“In the biggest scandal to rock Norway’s monarchy, the son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit goes on trial Tuesday,” reports CBS News:
Marius Borg Hoiby, Mette-Marit’s 29-year-old son from a relationship before she married Crown Prince Haakon, has been charged with a total of 38 counts, some of which date back to 2018.
He faces up to 16 years in prison if the Oslo district court finds him guilty. The trial, scheduled to last until March 19, is expected to attract intense media coverage.
“When it comes to the Norwegian royal family, it is without a doubt the biggest scandal” in its 120-year history, Trond Noren Isaksen, a historian and expert on Norway’s monarchy, told AFP.
The former first lady of South Korea was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Wednesday for accepting Chanel bags and a diamond pendant from the Unification Church in exchange for political favors.
Dozens died in a gold mine collapse in Sudan, where hundreds of other artisanal miners died last year in mine collapses. People will put up with dangerous working conditions to avoid starving to death in Sudan, which is in the midst of a bloody civil war that has killed 400,000 people and led to 25 million people going hungry.
Mines are not even the most dangerous place to be in Sudan. Rebels recently used drones to kill hundreds of people in and near a major city in the central part of Sudan.
A drone killed dozens of people at a funeral in Sudan. Another drone sent by Sudanese rebels killed 33 kindergartners, then returned to kill paramedics who were trying to save the children.
