Gro Brundtland is a Norwegian politician (Arbeiderpartiet),who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway and as the director-general of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She is also known for having chaired the Brundtland Commission which presented the Brundtland Report on sustainable development. Educated as a physician,Brundtland joined the Labour Party and entered the government in 1974 as Minister of the Environment. She became the first female Prime Minister of Norway on 4 February 1981,but left office on 14 October 1981;she returned as Prime Minister on 9 May 1986 and served until 16 October 1989. She finally returned for her third term on 3 November 1990. From 1981 to 1992 she was leader of the Labour Party. After her surprise resignation as Prime Minister in 1996,she became an international leader in sustainable development and public health,and served as Director-General of the World Health Organization and as UN Special Envoy on Climate Change from 2007 to 2010. She is also deputy chair of The Elders and a former vice-president of the Socialist International.
The Airport Express Train is a Norwegian high-speed airport railway service connecting Oslo Airport to Oslo Central Station in nineteen minutes. Run by Flytoget AS,it operates on the high-speed Gardermoen Line using sixteen GMB Class 71 electric trains. Normal service frequency is once every ten minutes,with five of the services each hour continuing westwards beyond Oslo Central. The extended services serve nine stops within Greater Oslo and take up to 60 minutes.
The Workers' Youth League affair was a political affair,where leaders of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) were charged with deliberately inflating membership numbers to receive increased government funding. Two former treasurers and two former leaders of the Oslo chapter were found guilty of fraud,and given prison sentences,for having unlawfully received 648,000 kr in grants from the City of Oslo between 1992 and 1994. The convicted were Ragnar Bøe Elgsaas,Anders Hornslien,Bjørn Jarle Rødberg Larsen and Anders Greif Mathisen. Anders Mathisen's sentence was suspended.
Erik Andersen,also referred to in the media as The Pocket Man,is a convicted Norwegian child molester from Bergen. He was arrested in 2008,accused of molesting hundreds of children since 1976,and in 2010,he was convicted and sentenced to preventive detention with a minimum term of 9 years,with the possibility of extension for as long as he is deemed a danger to society. He was released in November 2014.
Jack Erik Kjuus was a Norwegian far-right politician of the former White Electoral Alliance who was convicted of racism in 1997. The party Kjuus led was a merger between two anti-immigrant parties,Stop the Immigration and Hjelp de fremmede hjem ellers mister vi landet vårt.
The Baneheia murders was a double rape and murder that occurred in Norway on 19 May 2000. The victims were two girls,10-year-old Lena Sløgedal Paulsen and 8-year-old Stine Sofie Austegard Sørstrønen. They were found raped and killed in the Baneheia area in Kristiansand. The murders received massive media attention in Norway in the early 2000s.
On 29 December 2008,violent riots first broke out in Oslo,Norway amid protests against the Gaza War,starting outside the Israeli embassy. Riots broke out again following a protest on 4 January 2009,while the most violent and destructive riots took place on 8 and 10 January when riots spread throughout the city with widespread destruction of private and public property,clashes between rioters and police with several injuries,as well as attacks on civilians,including individuals targeted due to being thought by rioters to be Jews. Around 200 people were arrested in total,mainly Muslim youth,supported by left-wing autonomous Blitz activists.
Kaja Bordevich Ballo was a Norwegian university student who took her own life in Nice,France,on March 28,2008,shortly after taking an Oxford Capacity Analysis (OCA),a personality test administered by the Church of Scientology,earlier the same day. Family and friends state that Ballo was happy prior to taking the OCA,and that her mood dramatically shifted after receiving the results;she jumped from the fourth floor of her dorm room hours later. In addition to a suicide note,Ballo's family found the OCA among her belongings. French police investigated connections between Scientology and Ballo's death,and interviewed two leaders of the Church of Scientology in France;prosecutors stated in December 2008 that they were unable to establish a causative link.
Mohyeldeen Mohammad is an Iraqi-Norwegian Islamist,and political activist associated with the fundamentalist Profetens Ummah group. He became a controversial figure in Norway after stating that the country is at war with Muslims and warning the Norwegian people with an 11 September happening on Norwegian soil. Since then,his media profile has risen following a series of statements regarding Norway,homosexuality and Islamism. He was formerly a Sharia student at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia,until he was deported from the country in 2011.
Richard August Riekeles was a Norwegian barrister.
Fjotolf Hansen,better known by his birth name Anders Behring Breivik and by his pseudonym Andrew Berwick,is a Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist,known for committing the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011. On that day,he killed eight people by detonating a van bomb at Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo,then killed 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp in a mass shooting on the island of Utøya.
The 2011 Norway attacks were a bombing in Oslo and a series of shootings at Utøya on Friday,22 July 2011. The first attack was a bomb exploding in Regjeringskvartalet,the executive government quarter of Oslo,and the second an attack on a youth camp organized by the youth organization (AUF) of the Norwegian Labour Party (AP) on the island of Utøya in Tyrifjorden,Viken.
The trial of Anders Behring Breivik,the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks,took place between 16 April and 22 June 2012 in Oslo District Court. Breivik was sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention on 24 August 2012. 170 media organisations were accredited to cover the proceedings,involving some 800 individual journalists.
Svein Holden is a Norwegian lawyer having prosecuted several major criminal cases in Norway. Together with prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh Holden prosecuted terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik in the 2012 trial following the 2011 Norway attacks.
Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen is a Norwegian lawyer and judge. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Norway on 20 June 2014,having previously been a judge at the Oslo District Court.
Trans Polar A/S was a Norwegian charter airline which operated between June 1970 and May 1971. The airline operated a fleet of three Boeing 720s and had a close cooperation with Aer Lingus for maintenance. Trans Polar was established by Thor Tjøntveit,although he never held any management positions. The airline was headquartered in Oslo,although most of the flights operated out of Copenhagen,Denmark,which was the base of Spies Rejser,Trans Polar's largest customer. The airline held operating permission from Norway and Denmark,but not Sweden;nevertheless,they operated several illegal flights out of Stockholm.
Sveinung Stensland is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. A deputy to the Storting from Rogaland from 2013,he met as deputy for Bent Høie during the 2013–2017 Storting period. He was elected as an ordinary member of the Storting from 2017,and was re-elected in 2021.
Geir Eriksen,former names Geir Selvik and Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen,is a Norwegian con artist and convicted felon. He formerly worked as a private investigator for criminal clients,and became known for fabricating material in the Arne Treholt case;it was subsequently revealed that he had engaged in similar fraud in a large number of other cases. He was charged with aggravated fraud and forgery;he pled guilty to all charges and in 2018 was sentenced to three years in prison and to pay 7 million kr in restitution. As of 2021 Malthe-Sørenssen was an inmate at Romerike Prison. He has changed his names several times,but is best known under the name Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen,his legal name from 2010 to 2017. In 2021 his former wife Ida Marie Hansen published the book Jeg var gift med en bedrager about the Malthe-Sørenssen case.
Emilie Enger Mehl is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She has served as minister of justice since 2021 and Member of parliament for Hedmark since 2017.
On 4 June 1997,a bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club chapter in Drammen,Norway,killing a passerby and injuring twenty-two others. Seven men associated with the rival Hells Angels Motorcycle Club were convicted of carrying out the attack.
