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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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American Expat Reacts to Oslo Bombing

Tressa Skofterud

Tressa Skofterud usually works in an office 300 yards from the blast in Oslo but stayed home on Friday.

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Global Political Cartoons: March 12 – 18, 2011

The Land of the Rising Sun has become for some The Land of Rising Radiation Levels. The aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami has cartoonists morphing the red disc in Japan’s flag into everything from a radiation hazard symbol to a skull.
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Global Political Cartoons: March 5 – 11, 2011

The massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan spawn multiple images of a famous Japanese woodblock print. The tangled role of oil in the world’s response to Libya, and the space shuttle Discovery retires into the arms of another beached phenom.

Peace prize impact on dissident winners

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Peter Osnos, former foreign correspondent and currently editor-at-large of Public Affairs. Osnos recalls the impact of the Nobel Peace Prize on the lives of other dissidents who have won in the past, including Russian physicist Andrew Sakharov and Poland’s Lech Walesa. Download MP3

President Obama’s peace prize

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President Barack Obama has said the US must uphold moral standards when waging wars that are necessary and justified, as he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize. In his speech in Oslo, he defended the US role in Afghanistan, arguing the use of force could bring lasting peace. Marco Werman talks with political philosopher Michael Walzer about the President’s approach to war and peace. Download MP3 (AP Photo: Susan Walsh)

Barack Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Duncan Kennedy, who covered the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway today.

More info on missing link fossil

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We hear how a Norwegian palaeontologist secured a 47 million year-old primate fossil called Ida for his Oslo museum.