https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Norway’s Prime Minister has appointed a politician from the populist Progress Party as the country’s first ever Immigration Minister, as her government seeks to bring in an ever-tougher asylum policy. https://www.thelocal.no/20151216/norway-populists-win-new-immigration-ministry Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:26:28 +0100 norway-populists-win-new-immigration-ministry Norway’s right-wing government is to limit grants of asylum to a five-year term, after which refugees will be automatically sent home if the situation in their country has changed for the better. https://www.thelocal.no/20151008/norway-brings-in-tough-five-year-asylum-limit Thu, 08 Oct 2015 23:01:30 +0200 norway-brings-in-tough-five-year-asylum-limit Norway's prison authorities said Monday they had seized over 200 letters from mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik to prevent him from setting up a network outside jail. https://www.thelocal.no/20141222/breivik-letters-seized-by-norway-jailers Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:07:46 +0100 breivik-letters-seized-by-norway-jailers The number of foreigners in Norwegian prisons has quadrupled in the past 14 years. The reason: the jails are too nice - at least according to some lawyers and police officers. https://www.thelocal.no/20140602/norways-cushy-prisons-spurring-foreign-cons Mon, 02 Jun 2014 20:45:00 +0200 norways-cushy-prisons-spurring-foreign-cons Norway has asked to lease out prison spaces from its neighbour Sweden in a bid to end a shortage of cells which police complain forces them to release criminals. https://www.thelocal.no/20131210/norway-pushes-to-send-criminals-to-swedish-jails Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:45:00 +0100 norway-pushes-to-send-criminals-to-swedish-jails Norway's Chief Pathologist has warned that coroners are not ordered to perform enough autopsies, citing fears that suspected murder cases may slip through the justice system's fingers. https://www.thelocal.no/20130703/norwegian-autopsy-dip-could-miss-murder Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:19:00 +0200 norwegian-autopsy-dip-could-miss-murder How to defend a mass-murderer whose guilt is not in question? Anders Behring Breivik's defence will take the unusual approach of trying to prove he is criminally responsible and should be sent to prison. https://www.thelocal.no/20120411/breiviks-strategy-secure-jail-sentence Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:03:00 +0200 breiviks-strategy-secure-jail-sentence Three men have been found guilty of embezzling millions of kroner from the largely state-owned oil company Statoil. https://www.thelocal.no/20111103/statoil-embezzlers-get-jail-time-fines Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:22:13 +0100 statoil-embezzlers-get-jail-time-fines