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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark on Tuesday recalled its ambassador to Iran after it accused Tehran of plotting a foiled attack against three Iranians living in the Scandinavian country.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – A police operation last month that briefly cut off Copenhagen from the rest of Denmark stemmed from an alleged Iranian plot to kill an opposition activist, the head of Denmark’s intelligence agency said Tuesday while announcing

The Danish government will demolish around 1,000 houses in the heavily migrant-populated ghetto of Vollsmose and relocate residents to new areas. The plan was announced by Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen earlier in the year who said he wanted to combat

COPENHAGEN – Freddy Vainer was only four years old when he and his family were forced to flee Copenhagen to escape being deported to Nazi concentration camps, but he remembers it like it was yesterday.

Danish Immigration and Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has rejected asylum seeker quotas for 2018, saying that migrants do not contribute enough to Denmark.

Former President Barack Obama on Friday lectured Europeans on rising nationalism across the continent and beyond while speaking before entrepreneurs in Denmark — two days after taking a swipe at the Trump administration’s environmental policy in Norway.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish authorities arrested two people Wednesday under Denmark’s anti-terror laws on suspicion of buying drones bound for the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An appeals court in Denmark says a man can be extradited to his native Rwanda where he is suspected of committing crimes against humanity in 1994.

The majority of Danes have said they back immigration proposals which would shift the focus of asylum policy to repatriating refugees when conflict ends, rather than their integration into Denmark.

The Danish government has put forward a bill which would require migrants to shake hands with a municipal official before receiving citizenship — but several leftist mayors have said they will refuse to obey the law even if it is passed in parliament.

A Turkish tourist has been slapped with a 1,000 kroner (£121) fine in Denmark after she entered a police station to renew her visa while wearing a full-face Islamic veil.

French politicians have reacted with anger after Emmanuel Macron asserted that “true” Frenchmen and Danes “do not exist”, and attacked the people he rules over as “stubbornly resistance to change” while on an official visit to Denmark.

French President Emmanuel Macron is coming to Denmark for a two-day visit, hoping to build the relationships he needs to push France’s agenda of a more closely united European Union.

The Danish government has remained tight-lipped after allegations that the Turkish government may have plotted the assassination of political opponents living

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An Iranian-born designer made more than a fashion statement in Denmark on Wednesday by showcasing models wearing the conservative Muslim niqab, and others dressed as police officers, days after a law banning the full-face coverings worn

HELSINKI (AP) — A 28-year-old woman wearing a face veil has become the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new law banning such garments in public places.

Copenhagen train station was evacuated on Wednesday night after a 46-year-old Syrian prisoner, involved in a major terrorist case in Italy, escaped custody and is still on the loose.

Muslims and left-wingers have rallied in the streets of Copenhagen to protest a new law against wearing face coverings in public, which they claim is an attack on women’s right to dress as they please. When the ban came into

Imam Mundhir Abdallah, of the Masjid Al-Faruq mosque in Copenhagen, told his followers “the final solution to the problem of the Levant – after the establishment of the Caliphate and the elimination of the Jewish entity – will be through the conquest of Europe.”

A Danish imam who preached a message containing an exhortation to kill Jews has been charged under new Danish legislation designed to curb hate speech.

Ten out of every 12 rapists in Denmark are either migrants, foreigners, or come from migrant backgrounds, according to an investigation by Danish media.

Denmark’s government has proposed a radical programme of assimilation in 25 “ghettos” heavily populated by people from a “non-Western” migration background.

BERLIN (AP) — More than 150 German and Danish police officers searched a dozen apartments and offices Wednesday in a joint cross-border raid on an illegal human trafficking network that focused on arranging hundreds of sham marriages.

Denmark has become the latest country in Europe to outlaw the wearing of Islamic face veils in the same week that a study revealed nearly three-quarters of Britons would back a ‘burqa ban’.

The traditional Islamic burqa and niqab veils have been banned in Denmark after a majority vote in the country’s parliament.

The Danish People’s Party (DF) has announced that for the first time they will support the election campaign of the Sweden Democrats (SD) as the two parties share many of the same concerns on migration issues.

The deputy editor of Sweden’s Expressen slammed Danish media as “nasty” for being more open about mass migration, complaining that many voters, especially populist supporters, were losing faith in the mainstream media.

Danish people are expressing concern after police admitted they chose not to inform the public about a rape and attempted rape of two 14-year-old girls, allegedly carried out by Afghan migrants at a shopping centre in Esbjerg.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A Malaysian court on Monday sentenced a Danish citizen to a week in jail after he pleaded guilty to maliciously publishing false information, the first person to be punished under a controversial anti-fake news law.

A submarine long theorized to have transported Nazi officials to South America has finally been found — sunken near Denmark.

A burial ceremony was held on Sunday at the Ruhanga Genocide Memorial for 157 victims of the 1994 atrocity in Rwanda, the latest repetition of an observance held on April 15 of every year.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Denmark’s center-right government wants to double the punishment for crimes like vandalism and theft committed in areas with larger number of immigrants and higher unemployment, in an attempt to eliminate so-called “parallel societies” by 2030.

Presenting an ambitious plan to slash migration from outside the West, Denmark’s Social Democrats said the country lacks the capacity to integrate further flows of third world migrants.

The Danish Ministry of Justice has put out a press release indicating that the government is looking to place a ban on full-face Islamic veils and levy a fine on violators.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Danish intelligence officials say al-Qaida “still has ambitions to attack the West,” adding that support for the extremist network may increase as the Islamic State group weakens. Finn Borch Andersen, head of Denmark’s Security and Intelligence