Danish F16 fighter jets will be allowed to bomb Islamic State targets when they return to Syria and Iraq, even at the cost of civilian lives. In a formal response to parliament’s Defence…

As parliament prepares to make the final decision about which company will be given the lucrative multi-billion contract to replace the Danish Air Force’s ageing fleet of F-16s, the Conservatives have called for the…

Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen has rejected accusations that the government breached a campaign promise by cutting DKK 200m from foreign aid over the next four years. During an open parliamentary hearing, Wednesday, the…

Denmark was one of the largest donors of development aid in 2015 but a new OECD report shows that a growing percentage of the money is spent on refugees in this country. Senior advisor Morten Emil…

Denmark is number 1 on a new UNICEF study that ranks countries according to how far they allow their most disadvantaged children to fall behind in income, educational achievement, self-reported health and life…

Amnesty International has urged Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen to discuss torture and ‘mysterious disappearances’ when he holds talks with Mexico’s Præsident Enrique Peña Nieto in Copenhagen today. More than 27,000 people are…

Danish police were totally unaware of a ‘sting’ operation carried out by Romanian police in 2013 when an agent was sent to Denmark to steal construction equipment, the Justice Ministry stated yesterday. In…

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Denmark’s temporary chargé d’affaires over acts of vandalism and destruction carried out by four anti-Iran protesters against the country’s embassy in Copenhagen and called for a response by…

Two aid workers shot dead by gunmen in South Sudan were working for the Danish Demining Group (DDG). The two South Sudanese nationals, employed to make landmines and unexploded bombs safe, were killed…

Lufthansa in SAS takeover talks / Danish company wins lucrative China bridge contract Lufthansa/SAS Germany’s Lufthansa airline is in talks to buy Scandinavia’s loss-making SAS as it hunts for bargains among airlines hit…