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Norway: Construction crane collapses onto shopping mall in Melhus  

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NordenBladet — Norwegian Police have announced that a construction crane that collapsed onto a shopping Mall in Melhus has caused at least one fatality and injured several others. The accident happened due to high winds toppling over the unmanned crane as well as other parts of building apparatus.

As stated by Norwegian media, the crane collapsed into the mall at 9:17 AM local time, with only a handful of people within the building. The crane caused damage to the first and second floors of the mall.

Firefighters used dogs and a drone in their search for people trapped within the mall. One person was found dead, with two others injured. One of those injured was take to hospital for treatment.

The mall is located in the town of Melhus, 18 kilometers south of Trondheim.

 

 

Norway sees a drop in job vacancies causing rise in unemployment

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NordenBladet — Latest figures from Statistics Norway have revealed that unemployment in Norway has increased since spring this year, with the number of open job vacancies falling.

Unemployment in the country has increased from 3.1 percent to 3.3 percent since April 2022. From September to October, it was noted that there were 1,300 fewer job listings on the market.

Tonje Køber from Statistics Norway explains, “After a long period of high temperatures on the labour market, it now appears that we have a weak, upward trend in unemployment.”

According to a poll by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise, over 25% of member businesses plan on reducing their staff numbers over the next six months.

Statistics Norway had previously predicted that unemployment in Norway would rise to 3.7 percent in 2023.

 

 

Norway: Norwegians now shop at the border as before the pandemic

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NordenBladet – Norwegians traded cross-border for NOK 3.6 billion in the 2nd quarter. This means that cross-border trade is back at the same level as before the pandemic.

New figures from Statistics Norway (SSB) show that Norwegians shopped for NOK 3.6 billion across the border during April, May and June this year.

“Cross-border trade has quickly risen to the same level as in the years before the pandemic,” says adviser Kristin Aasestad from Statistics Norway.

The quarterly figures now show that cross-border trade is at a level that corresponds to the second quarter of the years from 2016 to 2018. In the second quarter of 2019, cross-border trade was just over NOK 4 billion.

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Norway: 175 new asylum applications from Ukrainian citizens

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NordenBladet – 175 new asylum seekers from Ukraine to Norway were registered on Thursday. A total of 829 new asylum seekers were registered in the last week.

On Wednesday and Tuesday, 141 and 116 new applications for asylum from Ukrainian citizens were registered respectively.

UDI began providing an overview of Ukrainian asylum seekers to Norway on 25 February. Since then, there have been 23,461 applications.

Norway: Ophthalmologist Jens Kratholm sentenced to two years in prison

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NordenBladet – Ophthalmologist Jens Kratholm sentenced to two years in prison. The verdict was handed down in Midtre Hålogaland district court yesterday (24.08).

Kratholm was charged with fraud for each and every treatment he carried out with patients, because he was paid extra for the services, police attorney Trond Lakselvhaug explained to VG when the indictment was issued.

According to NRK, there are 33,000 cases of fraud involving a total of 10,300 patients, and with a scope of NOK 13 million.

Jens Kratholm appealed the verdict on the spot, writes the local newspaper Fremover.

Norway: The Norwegian Armed Forces have received three new F-35 aircraft

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NordenBladet – On Wednesday evening, Norway received the year’s first three deliveries of F-35s from the factory Lockeed Martin in the USA. The Norwegian Defense Forces reports this on its website.

Norway receives six of these aircraft each year. According to the plan, Norway will receive a further three new F-35s this year, bringing the total to 40. Ten of the aircraft are stationed in the United States to train and educate new F-35 pilots.

Norway started fining electric scooters: NOK 88,000 fine

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NordenBladet – Stavanger Aftenblad (aftenbladet.no) writes on Thursday about a 42-year-old man, who was convicted by Sør-Rogaland District Court for driving an electric scooter while under the influence of alcohol.

He was given an 18-day suspended sentence and a fine of NOK 88,000, the newspaper writes.

On Wednesday, a 40-year-old woman was also given an 18-day suspended sentence and she must pay a NOK 80,000 fine.

This comes two days after new rules for driving electric scooters were introduced.

Norway: NOK 45 million to reduce inequalities in the health service

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NordenBladet – Several vulnerable patient groups are too little involved in clinical studies that evaluate treatment effect, diagnostics and rehabilitation.

Now 45 million kroner is allocated to reduce inequalities within the health sector, writes the Research Council (Forskningsrådet) in a press release.

In four different projects, researchers will examine children with autism, people with dementia, the mental health of minority youth who have fled alone to Norway and children and young people with chronic kidney disease.

“There is a need for more research that can develop health services and contribute to good and accurate diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation,” says CEO of the Research Council Mari Sundli Tveit.

Source: NordenBladet.ee

Norway: Close to 4,000 corona deaths in Norway

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NordenBladet – There are now close to 4,000 corona deaths in Norway. “The increase is due to the fact that there has been much more infection in 2022 than earlier,” says Espen Nakstad to P4.

On March 16, Norway passed 2,000 corona deaths. Two weeks ago, the number was 3,890, according to figures from the Institute of Public Health.

“Although the vaccines protect well against becoming seriously ill, it is clear that when several million people become infected, some die, and especially the eldery,” says Nakstad.

Most of those who die are over 80, and 60 percent live in nursing homes.

Norway: 3000-year-old shoe recovered from melting mountain ice patch

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NordenBladet — Over the past two decades, thousands of ancient artifacts have been recovered across Norway’s melting mountain ice patches, including the oldest shoe in Norway, a shoe from the Bronze Age that’s over 3,000 years old.

The recovered artifacts found in Norwegian ice patches are often found in perfect condition with minimal decomposition due to ice patches being relatively stable, unmoving, and free from corrosive compounds.

Over the years, weapons, textiles, clothing, plants and animal remains have all been found, which helps map out the country’s history.

The shoe was discovered in 2007 in Jotunheimen, a mountainous region in the south of Norway. The shoe was a small leather shoe, either fitting a woman or a child. Alongside the shoe, a variety of items were discovered, including arrows and a wooden space, suggesting that the site was previously a hunting ground.

Experts have predicted that the shoe dates to approximately 1100 B.C., which makes the shoe the oldest shoe in Norway, and possibly the oldest article of clothing discovered in Scandinavia.

 

 

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