Day: November 7, 2011

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Five injured in Stavanger workshop blast

Firefighters were seeking on Monday morning to control a blaze near Stavanger in south-western Norway after an explosion at a mechanical workshop left five people seriously injured and the smell of ammonia gas lingering in the air.

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Voices emerge to counter rape stigma

Dark-skinned men in Norway are feeling the stigma of a recent wave of “after hours” sexual assaults in which roughly half of the attackers were asylum seekers from war-torn countries.