Posts from the ‘International News’ Category
Officials said one of the men was a Chinese Uighur, and all three arrested supposedly belonged to a group that advocates separatism in China. Read more CompleteChinese Separatists Tied to Norway Bomb Plot
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A lawyer who defended a woman facing death by stoning in Iran said he fled to seek protection from his country’s authorities. Read more CompleteIranian Lawyer Says He Fled to Norway
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Two Icelanders have challenged traditional scholarly thinking about the 800-year-old Norse Lewis Chessmen, suggesting they were made not in Norway, but in Iceland. Read more CompleteIcelanders Challenge Thinking on Ancient Lewis Chessmen
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When the Swedish journalist Peter Letmark tried to track down a housewife for a series on 21st-century parents in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter recently, he failed. Read more CompleteThe Stigma of Being a Housewife
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The three men, detained in July, had been planning an attack on the Danish newspaper that first published cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad. Read more CompleteNorway Says July Detainees Planned Reprisal for Muhammad Cartoons
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Edda, a publisher in Norway, now makes employees at its newspapers work for both the paper and Web versions. It’s a strategy that has helped its bottom line. Read more CompleteNorwegian Newspaper Taps Into Web’s Efficiencies
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The three men were suspected of having links to Al Qaeda in a terrorism conspiracy tied to plots in the United States and Britain, police officials said. Read more CompleteNorway Announces 3 Arrests in Terror Plot Linked to U.S. and Britain
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China abruptly called off a meeting with a Norwegian minister in retaliation for Friday’s award of the Nobel peace prize to an imprisoned dissident. Read more CompleteChina Cancels Meeting Over Nobel Peace Prize
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