Pakistan demanded guarantees for help with evacuation process
Pakistan rescued Denmark from an exceptionally difficult situation in August but not without a price. Berlingske reports this morning how the government was close to losing control of the situation at the Danish…
MorePM in India: ‘We are close partners’
During talks in New Delhi, Saturday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, agreed to expand Indo-Danish cooperation in agriculture, water management, and climate change. The two leaders also reviewed…
MoreVirus updates
The number of new corona cases fell for the second day running, Sunday, to 544, following 618 on Saturday and 670, Friday. The number of patients hospitalised by Covid rose by 6, to…
MoreClothing billionaire rewards employees with DKK300m bonus
Denmark’s richest man, Anders Holch Povlsen, has awarded all of his 17,000 employees an extra one-month salary after his Bestseller clothing company posted a record DKK 4.6bn ($700m) before tax profit for the…
MoreGood week, bad week…
It was a good week for… …three Danish mothers and their 14 children who were evacuated from the al-Roj detention camp in Syria and arrived in Denmark early Thursday morning… … the inner-city…
MoreThe Week That Was, October 4th – 10th 2021:
Coronavirus/ What happened last week: The number of new daily corona cases topped 600 at the end of the week as the positivity rate of those tested rose to a 6-week high –…
MoreMuslim mothers detained on arrival, separated from kids
The three mothers evacuated from a Syrian detention camp, Wednesday, alongside their 14 children, were arrested and charged with aiding terrorist activities on arrival in Denmark. Under pressure from its left-wing allies the…
MorePM: No more parents from Syria
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen acknowledged yesterday that it might be necessary to evacuate more children from Syria but stressed there would be ‘no more parents.’ During parliament’s opening debate, Thursday, a number of…
MoreEx-DPP leader accuses Muslim men of paedophilia
Head of the ’Free Greens’ party, Sikandur Siddique, accused Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Pia Kjærsgard of racism during a fiery debate hosted by tabloid daily BT, Thursday. Mr Siddique, who on Tuesday…
MoreMink commission starts probe
The ‘Minkgate Commission’ got underway, Thursday, as parliament began hearings on whether Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen knew she was issuing an illegal order last year when deciding to cull the country’s entire mink population…
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