First terror financing trial kicks off in Norway
A Somali-born Norwegian has pleaded not guilty to sending more than NOK 200,000 (USD 30,000) to the leaders of an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant grou...
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“Village idiots” prompt fringe party member to quit
One of only two elected candidates of a party which claims to support Denmark’s fringe areas has left the group, calling its members a bunch of “villa...
Sweden Democrat blogger claims Africans have ‘rape gene’
A politician has quit a far right party in Sweden after his blog, in which he claimed black Africans are genetically predisposed towards rape, caused ...
Roj-TV charged with supporting terrorism in Turkey
A Kurdish TV station based in Denmark is to be charged under anti-terrorism laws, five years after it was first investigated. According to a news rele...
Oil rig spidermen deported from Greenland
Four Greenpeace protesters, who scaled an oil rig off the coast of Greenland and stopped it drilling for 40 hours, have been deported back to their ho...
Finnish gym bans locker room prayers
Finland’s Minority Ombudsman is to investigate whether a gym is guilty of discrimination after it banned Muslims from praying in its locker room. Eva ...
TV4 bans Sweden Democrats’ burka chase ad
The Sweden Democrats have submitted their controversial election film for review by a top legal official after broadcaster TV4 refused to air the adve...
Mohammed cartoons book may refuel Muslim anger
Tensions between Denmark and the Muslim world could be reignited as the man who approved the controversial Mohammed newspaper cartoons prepares to pub...