Oslo: As central Oslo reeled from Norway's worst massacre in modern history, a blond man in the grieving crowd asked Iraqi-born Iman al-Kofi, wearing a headscarf, for a hug. Kofi, who had a friend in intensive care with three bullet wounds and had learned that at least one other friend of Iraqi origin had been killed in Friday's massacre by an anti-Islamic extremist, obliged, and the man walked back into...
01:14 AM, Jul 27, 2011
Oslo: Norway's justice minister told reporters on Tuesday that employees from his department were still missing after an attack on government headquarters in Oslo and a shooting spree at a nearby island that killed at least 76. Police have not released the names of the victims yet but hope to start that process on Tuesday. Justice Minister Knut Storberget gave no information about the missing. Anders Behring Breivik has confessed...
02:39 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik's estranged father has disowned his son, saying he should have taken his own life instead of those he killed. Jens Breivik split from Anders' mother, Wenche Behring, when Anders was aged one. He lost a custody battle to raise his son in France and then lost contact with Anders when he was a teenager, Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday. Speaking to a Swedish newspaper,...
09:13 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: Police announced on Monday that they had dramatically over-counted the number of people slain in a shooting spree at a political youth group's island retreat and were lowering the confirmed death toll from 86 to 68. The overall toll in the attack now stands at 76 instead of 93; still one of the worst modern mass murders in peacetime. Police spokesman Oystein Maeland said that higher, erroneous figure emerged...
07:59 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: Anders Behring Breivik told a Norwegian judge on Monday his bombing and shooting rampage that killed scores aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that "two more cells" existed in his organisation. Breivik's remarks at the closed-door custody hearing were relayed by the judge, Kim Heger, at a news conference. The killer has previously said he acted alone and police had earlier said they were trying...
03:04 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: At least 100,000 people rallied in Oslo and tens of thousands more marched in cities across Norway on Monday in a nationwide expression of grief and unity over the massacre of 76 people by Anders Behring Breivik. Breivik told a judge in a closed hearing on Monday his bombing and shooting rampage aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that "two more cells" existed in his...
02:23 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: Confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik hoped to trigger a nationalist revolution in Norway. But his double act of mass murder and destruction seems to have stirred only dignified defiance in this wealthy, idealistic nation renowned for its commitment to peace. The capital's heart remains shattered and cordoned off following Friday's car-bomb blast. Communities up and down this sparsely populated land of fir forests and mist-shrouded fjords have yet to...
01:26 AM, Jul 26, 2011
The man accused of carrying out Norway's terror strike claims two cells of terrorists helped him in the attacks. ...
11:15 PM, Jul 25, 2011
An online video was purportedly put up by the Norway accused minutes before the terror strike giving an insight into his mind. ...
12:02 PM, Jul 25, 2011
The young people who survived the shootings in Utoya Island, Norway, say they will not be silenced by the act of political terrorism. ...
10:31 AM, Jul 25, 2011
London: Extra security will be put up at mosques around the UK in the wake of the deadly attacks in Norway, British Muslim leaders said on Sunday. Mohammed Shafiq, the leader of Ramadhan Foundation, one of Britain's largest Muslim groups, says mosques are being extra vigilant as it emerges that the suspect blamed for the Norway attacks opposed Muslim immigration to Europe. Shafiq told that he was talking to other...
12:22 AM, Jul 25, 2011
Oslo: The man blamed for attacks on Norway's government headquarters and a youth retreat that left at least 92 dead said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said on Sunday. A manifesto that he is believed to have written ranted against Muslim immigration to Europe and vowed revenge on "indigenous Europeans" who he accused of betraying their heritage. Although lawyer...
05:56 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Oslo: A right-wing zealot Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted to bomb and gun attacks in Norway that killed 92 people on Friday claims he acted alone, Norway's police said on Sunday. "He has admitted to the facts of both the bombing and the shooting, although he's not admitting criminal guilt," acting police chief Sveinung Sponheim told a news conference about detained suspect Anders Behring Breivik. "He says that he was...
03:06 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Sundvollen: A suspected right-wing fanatic accused of killing at least 92 people deemed his acts "atrocious" yet "necessary" as Norway mourned victims of the nation's worst attacks since World War Two. Police were hunting on Sunday to see if a possible second gunman took part in the shooting massacre and bomb attack on Friday that traumatised a normally peaceful Nordic country. In his first comment via a lawyer since he...
08:38 AM, Jul 24, 2011
Oslo: Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that. Survivors of the shooting spree have described hiding...
07:19 AM, Jul 24, 2011
New Delhi: A week before Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik allegedly pulled off one of history's worst mass shootings on Friday night, he posted a telling quote on a Twitter account attributed to him. The 32-year-old quoted philosopher John Stuart Mill: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests." The profile picture on the account is of a blonde and blue-eyed man....
03:37 PM, Jul 23, 2011
Some of world's worst mass shootings: - July 22, 2011: At least 80 people are killed at a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya. A man arrested also is suspected in a blast earlier the same day in downtown Oslo that killed seven. - April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips....
11:54 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Neslandet: Norwegian teenagers at a lakeside summer camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping into the water to save themselves, when an attacker dressed as a policeman began spraying them with gunfire. Police said at least 10 of the youngsters, attending a camp run by the governing Labour Party, were killed in Friday's attack, shortly after a blast in the capital Oslo killed seven people in Western Europe's worst bombing...
11:26 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Stockholm: The 32-year-old suspected of massacring at least 80 young people at a summer camp and setting off a bomb in downtown Oslo that killed at least seven is a mystery to investigators - a right-winger with anti-Muslim views but no known links to hardcore extremists. "He just came out of nowhere," a police official told The Associated Press. Public broadcaster NRK and several other Norwegian media identified the suspected...
11:04 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has condemned as "brutal and shocking" twin shooting and bomb attacks in Norway. "Australia condemns the brutal and shocking attacks which occurred in Norway overnight," Gillard said. The government confirmed that there were no reports of any Australian believed to be dead or injured. Gillard said Norway was a good friend and partner of Australia. "Our sorrow and concern are with the people of...
10:41 AM, Jul 23, 2011
