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            Incoming Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre





            has presented the country's new government in Oslo,



                                just hours after a suspected terror attack in #Kongsberg




       Norwegian prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, has
       presented the country's new centre-left minority
       government.



       The leader of the Labour party stood outside the
       country's royal palace on Thursday alongside the
       ten women and nine men in his new cabinet.



       The  government  now features  two  politicians
       who survived the 2011 Utøya massacre as teenage
       labour activists.                                                              Copyright  Cornelius Poppe/NTB via AP



       Tonje  Brenna,  33, has  been  appointed  to  the                                                  RELATED
       Ministry of Education, while Jan Christian
       Vestre,35, will take the portfolio of Trade and                           Kongsberg: Norway’s new PM to visit site
       Industry.                                                                 of suspected terror attack

                                                                                 Gahr Støre said it was “a special day” because of the
       Emilie  Enger  Mehl  became  Norway’s  youngest-                          “outrageous event” in the small town of Kongsberg.
       ever justice minister at age 28-years-old, while the                      “It is horrible what has been revealed, it is shocking to
       foreign minister portfolio went to another woman                          think about what people have experienced,” he told

       — Anniken Scharning Huitfeldt.                                            reporters  before  the  swearing-in  ceremony,  pledging
                                                                                 that the new Cabinet’s will fully examine the Kongsberg

       Meanwhile, the leader of the eurosceptic Center                           incident.
       Party,  Trygve  Slagsvold  Vedum,  becomes  the                           Norway marks a decade since Utoya

       finance minister.                                                         massacre killed 77 people


       The ceremony was overshadowed by Wednesday's                              The Labour leader also praised the appointment of two
       suspected  terror  attack,  where  a  37-year-old                         survivors of the 2011 Norway terror attacks.

       Danish  man  killed  five  people  with  a  bow  and                      "Now that these talented young politicians are carrying
       arrows.                                                                   this past, I feel that we have taken another important
                                                                                 step and I am very proud of that," said Støre.
                                                                                 The  61-year-old  took  over  after  conservative  prime
       Norway’s domestic security  agency says the                               minister Erna Solberg was ousted in the September

       attack appears to have been an act of terrorism                           election after eight years in office.




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