Posted on 15. Dec, 2021 in: News

Prime Minister deflects impeachment questions

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen denied yesterday there are similarities between the Minkgate affair and the Child Brides affair that led to a 60-day prison sentence for former immigration minister Inger Støjberg, Monday Some…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2021 in: News

Parliament set to vote on Støjberg exclusion before Christmas

Inger Støjberg’s immediate political future will be decided by her fellow MPs next week. After a meeting of the Committee for Election Review, Tuesday, chairman Lennart Damsbo-Andersen said he expected parliament to vote…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2021 in: News

Racist charged with assaulting a journalist

A neo-Nazi who set fire to a copy of the Koran outside the courtroom where the impeachment trial of Inger Støjberg was being heard has been charged with assaulting a journalist. 45-year-old Toke…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2021 in: News

Sexual harassment at Berlingske

A high-ranking employee at Berlingske Tidende, Denmark’s oldest newspaper, has been fired with immediate effect for abusive behaviour towards women. Editor in chief Mette Østergaard said she had received a complaint about the…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2021 in: News

Virus updates

Explosive infection rate….Omicron spreading at a ‘fierce rate’….’R ‘ rate confirms spread of virus…. 8,314 new corona cases were reported, Tuesday, a record high for the second time this week and four times…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2021 in: News

Intelligence Commission clears top snoops of any wrongdoing

The Military Intelligence Commission has found there are no grounds to hold anyone accountable in a top-level case from last year regarding the leaking of sensitive information about Danish citizens. Former top military…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2021 in: News

Oil company fined $5.2 million in fuel to Syria affair

Danish oil supply company Dan-Bunkering and its parent company, Bunker Holding, have been fined more than $5 million for delivering jet fuel to the Russian air force in Syria, in violation of an…

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Posted on 15. Dec, 2021 in: News

Australian company drops Greenland mining project

Greenland Minerals has ceased all operations in Greenland where the home-rule government recently outlawed uranium mining. The Australian company’s controversial rare-earth mining project at Kvanefjeld in the south of the island was on track to…

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Posted on 14. Dec, 2021 in: News

Former immigration minister found guilty in child brides affair

Ex-immigration minister Inger Støjberg was sentenced to 60 days in prison by the Court of Impeachment, Monday, after being found guilty of illegally ordering the separation of under-age couples seeking asylum. In what…

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Posted on 14. Dec, 2021 in: News

Støjberg facing exclusion from parliament

Parliament’s 179 MPs will now decide whether to exclude Inger Støjberg who was sentenced to 60 days in prison by the Court of Impeachment, Monday. After the former immigraion minister was found guilty…

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