Intelligence agent convicted of stealing opioids
A former Danish Intelligence (PET) agent has been sentenced to four months in prison for stealing nearly 600 ampoules of the powerful opioid fentanyl from the agency’s headquarters in 2021. Glostrup District Court…
MoreFishing ban reinstated near polluted site
Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Jacob Jensen has reinstated a fishing ban near the former chemical company FMC Rønland, previously known as Cheminova,which has previouly been found guilty of dumping toxic waste into…
MoreDanish activist on hunger strike demands answers from PM
Danish-Bahraini citizen Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has launched a new hunger strike to protest his continued detention and draw international attention to his case.The 64-year-old Al Khawaja, who’s serving a life sentence in Bahrain for inciting…
MoreCourt bans criminal biker gang, seizes assets
The outlaw motorcycle gang Bandidos has vowed to fight on after it was hit with a wind-up order by Helsingør District Court, Wednesday. In a landmark verdict judges unanimously agreed that the club…
MoreMayoral candidate’s communist past
Line Barfod, the far-left Red/Greens’ lead candidate for Mayor of Copenhagen, has refused to comment on her participation in a Soviet-sponsored youth festival in Moscow forty years ago or allegations that she helped…
MoreDPP: Immigrants on welfare a ‘bomb under the system’
New figures showing that non-Western immigrants cost the state DKK18bn ($2.8bn) last year in welfare handouts are a ‘bomb under the social security system’ according to the Danish People’s Party who’ve called for…
MoreGovernment coalition split over welfare reform
The government’s plan to reform the social assistance (Kontanthjælp) scheme has been met with resistance from within its own ranks – Moderates leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen warned last night that vulnerable welfare recipients…
MoreTwo Swedes charged with terrorist attack on embassy
Two Swedish nationals have been charged with terrorism and attempted terrorism for allegedly throwing hand grenades at Israel’s embassy in Hellerup last October. According to the Public Prosecutor’s office the suspects, aged 18…
MoreIndustrial production at 9-month low
Industrial production declined significantly in August – the latest available Statistics Denmark figures show industrial production, a measure of manufacturing output often used by analysts and banks to forecast GDP, fell a seasonally…
MoreFree Greens accused of inciting terrorism in new campaign poster scandal
The libertarian Free Greens (Frie Grønne) are at the centre of another campaign poster scandal. After the far-left party was reported to the police, Monday, for hanging anti-Israel posters around Copenhagen ahead of…
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