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Water breaks through the dam at Braskereidfoss, Norway, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Authorities in Norway say a dam has partially burst following days of heavy rain that triggered landslides and flooding in the mountainous southern parts of the country. Communities downstream already had been evacuated. (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP)

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Dam in Norway partially bursts after days of heavy rain, flooding and evacuations
By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press
Wed,08/09/23-3:58AM , 152 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A dam in southern Norway partially burst Wednesday following days of heavy rain that triggered landslides and flooding in the mountainous region and forced downstream communities to evacuate, officials said.
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The royal warship Vasa is seen at the Vasamuseet museum in Stockholm, April 24, 2011. A U.S. military laboratory has helped Swedes confirm what was suspected for years: A woman was on the famed 17th-century warship that sank on its maiden voyage and is on display in a popular Stockholm museum, the museum said Tuesday April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden, Anders Wiklund, File)

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DNA: Woman was on famed 17th century Swedish warship
By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press
Tue,04/04/23-7:03AM , 170 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A U.S. military laboratory has helped Swedes confirm what was suspected for years: A woman was among those who died on a 17th-century warship that sank on its maiden voyage, the museum that displays the ship said Tuesday.
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Pirates hold hostage some crew of oil tanker off West Africa
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Fri,03/31/23-4:23AM , 154 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Six members of the 16-man crew on a Liberia-flagged tanker are being held hostage by pirates who boarded the ship in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea last week, the Danish shipper that owns the vessel and the French Navy said Friday.
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The runestone found at Tyrifjorden, Norway, is shown at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. Archaeologists with the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo said Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023 that have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP)

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Norway archaeologists find 'world's oldest runestone'
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Tue,01/17/23-5:07AM , 400 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Archaeologists in Norway said Tuesday that have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing.
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