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King Haakon retains the motto ‘All for Norway’

NRK reports that King Haakon VIII will retain the motto ‘All for Norway’, the same as his father, King Harald V, his grandfather, King Olav V, and his great-grandfather, King Haakon VII.

Canada’s public broadcaster tells staff not to call 9/11 terrorism

CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, is instructing its staff not to describe 9/11 as a terrorist attack. Nor are the atrocities of 7 October 2023 regarded as terrorism by Canada’s equivalent of NRK. Now reactions are coming from both sides of the US–Canada border.

Half of immigrant boys in Norway drop out of upper secondary school

Only 56 per cent of immigrant boys complete upper secondary education within six years. Among pupils in Norway overall, the figure is 82 per cent. This is shown by a new report from the Directorate of Integration and Diversity (IMDi), which will be presented on Thursday.

Report: Norway’s Child Welfare Service infiltrated by criminal networks

A report from the A-crime Centre in Tønsberg reveals links between the Child Welfare Service and criminal networks. Rødt is demanding that the report be made public and that Minister of Children and Families Lene Vågslid appear before the Storting. Several other parties support the demand.

Massive cyberattack cripples public services for more than a day

The attack on the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency’s common solutions began at 3.38 a.m. on Monday and was still ongoing on Tuesday morning. Ten major public services have been affected, including ID-porten, MinID, Altinn and E-innsyn.

Hacker collective Jabaroot delivers: Publishes data on 70,000 Moroccan intelligence agents

On Monday, the hacker collective Jabaroot published the names, dates of birth, ID numbers, employee numbers and recruitment years of 70,000 people in Moroccan intelligence. The agents have operated in Europe as spies and are linked to wiretapping and bribery.

Trump wins Supreme Court victory on mail-in voting

The Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favour that mail-in ballots may be sent only to US citizens. Twenty-three Democratic states want to send out mail-in ballots as in 2020, when all and sundry received them. Mail-in ballots are crucial to the Democrats’ chances of winning.

Bessent means business

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to force Iran to its knees and is making use of the vast market that trades in dollars. The United States will no longer tolerate those who trade with Iran. It is one or the other.

Algerian profile to Document: – Get out of the New Norway

A Facebook profile with clear connections to Algeria asks Document and the newspaper’s journalist to leave Norway. “You are not welcome”, writes the man, who refers to the country as “the new Noreg”.

Drones for Ukraine being produced in Norway

Støre and Zelenskyy signed a strategic partnership agreement in Kyiv on Sunday. It is now being stated for the first time that drones for Ukraine are being produced in Norway. This could make us a party to the war. Russia has already warned the United Kingdom. Denmark is also producing Ukrainian drones.