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8 Passengers Stranded On African Island After Cruise Ship Leaves Them Behind
Notably, the passengers were late getting back to the ship on March 27, according to a statement from Norwegian Cruise Line.
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Polar Bear Kills Man In Norway's Arctic Svalbard Archipelago
A man was killed by a polar bear in the Norwegian Arctic Svalbard islands early on Friday, local authorities said, the first such deadly incident in nine years.
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Massive Viking Ship Found Buried On Island For A Millennium Using Radar
Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar found a big mound carved into a western Norwegian island - along with the remains of a "huge" ship as long as 55 feet, Paasche told The Washington Post, in a discovery that may tell new tales about how the ships evolved to become fearsome and agile vessels more than 1,000 years ago.
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Scientists Track Arctic Fox That Walked 4,000 Km From Norway To Canada
Just 21 days after leaving the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, an arctic fox had arrived in Greenland. And in less than three months, she made it to Canada. She averaged nearly 30 miles a day - some days, though, she walked almost 100.
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4 Years After Breivik Attack, Norway's Utoya Comes Back to Life
Four years after Anders Behring Breivik's rampage, the Norwegian island of Utoya will return to life this weekend as it hosts its first Labour youth camp since the carnage.
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'Supermoon' to Make Mischief With Sun and Sea
Norse legend has it that two giant wolves roam the sky, with Skoll chasing the moon and its brother Hati going after the sun.
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Hotels in Norway's Svalbard Fully Booked Ahead of Rare Solar Eclipse
The Norwegian Arctic islands of Svalbard are discouraging last-minute visitors for a rare solar eclipse next week, warning that hotels are full, it will be freezing cold and polar bears are on the prowl.
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Google Raises a Toast to the Kon-Tiki Adventurer
The latest Google Doodle is a tribute to the 100th birth day of the man behind the celebrated 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition Thor Heyerdahl. The Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer died at the age of 87 in 2002.
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Ships return to dock as Syria chemical deadline missed
Norwegian frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad was ordered back to port in the nearby island of Cyprus.
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India to expand engagement in the Arctic
India is all set to expand its engagement in the Arctic. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who on Wednesday visited the remote island of Ny Alesund with his Norwegian counterpart, Espen Barth Eide, announced that India is in the process of increasing its presence in the Arctic and at "Himadri", India's research lab located here.
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Norway massacre: Nation remembers victims of bomb, shooting attacks on first anniversary
Norway paused to commemorate the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago, a tragedy that the prime minister said had brought Norwegians together in defense of democracy and tolerance.
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Norway massacre survivor 'hid under friends' dead bodies'
A young survivor of the self-confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik's massacre on a Norwegian island told in his trial on Wednesday how she stayed alive by hiding behind the dead bodies of her friends.
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Norway killer says hoped to have massacred more
The Norwegian who massacred 77 people to protest against Muslim immigration to Europe said on Monday he had hoped to kill as many as 150 and kept on killing because police failed to respond urgently to his phone call. Breivik has given a detailed account of his car bomb attack at government headquarters in Oslo on July 22, which killed eight peopl...
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Behring Breivik, killer of 77 goes on trial in Norway
The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts today, amid worries that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views. After opening statements, Anders Behring Breivik is set to testify for five days, explaining why he set off a bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight, and then shot to ...
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Norway killer back on island for reconstruction
Norwegian police say the man who has confessed to killing 69 people at an island youth camp has been brought back to the crime scene.
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8 Passengers Stranded On African Island After Cruise Ship Leaves Them Behind
Notably, the passengers were late getting back to the ship on March 27, according to a statement from Norwegian Cruise Line.
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Polar Bear Kills Man In Norway's Arctic Svalbard Archipelago
A man was killed by a polar bear in the Norwegian Arctic Svalbard islands early on Friday, local authorities said, the first such deadly incident in nine years.
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Massive Viking Ship Found Buried On Island For A Millennium Using Radar
Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar found a big mound carved into a western Norwegian island - along with the remains of a "huge" ship as long as 55 feet, Paasche told The Washington Post, in a discovery that may tell new tales about how the ships evolved to become fearsome and agile vessels more than 1,000 years ago.
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Scientists Track Arctic Fox That Walked 4,000 Km From Norway To Canada
Just 21 days after leaving the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, an arctic fox had arrived in Greenland. And in less than three months, she made it to Canada. She averaged nearly 30 miles a day - some days, though, she walked almost 100.
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4 Years After Breivik Attack, Norway's Utoya Comes Back to Life
Four years after Anders Behring Breivik's rampage, the Norwegian island of Utoya will return to life this weekend as it hosts its first Labour youth camp since the carnage.
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'Supermoon' to Make Mischief With Sun and Sea
Norse legend has it that two giant wolves roam the sky, with Skoll chasing the moon and its brother Hati going after the sun.
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Hotels in Norway's Svalbard Fully Booked Ahead of Rare Solar Eclipse
The Norwegian Arctic islands of Svalbard are discouraging last-minute visitors for a rare solar eclipse next week, warning that hotels are full, it will be freezing cold and polar bears are on the prowl.
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Google Raises a Toast to the Kon-Tiki Adventurer
The latest Google Doodle is a tribute to the 100th birth day of the man behind the celebrated 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition Thor Heyerdahl. The Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer died at the age of 87 in 2002.
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Ships return to dock as Syria chemical deadline missed
Norwegian frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad was ordered back to port in the nearby island of Cyprus.
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India to expand engagement in the Arctic
India is all set to expand its engagement in the Arctic. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who on Wednesday visited the remote island of Ny Alesund with his Norwegian counterpart, Espen Barth Eide, announced that India is in the process of increasing its presence in the Arctic and at "Himadri", India's research lab located here.
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Norway massacre: Nation remembers victims of bomb, shooting attacks on first anniversary
Norway paused to commemorate the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago, a tragedy that the prime minister said had brought Norwegians together in defense of democracy and tolerance.
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Norway massacre survivor 'hid under friends' dead bodies'
A young survivor of the self-confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik's massacre on a Norwegian island told in his trial on Wednesday how she stayed alive by hiding behind the dead bodies of her friends.
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Norway killer says hoped to have massacred more
The Norwegian who massacred 77 people to protest against Muslim immigration to Europe said on Monday he had hoped to kill as many as 150 and kept on killing because police failed to respond urgently to his phone call. Breivik has given a detailed account of his car bomb attack at government headquarters in Oslo on July 22, which killed eight peopl...
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Behring Breivik, killer of 77 goes on trial in Norway
The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts today, amid worries that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views. After opening statements, Anders Behring Breivik is set to testify for five days, explaining why he set off a bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight, and then shot to ...
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Norway killer back on island for reconstruction
Norwegian police say the man who has confessed to killing 69 people at an island youth camp has been brought back to the crime scene.
