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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
Read MoreNorway sees a drop in job vacancies causing rise in unemployment
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
Read MoreNorway: Norwegians now shop at the border as before the pandemic
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
Read MoreNorway: 175 new asylum applications from Ukrainian citizens
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
Read MoreNorway: Ophthalmologist Jens Kratholm sentenced to two years in prison
NordenBladet – Ophthalmologist Jens Kratholm sentenced to two years in prison. The verdict was handed down in Midtre HĂĄlogaland district court yesterday (24.08). Kratholm was charged with fraud for each and every treatment he carried out with patients, because he
Read MoreNorway: The Norwegian Armed Forces have received three new F-35 aircraft
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
Read MoreNorway started fining electric scooters: NOK 88,000 fine
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
Read MoreNorway: NOK 45 million to reduce inequalities in the health service
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 (ForskningsrĂĄdet) in a
Read MoreNorway: Close to 4,000 corona deaths in Norway
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
Read MoreNorway: 3000-year-old shoe recovered from melting mountain ice patch
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
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