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3 days ago · The bombing killed 8 people, and Breivik, who had disguised himself as a police officer, killed 69 and wounded more than 100 in the mass shooting on Utøya. The overwhelming majority of the victims were children. Norway, which already had some of the world’s strictest gun laws, banned all semiautomatic weapons in 2021.
3 days ago · Norway’s northernmost military Observation Post (No. 247) on the coast to the Barents Sea. Sredny Peninsula visible in the horizon. Russia’s artillery shooting will take place in the waters in ...
1 day ago · Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 378 076 51 274 6.9 0.9 Europe except EU/EFTA and UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 499 150 162 535 9.1 3.0 Nordic countries except Norway 69 251 7 320 1.3 0.1
1 day ago · Anders Breivik committed the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011, in which he killed eight people by detonating a van bomb at Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, and then killed 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in a mass shooting on the island of Utøya.
5 days ago · May 29, 2024. War in Europe, digital threats and climate change have prompted Norwegian officials to expand their crisis preparedness guidelines and even cooperate more closely with the EU.
3 days ago · On July 22, 2011, the city centre was the target of a massive bomb attack that damaged government buildings, including the prime minister’s office. Eight people were killed and dozens were injured in the blast. Oslo, Norway. Oslo is the centre of Norwegian trade, banking, industry, and shipping.
3 days ago · Norway, country of northern Europe that occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. Nearly half of the inhabitants of the country live in the far south, in the region around Oslo, the capital. About two-thirds of Norway is mountainous, and off its much-indented coastline lie, carved by deep glacial fjords, some 50,000 islands.
