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The Norwegian announcer for Eurovision, Alessandra Mele, announces that she will withdraw from announcing votes while declaring support for Palestine in the ongoing war.
2024-05-11

A landslide in the village of Gjerdrum, Viken, Norway, leaves at least ten people injured and buries several houses. Ten people are missing.
2020-12-30

Around 100 people are evacuated from Breivika port in Tromsø, Norway, after Russian trawler FV "Bukhta Naezdnik" catches fire and develops a heavy list. The burning ship has a tank of ammonia and 200,000 litres of diesel oil on board. The ship is purposely capsized to reduce the risk of the ammonia tank exploding.
2019-09-26

More than a dozen alleged ISIS-linked, terrorist members of Rawti Shax, a European offshoot of the Iraqi Kurdish jihadist network Ansar al-Islam, are arrested in a coordinated, multi-nation sweep by police across Europe. The operation dismantled an integrated cell in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The group is accused of radicalizing fighters, planning attacks targeting Norwegian and British diplomats in the Middle East, and planning to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
2015-11-12

Oslo's city council announces plans to ban cars from the Norwegian capital's central city by 2019.
2015-10-20

A man fatally stabs three people on a bus en route between Årdal and Tyin in Norway.
2013-11-4

Heavy snow hits Scandinavia disrupting transport in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
2012-12-16

Oil and gas companies in Norway lock out workers as a result of an ongoing industrial dispute over pensions.
2012-07-9

A Norwegian asylum centre burns to the ground during protests at conditions at the facility.
2010-07-7

Two Norwegians, including one with British citizenship, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are sentenced to death by a military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on charges of murder and espionage.
2010-06-10