Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: danmarks radio, Denmark, DR, exposé, India, textiles
India has stopped issuing visas to journalists of Denmark’s public broadcaster, DR, due to a 2010 documentary focusing on working conditions within the country’s textile industry.
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Posted in Denmark, General, International, MBL, Politics, Technology, Travel
Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: anders behring breivik, art, Denmark, manifesto, Norway, play, sensitivity, theatre
A Copenhagen theatre company has courted controversy after penning a play based on the convictions of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.
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Posted in Art, Culture, Denmark, MBL, Norway
Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: China, Denmark, Iraq, Islam, jyllands Posten, Norway, terrorism
Two men have been convicted on terrorism charges in Norway for planning an attack against the Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed.
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Posted in China, Denmark, General, International, MBL, Norway, Society
Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: Denmark, navy seals, piracy, pirates, solamia, usa
Dramatic details of an overnight US raid in which two aid workers for the Danish Demining Group were freed from Somali pirates have begun to emerge.
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Posted in Denmark, General, International, MBL, United States
Posted on 29 January 2012. Tags: crime, Denmark, law, Politics, sex
A number of Danish politicians are calling for harsher penalties for sexual crimes and an end to the legal absurdity that sees paedophiles and rapists given lesser sentences than minor fraudsters.
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Posted in Denmark, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 29 January 2012. Tags: agriculture, chemicals, Denmark, farming, fertiliser, germany, pesticide, sprays
Dozens of Danish farmers have being purchasing illegal fertiliser and crop spray from a Jutland group smuggling in the products from Germany.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Environment, General, International, MBL
Posted on 28 January 2012. Tags: agriculture, archaeology, barley, corn, Denmark, eiríkur rauði, eric the red, farming, Greenland, Vikings
Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland when they lived there.
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Posted in Denmark, Environment, Greenland, Iceland, MBL, Technology, Weather
Posted on 24 January 2012. Tags: direct democracy, Iceland, nordic council, Norway, oslo, Scandinavia
For the first time today members of the Nordic Council offered to meet the public before their official meeting; but only four applications were received.
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Posted in Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, MBL, Norway, Politics, Scandinavia, Society, Sweden
Posted on 20 January 2012. Tags: Denmark, kurdish, pkk, ROJ-TV, terrorism
A Kurdish television station based in Copenhagen has been found guilty of supporting terrorism but has kept hold of its broadcasting licence.
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Posted in Business, Culture, Denmark, General, International, MBL, Technology
Posted on 19 January 2012. Tags: Bulgaria, crime, Denmark, murder, theft
Four Bulgarians, including one 14 year-old girl, have been arrested in Denmark for the murder of an 81 year-old woman.
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Posted in Denmark, General, International, MBL