Posted on 03. Jul, 2015 in: News

Justice Minister targets foreign fighters

Every one of the 115 Danish nationals who’ve travelled to Syria as a foreign fighter is to be investigated by a specially convened task force appointed by Justice Minister Søren Pind, who said…

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Posted on 03. Jul, 2015 in: News

Right-wing parties call for end to snooping legislation

The government’s allies on the right are determined to rescind the ‘snooping law’ that allows the tax authorities to enter a person’s private property without a court warrant, to check whether renovation work or…

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Posted on 03. Jul, 2015 in: News

Local authorites challenge government policy

Local Liberal mayors have accused the government of launching a ’massacre on welfare’ after Finance Minister Claus Hjorth Frederiksen ordered them to save 1% of their annual budget, either by cutbacks or efficency…

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Posted on 03. Jul, 2015 in: News

Danish rape victim claimed she had AIDS

The 52-year old Danish woman who was gang-raped near the New Delhi Railway Station in January last year has told a Delhi court that she told her attackers she was infected with AIDS…

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Posted on 03. Jul, 2015 in: News

Roskilde Festival tries to turn urine into beer

The annual Roskilde music festival that got underway Wednesday has introduced an interesting concept this year – turning urine into beer. Festivalgoers  are being asked to urinate in specially designed storage tanks, which…

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Posted on 02. Jul, 2015 in: News

Government starts crackdown on asylum seekers

The government has put together a majority for legislation aimed at reducing the number of asylum seekers heading for Denmark – last year, 15,000 people sought asylum in Denmark, twice as many as…

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Posted on 02. Jul, 2015 in: News

Pia K. is first female Speaker of the House

The Danish Parliament will get its first-ever female speaker today, ex-DPP leader Pia Kjærsgaard. The Liberal Alliance had threatened to block Ms Kjærsgaard’s nomination unless the government was willing to cut the top…

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Posted on 02. Jul, 2015 in: News

Danish terrorist stripped of citizenship

In a landmark ruling the High Court has stripped a convicted terrorist of his citizenship. Said Mansour, ‘The Bookseller from Bronshøj’ who held both Danish and Moroccan citizenship, had his Danish passport revoked…

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Posted on 02. Jul, 2015 in: News

Hizb-ut Tahrir spokesman charged with social fraud

The spokesman for the Islamic Hizb-ut Tahrir organisation in Denmark has been charged with social fraud totalling over DKK100,000. Junes Mads Kock Johansen, who has previously characterised the Danish state’s efforts to fight…

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Posted on 02. Jul, 2015 in: News

Court rules against Ryanair

Ryanair will not be using Copenhagen as a base after the Labour Arbitration Court (Arbejdsretten) yesterday ruled that airport staff have the right to refuse to service its flights in a dispute over…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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