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FILE - Zaniar Matapour appears in court in Oslo, Norway, March 12, 2024. A verdict is expected Thursday, July 4, in case of the Iranian-born Norwegian man who is charged with terrorism for the 2022 deadly shooting at an Oslo LGBTQ Pride festival. (Lise Åserud/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Iranian-born Norwegian man found guilty in 2022 Oslo LGBT+ festival attack, sentenced to 30 years

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

FILE - Pål Enger, center, sits in court during his appeal case, in the Borgarting Court of Appeal in Oslo, Monday, April 7, 1997. Enger, a talented Norwegian soccer player turned gentleman art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch’s famed “The Scream” painting at the National Gallery in Oslo and later exhibited his abstract paintings in a gallery, is dead at 57. Press officer Tina Wulf at Vålerenga Fotball, an acclaimed Oslo soccer club, told the Associated Press on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, that Enger died Saturday evening. (Bjørn Sigurdsøn/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Pal Enger, Norwegian art thief behind famed 1994 heist of Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ dead at 57

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

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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People comfort each other at the scene of a shooting in central Oslo, Norway, on June 25, 2022. Zaniar Matapour, a Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, was Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, charged with aggravated terrorism for the 2022 deadly shooting ahead of an LGBTQ festival in the Norwegian capital’s nightlife district. The shooting at three locations, including outside the London Pub, a popular gay bar in downtown Oslo, on June 25, 2022. Two people were killed and nine wounded. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Iranian-born Norwegian man is charged over deadly Oslo Pride attack in 2022

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Iranian Narges Mohammadi, delegate of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, listens to a question during a press conference on the Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Iran, at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 9, 2008. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi for fighting the oppression of women in Iran. The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the prize on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Oslo. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP, File)

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting women’s oppression

By Jon Gambrell and Mike Corder - Associated Press

Flowers are left as a spontaneous pride parade arrives at the scene of a shooting in central Oslo, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Threats have increased against next week's LGBTQ+ Pride festival in Oslo following a deadly shooting last year at the annual event, the Norwegian Police Security Service said Wednesday, June 21, 2023. (Håkon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Threats against Norway’s LGBTQ+ Pride festival rise following deadly 2022 attack

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, listens as NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gives a statement to the media, at Oslo City Hall, during a meeting of NATO's foreign ministers in Oslo, Thursday, June 1, 2023. (Lise Aserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)

NATO presses Turkey to drop objections to Sweden’s membership as summit looms

By Matthew Lee and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speak during a press meeting in Lulea, Sweden, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (Jonas Ekströmer/TT News Agency via AP)

U.S. says ‘the time is now’ for Sweden to join NATO and for Turkey to get new F-16s

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford passes on its way to the Oslo Fjord, at Drobak, Norway, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. The ship is the world's largest warship and will be in port of Oslo for four days. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in NATO member Norway, to take part in drills

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

A virtually empty Red Square closed for security reasons prior to Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address, is seen between the Historical Museum, left, and the Kremlin Wall, right, in Moscow, Feb. 21, 2023. U.S. officials say Russia is now the most sanctioned country in the world. But as the war nears its one-year mark, it's clear the sanctions didn't pack the instantaneous punch that many had hoped. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia expelling 10 Norwegian diplomats in tit for tat move

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Norway boots Russian spies as tension in Europe rises over Ukraine war

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A Norwegian national flag flutters over flowers and rainbow flags that are placed at the scene of a shooting in central of Oslo, Norway, Sunday, June 26, 2022. Norwegian police say they are investigating an overnight shooting in Oslo that killed two people and injured more than a dozen as a case of possible terrorism. In a news conference Saturday, police officials said the man arrested after the shooting was a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin who was previously known to police but not for major crimes. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Norway: Suspect in deadly Pride shooting agrees to custody

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People lay flowers at the scene of a shooting in Oslo, Saturday, June 25, 2022. The Norwegian security service PST has raised its terror alert to the highest level after a shooting left 2 people dead and many wounded during Pride week in Oslo. A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s night-life district. in what police are investigating as a possible terrorist attack. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Norway terror alert raised after deadly mass shooting in downtown Oslo

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A Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo of a Nobel Prize medal. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

In this July 22, 2019, file photo, Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg, center, and leader of the Labour party Jonas Gahr Stoere, left, attend a memorial ceremony to mark the 8th anniversary of the shootings on Utoya Island, where 69 people were killed by Anders Breivik. At 3.25 p.m. on July 22, 2021, a ray of sun should have illuminated the first of 77 bronze columns on a lick of land opposite Utoya island outside Oslo. Over the next 3 hours and 8 minutes, it would have brushed each column in turn, commemorating every person killed by right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik. But on the 10-year anniversary of the terror, the memorial remains a construction site. (Terje Bendiksby/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack

By David Keyton and Mark Lewis - Associated Press

In this Sunday, July 24, 2011, file photo, women carry flowers as they arrive for a memorial service at Oslo Cathedral in the aftermath of the bombing and shooting attacks on Norway's government headquarters and a youth retreat, in Oslo. On the 10-year anniversary of Norway’s worst peacetime slaughter, survivors of Anders Breivik’s 22 July assault worry that the seam of racism that nurtured the anti-Islamic mass-murderer is re-emerging. Most of Breivik’s 77 victims were teen members of the Labor Party Youth wing — idealists enjoying their annual camping trip on the tranquil, wooded island of Utoya. Today many survivors are battling to keep their vision for their country alive. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Breivik survivors keep fighting for their vision of Norway

By Mark Lewis - Associated Press

Vandals damage famous Norwegian baby statue in Oslo park

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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019 file photo, people look at &quot;The Scream&quot; at the National Gallery in Oslo. A Norwegian museum says a small, barely visible sentence written on Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” was penned by the Norwegian painter himself. The sentence referring to the artwork being made by a madman was scribbled in a corner. A curator at the new National Museum of Norway said Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 the inscription was likely made in 1895, when Munch exhibited the painting for the first time and was met with questions about his mental health. (Heiko Junge/NTB Scanpix via AP, file)

Norway museum: Munch wrote ‘madman’ sentence on ‘The Scream’

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Stockholm City Hall is lit up with art inspired by the discovery of black holes, during the Nobel Week Lights in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday Dec. 5, 2020. The Nobel Week is opening with a visual projections light display in Stockholm. (Jessica Gow / TT via AP)

Nobel ceremonies go low-key this year because of coronavirus

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FILE - World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

2020 Nobel Peace ceremony won’t be held in person in Oslo

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