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In this image taken from video, police arrest some 125 activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, as protests that have roiled campuses in the United States spread into Europe. (AP Photo InterVision)

Police break up pro-Palestinian camp at Amsterdam university as campus protests spread to Europe

By Mike Corder and Barbara Surk - Associated Press

A woman is carried away by police officers during a pro-Palestinians demonstration by the group "Student Coalition Berlin" in the theater courtyard of the 'Freie Universität Berlin' university in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Pro-Palestinian activists occupied a courtyard of the Free University in Berlin on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Police break up a pro-Palestinian student protest in Berlin as demonstrations spread across Europe

By Mike Corder, Barbara Surk and Pietro De Cristofaro - Associated Press

Ornaments from the Stock Exchange, which have been successfully salvaged from the burned building, lie on the ground in Copenhagen, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (Emil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Traffic resumes near Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange after a fire ruined the 400-year-old landmark

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The outer wall of the Stock Exchange has collapsed towards Boersgade, Copenhagen, Thursday, April 18, 2024. A fire raged through one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings on Tuesday, causing the collapse of the iconic spire of the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange as passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables. (Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Firefighters to tackle scaffolding dangling outside ruins of fire-ravaged Danish landmark

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Fire and smoke rise out of the Old Stock Exchange, Boersen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed. The copper roof of the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange, or Boersen, that was once Denmark’s financial center, was engulfed in flames Tuesday. (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Emergency management work in the former Stock Exchange of Copenhagen, Boersen, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. A fire raged through one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings on Tuesday, causing the collapse of the iconic spire of the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange as passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables. (Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Copenhagen fights the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old landmark

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Smoke rise out of the Old Stock Exchange, Boersen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed. The roof of the 17th-century old Stock Exchange, or Boersen, that was once Denmark’s financial center, was engulfed in flames Tuesday. (Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Fire destroys Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange dating to 1600s, collapsing its dragon-tail spire

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

FILE - Members of the Bandidos wait in front of the court in Muenster, western Germany, Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Denmark wants a court of law to dissolve the Danish arm of the Bandidos motorcycle club, with the justice minister citing the group members’s criminal activities. Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said Wednesday that "their brutal behavior leaves bloody traces.” (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, File)

Denmark pushes court to dissolve Danish arm of Bandidos motorcycle club, citing violence

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FILE - Norway's King Harald V leaves the hall after the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo City Hall, Norway, on Dec. 10, 2022. Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, who was hospitalized while traveling in Malaysia, is getting a permanent pacemaker on Tuesday, the palace said, adding the monarch will folowingly remain in hospital for a new days. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Europe’s oldest monarch, the ailing King Harald V of Norway, gets a permanent pacemaker

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A soldier of the Danish Army (Forsvaret) guards the Copenhagen Synagogue, Saturday Dec. 16, 2023. The number of antisemitic incidents registered in Denmark since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that that ignited the war in Gaza has never been as high, with the head of the Scandinavian country's small Jewish community calling it the biggest wave since World War II. The figures are in par with what has been reported in other European countries. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Denmark records highest number of antisemitic incidents since WWII, part of a grim European trend

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A police officer in the center of Bodø, Northern Norway, during extreme weather, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Residents of central Norway awoke to scenes of havoc and homes without power Thursday, following the country's most powerful storm in more than three decades. (Per-Inge Johnsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Norway’s most powerful storm in over 30 years rips roofs off houses, cuts power

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

The area affected by a landslide of several million tonnes contaminated soil is pictured, near the village of Oelst, near Randers, Denmark, Thursday Jan. 25, 2024. On Monday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that "of course, it would be totally unfair if the children in Randers or elderly have to pay this bill,” after visiting the site with a 75-meter (82-yard) tall heap of dirt at the Nordic Waste reprocessing plant site with 3 million cubic meters (3,923,852 cubic yard) of contaminated soil. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

A landslide of contaminated soil threatens environmental disaster in Denmark. Who pays to stop it?

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Peter Møller, attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, speaks to the media at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. A report by a Danish authority that supervises international adoptions on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024 said that the adoption of South Korean children in the 1970s and 1980s was “characterized by systematic illegal behavior in South Korea” and that the Asian country made it “possible to change information about the child background and adopt a child without the knowledge of the biological parents.” (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Danish report underscores ‘systematic illegal behavior’ in adoptions of children from South Korea

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Denmark's King Frederik X waves from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Queen Margrethe II has become Denmark's first monarch to abdicate in nearly 900 years when she handed over the throne to her son, who has become King Frederik X. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Frederik X is proclaimed the new king of Denmark after his mother Queen Margrethe II abdicates

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Denmark's Queen Margrethe is escorted by the Hussar Regiment as she rides in a horse-drawn coach from Christian IX's Palace, Amalienborg to Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. (Emil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe makes one last public appearance before stepping down in a rare abdication

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Tesla vehicles charge at a station in Emeryville, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022. Tesla has found itself locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with union workers in Sweden and neighboring countries. The showdown pits the electric car maker's CEO Elon Musk, who's staunchly anti-union, against the strongly held labor ideals of the Nordic countries. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

Musk and Tesla are battling unions across Scandinavia. What comes next in the labor dispute?

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. European Union leaders, in a two-day summit will discuss the latest developments in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and continued EU support for Ukraine and its people. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Police arrest 3 people in Denmark, 1 in the Netherlands on suspicion of planning terror attacks

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

FILE - Air traffic is seen on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. A Russian man who flew on a plane from Denmark to Los Angeles on Nov. 4, 2023, without a passport or ticket told U.S. authorities he didn't remember how he got through security in Europe, according to a federal complaint filed in November by the FBI. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Russian man who flew on Los Angeles flight without passport or ticket charged with federal crime

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Front row, from left Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen are seated at Folketinget, during a parliamentary vote, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. A new law has been passed in Denmark’s parliament that makes it illegal to desecrate any holy text in the country. The vote on Thursday came after a recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim countries. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Denmark’s parliament adopts a law making it illegal to burn the Quran or other religious texts

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

A group of Norwegian unions says it will act against Tesla in solidarity with its Swedish colleagues

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