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One person dies and seven crew members are rescued after a fishing trawler capsizes in the North Sea while travelling to Norway, according to the Norwegian Coast Guard.
2022-03-7

Ukrainians, Norwegians, and Russians hold a joint anti-war protest in Kirkenes, Norway, calling for Vladimir Putin to be tried at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands.
2022-02-25

Iran bans all travellers from the United Kingdom, France, Denmark and Norway for 15 days and indefinitely suspends all land travel to Turkey due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2021-12-26

The Norwegian government announces that phase two of easing COVID-19 restrictions will begin on May 27, allowing bars to serve alcohol until midnight and raise the maximum number of guests in one's home to 10 people as the number of cases declined.
2021-05-21

The Church of Norway officially ceases to be the state church of Norway after almost 500 years.
2017-01-1

The Supreme Court of Norway rejects NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's extradition lawsuit against the Norwegian government.
2016-11-25

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte unintentionally reveals that a US$1 million ransom was given to the Abu Sayyaf terror group in exchange for a Norwegian hostage.
2016-08-26

55 people are hospitalized following a truck fire 3.5km into the Gudvanga Tunnel in Norway.
2013-08-5

Leaders of the European Union accept the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
2012-12-10

Norway experiences its first Catholic child abuse scandal as it becomes known that a bishop, Georg Müller, was forced to resign in 2009 because of sexual abuse of an altar boy in the early 1990s.
2010-04-7