COPENHAGEN, Denmark—A 30-year-old Norwegian woman who was repatriated by Norway from a refugee camp in Syria because her son was sick was sentenced Tuesday to 3 1/2 years in prison by an Oslo court for participating in the ISIS terrorist group. The case was a first in Norway. Oslo District Court Judge Ingemar Nestor Nilsen…
Norway’s Health Experts Recommend Banning AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine
Norway’s health agency said the country should stop using the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, coming after the World Health Organization and European Medicines Agency have said the benefits of the shot outweigh its risks. “There is now significantly more knowledge about the connection between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the rare and serious incidents of low platelets,…
Little Girl in UK Throws Message in a Bottle Asea and It Gets Returned From Finder in Norway
A message in a bottle dropped into the sea by a bored British girl has just been discovered over 1,000 miles away—on a beach in NORWAY. Little Lilly Carter, 10, decided to try sending a message in a bottle across the sea while fed-up in lockdown back in July 2020. Slipping her handwritten note inside…
Salvage Crews Secure Drifting Dutch Cargo Ship Off Norway
HELSINKI—Despite heavy seas, a joint Norwegian-Dutch salvage operation has managed to get an abandoned Dutch cargo ship under control off the coast of Norway and was towing the ship to port on Thursday. Norwegian officials said the rescue operation of the Eemslift Hendrika, a Netherlands-registered ship designed to carry large boats, was completed early Thursday…
Crew Evacuated as Dutch Cargo Ship Risks Sinking Off Norway
HELSINKI—An unmanned Dutch cargo ship may be in danger of capsizing in heavy seas off the coast of Norway after its crew was evacuated following a distress call from the vessel. The Norwegian Coastal Administration said Tuesday they have dispatched a coast guard ship to inspect the situation with the Eemslift Hendrika, which is listing…
Norway Keeps AstraZeneca Vaccine on Hold for Another Three Weeks
OSLO—Norway will delay its decision on whether to resume the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine by up to three weeks, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) said on Friday. Authorities on March 11 suspended the rollout of the vaccine after a small number of younger inoculated people were hospitalized for a combination of blood…
Britain, Norway in Post-Brexit Fisheries Deal With EU
OSLO/COPENHAGEN—Norway, Britain, and the European Union have reached a trilateral deal on catch limits for jointly managed North Sea fish stocks following the UK’s exit from the EU, the three parties said on Tuesday. The new trilateral deal, covering common North Sea fishing quotas for cod, haddock, plaice, whiting, herring, and saithe, is the first…
Norway Wealth Fund to Probe Whether Firms Could Be Using Forced Labour From China’s Xinjiang
March 12, 2021
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OSLO—Norway’s $1.3 trillion wealth fund will probe whether companies it is invested in may be using the labor of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims linked to China’s internment camps in farwestern Xinjiang, the head of the fund’s ethics watchdog said. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, which has massive market influence because it owns 1.5…
Norway Warns Against Vaccinating Frail and Terminally Ill People After Reported Deaths
Officials in Norway said they are investigating the deaths of about two dozen elderly patients who received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and are looking into the prospect that adverse reactions to the vaccine “may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients.” Reports of adverse reactions with a fatal outcome “suggest that common adverse reactions…
COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects May Have Led to 13 Deaths: Norway
Norway has changed its COVID-19 vaccination guide to state that “very frail” people should no longer receive the jab, citing 13 post-vaccine deaths in the country from side effects that appear to be linked to Pfizer and partner BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine. “If you are very frail, you should probably not be vaccinated,” Steinar Madsen at the…
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