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Norway's Erling Haaland attends a training at the Ullevaal stadium in Oslo, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. Norway will face Slovenia in the Nations League group G soccer match on Thursday. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Erling Haaland becomes Norway’s all-time leading scorer in first game as captain

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Norway's Erling Haaland attends a training at the Ullevaal stadium in Oslo, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. Norway will face Slovenia in the Nations League group G soccer match on Thursday. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Haaland becomes Norway’s joint all-time leading scorer in first game as captain

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A sign indicating the Storskog border crossing between Russia and Norway is pictured near Kirkenes, Norway, on Sept. 28, 2022. (Lise Aserud/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Norway is mulling building a fence on border with Russia, following Finland’s example

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

A police officer inspects a car in which a hand-held pager exploded, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Norway issues wanted notice for man connected to exploding pagers in Lebanon

By Jan M. Olsen and Justin Spike - Associated Press

Norway's Princess Martha Louise and Durek Verret arrive at the boats in Alesund, Norway, Friday Aug. 30, 2024. that will transport them to Geiranger for their wedding celebration on Saturday. (Heiko Junge/NTB via AP)

She’s a Norwegian princess. He’s an American self-professed shaman. Their wedding is this weekend

By Jan M. Olsen and Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press

FILE - Back row from left, Marius Borg Hoiby and Crown Prince Haakon, front row from left, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, Prince Sverre Magnus, Queen Sonja and King Harald pose during a Christmas photo session at Skaugum, the the residence of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Norway, in Asker, Norway, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. (Lise Aaserud/Pool Photo via AP)

The son of Norway’s crown princess faces preliminary charges of bodily harm and criminal damage

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Norway's Christian Sandlie Soerum, left, and Anders Berntsen Mol react during the men's pool B beach volleyball match between Norway and Netherlands at Eiffel Tower Stadium at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Better known for snow than sand, Norway and Sweden are upstaging Olympic beach volleyball dynasties

By Jimmy Golen - Associated Press

FILE - From left, brothers Filip Ingebrigtsen, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Henrik Ingebrigtsen, of Norway, react after competing in the men's 5000 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Sept. 30, 2019. Father of Ingebrigtsen brothers is charged with abuse of “one of his minor children,” lawyer says. (AP Photo/Nick Didlick, File)

Father of Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen charged with abusing one of his other children, lawyer says

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

FILE - Norway's King Harald on his way to lunch with the Norwegian government in Oslo, Norway, Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024. Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, returned to work Monday, April 22, 2024, after having been on sick leave because he had a permanent pacemaker implant procedure in Norway that followed a surgery in Malaysia where he got a temporary one due to a low heart rate. (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Norway’s King Harald, Europe’s oldest monarch, is back at work after pacemaker implants

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Protestor Salwan Momika waves the Swedish flag outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, on July 20, 2023, where he plans to burn a copy of the Quran and the Iraqi flag. Momika, an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden told a newspaper on Wednesday March 27, 2024 that he would seek asylum in neighboring Norway in the wake of a deportation order by authorities in Stockholm. (Oscar Olsson/TT via AP, File)

Quran-burning Iraqi man who faces an expulsion order from Sweden plans to seek asylum in Norway

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Winner Jarl Magnus Riiber of Norway, center, second placed Johannes Lamparter from Austria, left, and third placed Kristjan Ilves from Estonia celebrate after the men's 10km combined, during the Cross-Country Ski World Cup, in Holmenkollen, Norway, Sunday, March 10, 2024. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Nordic combined star Jarl Magnus Riiber soaring and skiing toward finish in record-breaking season

By Larry Lage - Associated Press

FILE - Norway's King Harald V leaves the hall after the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo City Hall, Norway, on Dec. 10, 2022. Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, who was hospitalized while traveling in Malaysia, is getting a permanent pacemaker on Tuesday, the palace said, adding the monarch will folowingly remain in hospital for a new days. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Europe’s oldest monarch, the ailing King Harald V of Norway, gets a permanent pacemaker

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Zaniar Matapour in Oslo courthouse Tuesday, March 12, 2024. The trial has begun in Norway for a man accused of aggravated terrorism for the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ+ festival in Oslo’s nightlife district. Two people were killed and nine seriously wounded in the shooting in June 2022. The prosecutor says the Norwegian citizen originally from Iran had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group. (Lise Åserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)

A trial begins in Norway of a man accused of a deadly shooting at a LGBTQ+ festival in Oslo

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Activists wearing traditional Sami outfits sit in protest outside the entrance of Statkraft, a state-owned company that operates 80 of the wind turbines at Fosen, in central Norway's Fosen district on Oct. 12, 2023. Norway reached Wednesday an agreement with the Sami people ending a dispute over Indigenous right that led to activists blocking several entrances to Norwegian government offices over a wind farm that they say hinders the rights of the Indigenous people to raise reindeer. At the center of the dispute are the 151 turbines of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is located in central Norway’s Fosen district, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) north of the capital, Oslo." (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Norway and the Sami people end a dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm

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One of three Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft takes off from the Blekinge Wing F17, based in Kallinge southern Sweden for a base in Sardinia to join the Nato-led operation in Libya, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. As Sweden joins NATO, it bids a final farewell to more than two centuries of neutrality. (AP Photo/Scanpix/Patric Soderstrom, File)

Newly enlarged NATO starts drill in Finland, Norway and Sweden in defense of its Nordic turf

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

A Scandinavian Airlines medevac plane, believed to be carrying Norway's King Harald, is seen at Langkawi international airport on the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi, Malaysia, Sunday, March 3, 2024. An airplane believed to be carrying Norway’s King Harald departed Malaysia on Sunday, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A medical plane carrying Norway’s king departs Malaysia, the day after he received a pacemaker

By Vincent Thian - Associated Press

King Harald V of Norway leaves the Notre Dame cathedral after attending at the funeral of the Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, in Luxembourg, on May 4, 2019. Norwegian royal officials say that King Harald V of Norway has been hospitalized with an infection while on vacation in Malaysia. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Norway’s hospitalized king gets a pacemaker in Malaysia after falling ill during vacation

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A security officer walks outside the Sultanah Maliha Hospital, where King Harald V of Norway is believed to be admitted with an infection, on the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi, Malaysia, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Malaysian national news agency Bernama cited unidentified sources as confirming that Europe's oldest monarch was warded at the hospital’s Royal Suite. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Norway’s King Harald V is in the hospital on a Malaysian island after falling ill on vacation

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Switzerland's Niels Hintermann celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill race, in Kvitfjell, Norway, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)

Niels Hintermann wins downhill as Swiss teammate Marco Odermatt finishes 7th. U.S. has six in top 20

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Norwegian soccer player Mounir Hamoud during the elite series match between Bodø/Glimt and Strømsgodset at the Aspmyra stadium in Bodo, Norway, on June 16, 2019. The Norwegian soccer federation said Tuesday Feb. 13, 2024 that Mounir Hamoud, who played on Norway's youth teams, has died of a cardiac arrest at age 39.(Mats Torbergsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Former Norway youth international Mounir Hamoud dies after cardiac arrest at age 39

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