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UPDATED: There’s been a series of shootings and a stabbing incident in Oslo during the past 10 days, followed by several arrests. A shooting that left one man critically wounded took place right next to a busy sports field, and he later died.
Law enforcement officials and some politicians have been wanting to scrap Norway’s thousand- kroner note (currently worth around USD 108), but the central bank has decided to keep it. Norges Bank revealed, however, that there will be fewer of them in circulation.
It’s getting even more expensive than usual to buy a home in Norway. The central bank (Norges Bank) raised its policy rate by a quarter-point, just after the national real estate brokers’ association announced another rise in housing prices.
A Norwegian district court judge wasted little time on Wednesday in denying a request from Marius Borg Høiby, son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, to be released from police custody. Høiby wanted to trade his jail cell for the house where he’s earlier lived on the grounds of the royal estate.
The Norwegian government remains keen on restricting social media for minors, banning it entirely for all those under age 16. Skeptics remain unconvinced, calling it a “drastic” measure with unknown effects.
Norway’s conservative Progress Party announced on Thursday that it had terminated its employment of political adviser Hårek Hansen and cancelled his party membership. Hansen had made what many, including top party officials, called racist remarks on the eve of its national annual meeting.
An additional 1,487 members of two major trade union organizations have been called off the job at hotels, restaurants and company canteens around the country. That means the strike that began in Oslo and Bergen on April 19 has now spread nationwide with no settlement in sight.
Norway’s police intelligence agency PST has confirmed the arrest of a Chinese woman suspected of espionage tied to satellite launching on the northern island of Andøya. Several others have been charged as well for alleged efforts to gain access to state secrets.
Police in Bergen have seized large amounts of heroin and other illegal drugs, and arrested and charged 10 men in Bergen as being part of a “professional” narcotics network. The amount of heroin seized is larger than all seized last year.
The Norwegian Parliament’s disciplinary committee has postponed a hearing on Norwegians’ ties to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The postponement follows the suicide last week of the son of two former top Norwegian diplomats who face corruption charges tied to their own relations with Epstein.
Norwegians out roaming around with metal detectors have been having a bumper season after the snow melted this year. They’ve been finding everything from a bounty of Viking-era coins in farmers’ fields to a gold sword holster from the great Germanic migration period 1,500 years ago.
