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Ceuta police investigate massive purchases of raw materials for homemade bombs

Police in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta are asking why illegal migrants have made large-scale purchases of nitric acid and aluminium foil – substances used as raw materials in the home production of explosives.

Iceland to decide whether to resume EU membership talks

On Saturday, Icelanders will decide in a referendum whether the country should resume negotiations on EU membership, which have been suspended since 2013. The No side holds a narrow lead in the latest poll. The referendum is being followed with interest in Norway, where the battle lines are just as firmly drawn as among their kindred people to the west.

Hasan Piker: US Jews who support Israel risk being subjected to violence

Streamer Hasan Piker is not a politician, but nevertheless represents the extreme left-wing forces that have afflicted the Democrats in the United States. Among other things, he helped Abdul El-Sayed, an Islamist, become the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan. Piker is now facing opposition from representatives of the Democratic Party.

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.