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BA plane makes Heathrow emergency landing after engine fire

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LONDON - A British Airways plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow on Friday after a technical fault in an engine.

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Bahrain blogger escapes to Britain

OSLO - A Bahraini blogger and human rights activist said he had been granted asylum in Britain after being in hiding for two years.

Bahrain, World, 14 May 2013

Russia's oldest rights group told to register as "foreign agent"

MOSCOW - Moscow prosecutors told Russia's oldest human rights group on Tuesday that it must register as a "foreign agent" under a new law that critics say is a move by President Vladimir Putin to silence dissent.

World, Russia, 30 Apr 2013

Leak at BP platform could have caused "major accident"

OSLO - Oil major BP must review the way it handles risk and maintenance at its offshore oil platforms in Norway following a leak at a North Sea platform that could have caused a major accident, Norway's oil safety watchdog said on Monday.

29 Apr 2013

Norway extends period for buying F-35 fighter jets

GARDERMOEN, Norway - Oil-rich Norway is stretching out its purchase of 52 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from Lockheed Martin, the Defense Ministry said on Friday, a move that will nudge up the total cost but reduce the annual burden on the defense budget.

World, 26 Apr 2013

Sovereign credit concerns, low interest rates reshaping world reserves

LONDON - After years of being also-rans, currencies from countries such as Canada, Australia, China, Brazil, Russia and Norway now have a realistic chance of breaking deeper into the $11 trillion global reserve mix.

Brazil, China, Russia 23 Apr 2013

Norwegian mass killer can't attend mother's funeral

OSLO - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik will not be allowed to attend his mother's funeral, prison officials told news agency NTB on Tuesday.

World, 26 Mar 2013

Egyptian kidnappers release Norwegian, Israeli tourists

CAIRO - Kidnappers released a Norwegian woman and an Israeli man held in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula following negotiations mediated by Bedouin leaders between authorities and the group that seized the tourists four days ago, security sources said on Tuesday.

World, Egypt, 26 Mar 2013

Analysis: Sitting on too much money, Norway risks going off course

OSLO - Middle East-style oil wealth combined with a generous Nordic welfare model is slowly throttling big chunks of Norway's economy, threatening western Europe's biggest success story.

24 Mar 2013

Gunmen seize Israeli, Norwegian tourists in Egypt's Sinai

CAIRO - Masked gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula kidnapped two tourists, an Israeli man and a Norwegian woman, travelling between two coastal resorts, Egyptian and Israeli officials said on Friday.

World, Egypt, Israel, 22 Mar 2013

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Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik gestures as he arrives for his terrorism and murder trial in a courtroom in Oslo April 16, 2012. Breivik, who massacred 77 people last summer, arrived under heavy armed guard at an Oslo courthouse on Monday, lifting his arm in what he has called a rightist salute as his trial began. Breivik, 33, has admitted setting off a car bomb that killed eight people at government headquarters in Oslo last July, then massacring 69 in a shooting spree at an island summer camp for Labour Party youths. REUTERS/Heiko Junge/Pool

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A smirking Anders Behring Breivik pleads not guilty to killing 77 people in a car bombing and a shooting spree on an island youth summer camp.  Slideshow 

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North Korea says will take 'positive steps' for peace

BEIJING - A North Korean envoy told China's president on Friday that his reclusive country was willing to take "positive actions" to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks.

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