welt.de: Kreuzfahrtschiff mit 1300 Passagieren wird vor Norwegen evakuiert

Vor der Kürste Norwegens muss ein Kreuzfahrtschiff mit 1300 Passagieren evakuiert werden. Die „Viking Sky“ habe ein Motorproblem, heißt es. Helikopter und Schiffe sind derzeit im Einsatz.[mehr…]

NiemanLab: Remember that Norwegian site that made readers take a quiz before commenting? Here’s an update on it

When my former colleague Joseph Lichterman wrote about a Norwegian news organization NRKbeta that makes readers pass a quiz on the article before they can comment on it… [more…]

the guardian: Suspects held across Europe in alleged plot to kidnap Norwegian diplomats

UK’s north-east counter-terrorism unit confirms four men have been arrested in Britain, while six people have been held in Italy and three in Norway [mehr…]

newyork times: A Norway Town and Its Pipeline to Jihad in Syria

FREDRIKSTAD, Norway — The real trouble started when they stopped causing trouble. Torleif Sanchez Hammer and his friends — all residents of the same small cluster of clapboard houses in southern Norway — had been having run-ins with the police for years but then suddenly halted their marijuana-fueled gatherings in the basement apartment of Mr. Hammer’s widowed mother. [mehr…]