein Thursday, July 21, 2011 The infamous Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany as it conquered his own country, must be applauding in his grave. In the latest example of Norwegian collaboration with the enemies of the Jews,...
Experts: More than 42 million people displaced by natural disasters in 2010
Source: Washington Post
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2011-08-07 00:18:41 -0700 | green-news
Norway Experts say more than 42 million people around the world were forced to flee their homes because of natural disasters in 2010, more than double the number during the previous year. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre says over 90...
63 Evacuated From Norway Oil Rig After Gas Leak
Source: Fox
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2011-06-09 18:45:06 -0700 | political-news
Rescuers say more than 60 people have been evacuated from an oil platform off Norway's west coast after operator Statoil received reports of a gas leak. Statoil said in a statement Saturday it mobilized its emergency response teams after being...
Norwegian sailboat with 3 on board lost in storm off Antarctic coast
Source: Macleans
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2011-04-25 05:49:42 -0700 | political-news
Rescuers say a Norwegian sailboat with three people on board has gone missing in a storm off Antarctica. Oeyvind Aadde of the Norwegian Maritime Rescue Service says there were two Norwegians and one British national on the "Berserk," which signalled...
South Sudan should build strong relations with the North , Norwegian minister advises
Source: Sudan Tribune
Beijing :: China | updated 2011-04-01 11:57:41 -0700 | political-news
South Sudan, which is soon to become independent after a referendum, should focus on building strong relations with the north Sudan and neighboring states, Erik Solhiem, Norway's minister for Environment and International Development has advised. Erik Solheim, Norway's Minister for...
Bomb scare in Norway airport
Posted by: prabirghose
Bergen :: Norway | updated 2012-11-02 19:37:14 -0700 | travel-news
The Flesland airport in Bergen was closed for nearly three hours when a suspicious looking object was discovered on the luggage belt of the check-in area. A bomb squad was called-in from Oslo to investigate and it turned out to...
Opinion: A new chance for clean energy
Source: CNN
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2011-01-10 00:10:07 -0800 | entertainment-news
Kate Gordon is the vice president for Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress and was co-director of the national Apollo Alliance, where she still serves as senior policy adviser. Jake Caldwell is the director of policy for agriculture,...
3 NATO soldiers die in Afghanistan blast
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Beijing :: China | updated 2010-12-14 16:47:05 -0800 | political-news
Celebrations erupted Wednesday night as the last of the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine for more than two months was rescued. Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after six service members died in attacks by insurgents. Pakistan is reportedly...
Mini-Pompeii Discovered in Norway. 5,500-year-old site was found beneath three feet of sand
Posted by: Jay-ar Mendoza
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2012-03-16 10:11:26 -0700 | travel-news
Though it was likely flooded with water and sand, not lava, a buried settlement discovered in southern Norway is being touted as a mini-Pompeii. Norwegian archaeologists found the site, which has slumbered untouched for some 5,500 years, beneath about three...
Netanyahu, Abbas and the legitimacy deficit | Shlomo Ben-Ami
Source: The Guardian
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2010-12-06 20:10:41 -0800 | political-news
Netanyahu, Abbas and the legitimacy deficit The Palestinian president is too weak and compromised to accept any final settlement with which Netanyahu can live Palestinian president Yasser Arafat shakes hands with with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 2004.
Slipping Railway, Forty-One Passenger Injury
Posted by: AriefJoe
Oslo :: Norway | updated 2012-04-11 04:15:46 -0700 | travel-news
A passenger train carrying 280 people skidded around the border of Norway - Sweden, Saturday (2 / 10) local time. As a result of this incident, reported 40 people were injured and had to undergo treatment at nearby hospitals, while...
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