NiemanLab: Remember that Norwegian site that made readers take a quiz before commenting? Here’s an update on it

When my former colleague Joseph Lichterman wrote about a Norwegian news organization NRKbeta that makes readers pass a quiz on the article before they can comment on it... [more...]

the guardian: Suspects held across Europe in alleged plot to kidnap Norwegian diplomats

UK’s north-east counter-terrorism unit confirms four men have been arrested in Britain, while six people have been held in Italy and three in Norway [mehr...]

newyork times: A Norway Town and Its Pipeline to Jihad in Syria

FREDRIKSTAD, Norway — The real trouble started when they stopped causing trouble. Torleif Sanchez Hammer and his friends — all residents of the same small cluster of clapboard houses in southern Norway — had been having run-ins with the police for years but then suddenly halted their marijuana-fueled gatherings in the basement apartment of Mr. Hammer’s widowed mother. [mehr...]