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...SENTENCED. Bj?rn Hoen, 37, Petter Rosenvinge, 38, and Petter Tharaldsen, 34, to jail terms ranging from four to eight years, for involvement in the theft of Edvard Munch's masterpieces The Scream and Madonna, which are still missing; in Oslo. The paintings were snatched by two masked gunmen during a daylight raid on the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004. Hoen and Tharaldsen have been ordered to pay $122 million in compensation to the city of Oslo...
...sole superpower can be so ignorant and not endorse the Kyoto treaty. Each of us, however, must make an effort to show our respect to Mother Earth. I do my part by driving an electric car in town, and there is no sacrifice in that. Emil S. Werring Oslo...
...Bush would be making the biggest short-term contribution to reducing global warming. Each of us, however, must make an effort to show our respect for Mother Earth. I do my part by driving an electric car in town, and there is no sacrifice in that. Emil S. Werring Oslo With the mass of evidence showing that our planet is in dire straits, I find it unbelievable that wealthy (and presumably intelligent and educated) people still buy SUVs for town use when they burn so much more fuel than smaller cars. Do those people simply not care about their children...
...country's precarious ethnic and political balance by injecting sizable revenues and foreign investment into an area which already has strong desires for independence. Ironically, the first winner isn't an oil giant from the "coalition of the willing" but DNO ASA, a small company traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange. DNO in early 2004 negotiated the rights to drill in about 3,900 sq km, inking the contract in the final week before Iraq's interim government took over from the U.S.-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority. DNO's managing director, Helge Eide, said he felt...
...Hamas-led government will choose to implement its Islamist party values in the fairly liberal Palestinian society, I also share the widespread conviction that the democratically-elected majority party is the last chance the Palestinians have to create an effective, transparent, and responsive government under the current post-Oslo political structure. Hamas’s success in government is central to short-term stability for Palestinians. This is also keenly true for Israelis, for the five-year intifada has proven repeatedly that Palestinian militancy is driven by economic instability and social frustration. If international donors follow through on their threat...