Author: Jan M. Olsen
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Norwegian King Harald V’s health is improving but he’ll need a permanent pacemaker, palace says
The Norwegian royal palace says King Harald V’s health is improving but that he’ll need a permanent pacemaker after falling ill during a trip to Malaysia
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Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception in the 1960s and 1970s
A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly $6.3 million)
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Norwegian mass killer loses second attempt to sue the state for alleged breach of his human rights
Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, has lost his second attempt to sue the state for what he says is a breach of his human rights
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Sweden closes probe into explosions on Nord Stream pipelines, saying it doesn’t have jurisdiction
Swedish officials say they have decided to close their investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany, because they don’t have jurisdiction
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Denmark joins some European nations in banning burqa, niqab
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark joined some other European countries in deciding Thursday to ban garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa. In a 75-30 vote with 74 absentees, Danish lawmakers approved the law presented by the center-right governing coalition. The government says that it is not aimed at…
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Danish man charged with killing reporter on his submarine
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Inventor Peter Madsen was charged Tuesday with killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall during a trip on his private submarine, with prosecutors saying he either cut her throat or strangled her before dismembering her body and dumping it into the sea. Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen called the case “very unusual and extremely disturbing.” Madsen,…
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Blazing fireball dazzles Arctic sky with light of 100 full moons
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A blazing fireball lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds, giving off what scientists said was “the glow of 100 full moons” and igniting hurried attempts to find the reported meteorite. Finnish experts were scrambling to calculate its trajectory and find where it landed, according to Tomas Kohout…
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Swedes watch postal thieves board moving mail truck from car
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Sweden’s postal service was puzzled when packages of electronics disappeared from its trucks on a road northeast of the country’s second-largest city. PostNord head of security Alexis Larsson says the service mounted concealed cameras inside the back of a postal truck in September to crack the thefts. The stolen items — mostly…
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Danish police find severed head in Kim Wall submarine case
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish divers found the decapitated head, legs and clothes of a Swedish journalist who was killed after going on a trip with an inventor on his submarine, police said Saturday. The body parts and clothing were found Friday in plastic bags with a knife and “heavy metal pieces” to make them sink…
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Danish police search for dead Swedish journalist’s clothes
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The headless torso of Swedish reporter Kim Wall, whose death after taking a trip on a homemade submarine remains a mystery, was found naked and police are now searching for her clothes, Danish police said Thursday. The 30-year-old Wall was last seen alive Aug. 10 aboard the submarine of Danish aerospace and…