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Sweden’s chief epidemiologist believes the country’s more relaxed coronavirus response is showing signs of working, despite Sweden having more COVID-19 fatalities than other Scandinavian countries.

The government of Denmark has declared its intention to open churches on Easter Sunday so that Danes “can celebrate Easter in church in a responsible way” during the coronavirus lockdown.

Over half of all of the young migrant men from Somalia, Lebanon, or Morocco living in Denmark have been convicted of at least one crime before the age of 30.

Figures from Statistics Norway show that migrants are vastly overrepresented in crimes, especially younger migrants involved in violent crime and abuse in Oslo.

A radical Islamic extremist who plotted to massacre the staff of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2010 has been released by Swedish authorities, despite plotting more attacks while in prison.

A Danish newspaper refused to apologise to China on Tuesday over a satirical cartoon it ran about the deadly new virus that has killed dozens and infected thousands more.

Populist Danish MEP Morten Messerschmidt has predicted that his country will leave the EU by 2030 following the success of Brexit. 

Danish Police arrested 20 people across the country in connection to a planned terrorist attack with “a militant, Islamist motive”.

Denmark has announced that another Islamic State member will have their passport and citizenship revoked in what has become the third case in just over a week. 

(AFP) — Paris, London and Berlin on Saturday welcomed six new European countries to the INSTEX barter mechanism, which is designed to circumvent US sanctions against trade with Iran by avoiding use of the dollar.

The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has woken up to Sweden’s bombing epidemic years after Breitbart News. 

Denmark will temporarily reinstate border controls with Sweden and step up police work along the border after a series of violent crimes and explosions around Copenhagen that Danish authorities say were carried out by perpetrators from Sweden.

Danish police arrested a 33-year-old Muslim man in Copenhagen after he threatened on social media to behead members of the Swedish and Danish royal families.

Newly released documents claim that the Danish government was prepared to build a wall on its southern border with Germany during the height of the 2015 migrant crisis. The documents claim that the government was fully prepared to build a

The Danish government has announced plans to revoke citizenship from those who have taken up arms and joined terrorist groups in the Middle East.

The Danish government will introduce permanent border controls with Sweden due to the rising tide of gang violence plaguing the Scandinavian country.

Police in Denmark say they have arrested a 23-year-old man as a suspect in an explosion that damaged the headquarters of the Danish Tax Agency and injured a bystander last month.

Slate wrote that President Donald Trump’s idea to buy Greenland could be a good one considering the consequences of climate change.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Wednesday he suggested months ago to President Donald Trump that the United States should purchase Greenland and even met with a top Danish diplomat to discuss a potential sale.

President Trump criticised wealthy northern European state Denmark for its insufficient support of the NATO alliance in comments that follow a war of words over the nation’s mocking dismissal of the President’s interest in Greenland.

An MP for the conservative Danish party The New Right has proposed to ban migrants from predominantly Muslim countries from becoming citizens of Denmark. MP Mette Thiesen wrote of her support for such a proposal on social media website Facebook stating,

President Trump has cancelled a trip to the small European state Denmark, after Danish leaders ridiculed his offer to consider negotiations over the purchase of semi-autonomous territory Greenland from the state. 

Last week, the Wall Street Journal had a scoop of sorts; the headline read, “President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland: In conversations with aides, the president has — with varying degrees of seriousness — floated the idea of the U.S. buying the autonomous Danish territory.”

Swedish police have arrested a 22-year-old man in the multicultural Swedish city of Malmö in connection to the recent bombing of a Tax Board office in Denmark.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police say an explosion outside a neighbourhood police station in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, has damaged the outside of the building but there were no injuries.

The Tax Authority at Østerbro in Copenhagen was the site of a large explosion Tuesday night with authorities investigating the possibility of a deliberate attack.

A year after Denmark passed a law outlawing the wearing of the full-face Islamic veil, a total of 39 people have been fined for covering their faces in various ways.

Three Islamic terrorists who beheaded two female backpackers in the Atlas mountains in Morocco have been sentenced to death by firing squad.

Pop star Miley Cyrus launched into an expletive-filled rant about climate change on Friday evening, telling concert-goers that the youth are “last fucking hope on this dying fucking planet.” 

An asylum seeker from Syria has been sentenced to 60 days in prison followed by a deportation order for hitting anti-Islamisation campaigner Rasmus Paludan in the head with a rock.

Populist parties saw heavy losses in the Danish national election this week with large gains for the opposition centre-left and the liberal parties while the anti-Islamisation Stram Kurs (Hard Line) fail to enter parliament.

Controversial anti-Islamisation campaigner and lawyer Rasmus Paludan is looking set to enter the Danish parliament as his party Stram Kurs (Hard Line) passes the election threshold in recent polls.

Danish Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen has admitted that his country has a “big problem” with migrant criminals and has defended new measures from the government designed to make deportations easier.

Denmark will be looking to make temporary border controls permanent due to the threat of terrorism and mass migration, defying the European Union Schengen agreement.

Denmark has ranked last in a survey of Western countries on how feminism is perceived, with only one in six Danes saying they are a feminist.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A senior member of a Danish anti-immigration party said Friday he hopes a new right-wing alliance “can have real influence on European policy for the first time ever” after next month’s European Parliament elections.