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Norwegian royal Marius Hoiby faces 10 years in prison for rape charges
The New Zealand Herald
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August 18, 2025
The four rapes allegedly took place in 2018, 2023 and 2024, the last one after the police investigation began. Other charges against Hoiby include domestic abuse against a former partner and several counts of violence, disturbing the peace,...
Norway Royal Scandal: Crown Princess' Son Charged With Rape, Assault In 32-Count Indictment
News18
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August 18, 2025
Last Updated:August 18, 2025, 19:37 IST Marius Borg Hoiby, who holds no royal title but became a public figure after his mother married Crown Prince Haakon in 2001 Norway's Marius Borg Hoiby and Crown Princess Mette-Marit in Oslo. (AP file...
Denmark unveils smiling Viking figurine thought to be first portrait
The Sun Daily
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August 27, 2025
COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s National Museum unveiled Wednesday what it described as the first “portrait” of a Viking: a miniature 10th-century figurine depicting a man with an imperial moustache, braided beard and neatly-groomed hairstyle. Carved out of...
Denmark unveils smiling, well-groomed figurine thought to be Viking ‘portrait’
The New Zealand Herald
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August 27, 2025
He has a side wave that leaves the ear visible, and, in addition to a large moustache and a long, braided goatee, he also has sideburns. During the Viking era, beautiful hair was a sign of wealth and status, Pentz explained. “A hair design like...
Donald Trump Nobel Peace Prize Comment Raises Eyebrows
Newsweek
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August 27, 2025
A comment suggesting President Donald Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has raised eyebrows. Social media users have reacted to Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, suggesting that the president has been overlooked...
Museum unveils what it calls first Viking ‘portrait’
Taipei Times
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August 27, 2025
The National Museum of Denmark yesterday unveiled what it described as the first “portrait” of a Viking: a miniature 10th-century figurine depicting a man with an imperial mustache, braided beard and neatly groomed hairstyle. Carved out of ivory...
Destin Conrad Confirms London And Manchester Shows For European Leg Of Love On Digital Tour
Stereoboard
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Destin Conrad will bring his Love On Digital Tour to the UK later this year. The rising R&B star will play shows across mainland Europe between December 3 and 13, before performances at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire and New Century Hall in...
Denmark unveils smiling figurine thought to be Viking ‘portrait’
Times of Malta
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August 27, 2025
Denmark’s National Museum unveiled Wednesday what it described as the first “portrait” of a Viking: a miniature 10th-century figurine depicting a man with an imperial moustache, braided beard and neatly-groomed hairstyle. Carved out of ivory...
Norway oil refinery blocked by Greta Thunberg activist group
The Local - Norway
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August 18, 2025
Activists from Extinction Rebellion sat on the road, blocking the entrance to the Mongstad refinery in Bergen on Norway's southwestern coast, while kayaks and sailboats obstructed the port's entrance. "We are here because it's crystal clear that...
US journalist reveals harrowing details of surviving 6 days stranded on remote Norwegian mountain with broken femur and no water: "I knew I wasn't going to be able to move"
Advnture
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August 21, 2025
US journalist Alec Luhn has spoken out about how he survived for six days on a Norwegian glacier with multiple broken bones and no water. Luhn, a climate journalist, was reported missing by his wife Veronika Silchenko on August 5 when he failed to...
Norway's Minister of Defense: The Establishment of the NATO Air Operations Centre Is on Track
High North News
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Northern dimension The news of the CAOC being placed in Bodø was revealed in May. The NATO center will have a particular responsibility for command and control in the airspace in the Nordic region and the High North. There are already similar...
Premier League fans prepare to rack up air miles in Champions League
City A.M.
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August 27, 2025
Wednesday 27 August 2025 1:51 pm Share Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Email Share on Email Kairat Almaty are the northernmost team to ever qualify for the Champions League proper...
Aker BP Declares Significant Discovery in Norway's Yggdrasil
Rigzone
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August 21, 2025
Aker BP ASA on Thursday announced an oil discovery with an estimated recoverable volume of 96-134 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) in the Yggdrasil area on Norway’s side of the North Sea. “Omega Alfa is among the largest commercial...
Strengthens the Monitoring of GPS Interference in the High North
High North News
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Les på norsk. There have long been registered GPS interference in the airspace above Eastern Finnmark, which borders Russia. At the start of August, similar reports also emerged on the jamming of navigational equipment in the Barents Sea. Such...
Oslo
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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August 18, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Our final leg of the journey for 14 of us were three nights in Oslo, the capital of Norway. We checked into our hotel, the Clarion Hub. It was a unique hotel,...
Chase the Northern Lights with Ambassador’s choice of sailings to Norway
Barking and Dagenham Post
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Seeing the Northern Lights is often on the bucket list of many and Ambassador Cruise Line is offering not one, but two offers on its cruises to witness the wonders of this natural phenomenon. Both departures are in March and the first offer also...
Everything is better in Sweden
New Statesman
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August 27, 2025
I’m starting to believe that I shouldn’t go on holiday. Committed readers will remember that my father was diagnosed with leukaemia shortly after I landed in Bali for Christmas in 2022. So there was, at least, a sort of poetic circularity in that...
Kristofer Hivju stars in Norwegian crime-drama series Sogn Murders
Cineuropa
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20/08/2025 - Filming has begun on the TV2 Norway series adapting Jørgen Jæger’s best-selling crime novels, bringing together an international cast and crew Sigurd Mikal Karoliussen, Eili Harboe, Jørgen Jæger, Kristofer Hivju, Kristoffer Metcalfe...
Stowaway slips onto Tromsø–Oslo flight, prompting security review
Aviation24.be
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August 20, 2025
A man without ID or travel documents managed to board a Norwegian flight from Tromsø to Oslo earlier this week by closely following another passenger through the boarding gate, according to Tromsø Airport manager Ivar Helsing Schrøen. The breach...
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As Trump tariffs kick in, India refuses to take the bait with a cautious tread
Firstpost
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August 27, 2025
US President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs that kicked in on Wednesday make some of the most important Indian exports, such as labour-intensive seafood and textiles, uncompetitive. But, even as the White House has continued to stoke the fire,...