Tag: Norway
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Man kills five, injures others with bow and arrow
Five people were killed and two wounded in an attack by a man using a bow and arrows in the southeastern town of Kongsberg in Norway on Wednesday, police said.
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Norwegian Prime Minister Solberg resigns
Following Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg defeat in the parliamentary election a month ago, she has submitted her resignation to the government as expected. The conservative politician submitted the relevant request to King Harald V on Tuesday, clearing the way for the new head of government, Jonas Gahr Store and his Cabinet. The king had…
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Top ten countries with highest quality of life in the world; Norway is first, Ireland second
IRELAND HAS been ranked second in the world for quality of life, according to a new study from the United Nations.
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Mosque shooter bags 21 years jail sentence
A far-right Norwegian man was on Thursday jailed for 21 years for the racially motivated murder of his Chinese-born stepsister and attempting to kill worshippers in a mosque shooting spree. Philip Manshaus expressed strong anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim views before 2019 attack and was unrepentant at trial. Manshaus, now 22 years old, shot and killed Johanne…
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FIFA WWC: England reach semi-finals with 3-0 win over Norway
England sent out a warning to their rivals as they stormed into the women’s World Cup semi-finals with an impressive 3-0 victory against Norway on Thursday. Ellen White scored her fifth goal of the tournament in between Jill Scott’s opener and a Lucy Bronze screamer from the edge of the area. Phil Neville’s side has…
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FIFA WWC: Norway sink Australia in penalty shootout to reach last eight
Norway beat Australia 4-1 on penalty kicks to reach the FIFA Women’s World Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 2007 on Saturday in Nice. But this was after a highly-entertaining 1-1 draw which both sides could only end up with after extra time play. Norway’s Isabell Herlovsen opened the scoring shortly after the half…
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Women’s World Cup: Norway defeat Nigeria 3-0
Ada Hegerberg was not needed as Norway kicked off their women’s World Cup Group A campaign with a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Nigeria on Saturday. Without Ballon d’Or winner Hegerberg, who quit international football in 2017 due to a dispute with her home federation, the 1995 champions relied on goals by Guro Reiten and Lisa-Marie…
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FIFA Women World Cup: Norway beat Nigeria 3-0
Ada Hegerberg was not needed as Norway kicked off their women’s World Cup Group A campaign with a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Nigeria on Saturday. Without Ballon d’Or winner Hegerberg, who quit international football in 2017 due to a dispute with her home federation, the 1995 champions relied on goals by Guro Reiten and Lisa-Marie…
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Women’s World Cup: Super Falcons set to take 3 points off Norway
Following the settlement of their outstanding entitlements by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the Super Falcons say they are motivated o take all three points off the Grasshoppers of Norway in their first match of the 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Reims on Saturday. One of only seven teams to have made it…
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Norway to ban full-face hijab in schools
The Norwegian government on Monday proposed a bill to ban the full-face Muslim hijab in all schools, from nurseries to universities says it prevent the effective flow of communication between students and teachers “We do not want clothes covering the face in nurseries, schools and universities,” Minister of Education and Research Torbjorn Roe Isaksen said…