Danish police use force against anti-fascist demonstrators
Danish police used batons and pepper spray to break up an anti-fascist protest outside the meeting of a centrist party youth movement which had invite...
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Finns Party councillor expelled after Facebook comment
A council member for the right-wing Finns Party, who wrote on Facebook that a man suspected of shooting two men from immigrant backgrounds should be g...
US confiscates policeman’s Cuban cigar cash
Denmark is to investigate after the US confiscated a policeman’s DKK 137,000 (EUR 18,423) deposit for Cuban cigars bought from Germany.
Finns councillor calls for murderer medal
A police investigation has been launched after a councillor for the far-right Finns Party said a man who shot and killed a Moroccan-born restaurant wo...
Thorning-Schmidt and Obama talk debt and daughters
In arguably her biggest moment on the international stage to date, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt enjoyed a 40-minute meeting with US Pr...
WikiLeaks: Sweden FM is US spy
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has denied claims by WikiLeaks that he has acted as an informant for the US.
Student to exhibit murderer’s ashes
A Danish law student is to exhibit the ashes of an executed American murderer in an attempt to create a debate about the death penalty.
Birkedal acquitted of sexual assault but guilty of secret filming
A former Norwegian politician has been acquitted of sexually assaulting under-age boys, but convicted of secretly filming naked young men in his bathr...