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Denmark

• UK, Denmark eye visas for Afghan interpreters

  Britain and Denmark proposed Wednesday to give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside their troops the right to settle in the U.K. 

• 2 Danes sentenced for stealing WWII documents

  Two Danish men have been sentenced to prison after confessing to stealing World War II documents from Denmark's national archives. The Copenhagen City ... 

• AP Moller-Maersk posts Q1 profit

  Denmark's shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk says its first quarter earnings ticked up 13 percent to 9.5 billion kroner ($1.6 billion), partly ... 

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  Danish teenager makes rare Viking find

  Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era, including 60 rare coins. Danish National ... 

• 30 dead dogs found in Danish man's freezer

  Danish police say they found 30 dead dogs, including 25 puppies, in a freezer while investigating complaints of loud barking. Police spokesman Soeren ... 

• Strong Asian sales give Carlsberg a boost

  Danish brewer Carlsberg says it returned to profit in first quarter of 2013 on the back of good sales in Asia and eastern Europe. Net profit was of ... 

• Danes, Finns upgrade Palestinian diplomatic status

  Finland and Denmark have become the latest European countries to upgrade the status of Palestinian diplomatic missions. Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki ... 

• Denmark cuts key interest rate to 0.2 percent

  Denmark's central bank has cut its key interest rate by 0.1 percentage points to 0.2 percent following a similar move by the European Central Bank. 

• Afghanistan's Karzai urges closure of Guantanamo

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday pressed for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama mulls a renewed push before ... 

• Insulin gives Denmark's Novo Nordisk a Q1 boost

  Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S says first-quarter net profit rose 28 percent on strong sales of its diabetic drugs. The world's ... 

• Danish, Filipino hostages freed in Somalia

  Two Danes and four Filipinos who were held hostage in Somalia for more than two years after their ship was attacked by pirates were released Tuesday, ... 

• Fire destroys Danish museum, collection saved

  A fire blazed through The Museum of Danish Resistance in Copenhagen on Sunday, destroying large parts of the building but most of the collection was ... 

• Greenland leader worries about life after mining

  Greenland's government wants to make sure the sparsely populated Arctic island doesn't get "ripped off" by foreign companies seeking to exploit its ... 

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  Marathon officials know better security difficult

  A marathon course runs 42.195 kilometers along an open road. Much tougher to secure than an arena with doors and walls. Yet around the world, from ... 

• Thousands of Danish teachers protest lockout

  Thousands of teachers are protesting outside Denmark's Parliament to demand that schools reopen after they were shut in a labor dispute last week ... 

• Dane cleared of crimes, said to have 'sexsomnia'

  A Danish man has been acquitted of molesting two 17-year-old girls after he was found to suffer from a rare sleep disorder known as "sexsomnia." The ... 

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  Danish teachers in 35-kilometer protest

  Thousands of Danish teachers have formed a 35-kilometer (20-mile) line between two cities to protest a weeklong lockout by local municipalities. 

• Danish Vestas in big wind turbine deal in Canada

  Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines, says it will provide 166 wind generators to a project in Alberta, Canada. 

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  Danish teachers locked out after talks fail

  Tens of thousands of Danish teachers were locked out of schools on Tuesday after negotiations with municipal authorities over weekly work hours failed ... 

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  Greenland 'reluctant' on new offshore drilling

  Greenland's new government said Wednesday it doesn't plan to issue any new licenses for offshore oil exploration, an announcement that was welcomed ... 

• Denmark court convicts brothers of terror training

  Two Danish brothers of Somali origin have been sentenced to three and a half years in prison each for the older brother's participation in a training ... 

• Danes pull out soldiers from Afghanistan in August

  Denmark says it will end combat operations in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan in August, about six months earlier than planned because the ...