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Rescued Maersk crew members reach India / LEGO boss drops in billionaire rankings / LEGO targets more stores in China Maersk: Twenty-two crew members evacuated from a Maersk Line cargo ship that caught fire…
MoreThe Week That Was, March 5th – March 11th 2018
Politics/Economy: Integration Minister Inger Støjberg dismissed a human rights committee report claiming refugees at one of the country’s biggest refugee repatriation centres are being unjustly detained and forced to live under ‘torture-like’ conditions….
MoreMayors come out against government’s ghetto plan
Prominent local mayors throughout the country have joined together to condemn the government’s ghetto plan, which they claim threatens the rights of local authorities. As part of the wide reaching plan to halt…
MoreSubmarine Slayer: An intelligent man with ‘psychopathic tendencies’
Peter Madsen, the alleged ‘Submarine Slayer’ accused of torturing and killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall during a private submarine trip before dismembering her body, is an intelligent man ‘with no empathy or feelings…
MoreDenmark looks to extend border control
Denmark and five other countries in the Schengen document-free travel area are preparing to extend border controls by at least another six months. The current agreement expires on May 12th but after a EU meeting in…
MoreDanske Bank linked to murder enquiry
A Russian whistleblower who mysteriously died in the UK six years ago has been linked to the Danske Bank money laundering scandal. According to Russian company documents obtained by Berlingske, Alexander Perepilichny, 44,…
MoreBusiness leaders urge EU to ‘call Trump’s bluff’
The EU should call Donald Trump’s bluff and remove all trade restrictions, the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) said last night after the US President signed controversial orders imposing heavy tariffs on steel…
MoreStøjberg dismisses torture allegations
Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has dismissed a human rights committee report that claims refugees are being unjustly detained and forced to live under ‘torture-like’ conditions. The report, published last year by the Danish…
MoreMunicipalities: Government has failed to reduce red-tape
Government has failed to deliver on its promise to remove ‘the red tape’ and simplify a myriad of rules and regulations at local authority level according to Martin Damm, head of Local Government Denmark…
MoreDeaths as fire rages on Maersk ship
A Thai man has died and four people are still missing, presumed dead, after a ferocious fire erupted on an AP Moller-Maersk-owned cargo ship in the Arabian Sea. The Maersk Honam burst into flames…
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