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Police received nearly 35,000 reports of violence and abuse in the past year. One in six violent offences concerned domestic abuse. Of the total of 35,000 cases acted…
There were reported almost 7,100 sexual offenses in the country during 2016. This is 24% more than the previous year and an increase of 48% compared with 2014. A total…
Last year 175 people received compensation for mistreatment by Norwegian dentists. Over NOK 15 million was paid out to unsatisfied patients. The Norwegian patient injury…
After the police set up a special robbery group in 2013, the number of robberies in Oslo has been reduced in half. In 2013, 997 robberies were registered in Oslo, which…
The Norwegian ship Siem Pilot docked Sunday in the port of Italian city Catania with 503 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean. According to NCIS (Kripos) one person…
More than one in four deaths among children under five is due to unsafe drinking water, air pollution, passive smoking and poor hygiene, according to WHO. According to…
A 19 year old Eritrean man is accused of having killed his 17 year old girlfriend at a reception center in Sunndal in 2015. The trial begins in Nordmøre district court…
The Turkish Embassy complaints editor Kjetil Stormark and his website aldrimer.no before the Complaints Commission of the Press (PFU) because of the coverage of the…
Mountain passes in southern Norway have been closed, or made single lane convoys because of high winds and snow, according to Road Traffic Central. Early on Sunday…
Prime Minister Erna Solberg participated Saturday in a ceremony in Bergen that it is 500 years since the Reformation began in Europe. – I think it has been a very nice…
Hundreds of vodka bottles were removed from Canadian stores when the authorities discovered that the alcohol content was a solid 81 percent. The Vodka branded Georgia…
Very few of today’s Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radio adapters support interruption of the transmission with traffic messages, Norwegian Automobile Federation (NAF)…
A 20-year-old man who climbed onto the roof of a locomotive at Bergen train station smelled scorched and was sent to hospital with electrical burns. He has pain in an…