AlQa'dah 15, 1432, Oct 13, 2011, SPA -- Industries, regardless of what they do, need to respect the global environment if responsible development is to continue, UPI quoted a U.N. official as saying in Denmark.
Kandeh Yumkella, director general of (...)
AlQa'dah 11, 1432, Oct 9, 2011, SPA - Two people died Saturday in western Denmark following a blast at a storage depot, police said.
The explosion and subsequent fire took place at a former civil defence complex in the town of Andst in southern (...)
AlQa'dah 10, 1432, Oct 8, 2011, SPA -- Two people died Saturday in western Denmark following a blast at a storage depot, police said.
The explosion and subsequent fire took place at a former civil defence complex in the town of Andst in southern (...)
AlQa'dah 4, 1432, Oct 2, 2011, SPA -- Denmark's newly-elected prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was expected Sunday to inform Queen Margrethe II of her readiness to form a new three-party coalition government, the Ritzau news agency (...)
AlQa'dah 4, 1432, Oct 2, 2011, SPA -- Denmark's Prime Minister-elect Helle Thorning-Schmidt said on Sunday she had agreed with political allies to form a three-party coalition government after winning an election two weeks ago, Reuters (...)
Danish opposition leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt was Friday given the task of forming a new government, a day after a left-leaning bloc won parliamentary elections, dpa reported.
Thorning-Schmidt of the Social Democrats had been favoured to lead (...)
Denmark's prime minister-designate started work Friday on molding a united government from a scattered "red bloc" of ex-communists and pro-market liberals that ousted a right-wing coalition in a parliamentary election, AP reported.
Social (...)
Denmark's two main political rivals locked horns over the economy in all-day campaigning on Thursday in a parliamentary election that may end the centre-right coalition's 10-year rule, according to Reuters.
Opinion polls showed the "Red bloc" of (...)
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen Friday called a general election for September 15.
Rasmussen, in office since 2009, heads a minority government consisting of his Liberal Party and the conservatives that has ruled Denmark since (...)
A Boeing 737 with 154 people Tuesday onboard made an emergency landing in western Denmark after one of its tyres burst during takeoff, dpa reported.
The chartered passenger jet returned to Billund Airport after remains of a tyre were found on the (...)
Authorities say heavy rains have flooded hundreds of homes and several streets in Denmark's capital, disrupting traffic and delaying trains, according to AP.
Jeppe Ilkjaer, a spokesman for the rescue services company Falck, says his organization (...)
Denmark has plans to claim the North Pole as
part of its territory, dpa cited a newspaper as saying Tuesday, quoting a draft
report compiled by the Foreign Ministry.
Denmark would by the latest in 2014 make claims to "five areas
around the (...)
Scientists at a major conference on Arctic warming were told Wednesday to use plain language to explain the dramatic melt in the region to a world reluctant to take action against climate change, AP reported.
An authoritative report released at the (...)
Akhir 27, 1432 / April 1, 2011, SPA -- Danske Bank, which owns National Irish Bank, is unlikely to acquire more Irish banking assets but aims to become a significant player for international corporates in Ireland, it said on Friday, according to (...)
Akhir 04, 1432 H/March 09, 2011, SPA -- Denmark on Wednesday announced that it would
upgrade the diplomatic status of Palestinian representatives in the
Scandinavian country, in connection with an ongoing visit by
Palestinian President Mahmoud (...)
Awwal 26, 1432 H/March 1, 2011, SPA -- Denmark on Tuesday urged recreational sailors
to avoid the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and the north-western
section of the Indian Ocean due to the risk of pirates.
The warning was issued a day after the (...)
Awwal 08, 1432, Feb 11, 2011, SPA -- A sizeable rescue operation was launched Friday after a dragon boat carrying 15 people, mainly school children, capsized in a Danish fjord, dpa quoted Danish police as saying.
The accident occurred while the (...)
Awwal 07, 1432, Feb 10, 2011, SPA -- Danish lender Danske Bank A/S says it plans to raise 20 billion kroner ($3.7 billion) in a new share issue and pay back loans from the government, according to AP.
The bank said it plans to launch the fully (...)
An 18-kilometre long tunnel under the Baltic
Sea was the preferred option to link Denmark and Germany, Danish
politicians said Tuesday.
"An immersed tunnel is something we have experience of," dpa cited Transport Minister Hans Christian Schmidt (...)
The owner of a Danish cargo ship that was attacked by suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden says naval troops who boarded the vessel found no trace of the six-man crew, according to AP.
Claus Bech, who heads the Shipcraft shipping company, says the (...)
A Danish-flagged freighter with a crew of sixwas on Thursday reported seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, dpa quoted the Danish Shipowners' Association as saying.
The news came one day after pirates reportedly fired on the 67-
metre long (...)
Three suspects accused of planning a shooting attack on the Copenhagen office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have been ordered to remain in jail for four weeks, as AP reported.
A Danish intelligence official said (...)
The Danish army says a bomb blast has seriously injured one of its soldiers in southern Afghanistan.
The roadside bomb wounded a member of an infantry unit while he was on patrol near Gereshk on Tuesday. He was airlifted to a Danish field hospital (...)
Police said that a man has been detained after a minor explosion in a hotel in downtown Copenhagen.
Police spokesman Henrik Moeller Jacobsen says the man had slight injuries on his face and arms, and was arrested in a park near the blast site, (...)
Australian-born Crown Princess Mary is
expecting twins, dpa quoted the Danish royal palace as saying Friday.
The delivery is due sometime in January, the statement said.
The announcement was made a day after the palace declined to
comment on (...)