Police search for parents of abandoned children
Police are trying to trace an Afghan national who’s been deported and is believed to the father of two young children who were found abandoned on a busy street in Aarhus on Tuesday…
MoreHuawei hits back at critics, denies government control
Huawei would rather shut down its business than bow down to orders from the Chinese government, the head of the global communications giant’s Nordic affairs said yesterday following the Faroe Islands dispute. In…
More‘Feel good’ leader steps down
Alternative leader Uffe Elbæk, who touted himself as a potential prime minister candidate ahead of this year’s election, is stepping down as head of the party he founded in 2013. In an e-mail…
MoreNATO rubber stamps Iraq training mission
As expected, NATO has accepted Denmark’s offer to assume leadership of a training mission for Iraqi armed forces next year, taking over from Canada which has so far trained thousands of Iraqi troops…
MoreDenmark slips down gender equality rankings
Denmark has fallen one place to 14th on the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Gender Gap Index. Iceland is again ranked as the nation closest to achieving gender parity, having closed 88% of…
MoreImmigrants accept cash incentive to return home
452 immigrants have left Denmark and returned to their native country so far this year, tempted by a repatriation offer of DKK139.274, a single ticket home, and relocation expenses of DKK30,600. According to…
MoreGovernment predicts lower growth
The government expects economic growth to slow over the next few years as the economy reacts to a global downturn. In its latest economic review, published Monday, the government forecast 2.0% growth this…
MoreBusiness shorts
Car sales up, airport figures down… Auto sales are on course for a record year. 210.167 new cars were sold during the first 11 months of the year, the highest figure ever, boosted…
MoreChina’s ambassador: I never made any threats
China’s Ambassador to Denmark, Feng Tie, has denied threatening Faroe Islands politicians. Berlingske reported last week how the Ambassador had threatened the Faroe Islands home rule government that a trade agreement would be…
MoreMossad behind terror arrests
It was Israeli intelligence agency Mossad that supplied the information which led to the arrest of 21 terror suspects in a coordinated series of police raids throughout the country last week, according to…
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