Bow and Arrow Attack in Norway

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INTERNATIONAL: A man armed with a bow and arrows has gone on the rampage in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg, 68 kilometres from the capital Oslo. He’s killed five people and wounded two others in the deadliest attack in Norway in a decade. The attack began shortly after 6pm on Wednesday, local time, when the assailant began making his way through the center of the town. The authorities, after urging residents to seek shelter inside, apprehended the suspect about a half-hour later. He’s a 37-year-old Danish man living in Kongsberg. A motive for the attack is still unknown. The killings have left a country where murder is rare, and the police usually unarmed, on edge. Following the attacks, Norwegian police have now been given authorization to carry weapons.

Ethnic Clashes Erupt in Kosovo

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A 36-year-old Serb has been shot in the back and six police officers have been injured, after police used tear gas to disperse a crowd that became hostile after raids on suspected smugglers in northern Kosovo. Police responded when protesters used hand grenades and stun guns against officers. Kosovo police says officers met resistance in the town of Mitrovica, which is ethnically divided between Serbs and Albanians. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but around 50,000 Serbs who remain in the northern part of the country refuse to recognise authorities in the capital Pristina.

Alert Level Raised in Typhoon-Hit Hong Kong

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And, Typhoon Kompasu has left at least one person dead in a road accident and at least 20 others injured as it roared over Hong Kong on Wednesday. It suspended schools and the city’s $6.3 trillion stock market, as well as triggered the longest Number 8 warning signal in more than 40 years. The order stopped ferries and many bus routes from operating. The Hong Kong observatory raised the storm warning alert to Number 8, the third highest on its scale, on Tuesday afternoon, when Kompasu was about 440 kilometres southwest of the city. The typhoon made landfall on China’s Hainan island on Wednesday afternoon. It battered the Philippines two days earlier, leaving at least 13 people dead. Nearly 2,000 people were evacuated. Scientists have long warned that typhoons are becoming ever more powerful and strengthening more rapidly, as the world becomes warmer due to climate change.