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Nancy Pelosi: Free Liu Xiaobo

On the stage before us was an empty chair. Blue and white, it has been filled by great champions of peace and justice, nonviolence and human rights: Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Mother Teresa and Elie Wiesel; His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. But, on this day, the chair was...

Nobel Peace Ceremony Goes Ahead, With Empty Chair

OSLO, Norway (Dec. 10) - When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo's modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be one chair left empty - for this year's winner. Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, a democracy activist, is serving an 11-year prison sentence in China on...

China Awards Own Peace Prize Before Nobel Boycott

(Dec. 9) -- China awarded its own peace prize today to a Taiwanese politician who couldn't attend the event, just a day before it boycotts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo where winner Liu Xiaobo will be absent because he's stuck behind bars in China. The first-ever Confucius Peace Prize was bestowed on Lien Chan,...

China, 18 Other Countries to Skip Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

(Dec. 7) -- Nineteen countries, including China, have declined to attend Friday's ceremony honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned Chinese dissident, Nobel officials said. The Norwegian prize committee said the 19 embassies declined to attend to ceremony in Oslo, Norway, "for various reasons." Some 44...

China Takes Steps to Derail Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

(Nov. 19) -- China was enraged when the Norwegian Nobel Committee selected jailed pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo as this year's Peace Prize winner. Now the People's Republic has taken its revenge by effectively blocking the committee from handing out the prestigious award for the first time in 109 years. According to...

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Justin Bieber Concert Causes Massive Mob in Norway

A free Justin Bieber concert featuring four brand new songs caused a massive mob of teenage girls to clog Norway's capital of Oslo. The Canadian pop sensation was to perform at a local opera house yesterday as part of his " Around the World " TV special.

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Norway Massacre Autopsy Reports Revealed In Anders Behring Breivik Trial

A Norwegian court has heard the autopsy reports of the first victims of a youth camp massacre that left 69 people dead on Utoya island on July 22.

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05/31/12 Experts Discuss Athletes' Injuries Ahead of London 2012 Source: PRWeb (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 This week 140 experts from 28 countries will gather in Oslo, Norway, to discuss challenges related to their work with high-level athletes in a team sports setting.
05/31/12 Oslo's Bieber Experience Source: Pollstar All it took was Justin Bieber announcing he was doing a freebie at Oslo's Opera House to send Norway's teens into a frenzy as "hordes of screaming girls," gathered on rooftops or stood in line hoping to catch a glimpse of the star, reports London's Sun newspaper.
05/31/12 Justin Bieber in Norway: Oslo mayor 'hid behind tree... Source: Digital Spy Oslo's mayor has called for an investigation after a number of teenage girls were injured in a crush to see Justin Bieber.
05/31/12 Bieber Fans Recreate 'No Church in the Wild' in Oslo;... Source: Dose - Toronto - ON - Canada Justin Bieber woke up in Paris this morning, ready for the second stop of his mini European tour -- a trip that's being filmed for a just-announced June 21 NBC special, Justin Bieber Believe: But after hearing -- and seeing -- what happened during his first stop to Oslo, Norway, this hour-long program could become an adorable, tweeny-bop version of " No Church in the Wild." There were no purple-hoodied thugs throwing Molotov cocktails in the Oslo streets -- that we've heard of.
05/31/12 Update: Strikes Spread to Norway's Fjord Ports; Cause... Source: Cruise Critic The pilot strikes in Norway which closed Oslo Fjord Port have spread to ports along the west coast of the country including TromsÃ¸ and Alesund.

Background on Oslo

Oslo (, , or ) is the capital of and most populous city in Norway. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III, the city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 and with Sweden from 1814 to 1905 reduced its influence.

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