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Daughter of South Korea's 'female Rasputin' arrested in Denmark
Danish police have arrested the daughter of South Korean president Park Geun-hye’s friend, Choi Soon-sil, who is at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed her presidency. South Korean authorities had been seeking the arrest of Choi’s daughter, Chung Yoo-ra, for her alleged ties to the scandal, which has paralysed Park’s government and drawn hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of Seoul for weeks.
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Remains of 2000-year-old cats found in Denmark
Danish archaeologists have found the skeletal remains of three ancient housecats in Aalborg, northern Jutland. At 2,000 years old, they are by far the oldest domesticated cat remains ever discovered in Denmark.
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Rare 1,500-year-old Odin amulet found in Denmark
An exceptional year for Danish archaeologists just keeps getting better.
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Neptune
Neptune (Poseidon) overlooking the Copenhagen Harbor. An old photo from 2009 in a new edition.
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Ceiling
The ceiling in one of my favorite places - the museum Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. New edition of a photo from 2009.
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Lego stops advertising in the Daily Mail
Lego will stop advertising its products in the Daily Mail, following a public campaign calling on big companies to drop adverts from newspapers accused of promoting “hatred, discrimination and demonisation”, the company has announced. The Danish firm, which has previously run free giveaways in the newspaper, responded to social media campaigners Stop Funding Hate by tweeting: “We have finished the agreement with the Daily Mail and are not planning any future promotional activity with the newspaper."
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In the past
A little over a month ago.
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Denmark considers compulsory language test for all two-year-olds
Children in Denmark could be required to take part in a language programme from the age of two, if a government minister's proposals are implimented. Ellen Trane Nørby, Danish Minister for Education and member of the Liberal party, has put forward plans for a policy that requires parents to agree for their children to be enrolled in the programme or risk have their child benefits cut, according to Danish news outlet Jyllands-Posten.
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Tax authorities in Denmark buy 'Panama Papers' evidence
Tax authorities in Denmark have paid 805,000 euros ($903,000) for evidence of tax evasion by its citizens in the so-called 'Panama Papers.' About 600 people could be implicated.
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Greenland's receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project
Camp Century – part of Project Iceworm – is underground cold war network that had been thought buried forever, until climate change made that highly unlikely
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Refugee could be expelled from Denmark over Facebook post 'praising Charlie Hebdo attacks'
An Iraqi refugee could be forced to leave Denmark after he was found to have celebrated the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks on Facebook. The 25-year-old was sentenced to three months in prison and given a conditional deportation order - meaning he will be forced to leave if he commits any more crimes - after he was found to have posted a link to a story about the terror attack in January 2015. According to Danish media reports, he captioned the post with a smiley...
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A record number of people are leaving Denmark's church after an atheist campaign
Thousands of people have left the Church of Denmark following a nationwide advertising campaign by the country's atheists. Between April and June, 10,000 people left the church - the highest number of registered withdrawals since 2007. A campaign by the Danish Atheist Society is being held responsible for the sheer number of leavers – double that recorded between January and March. The campaign's banner advert includes phrases such as "Why believe in a god?", "Why should faith cost something?" and "Did Jesus and Mohammed speak with a god?"
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‘I’ve Become a Racist’: Migrant Wave Unleashes Danish Tensions Over Identity
The thousands of Muslim asylum seekers pouring into Denmark have spawned a backlash, and questions over whether the country has a latent racial hostility at its core.
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Australia Treats Refugees Horribly. But Denmark Wants a Peek at That Playbook.
A group of Danish parliamentarians won rare access to an Australian offshore detention center where abuse and exploitation are rampant.
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Weather
The weather has not been particular nice in Denmark during this summer. We have had a lot of rain and low temperatures. Sometimes the bad weather also brings good photo opportunities like this one :-)
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Another corpse has been found by a Pokémon hunter in Denmark
Pokémon Go is resulting in strange incidents all over the world. A human corpse has already been found by a Pokémon hunter in Wyoming and now another corpse was just found in Denmark, reports the Local. The body was found yesterday night, when a man went to look for Pokémon in a drainage canal in Odense. According to the Local, the police do not suspect any crime.
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Denmark Is Big Victim Of Wall Street Tax Avoidance Deals
The complex transactions add up to a meaningful loss of revenue from dividend taxes Danish taxpayers would otherwise get. By Cezary Podkul, Anne Skjerning and Tor Johannesson. (July 12, 2016)
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Opera
The Copenhagen Opera House. A new edition of an old photo from 2008.
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Denied Google Street View, Denmark's Faroe Islands opt for Sheep View
Armchair explorers hitherto denied the chance to visit the Faroe Islands owing to the lack of coverage on Google's "Street View" service will finally be able to roam the archipelago - thanks to a flock of sheep. The cunning scheme was the brainchild of Durita Dahl Andreassen who created "Sheep View 360" by attaching cameras to sheep in five remote locations across the Faroes to give far-flung fans a chance to discover a less explored side of the islands.
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The zoo that wants to release wild elephants in Denmark
Rewilding is here to stay. The term broadly refers to restoring areas of wilderness to their former glory, but it is the reintroduction of large mammals, from wolves to beavers, that has captured the popular imagination, and come to define this ambitious conservation strategy. Such projects are not without controversy. Some ecologists worry that reintroducing extinct animals to our radically changed modern ecosystems might have unforeseen impacts.
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