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Norway Suffers Butter Shortage

Butter missing from Norwegian shelves (BBC Video)

Butter has sold out in some stores partly as the result of a “low-carb” diet sweeping the Nordic nation which emphasizes a higher intake of fats.

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Swedish Death-Metal Band Opeth

Swedish band Opeth. (Photo: opeth.com)

Marius Asp introduces us to the latest album from the Swedish death-metal band Opeth.

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Tragedy Transforms Norway Arts Festival

Norway Mela Festival. (Photo: Clark Boyd)

An international arts and culture festival scheduled for Friday has been scaled back to remember the victims of last Friday’s attacks.

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Songs That are Comforting the Norwegian People

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Norwegians are posting songs, on a website, that are giving them a bit of comfort and hope in difficult times.

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Norway’s Political Youth Camps

Utøya (Flickr image: Rødt nytt)

Norway reacts to Glenn Beck’s remarks about ‘political youth camps.’

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Impact on Norway’s Muslim Community

Usman Rana (courtesy of usmanrana.com)

Columnist Usman Rana talks about the repercussions of last week’s attacks for Norwegian Muslims.

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Norway’s History of Dealing With Right-wing Extremism

Jens Stoltenberg (BBC Video)

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has said his country will “not be intimidated or threatened” by Friday’s bomb and gun attacks.

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Right-wing Extremism in the US

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How vulnerable is the US to a threat from the far right?

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Norway Reviews Security After Twin Attacks

Remembering the victims of Friday's attacks (Photo: Clark Boyd)

Many in Norway are wondering whether it’s now time to rethink the country’s security.

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Terrorism in Europe

Magnus Ranstorp

Have the security forces focused too much on Al-Qaeda?

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Norway Attacker Makes Court Appearance

Anders Behring Breivik (Facebook Portrait)

Anders Behring Breivik claims that he had accomplices.

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Jan Egeland on Twin Attacks

Jan Egeland (Image: Johnppap)

Jan Egeland is a former UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs.

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The Threat of Far-right Extremism in Europe

Metropolitan Police in London, UK (Copyright: BBC)

Most European counter-intelligence work has focused on Islamic extremism in the last ten years.

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Norway Attacks

Oslo bomb blast (Norwegian TV)

77 people, most of them teenagers, were killed in Oslo and on nearby Utøya island by Anders Behring Breivik on July 22.

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Deadly Attacks in Norway

Oslo bomb blast (Norwegian TV)

Norway has been hit by a bomb blast in the capital and a shooting attack at a youth camp.

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